A Festive Christmas Home Vlog – Making Cookies, Traditions & Decorations – December 2023

In today’s adventure we have a Festive Christmas Home Vlog! We make two different kinds of Christmas cookies! I go over to mom and dad’s to help make cookies that is a tradition to make every Christmas! I also make gingerbread cookies at home which is a tradition for me! We also show you all of our Christmas decorations around our house! Leave us a comment and let us know what cookies you make every year or what traditions you guys have! We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Hope you guys enjoy the video!
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Hey guys Welcome to our Channel I’m Jenna and in today’s video we’re going to have a very christmy Vlog um so we’re going to start out with some baking um I’m going to make my very favorite gingerbread cookies so um we’re going to start that off and then we’re going to

Put those in the fridge because they have to uh chill for a bit and then we’re going to go over to Mom and Dad’s and make um some cookies that has been a tradition since I was a kid so we’re going to do that we’ll show you um some

Of our decorations and just have a fun Christmasy home Vlog oh Missy says hi with a big old yawn don’t you say hi guys hello you look all frazzled I gave her a bath the other day but we need a brush don’t we you ready make some cookies some cookie

Cookies all right so here is the soft gingerbread cookie recipe that I use I found it on Pinterest years and years ago um um and I like softer gingerbread cookies so yeah you’ll have to pause pause and take a screenshot and here it is continued on the other side so yeah let’s get

Started so we’ve got our butter and our brown sugar in there mix those Up we’re going to add our eggs all right we’re going to add our molasses next we get one cup of molasses already got the eggs in there all right so I’ve got all my spices in here and baking soda and now I’m going to put the flour in and mix it all

Together all right dry ingredients are ready to mix into here it doesn’t look like they’re all going to fit but I know they did in the past so uh yeah hopefully they will all right it is getting mixed in there we’ve only got a

Little bit of the dry left to put in and we’ll have our batter here it goes get out of there scrape the bowl we got to chill the dough for a little bit a couple hours actually not a little bit okay so now we get our um

Cling wrap Saran Wrap whatever you call it and we’re going to split the batter into two two sections so split in half and we’re going to put some on here and another Saran Wrap flatten it out so it’ll be easier um when we’re ready to

Cut the shapes out and stick them in the fridge so I have one already set here ready to go in the fridge this one’s on the Saran Wrap I just got a wrap wrap it up and flatten it out and we’ll wait several hours and then we’re going to

Head over to Mom and Dad’s Mimi and Papa to go help them with the uh traditional cookies that we make every year all right they are ready to go in the fridge and they are sticking together but yeah we’re going to put them in the fridge and let them

Chill all right so we’re on our way to Mom and Dad’s and we’re in the car Chloe’s excited she gets to go bu by um but we had to make a Starbucks stop so we’re going to go through the drive-thru pick up some Starbucks and head over that

Way she is loving the fresh air today it is 72° out right now and for reference it’s December 21st getting close to Christmas Chloe all right just got to Mom and Dad’s and they’re all Christmasy I love the apron in the shirt I almost wor for

The green shirt too but I’ve got another green shirt so Murray and Chloe were super excited right M were you happy yep says what what is she saying Chloe’s over here somewhere she’s just exploring he’s like where’s the food I know oh is she at the door she’s at are you at the

Door you got to go outside already okay we’ll take you yeah we’ll take you all right and Mom and Dad have or I don’t know who did it but I’m assuming mom um Mom and Dad both did the um the cookies the cookie dough not the cookies

We’re goingon to do those together um but we’ll show you what they are here in a little bit yes all right so it is Cookie time I had a little bit of my Starbucks there and uh ready for cookies so these are the cookies that we make every year I can’t

Even remember the first year we made them but they are candy cane cookies um and I’m it calls for peppermint mom is not a peppermint lover at all so so we’ve never made them with peppermint so I don’t know how they would taste with that but they’re really really cute and

Delicious right Chloe you’re want to help don’t you baba you can help us yes so do you remember do you guys remember what year we started making these like was I really little or I don’t remember yeah okay probably because I grew up you GRE up my my parents house Mom and Dad

Really love them did they put peppermints in them no okay I know M like I got Dad’s taste bud he didn’t like mammal did but Pap did not okay gotcha so you made him as a kid and carried it on for us so probably I was too little to remember when you started

Making them cool that’s probably true but what year we don’t I don’t remember I mean did we do it when they were I don’t know what year we started making them yeah well because you know like I said I grew up making them I don’t remember maybe we made them and took

