Nana's cookies

This weekend I invited my girlies over to make Christmas cookies. These aren't just any cookie, they are my Nana's famous {secret recipe} Christmas sugar cut out cookies. When Nana was alive, she was known for her Christmas cookies. Everyone wanted to be lucky enough to get a box of her decorated cookies. They were so beautiful, you didn't want to eat them. I've never attempted making them for two reasons - a) i hate baking cookies and 2) it looks too hard.

Well, I will do anything for my girlies so I invited them over and we made Nana's cookies and I was right...it was hard and I hate baking cookies!  Even so, it was fun, messy, stressful, hilarious, sticky, and the start of a yearly tradition!

I whipped up the cookie dough in the morning and by afternoon, we were ready to roll...literally.

I helped the girls get started and we rolled, cut, baked and frosted. It didn't take long for them to get a bit bored with the whole process and eventually wanted to just "play" with their dough.





I found that Maddie is the messy one... she had flour everywhere, sugar everywhere, frosting on everything, and wanted to taste every cookie she frosted!



Maci was a bit more deliberate.  She knew exactly what she wanted to do and wanted no help doing it!



Maci's base frosting color was yellow {because that's my favowit color, gramma!}.  The girls also discovered that red hots are just that - RED HOT!   One taste and they had me running {HURRY, GRAMMA!)}to the kitchen for water!



Grampa pooped out on the picture taking and by the time we were done, he was sawing logs on the couch.  We had to take our own picture - 20 pictures later and we had one fairly good one!



And here they are....

I BELIEVE they are almost as beautiful as Nana's ♥

♥