Snowflakes and Sugar Cookies

Greetings, all! It's been cold and wet and not snowing (phooey) here so I decided to cheer things up with some sugar cookies.

I've never met someone who didn't like sugar cookies, I mean, how could you not like them? They're sweet, and a little crunchy, and they have frosting!!

I decided to make them with vanilla, not peppermint, 'cause we didn't have any peppermint. I also put on some Christmas music, the perfect background for baking Christmas cookies!

While I baked, Kirsten and Charlotte made some snowflakes (paper ones, that is), 'cause we're tired of the lack of snow around here! If we can't have snow outside, we might as well have some inside!

Despite the lack of holiday cheer outside, there has been plenty indoors! We set out our snowglobe and nativity scene a few days ago, and we're hoping to get our tree soon. There's also been plenty of whispering and whisking away of catalogues and boxes, a sure sign that Christmas is near!

Anyway, I do love sugar cookie dough, even if it does have raw eggs in it. Does anyone else eat it anyway? 

"God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay..." my sisters and I always sing along to the music, even if we aren't very good!

Cutting out the cookies is my favorite part, especially since we bought some new cookie cutters!

I slid them onto the cookie sheet and popped them into the hot oven!

Six minutes later, I pulled them out again, this time with crunchy brown edges!

While they cooled, I whipped up some frosting, of which I also partook, it's jsut so delicious!

"What do you think of this one, Kirsten?" Charlotte was saying when I set the platter of cookies on the table.
"It looks perfect!" she exclaimed, "but it looks like Becca's done with the cookies, so let's clear the table."

When I came back with the frosting, they had moved the snowflake supplies to one side and were picking out some cookies to decorate.
"These look fantastic!"Charlotte declared.
"Thank you," I replied, handing Kirsten the spatula. "We only have two spoons, so we'll have to take turns."

"That's alright," they agreed, and we set to work. I brought the sprinkles over, too, and we had a grand time decorating our cookies and singing along to all the classic Christmas carols. 

~Rebecca

Happy 4th!!

Hope you're all having an awesome 4th!! After a fun picnic lunch, we're going to see Despicable Me 2, and later tonight we're going to the park to watch fireworks! Hopefully we'll get some firework pics to share with you!

 

~ Rebecca and Kirsten



 

Blog Buttons

Hi all! We noticed that a lot of you have buttons, so we decided to look into making one of our own! However, we discovered that it is very tough to find good, simple instructions for making one, until we stumbled on a super easy HTML code creator! We decided to share it with you in case you too are having trouble.
1. We used Photoshop to write on our photo, and then resize it. Resize your photo to anywhere between 125 and 250, ours is a little big. :)
2. Upload it to a server. We used Photobucket. On Photobucket, once our photo was uploaded, there was a little side thing that had the image link and other info.
3. Use this generator to make your HTML code.
4. Go to Blogger, then to Layout, and then click on "Add A Gadget". Scroll down that list until you get to HTML/Java Script and click on that. In the space provided, paste your code.

Hope this works for you! We'd love to swap buttons with you, and we tried to add more than the few we have now, but we couldn't grab their buttons.
~ Rebecca and Kirsten

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day everyone! Have a great day, whatever you're doing, and don't forget to pray and give thanks for the people who are fighting for us!
~ Rebecca and Kirsten






Kirsten is wearing the shirt from AG's Everyday Play Jumper outfit, and shorts from AG's retired Tiny Tees and Accessories kit.
Rebecca is wearing AG's retired Zip-up Sweatsuit outfit.