Them to mammo p and then when you guys finally got to wan to eat and then we did it yeah yeah yeah I don’t know then I I don’t remember what year I started helping but probably what six seven I would say so yeah something like that

They’re easy but yeah so Mom would always make the dough and the dough would be ready and then we would get the red and the white and then the powdered sugar and we make the candy cane cookies so let’s go make the cookies yep hi there Missy you under the tablecloth you

Want to help I know you want to help you’re a good helper are you a good helper yes you have to wait though okay you’ll get powdered sugar everywhere she I don’t care I’ll eat it so we’re going to scoop one from each bowl and we got

Our Rox paper ready powdered sugar and we’re going to put them on the cookie sheet dad’s got an apron that was cute Christmas is happier to get man look at all your aprons there you got an apron collection somebody has a thing about APR uhuh I like that this one I think

This one’s more mine bigger yep that one’s cute too and and these two are mine and there’s I was going to loan it out he was going to let me use it is that okay Mimi is that okay there’s myr hi myrr you sniffing Chloe you got you guys are so cute for

APR Chloe says but but I want to help yeah all right so Mom and I have our um two parts of the peppermint or the candy cane I guess I should say and now we what do we do Mom we twist twist I think mine might be a little short you know

The first one’s never the best one they get better as you go yes we hope yeah mine might be a pepper stick nothing wrong with that and then actually we did notice that when you put it over here and shape it on the yes on the um cookie sheet sometimes it does a

Little bit better yes true but but uh yeah and of course more powdered sugar the better cuz it makes it yummy yeah so yeah might more of a peppermint stick but it’s all good we’ll figure it out as we go we will it’s been a year

Yes it’s been a year a whole year I miss chlo this want to sit on my lap I know baby maybe later okay maybe later just put na on now okay any okay do you have a preference do you do like to do the the white color part

First and then the red or does it matter I never thought about it but it kind of looks that way that must be what she does good call yeah I always have to gauge how much I get I always think I get too much but I

Think I got too less or I I always make them too fat I think that’s what it is my candy cane I make the mom makes them skinnier there maybe that’s it it still Puffs out though right that’s why I mean so maybe if I make them skinnier yes

Then I’ll have more of a candy cane and not a candy cane stick or one that just fell apart that is the problem if you get too much powdered sugar they do fall apart even though they’re delicious yes the doggies think so too I know M I know

Hi I got to eat this part she’s eatting it I got it on camera now we go hey you know what it’s good know that power it’s good love it you guys are I I end up just maybe eating the dough and not making any cookies cuz I’m not very good at well

Right now you’re the the camera guy camera man yeah so let me see how you put it on there honey and then it’s falling apart you just but then you put it back you just kind of Tuck and smush ex exactly I think it look they look pretty good I

Made this and then you just eat some that didn’t mom’s gonna eat it all oh I don’t remember you eating that many before I’m glad she made a double a double uh recipe what do you call Double yeah re I’m older now you got it so I’m

Going to try it this all right I I’ll watch it yeah okay that’s the hard part isn’t it the twisting yeah well and this seems like getting it over it’s getting um kind of dry probably from the um poter sugar but it like I said it makes

It taste good so you know what we should do what’s that I remember doing this in the past okay just bringing them both over and aligning them and then doing it that’s what I just did did you oh that’s a perfect look at that you you and yours

Are going that way and Mom’s going the other way this one’s way bigger than good job some character yes it does good job you guys thank you I’m think I’ll just sit back here and watch D just going to be the camera and I might try a little bit of the

Dough taste tester yes all right so we got the camera person switched so I’m now dad’s making the well I’m not doing very good sure you are I mean look at that oh my you’re doing great you’re following mom yeah the hardest part is going to be

From here over to there how too skinny fatter well hey I got skinny um um candy canes okay yeah okay it’ll burn quicker but check them out they’re they’re working so the problem is is moms are skinnier here yes so Mom went bigger to smaller and I

Went smaller to bigger and then I got hopefully I can push it down here and then this one I think I put way too much powder sugar on it cuz look it’s even on the oh well they’ll taste fine right guys I’m watching the pro here she put

This one on and then we’re going to put this in there so you put them when you only make them once a year it’s it’s hard to remember so true I make one to your 10 each of you it’s okay bro all right so mom’s going to get that yeah just don’t

