Every year, my best friend and her family have the oh so wonderful Cookie Day. Laurie's mom, Marla, spends two days making, chilling, rolling, cutting and baking the cookies just to prepare for the big day. Then Laurie and her sister each get to invite a friend, and Laurie's husband Coire joins us and we set up a table with every decorating sprinkle, sparkle, dot, ball, candy that has ever been created to decorate cookies. The Decorators sit at the table with our trays and Marla and her friend deliver a couple hundred (literally!) differently shaped perfect sugar cookies to our waiting hands and then the creations begin to emerge. It is truly cookie art, and as we dream up new ideas and designs we copy each other and spur each other to make even better ones. Coire is a great addition to the group because his creations are particularly unique. Each year he makes PAC 10 cookies for Laurie's dad and then he will make tree families, or turn a holiday light into a fish. You never know what to expect from his tray!
The best part is just spending time with her family, whom I have come to love so dearly. It is a wonderful day full of warm tea, yummy snacks, laughter and fun creations and precious friends. And this year was even better because I got to share it with Ben too!
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| Laurie and Marla and Ben |
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| the tools of the trade |
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| Ben was so soft in his velour outfit--like a squishy kissable candy cane! |
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| the creations that came from my tray |
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| some of the other creations, including the PAC 10 cookies in the foreground |
Our sugar cookie baking day is next week! I loved your creations - beautiful! And I love Ben's little outfit. Precious!
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing the cookie creations and also all the pictures of Ben. I scrolled down to catch up on several posts--what a treat! Your friend did a wonderful job in pictures of the three of you. I hope we get to meet little Ben before TOO long! We received the Christmas card (I'm afraid there may not be any coming out of the AZ Morgan clan this year). The pictures you selected were a treat. So glad you are enjoying every moment with Ben.
ReplyDeleteGood gravy he's cute!
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