Sometime before Christmas we made swedish gingerbread cookies and sugar cookies. Here are some pictures of my little helpers. Maeve got in like a dirty shirt grabbing fingerfuls of dough to eat! In December, Maeve added the word, "cookie" to her vocabulary. 

Holly and Greta had so much fun sewing up these felt ornaments. We used this template (printed at 120%). I can imagine us sewing up these ornaments again next year too! 

We celebrated Maeve's birthday earlier this month. It's so crazy how time flies. Maeve is just one of the best things in my life and God was right, I have no regrets adding her to my family! We all adore her and we're so grateful she's a part of our family. It's really fun to be a parent with perspective. It's been a while since I last parented a 2 year old, but I feel very capable and I really like figuring what what she wants or needs. She's a pretty determined girl. 

Maeve is so cuddly and affectionate. It's such a gift. She melts right into us. I also love watching her little body move. Oh those hips!

This year, we invited a family with teenagers to decorate gingerbread houses with us and I think Holly giggled the entire time! Oh gosh, I can't imagine being in the phase of life where we are parents to teenagers, but I guess it's coming! We had lots of fun and our gingerbread house was stripped of all it's candy in less than a week!

This year's ornaments were nice and simple. I used up scraps of fabric from our favorite Christmas quilt and used this Scandinavian Fabric Stars Tutorial. Holly and Greta chose which strips of fabric they wanted to have used in their stars. I made a few extra. These little stars are a great little project!