candy cane cookies!

sweet heather & her kids avery & savannah invited a bunch of us over for a fun candy-cane-cookie-making party earlier this month. oh what a great time we had twisting the mint & sugar cookie dough into candy canes! the kids kept trying to eat the dough, and we encouraged them to wait until they were cookies to eat them... but when i thought nobody was looking, i snuck a bite (or two or three...) of dough to taste! and i got caught on camera!! :) i also got caught by avery, who asked me, "mrs. em, take a bite?" of course this was right after his mom told him not to eat the dough. sorry heather!! but wow, was that dough good!! and so were the cookies. i need to get the recipe from heather- she said they have cream cheese in them! yuuuum, yummmmmmm!!!!! i'll make sure to share the recipe when i get it from the cook.

while we were waiting for the cookies to bake, we also made ornaments. the kids filled clear glass balls with all sorts of christmas-y doo dads. this was a lot of fun, too, and as you can see, even the adults made sure their ornaments were just right. :) we have no picture of caroline or savannah because they NAPPED while we partied... next year they will have a ball, i'm sure, but heather & i agreed that it was nice to be able to make cookies with our boys without baby girls at our ankles! :)


here are more pictures from our cookie party. heather wants to make this an annual event, and i agree!


joseph & natalie had so much fun making cookies with mommy!


it looks like ethan had a good time, too!

there i am sneaking some dough... boy was that mint dough good!

heather and avery rolling out the dough

avery was so proud of the ornament he made himself!
(which later crashed to the ground in a million pieces...
so heather, at least i got a picture of it first!)

mommy -to-be catherine getting practice holding a newborn!
(one month old baby claire)

thank you for a fun morning, heather!