Building Memories-Cookie Style

Hayley and I are trying to build memories for the kids...traditions like we had when we were growing up. So today we made our first of many, many, many batches of cookies. These were Halloween cookies...soon to be followed by Thanksgiving and Christmas cookies (you get the idea). Gracie and I spent the morning baking the cookies and Hayley, Braden, Yale, and Nana came in the afternoon to finish them. Gracie and Reagan were off taking their naps, Nana played with Yale, so that left Braden (with Hayley's help) to decorate the cookies.
Here is a break down of how it all happened!

Gracie All Ready to Bake!



Rolling Them Out



Gracie Helping (This is a staged picture. We don't let the children grab things off the counter!)



Into the Oven They Go



Now for the Decorations



All Ready to Decorate



First Cookie!



Thanks Mom!



So Sweet



All Done and Very Proud...Great Job Braden!



Now to Try One!



Sharing with Yale



Reagan Helping



And Nana Playing with Yale



Thank you everynbody for making our first of many cookie decorating days a success. Great job Braden on decorating all those cookies. What will we do in a few years when there are four sets of hands to watch at one time!

The cookie "expectacular" (as Hayley would say) continued today. Every Wednesday at church they have Women's Ministies. They offer free childcare and different classes. Right now I am not taking a class, instead I host, what I like to call...Sarah's Coffee Hour. A group of us mom's get together and have a couple hours out of a busy week that we can relax over a cup of coffee and talk without kids running everywhere. This week, Stephanie had the idea to decorate Halloween Cookies. We brought in all the cookies and decorations and went to town. Super fun. Thank you Stephanie for helping make the cookies and Sarah for bring lots of fun decorations. And Kami and Erin for the decorations and creative decorating. Here are the rest of the pictures from a cookie filled week. Enjoy and Happy Halloween or Happy Harvest or whatever you like!

Does this look familiar???



The Girls: Sarah, Stephanie, Erin, Kami (Kami's son Luke joined us!)



Gotta have a Hawkeye cookie! Isn't the black frosting cool!?!?!



I was trying just to frost and let the girls decorate after two days of cookies, but I made Tim the TPN cookie for Timothy Peter Newquist and the Black and Pink Jack-O-Latern for me! Sarah Klusman made the other pumpkin in this picture. Thanks Sarah!