It's that time of year again...

...the time of year when my kids ask and beg and ask some more to make sugar cookies until I finally say yes. First we have to make the dough, cool the dough, let the dough warm up a bit again, roll out the dough, cut out the cookies...

...this is Colin's favorite part -- really! He actually dug out some cookie cutters from the play kitchen and brought them over to us so he could participate in the cookie-cutting. And yes, we let him use them...

... then bake the cookies, let the cookies cool, and THEN (!) we can finally do the girls' favorite part: decorating the cookies.

But it's all worth it because I have some budding artists here, just waiting to express themselves with beautiful cookie-art.