I have just returned from my sister's house.  I spent the afternoon with her two girls, my babies, 17yr old Kayla and 14 yr old Emily.  We made a big mess, but did we have fun!  It is a family tradition for my sister and her girls, and CD too, to decorate sugar cookies for Christmas!

They invited me to join them and I gladly accepted the invitation!  We have fond memories from our childhood decorating those sugary treasures.  Mom would cover the kitchen table and let Katrina, Eric and I loose with icing and sprinkles, not to mention she would let us do the best part, rolling out the dough and choosing the right cookie cutter!

Recently Mom went through all of the cookie cutters and after a family lunch at her house my sister and I systematically divided each cutter into want piles!  We each reminisced over them, trying to remember what some of them were! 

The girls swiped up the funky weird one's such as a large turkey, a camel, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig and a pilgrim, sailor not sure what kind of boy...  They decided that these were the cookie cutters they were going to use!  They are going to gift the sugary surprises to their friends.  Well I hope they are good friends because we had many discombobulated and headless masterpieces!

After we successfully destroyed Katrina's kitchen, rolled out, baked and iced the beauties, we called it an evening!  I am thankful for small pleasures and for being able to enjoy an old tradition with my family!  I am glad too, that the girls, my babies are not too old to appreciate the silly fun you can have with your family!

These are a few of my good ones!  Okay they were all good, we were laughing at which ones we did first, you know not so good, then the ones in the middle, when we were serious about our art, and then the ones we did last, I like to call them the abstract art, but hey they are all good!