Christmas cookies

This was the first time EVER that I have made sugar cookies from scratch. As Clint and Ella decorated the tree (and Mary Catherine promptly removed ornaments), I tried to make some dough for the cookies. I didn't mix the butter and sugar very well, so the dough didn't turn out. I also didn't realize the importance of flour when rolling the dough out. So, I tossed the dough. The next night, we decided to try again. So, with the help of Ella in the kitchen, we made the dough, rolled it out and used our new cookie cutters to make all different shapes of cookies. We baked them that night and they actually tasted pretty good.

Tuesday night after "nastics" we decorated the cookies. I think Ella really enjoyed it. It's amazing how many sprinkles we used and how many were dumped out on the kitchen counter :) But, it was still a lot of fun. Surprisingly, Ella never asked to eat a cookie - I guess making them was just as much fun as eating them. Either that, or she knew we were making them to take to her school for their Christmas program on Friday night - so maybe she is just waiting for Friday night.