Christmas is coming...

Every Thanksgiving we go to my Mimi's house to celebrate. After we become more stuffed than the turkey we make sugar cookies. This has been a tradition since my sister and I became coordinated just enough to cut out cookies. We sit on the counter, roll out the dough & stamp out the cookies. I think this is always the part I look forward to the most about Thanksgiving.

My mom worked on Santa while I got a little creative with the other cookies.

The Christmas trees are my favorites from this batch.

Also every year we take a family picture on the stairs. My mimi, my brother, & my dad are in the back, my sister, me, & my mom are in the front with our two dogs.

My uncle in the picture with my family.

Another tradition we started a few years ago is playing Apples to Apples over the holidays. Rose, my dog, always wants to sit in my lap whenever we play a game at the table. My dad went to take a picture of her & somehow he got one of her mid-yawn.

Thanksgiving last year:

Me & my sister making cookies... there is no longer enough room for both of us to sit on the counter...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I'm so thankful for being able to have a creative outlet like making cookies and then blogging about it! Sounds cheesy I know but I love it!!!

Here's my little greeting committee when I got home from school on Tuesday night! She missed me so much!

Houndstooth cookies

 I was asked to make some cookies for a man who works at and is very involved in the school I graduated from. He used to play basketball for Alabama and two of his sons play football for Alabama & his third son, a senior in high school in the same class as my brother, committed to play football for Alabama once he graduates. So I was obviously going to make some Alabama houndstooth cookies.

My mom did wear the baker's apron this time since I was sick and couldn't stand very long. The doctor told me I was not contagious so I was able to help out with some of the baking and do some of the icing. I realize it has been a long time since I posted last. I have been sick with different things over the last month with various colds and infections. Anyway, these cookies were a big hit and he loved them! 

Halloween

I apologize that I am not posting about cookies today. I had a mishap a few weeks ago & fell off my bed, landing on my hand. It wasn't that bad but has gradually gotten worse over time. So if moving it hurts, icing a cookie won't be a fun task. Anyway, enough about that. I've been very busy the past few weeks and was so excited when I reached my goal for having 300 page views for the month of October.

 I got to "celebrate" Halloween for the first time in several years! I had been planning my costume since early this spring and it all came together so well! I was a Toddler in Tiara and I made my tutu! It turned out really well & had so many compliments on it! I even won a costume contest!

Me and one of my awesome neighbors in the dorm!!!

The whole view of my costume!

I also was busy working with Sigma Chi on Derby Days. On Halloween a few of us got a little bored and we decided to go trick-or-treating... (This included one of the guys putting on the costume I had for our Derby Days skit which included a tutu!!) We didn't have much luck but there was one house that gave us a lot of candy... it was actually the only house that gave us candy. They were really nice and pretty much gave us the rest of the candy they had.