When I was really young my family always had a tradition of decorating sugar cookies (these were the cookies we left for Santa). I have such great memories of the whole family doing this together so I looked forward to the time when Eli was old enough to do this. Well, this was the year, so we started the Mullinnix cookie extravaganza tradition.
Earlier this week Eli and I made Lofthouse sugar cookie dough. So today I thought it would be fun to cut out and decorate the cookies together. Luckily Thomas got off of work really early that day and was able to be home the mess, err I mean fun!
First we cut out the dough in different shapes. And since I haven’t blogged in a long time I totally forgot to take pictures! Then while the cookies cooked and cooled Eli and I made the icing. Do you know what happens when you let a 3 year old turn on a mixer full of powdered sugar?
This is what happens!, This is where we relized we forgot to get the camera out to take pictures and when we did we found out the battery was dead. Thank goodness for phone cameras. This picture does not do the mess justice, white stuff was everywhere! You don’t see me in the picture but I was covered in it too! I just kept telling myself, “We’re making memories!” What messy memories we made that day!
The set up for the decorating madness!
Look who woke up to join in the fun!
Showing the boy what to do.
Thomas got in on the action too!
Had to make sure the girl got in on this too!
Sprinkle time
And more sprinkles….
And more sprinkles! Eli loved the sprinkle part. Little girl had to go eat during the sprinkle fun.
Some of the Eli decorated cookies
E ate more of the sprinkles than what ended up on the cookies!
Again this picture does not do the mess justice!
Eli loves his sprinkles!
So after all that mess, err cookie making this mommy decided we need to have pizza for dinner. Sister decided to join us for our dinner since she was done with hers. Notice the only beer is at mommies spot. This mommy has a hard time with messes, err cookie decorating!
The finished products. Eli fizzled out after a few cookies so I finished icing them. All in all we all had a fun time with this and I look forward to next year, so Hannah Joy can be more than just a spectator.
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