Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful, But The Cookies Are So Delightful

Let it snow, let is snow, let it snow! After living in Texas for the last four winters,winter isn't holding anything back for our first winter back in Wisconsin. I know the snow is going to get old very fast, but for now I am enjoying it:) Michael, however, probably isn't as thrilled since he has to be the one to shovel. We woke up to this beautiful sight this morning and Michael got to put our $2 garage sale find to good use.

Weston and I watched from inside, but I am sure Weston was wishing he was outside with Daddy in the snow.

Weston did, however, get to experience playing in the snow last Friday when we got a light dusting. Another garage sale find (the snowsuit) was put to good use. Now, we just need to get him some boots to complete the ensemble. The boots will have to be too big though, because I have discovered they don't make winter boots in his size. The smallest size they make is a 5 and Weston is in a 3/almost size 4.

Last weekend Weston and I also got together with some of the girls on my mom's side of the family to bake Christmas cookies:) Weston hung around for a couple hours, but then I had Mike come pick him up because I didn't get a single thing done while he was there (imagine that)! We ended up making nine different kinds of cookies.

My Mom, Aunt Barb, Aunt Jessie, and Gianna hard at work.

These are just the sugar cookies we made.

One of my favorite parts of Christmas cookie making is decorating the sugar cookies, so I brought along my trusty hot pink caboodle (that I have had since who knows when) that stores all my decorating materials. Well, on the way home Michael put the caboodle on the back of the car while he loaded Weston into the car and then forgot about it. Needless to say the caboodle didn't arrive home with us and I only discovered I was missing it when Andrea walked in carrying my broken caboodle:( It turns out that they found my caboodle and all my decorating supplies laying all over the road when they were driving to our house. Andrea recognized it and they pulled over to gather up the pieces. They managed to save a good portion of the items and things didn't look that bad considering it had been run over. However, I have to say goodbye to my caboodle and I have to start recollecting some of my decorating supplies.