Holiday Photos with Tyler & Ethan

 Both Ethan & Tyler love to help mom in the kitchen - but Ethan is becoming the one most interested in the entire process of cooking from the measuring - mixing and assembling to the actual stove and oven cooking.
So when it came time to make Holiday cookies - Ethan was right there with his little stool and ready attitude to help.

Ethan has a very "let me do it mommy" attitude - he wanted to break the eggs & put them into the food processor.

Mommy doesn't look at all concerned does she.....

Turning on the processor with all the noise and whirling was something he loved to see happen.

Ethan had to stand on his tippy-toes at times to reach the top of the processor.

At times he needed help - like the strength to really push hard to roll out the dough for the cookie cutting.

Tyler has more strength so she was able to roll out her own cookie dough.

Both Tyler and Ethan were very serious when it came to using the cookie cutters - they wanted their cookies to look perfect.

Ethan serious when using the cookie cutter too.

The cookie cutters didn't work as easily as we had hoped so plan-B was to make balls and flatten them out as circles.

That was fine with Ethan - getting your hands right into the dough is more fun.

And being able to flatten the little balls with your hands is full too.

After shaping and flattening the cookies - it was time to add the sprinkles

Some sprinkles for the cookies and some sprinkles for snacking was the rule of the day and almost the best part.

Of course as we all remember - the best part is licking the spoons after the job is done......

And waiting for the cookies to come out of the oven to eat some that are nice and warm.

Denise & Gary wanted a few shots of the family for the holiday cards -

So of course I couldn't take just one photo.

I got each of the kids with their mom

And as you know photographing your own family is harder than photographing strangers - so we had to work quickly before they kids started to 'melt down'.

Tyler is my little model she's so used to having me take her photos - but Ethan is a typical boy - full of energy and contradictions.

Dad & Ethan look great together.

And Tyler is really Daddy's little girl.

In the end we finally got one great shot.

And here are a few photos that I took here in Az at our retirement park.

Happy Holidays to all and a safe and healthy New Year ahead.