Making Cookies

We did this so long ago, but I thought I would still post it.  (I can not get on top of normal day to day things at home right now, so once I do, I'll post more often.)

A few weeks before Christmas, Lucy and I made sugar cookies: my favorite!  Lucy helped with every step, and she was amazingly helpful!

Lucy helped make the cookie dough first, but Matt wasn't around for taking photos.  Here is the sugar cookie recipe:
1 cup butter
1.5 cups powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2.5 cups lour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt

Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add egg & vanilla
Add all dry ingredients
Chill
Roll dough & cut out shapes
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 400 degrees for 6 minutes

While we waited for the cookie dough to chill.  We made the frosting.  Here is the recipe and the results:
1/4 cup softened butter
1 lb (3 & 3/4 cups) powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
(good on cookies, cake, cup cakes, graham crackers, fingers, spatulas...)

At first Lucy was really nervous about licking the frosting off the mixer paddle.  But then she realized what it was!

The spatula was good too!  (Don't worry!  I licked out the mixing bowl, and the other spatulas from when we mixed in the colors.  Lucy does come by the sweet tooth honestly!)

Then we moved on to cutting out the cookies.  We had quite a few misshapen and blobby ones this year.

Lucy wanted to roll the dough too, which she did surprisingly well!  She was in general over zealous with the cookie cutter and cut chunks off other cookies and over zealous with getting them off the counter and onto the cookie sheet.  There were a few times when she tried to pry them up with her fingers.

Once they were done baking, we moved right on to frosting.  Lucy "frosted" one cookie before realizing this was the yummy frosting which led to her just eating the frosting.

I called down to Matt to come and take some more pictures and told him someone was eating all the frosting.  When he came up he said "Who is eating all the frosting?"


"ME!"

 Lucy next decided that she should do the sprinkles.  Almost all of them went into her little bowl. 

Notice: Pacifier is on the counter and not in the mouth!

 Here is a picture of how they looked.  Lucy's were the 4 with minimal frosting.  Guess who ate those: Mommy!  Lucy wanted "the pink ones!"

So YUMMY!!!  Maybe I will make stars for New Years or something like that...  hmm...

Someone LOVES frosting!

Making cookies like this is one of my favorite things to do at Christmas, so it was a lot of fun to share it with my little girl!

We are still here!

Wow!  It has been over a month since I've posted.  I'm sorry about that.  Life over here has been super busy: house remodel, Christmas decorating, shopping, & baking, having a 2 year old, work, classes/studying. 

Our big change is the remodel!  Here are some pictures of our house & Lucy's 2nd birthday party which was the Saturday after Thanksgiving.


Looking into the kitchen from the living room.



Our "wine area" in the dining room.



Our new entertainment center area in the living room.  We still don't have the stone on the fireplace.  Apparently the guy who was supposed to order it got fired before ordering it and no one realized it.



This was the spread for Lucy's party.  We had a butterfly theme.



Lucy had a lot of fun at the party.  Here she is wearing her new princess dress from Aunt Jenna and I have no idea what is in her hands.  When she opened up clothes from Grandma Ehinger, she threw the package as soon as she knew it was only clothes.  Then when all the gifts were open she came over to me and with her hand by her mouth like she was telling a secret said "More presents?"  Everyone heard and laughed so hard! 

We love our remodeled kitchen and