It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

especially at the Pierce household.  Today was a Christmas Fun Day, or something like that.  The day started off with just Mommy & Caeden, since Daddy went hunting.  When Caeden woke up, I put him in bed with me and we layed there for about 20 minutes (which is a long time for Caeden).  Then he sat up quickly and said, "I ready get up!"  I don't have any pictures of this part of our day, because I was too busy cherishing the moment. 

Once we got up and around, we went to Krispy Kreme for a donut, and Caeden chose the SNOWMAN donut!!

Notice he just ate the icing off...

We then came home, played for awhile, and made our homemade Christmas cookies.  This is a recipe from my Grandma that we've made every year since I was a little girl!  I let Caeden pour in the ingredients...and lick the paddle when we were done mixing!  Then we put the batter in the fridge until Daddy got home...



We then went to a place here in Bentonville called Crafty Cottage, where you can paint pottery.  Caeden chose to paint a candy cane ornament.  (But he was not happy when we had to leave it there, so they can fire the glaze and make it shiny).   :( 

We picked up some lunch, headed home, and took a nap...

After naptime, Daddy was home.  So we cut out and baked our cookies!!!

While were finsihing the cookies, Caeden

was apparently entertaining himself by

lining up the cookie cutters! HA!

And our filthy mess!!

(This stressed Daddy out a little a lot).

After baking, we ate dinner, and headed to the Square to see the lights!  When we first got there, we were greeted with carolers!!

Once we got home, we needed to decorate our Christmas cookies.  Again, this is my Grandma's homemade recipe that is just delish!

After our cookie-decorating (and eating), Caeden took a bath, and then we finished off our day by cuddling up to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas."  So great!  After Caeden was in bed, Reid and I continued decorating our cookies. :)  



Wooh....That was exhausting just typing it all out...  While it seems like we did a lot today (and we did), we still had times of relaxation this morning, and early afternoon.  It really wasn't until this evening that it got busy.  ;)  But we enjoyed every bit of it!  These are some of the memories I hope Caeden will soon remember as he gets older!  Merry Christmas!  Only 7 days left...!!!