Christmas Cookies 2010
One of the activities I look forward to the most during the Christmas season is being able to see my friends, especially the ones who I have had for a long time. You should all know by now that I am a huge cheese ball and I like silly activities, so of course I would love doing something like decorating Christmas cookies. I believe the tradition started during my sophomore year of college when I invited all my friends to come over and decorate cookies with me, and we’ve done it every year since (except last when I couldn’t make it home for Christmas). I think we all look forward to it these days, and it’s always a good time that reminds us of previous years and the jokes that have developed over the years. I won’t bore you with all the words, but here is photographic fun from Christmas Cookies 2010:
One of my friends went to the University of Illinois, so we never allow her to make orange frosting…and we stole all the orange M&M’s this year so she couldn’t use them. 
Stealing the orange M&M’s…yearly joke!
The decorating crew!
Hard at work!
Some finished products.
Snowflake with a scarf!
Mr. Christmas tree!
Maryland mitten!!
Mitten with snow on it. 
Bill’s 3D cookie, of course!
They’re delicious, let me tell you…I may have had one (or two…) for breakfast. It’s my holiday diet!
Do you have any Christmas/holiday traditions with your friends? I look forward to cookie decorating every year and I love that I have something to look forward to with my friends each year!
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I always LOVE running when I come home! I hopped off the plane yesterday morning, visited with my family for a little, and then hit the road on one of my old running routes. I’ve run these routes a million times, I could probably do it in my sleep. When I started off, I realized I was running kinda fast, and then the next mile was even faster…so I decided to turn it into a tempo run since I was due for speed work anyway. I love flying through my old stomping grounds!
Wedesday, December 23
7.05 miles in 49:05, avg pace of 6:58 (woo woo!)
Splits: 7:29, 7:17, 7:04, 6:48, 6:48, 6:56, 6:34
Ah, I do love running fast, and those last four miles were awesome. Time to finish wrapping presents and to hang out with my family!
yummy! I have also eaten tons of cookies for the past few weeks.
My favorites are gingerbread men and peanut butter blossoms!
Well, if you ever need a second career, I think you can all count cookie decorating! Those are great cookies!
Nice run! Whew!
Merry Christmas!!
Nice! Yes, my friends and I have a tradition of making gingerbread (err..gram cracker) houses together each year even though we are in our 20′s as well. So fun!