Christmas cookies

Apart from putting up the tree and "Christmasing up" the house, Carla and Faith made Christmas cookies today. This was Faith's first cookie-making experience, so Carla kept it pretty basics ... punching out sugar cookie dough with cookie cutters and then coating them with sugar. Faith took to this task with enthusiasm ...

Faith knew exactly what to do with the cookies once they came out of the oen as well ...

One thing that we DID learn was that if you are overly-enthusiastic in applying the colored sugar, the sugar burns to the cookie sheet and makes a mess. One pan came out better than the other one did, so all was not lost ...