auntie b's ornaments

we celebrated christmas with diana's family the weekend before the holiday this year.  since mom and david's house was full with guests, we opted to stay with james and barbara- which is what barbara and ledger would prefer anyway!
we spend the day playing and having fun with crafts, taking the dogs for a walk, and being generally silly.  we even talked barbara into taking ledger for an hour or two while we finished our christmas shopping for the family. 
one of barbara's clever ideas was to make christmas ornaments- from scratch!  she found a special recipe that lets you make what are basically christmas cookies, bake them, and then decorate them.  when they were all made we worked late into the night painting them and having fun together!  ledger stayed up till almost 10:30pm- which is super late for him.  he was getting understandably loopy by the end there...  but its a good thing we ran out of ornaments, because i'm sure he would have wanted to keep going straight on till morning!
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