Making Cookies for Santa 2009

What a fun day! All Rileigh has been talking about for the past month is making cookies for Santa! Every time we see Santa at the mall she tells him "come to my house Santa, I've got you cookies!!" I decided that it would be fun if she made Santa Cookies with her friends! Of course being so close to Christmas and everyone trying to do last minute shopping only a few could come! Thank you Diana for bringing all the yummy cookies and decorations and helping us figure out the easiest way to make the cookies!!! Tip to remember: put the cookie dough in the freezer for about 15 minutes before rolling it out....much easier to work with and put the cookie cutters through the dough! Flour....that also helps big time too!!! What would I do without my experience mom's!!!

We had our Christmas music playing in the background and cookies everywhere!!! :-)
When it came time to decorate the cookies Rileigh & Samson decided it was funner to eat the icing & sprinkles rather than put it on the cookies to decorate and eat later!





Emma who was the youngest there had the hang of it! She was doing better than my two yr old!!!


And then here are the experts: Kelley & Ean!





Here are some before shots of the cookies....



Here they are done....



And then the adults thought we would make a few of our own! We thought we would make some cute MTSU cookies...needless to say I don't think Julia's bakery is going to be hiring Shannan or I anytime soon!!! LOL



We had a wonderful time and will do this again next year! Hopefully Diana and Shannan will join us again! Thank you girls for all your help! I won't forget it! Here are some random pictures...enjoy! Merry Christmas, now Santa can come to our house and enjoy his cookies!