Baking Cookies...A new Tradition

When we were young it was a yearly tradition to make our sugar cut out cookies as a family. Now that we are older we have not kept up that tradition. However, this year Kelly had the idea that we should make cookies together as a family each year at mom's house. I teased her it was because she didn't want the mess at her house (she didn't deny it). Anyways, tonight was the first excursion for our new tradition. It turned out that Julie and Laura were not there, but Kelly, Mom, and I worked with Alex and Elena to make our cut outs. Jeromy was there as well for a brief time but he just supervised. Here are some pictures from our "interesting" night.



Within moments of beginning the process, Elena managed to cover herself in flour.



Alex was not as messy as Elena (of course, he was not necessarily clean). We were surprised to discover that he has got the skills of a chef. Within moments he was rolling dough, expertly using cookie cutters, and carefully moving the cookies to the cookie sheet. He made a lot of our perfect looking cookies.



Kelly and Alex decorating the cookies. Alex did a wonderful job decorating as well. Below is a picture of his cookie which he called his "United States Army" cookie. He has a fascination with the Army recently.





I had left for a half hour to take Jeromy home and run an errand for Mom. When I returned, I found Elena sitting on a stool eating sprinkles with a spoon directly from the bottle (that bottle was not being used any more thankfully). She is going to have such the bellyache tomorrow.