Christmas just wouldn't be the same without Oma's famous sugar cookies. Because we love them so much, we had to double the recipe to ensure there was enough left over for Santa. I had two little helpers the entire night who were in charge of the cookie cutters. They really worked well together to ensure we had a lovely mixture of shapes.
When Izzy was done with her virtual play practice she joined in. She however sought out the tiny cookie cutters when we were running low on dough.
On a separate evening, rather than watching Bones (thanks Oma for getting them hooked on this show), we decorated the cookies. Each of the kids had their own unique style. By the end of the night, no one cared what the cookies looked like as we were using up all the sprinkles caught in the bowls.
I was the orchestrater of frosting the cookies and keeping everyone in line so we didn't get backed up.
These two were decorated in honor of Opa and Oma. We giggled at Opa's cookie as we all thought this looked exactly like something he would do. Oma's was for the multi-colored sprinkles we've come to know of when thinking about her cookies.
Izzy generated this rainbow cookie and announced this was for all of the LGTBQ people celebrating Christmas.
We could not forget about the tiny cookies either. Izzy painstakingly decorated them with tweezers to ensure all the balls were in the correct spot.
These were fun checkered shortbread cookies I made for the residents.
Micah saw these gingerbread men weeks ago. When I returned to purchase them, they were sold out. Surprisingly more showed up a few days before Christmas and so he got his wish to decorate one. On Christmas Eve we set up shop and commenced on creating our masterpieces.
Micah's was very simple yet tasteful.
Victoria wanted to make sure her gingerbread woman had a shirt and skirt on. I especially liked the eyebrows.
None of us could figure out what Izzy was creating. At one point she wrote "dead" across the forehead and then announced this was a zombie gingerbread man. I'm glad she changed her design as this wasn't really feeling like Christmas but more like Halloween.
I took the broken gingerbread man and couldn't put him back together again. Nonetheless he turned out just fine.
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