Breathe in the powder sugar I learned the hard way I breathed in cinnamon earlier that was bad that would not be good um they’re probably not the ovens aren’t ready yet so all right so we take this at least this tray is done and it looks beautiful we got another tray up

There muray Murray agrees yeah beautiful muray okay all right dad’s got the finished product here well not finished it’ll be finished soon we’re going to stick them in the oven don’t drop the merchandise don’t drop mom’s been eating the merchandise out Chloe Chloe Chloe putting them in the bottom yep

Chloe o here I’ll get her put it in like this i’ say y there you go right in the middle all right here we go and eight minutes eight minutes I’ll set the timer I’ll just do it on my phone that works all right so we’re working on the ones

Over here got Dad’s here mom’s and mine it’s so funny how different they are oh now she says but Mimi will you pick me up please yes yes Mama we love that You’ be a powder sugar mess yeah you couldn’t see it though that’s true blend in right all right we

Have okay so here is our second tray looking good these are mine at the top and a couple in the middle and Mom and Dad’s there at the bottom and it’s funny I think Dad I don’t know that was little one I made no Mom and Dad’s they’re all going different

Directions I do all mine This Way and it worked it does second tray time for the oven it’s nice mom and dad have double oven I do not we’ve never had that before and we really needed it when you guys were younger right especially like Thanksgiving all those yeah and now

You have it yeah you do they’re in you can see them yay those are close to being yeah these are like one more minute or so they have I’ll tell you in a minute I’ll tell you in a minute minute they might be done a minute four

All right so we’ll get them out and then we’ll see if they’re done okay M all right time to get them out of the oven oh my goodness and it the top one says door is open there they are hopefully they’re done we’re going to check them

Yep I know they might need a little longer what do you think yeah honey I’m wondering I think maybe another couple minutes yeah that one’s hard I well I mean we don’t want to burn them no that was 8 minutes and they go eight to N9 you have put eight on your

And you corrected the cookbook eight well let’s try them all right so Mom is oh she’s got one more here falling apart mom’s falling apart no she’s uh she’s got powder sugar everywhere than do you got to make it sweet that’s what happens when you make cookies that’s

Right um and yeah so we got one more I think we fit right there and we’ll put this one in the oven and then Dad has the ones that are out of the oven Cooling and they’re falling apart a little bit but they’re still going to

Taste good yeah a little bit we do these these look pretty good these are falling apart a little this was one we tried that was a tester and then this one fell apart just a little but the rest are pretty good shap pretty good shap got to be real careful with them they’re

They’re very fragile and you want to eat them pretty quick cuz they do dry out if you or put them in the freezer um they just don’t last super long if you like salty flavor and cookies and you like the sugar of course so the sweetness they’re they’re very good like a it’s

Kind of like a butter cookie but with you know like a shortbread kind of right yes is that how you would describe it yeah yeah with powdered sugar what show the closeup of the directions your mom wrote in special things yes did you see it says butter she puts butter instead

Of shorten yes and make two batches no almond extract and she does not use crushed peppermint that’s right and 8 minutes she wrote down and instead of flour we use powdered sugar that’s right in8 minutes yes yeah look at that there you go now you

Mean instead of flour oh to put it says here um she has flour roll them back and forth on lightly flowed board mom put powdered sugar oh we there you go yeah but there’s flour in of course yeah y yep yep all right so these are done as

Soon as Mom puts the last one on there all right y you can put it I’ll bring the other over so she’s working on it now 4 5 6 78 n and I remember that’s that’s more powdered sugar than we used to put on them it is but it is

Delicious I remember making them more like Mom now she’s been rolling them in her proudy sugar is there is there a problem here see how pretty they look snowy yes I think the kids used to do that I think it’s reverse cycle reverse mom’s being

Like we were and I’m being like Mom wa minute this is reversed roll I’m in my second childhood I’m I’m they’re all going to taste good they do taste good all right so dad noticed that one is not like the other um I would say it would probably

Be this one and who did that who is the culprit look at here I think we have a we have the child here don’t was somebody’s somebody’s having fun making these cookies yay so good okay that’s pretty is that better okay it’s the FL it’s the sugar yeah it

Will got it you got it excuse me what you doing over there she’s patting Sugar pting Sugar he says I don’t know what all this giggling about it’s yummy so we also had to make just red candy canes we ran out of the white but they eat the same I do this

