Cookie Day Saturday

We were supposed to head up north on Friday night to celerate Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa A at their house. We knew they got worse weather than we did during the night, but that doesn't usually stop us from driving in it, thank goodness for 4 wheel drives! What we didn't anticipate was a power outage due to the ice storm, so Christmas with them would have to wait!

So Cara and I took the opportunity for our "free" day to bake and decorate Christmas cookies!


Here we are using cookie cutters on our rolled out sugar cookie dough

Cara loved using her little rolling pin to help

We just got a tray of pillsbury sugar cookies out of the oven (we cheated with these, they were the take of the box and bake kind). Notice our matching aprons. I got these as a present last Christmas and put them up to save for this year and had forgotten about them until I mentioned to Grandma F on the phone what we were doing and she asked if we were wearing our aprons. We also have matching oven mitts too!

Time to start decorating the sugar cookies, here Cara is sampling the icing. By the looks of her mouth she ate more than she put on the cookies

Yeah, we loved our cookie baking day. We are sad that we could not celebrate Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa A yet, but made good on our extra time at home

And good news to report that after more than 2 days without electricity, it was finally restored to Grandma and Grandpa A. We were trying to convince them to just come down here but with the bitter cold they were worried about pipes freezing. We are very relieved that they have heat again (and hot water!).