Curteman Christmas Cookie Party

~*Monica & Josh's Kid's Christmas Cookie Party 2011*~

 We went to  our friends Josh and Monica's house last night for a Kid's Christmas Cookie party. That girl has SO many cousins! I was so glad we went because the kids had a blast! They immediately became part of everyone elses family...climbing into their laps and playing with the dogs and running around with the older kids. Here they are decorating delicious sugar cookies..there were so many, we took some home without frosting...and they screwed up last night's fitnesspal tracking for me lol.

 I was trying not to care so much whether they made a mess with the frosting/decor...

 Olivia and her rainbow mouth :)

 contemplating when to take the frosting away lol...--> one of
Monica's lovely cousins helped Olivia :)

 Daddy and Olivia with their mustaches :) 

 I have to hold Olivia like this to clean her before she wipes her face and hands all over walls and furniture..or someone's clothes...or the dog!

Can you tell by his face who came in the door next!?


 Monica's dad was so cool--he came in and played Santa for about 45 minutes!..during which time Olivia and Lucas continually snuck into everyone else's picture or lap time...It was so much better than the mall because they had time to think about what to tell him! Lucas said "cars" and "balls" and lastly said, "bring presents!" Olivia just kept saying "presents!"

 This is "Mr & Mrs. Clause" aka Monica's cute parents :)

 Trying to pose them in front of the tree...they were loaded with sugar from cookies and candy by the time...so hyper!

 Monica and her dad--she did a great job hosting the party. We are joining them again on Christmas night once John get's off work :) Unfortunately even though her husband Josh works for Air Products too, he has a different position and is forced to work pretty much everyday..they don't have enough people to do his job so he has no choice. So after working the night before and then getting up to get things ready for the party, he had to leave during the party to go work. The pay must be awesome, but he's tired and I'm sure wants to stay for Christmas fun :( I realized I'm very lucky that John has the choice to work overtime or not.

 Olivia talking to Santa for the 5th time :) Funny enough, once he came back in his regular clothes and wanted to play with her, she didn't like him and gave him her mean scowl she does lol.

Finally a group picture...even if we're not all looking at the camera, at least we're together :)

Thanks Monice and Josh!