It's a Birthday and Christmas Kind of Weekend

This weekend involved a lot of cooking. It is kind of crazy everything that has gone into the last few days. First off remember our garden pumpkin? Well, this is what he looks like now.

Oh yeah, he looks like this too.

That was baking item number one. Well, one and two combine since I has to cook the pumpkin and the seeds. Chloe already ate all the seeds though. Then there was this...

for a certain someone who is turning nine tomorrow.

And these

to take to school.

Then there was the pause in baking to get the Christmas tree up. An adventure that was made all the more interesting when it nearly fell off the car on the way home.

But it looks nice now.

We decorated the dog too.

Cabbie was thrilled. I swear he is thinking, "Ever stinking year they drag this stuff out."
Then there were the gingerbread men (and women) that Alexa wanted to bake.

My helpers worked really hard on those.

There was even a mommy gingerbread woman for me.

She was yummy. I ate her for dessert.