Here is a Christmas present I made for my mom. I drew the pig and Josh made it into pixely goodness.

Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a teenage Japanese beatboxer.

We baked green tea cookies, peppermint (candy cane) cookies, and biscotti. A lot of biscotti.

We had a bit of a crisis because our Kitchenaid wasn’t big enough to make the enormous amount of dough that the recipe makes. However, I didn’t realize it until I had already put the eggs, sugar and milk in so there was no turning back. We managed to take out half and make it in two batches at that point. We made a bunch of biscotti, but we also used the dough to make some circular cookies that we then frosted.

We’ve already eaten/given away all the biscotti, so we are going to make another batch before Christmas Eve.

You can see all our baking photos at our Flickr.

Last year I made a bunch of origami cranes from the wedding into ornaments.

And here is our rockin’ Star Trek communicator ornament, courtesy of Jerry LaBuy.