cookie ..

on monday the kids and i grabbed our one batch of sugar cookie dough and went up the hill to mom's 

she had another 3 batches of dough waiting for us .. 

so we cleaned off the counter .. put on our aprons .. floured our hands and got to it . 

first though we ate a big bite of dough ..

ellie has the cookie cutting down pretty good .. she wants to jump ahead to using the rolling pin though and rolling out the dough .. i have tried to explain to her that she is still at "the kids table" and can't roll out the dough yet .. she is still in the cookie cutting position .. 

she can't move up until there is a vacancy .. 

and this .. it is these moments that she will remember forever .. 

ugh .. that pulls at my heart strings .. 

we ended up with about 500 or so cookies .. a few pans of trees stayed in the oven a bit longer than they should have .. we have nicknamed those the forest fire trees .. 

those are the cookies that we get to eat .. 

everyone else gets the really perfect ones .. 

and i will have to say .. they are one of the best batches that we have made ..