One looks like a fish it looks like a dollin there’s little nose there tail yeah you can tell Mom’s no that one just looks like a fish and the rest look great all right all right Dad got these out of the oven oh those look very good

They did look at that one on the top left woohoo that one yeah that was my big old fat one I me well I mean but it looks good yeah good deal they’re held together yes that’s what I noticed with the powdered sugar they come apart more

Than the ones without but they taste better with the powdered sugar so you hear that s it’s a no win I know they taste you want them to look better or taste better probably taste let me show you oh look so Chloe and I just got back

Home and um that was a lot of fun making the candy cane cookies at Mom and Dad’s like I said a tradition since I was little can’t remember how little but pretty little so lot of fun um I got to take a couple home but most of them are

Going to leave for Mom or at Mom and Dad’s for Christmas Christmas Eve um I know we used to instead of doing like a big breakfast we would always do like Christmas cookies for breakfast which was fun here’s Dale Dale’s coming in BO so just kidding he’s going back out um

But we’re going to get the gingerbread um cookie dough out of the fridge and start making gingerbread cookies now all the cookies today so the noise in the background is the washing machine if you hear that doing some laundry but and it’s very loud right now but um anyway so I just

Wanted to show you some of the cookie cutters that I found I had uh got this one at Disney with a gingerbread um cookie mix one year and got snowman regular gingerbread got the doggy one at Target I think last year and this one came with another set Mickey Mouse so I

Don’t know if I’m going to use all of these but definitely the Mickey and the gingerbread and the dokey we’ll see about these all right so you want to have a nice um clean countertop cuz that’s where you’re going to cut out out your cookies the oven is ready but but anyway

So we have our um our dough here it is nice and cold hopefully it’ll roll out for us um put it going to get the flow ready I’ve got my rolling pen and my baking sheet my cookie sheet all right I’ve got a couple cut out already and we’ve got some doggies Micky

Gingerbread a regular gingerbread and we’ve got a lot more dough this is just the first um one that I refrigerated so I’ve got the other one still in the fridge um and let’s cut out a couple more and we’ll put this in the oven no sticking so we’re going

To after a while it sticks to the uh counter so we’re going to get some more flow and roll it out again all right they are out of the oven and they smell so good they actually turned out pretty good too they’re you know a little burnt not burnt but a

Little brown around the edges and the middle is done as well at least it looks like it so yeah I can’t wait to try them look how cute they are oh the doggy he fell out what’d you do it’s okay doggy the doggy went after the mailman

D Dustin dusting off the snow good job sweetie thanks smells delicious in here thank you smells like Christmas right smells like Christmas I think we’ll just have gingerbread for dinner is that good sure gingerbread on ham gingerbread on ham Perfect all right we’ve got Resort TV one on in the

Background there um we have the Christmas enve on video that Dale did but anyways here is the gingerbread cookie I’m going to try it it’s still warm I dropped some on the floor Chloe mhm that’s good I love when they’re warm maybe even better frosted but

They’re still good I love these in the morning with coffee you dunk them in your watch delicious so we’ve got one more in the oven and a little bit of dough left so we’ll probably have at least probably one more um cookie sheet and we’re done with our gingerbread cookies

Yay all right well we only have one more left in the oven and they’re looking good like I said they were delicious this is just left over than better um but but yeah the ones I just took out are a little softer usually the first

Ones are a little bit drier just cuz I’m getting used to making them again but uh but yeah they’re good and we are almost done yay all right so we’re done with the cookies we had dinner um and now I think I’m going to wrap some presents um very

Full day today all the Christmas things um and tomorrow is Friday Night Live so I want to make sure get everything done or at least some of it done um because yeah Christmas is coming up but I wanted to show you guys some of our decorations so let’s do that

First so it is kind of well not kind of it is dark outside right now so um kind of hard to see the tree but it is pretty Tinkerbell as our Angel at the very top we’ve got another Tinker Bell ornament right here a lot of Disney ornaments of course here’s our just

Married one mickeey and Minnie I love this one too a hopper sent this to us Jenna Dale and Chloe um we have our ornament for from Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas party last year from the 50th and I guess that was last year yeah that was last year and uh we have some

Of our um seal glass we found in California when we lived there in 2016 16 always loved checking out the seag glass and then we have um the Osborne lights the final year of that from 2015 want want I miss those um and this awesome ornament that

We got this year from a hopper Chloe has her whole area down here and all the doggies um but this is a really cute one that a hopper gave to us I think it was Irene was her name there’s Chloe and stitchy it says Chloe 2023 on the back so so

