already almost 2009?!

2008 flew by. it may have helped that i took 3 months off at the beginning of the year, but wow. it's been hectic since thanksgiving, so i haven't really had a lot of time to reflect on the year, on this christmas season, or prepare myself for the upcoming year. but i have a 2-week shutdown at work, and though i'm gone in mexico for the first week (leaving thurs night, yay!), i'll still have the second week to slow myself down a little bit.

so until then, pictures of cookies o & i made. let me say how i'm never doing this again... it was such a pain! next time, IF there is a next time, i'm finding pre-made sugar cookies and just icing it. making the dough, chilling it, rolling it out, cutting it, baking it, icing it - i'm too impatient for all of that, plus it's so messy! by the time we finally got to icing, i was tired and messy, so i did it kind of quickly.

candy canes were the easiest to ice, but i think they actually turned out the ugliest. but they were also the first that i iced, so i was getting used to icing these things.


o iced all the bases of the cookies while i did the details. she says the snowflakes were the most difficult, but i think they also turned out the best looking. still... the ugly candy canes were our friends and we regretted cutting so many snowflakes...


these were my favorite. easy to cut, easy to ice, and so cute!


and... o's specialty. can you tell what these are?


ok that's all from me for now. merry christmas to everyone!