my very lovely cousin:

yay!!! Everyone is so glad to have her home for Christmas, and today I got to steal her for a quick photoshoot  :)   And it was COLD!  But the pictures turned out great, and that makes it all worth it.  Mostly. The cookies Grandma gave us after we came inside made up for the rest.
Anyway- here are the pictures:

And here are the wonderful cookies we had after we came back inside :)