Cute and then here’s her paw Prince from 20 or 2014 says it right there 2014 and there’s a cute little picture of Chloe there’s another one a hopper gave us Chloe 2021 and all the Disney doggies there’s my Cactus playing guitar I think this was the same Hopper that

Gave us this one that gave us the one of Chloe and stitchy then I love my princesses one dad gave me that one for our um what was it for my I think it was my wedding shower wedding shower super cute I love that one and I’ve got the Disney Castle Disney World

And I have Disney oh here it is I was going to say I know I have the Disneyland one somewhere there it is got our ornament from Las Vegas and Q West couple vacations we’ve taken I’ve got my ears right here I’ve got some Starbucks Ornaments and then I’ve got my stitchy stitchy ornaments this one I got when I was younger think the Disney Store I believe I got this one this year from Jesse this one from Mom and Dad it’s a pen actually but it’s also an ornament lot of cute stitchy ones here’s the

50th I got that one at the uh passholder sale and I love this one so much very very cute but yeah I have lots and lots of ornaments a lot of fun ornaments here’s some SeaWorld ones down there this one I got this this year 50th from SeaWorld bla

Whale so yeah lot of fun ornaments here is our um TV stand got Dale’s Ambiance video from Resort TV one plane but we’ve got Mickey snowman Mickey over here with stitchy that one I got several years ago I wish they’d come out with more of those um but here’s stitchy and Duffy

Again from a long time ago it used to dance and play music it doesn’t anymore but anyways we got this in Germany and this was my grandma’s she had the whole set but I kept uh fezy wigs oh and this one we got from our Disneyland

Trip and this one mom and dad got me in Disneyland Paris how cute is this sorry it’s kind of dark stitchy with his duckies and this one I got when we were in Disneyland Paris love that one Chloe says it’s time to cuddle mom aren’t you done for the day time to

Cuddle we’ve got our um Buffet back here our lights just quit working we had lights with the garland back there they just quit but we’ve got d and a stockings and Chloe’s there in the middle it’s hard to see but there’s paw prints on it we have the Mickey topiary over here

That Dale made he put some lights on it I got this one at cast connections I was so excited and then we just just got let me zoom in just got the uh Walt Disney Studio Water Tower and Dale put some lights on it to make it festive by SP of

Birth but yeah the um water tower is on sale right now 30% off which is an amazing deal and if you’re a passholder you also get 20% off so we got that for a very very good deal all right guys well that is it for our Christmas video today we had lots of

Fun fun making cook or I had lots of fun making cookies with Mom and Dad yep but yeah you had to work I worked and I was busy doing other stuff we weed Eed outside killed some weeds trimmed some stuff yep so yeah got some things done

But you did taste test I did my gingerbread they’re very good yeah I will taste test some more thank you the the test is p it is a past test all right good deal you pass the test good deal so so yeah those turned out pretty

Good and the candy cane ones with Mom and Dad and we had a lot of fun U making those today and your uh white chocolate pretzel ones are very good I didn’t even show you guys those I made those the day before I made them the day before you

Didn’t even show them I know whoopsie but yeah she did very good with those also yeah and so I just have Christmas toffee to make and I’ll be all done with making of the oh she’s sitting here all nice and pretty this is what you guys

Doing I want to be in this video sakes sakes guys she’s so cute I got my jammies on yeah it’s all good um but yeah so anyways it was really really fun on now um I’m going to wrap some gifts you know it it never ends all I’m going

To wrap it up all the things you got we’re going to wrap it up so I can go wrap some gifts that’s right but all the things you got to do for Christmas and get ready for it but but it’s a lot of fun it is I got to finish the shopping

For her oh D you better get busy maybe I do he does have many minutes many minutes I don’t have many minutes left we’re C the minutes now it’s that close to the end not many minutes um but yeah anyway so MH hope you guys are having a good

Holiday season and we’ll wish you guys a very Merry Christmas very mermas our family yes to yours to yours all right guys well definitely let us know in the comments what you’re doing for Christmas um for the new year and if you um have a cookie that you

Know you have to make every year or a Christmas treat that you make every year um for your as your tradition so let us know yes let us know in the comments all right make sure you’re subscribed we’ll see you in the next adventure yes all right guys adventure’s out there it’s

Going to be a christmy one let’s go find it oh let’s go find the Christmas