Christmas Cookiemaking

On Monday, Tafanie invited us over to their house to make Christmas cookies.  When Tafanie and Crystal were little girls, Grandma Velma would have them come over to her house to spend the night and they would spend all night making (and eating) Christmas cookies.  Tafanie is continuing this Christmas cookiemaking tradition with her girls and then they give the cookies to the mail lady and the garbage men and keep a few for themselves.  :)

Tafanie tried out what was supposed to be the best recipe for sugar cookies that she had found on Pinterest.  Unfortunately, the dough was very sticky.  

When we tried to pat and roll the dough out, we got dough all over our hands and flour everywhere from trying to make the dough not be so sticky.

So, we decided to not cut out cookies except for a few star cookies.  

After baking the cookies, we made the icing and of course had to lick the beaters!  

We divided the icing into four bowls and the girls mixed up red, blue, and green icing and we kept one bowl for white icing.  Then, we began decorating the cookies.

And Voila!  Aren't these the prettiest Christmas cookies you ever saw?  And they tasted so good!

In between cookiemaking, we had a fun afternoon playiing with Bell, Emmaline and Ruby.

That evening, all the Robinsons, Van Wyngardens, and Gregorys went to Los Bravos for dinner to celebrate my birthday.  I can't think of a better way to have spent my birthday!  Being with our family, making cookies with the girls, and having Mexican food for dinner.  :)