Christmas Cookie Fest

Every year we have friends & neighbors over to frost about 80 sugar cookies; the same recipe my mom used that we made and frosted as kids. We do this as a family every Valentine's Day, some Easters, all Halloweens, and every Christmas. We usually have at least a few friends over since the batch is soooo big! We even have a turkey cookie cutter so maybe we'll have Thanksgiving turkeys this year!

Here is the first wave of kids, our neighbors who play football or basketball daily with Maddie and Nick.

Here is Parker, our favorite 4 year old who told me that I could be his girlfriend. He poured about half a bottle of sparkly sprinkles on his cookies, just like Nick used to do.

Nick's best buddie, Garret, came; then a new family from church with 4 girls who loved their first time doing this. Good sugar cookies (with real flavor!) and homemade buttercreme frosting (with a touch of almond or lemon extract) are my all-time favorites!! We have to invite people over and make plates to give away or I'd become horrendously sick from eating 30 cookies. I probably do eat half of that in a couple of days and enjoy every minute of it. I'm addicted!