Documenting Memories

I like to document memories. I like to look back at pictures of when I was a kid with my cousins or doing different things and remember memories. A lot of them I don't remember because I was too young, but others I do.

I've been trying to do things with M (and her cousins too who are visiting from OK) that will make good memories. Lorie Jo, Mr. N's sister, has a tradition we love of frosting sugar cookies each Halloween. We have looked forward to that tradition every year and are sad to miss it this year. So, today I made pumpkin shaped sugar cookies and frosting so we could frost them. Mr. N (my lifesaver!) helped. I made blue, green, white and orange frosting. We purchased sprinkles, candy corn & M&M's ahead of time too. I thought I was all prepared.

Needless to say I have a whole new level of respect for Lorie Jo. What a fiasco! I asked Rj (my sister's oldest son) after we were done how he liked frosting cookies with us and he said,

"It was a little bit of horrible."

That about sums it up! M was frosting the same cookie and then licking the frosting off over and over again. She was really hungry at the time so she was not in a good mood. The boys did great.

Mr. N was a tad bit stressed by the event, but was so great helping the boys frost their cookies. He also wasted no time in stretching his artistic wings!

When we were all done Rj was the only one who stayed to help us out with clean up

Our Finished product!!!

The kitchen was the innocent victim of cookie making. It barely made it out alive.

The two youngest baled on us before we were done. We found the two youngest tots trying to work the TV downstairs. The craziest part of all this is knowing we will do it all again!