Monday, December 31, 2007

Cookie Baking & Pierogie Making

Over the Christmas holiday we were joined by my parents, who drove up from South Carolina on Thursday. After shopping for supplies on Friday, we started to work on cookies Saturday evening. We made a double batch (about 10 dozen) of my Aunt Kathy's almond cut-out recipe...soo good :). Here are some pictures of the fun we had cutting out the cookies and baking them.


Dad decided mom needed a Christmas tree on her head :). While doing the cut outs we started to hear sirens coming down the street and I screamed "Its Santa!" Last year I was caught off guard by a town of Vienna ritual, in which Santa rides around the town on his fire truck passing out candy canes. We all ran outside to take a peak. Have I mentioned how much I love living in Vienna :)


Sunday morning after fueling up on donuts, we started to work decorating the cookies. We had some very creative cookies and they tasted oh so good.


Geoffrey crafted a hippo in honor of the mother of his child. It looked pretty good I must admit. He even gave me the honors of eating it.




Christmas Eve day we made Pierogies, a Ukranian tradition that has been going on for quite some time. It was great having the whole family involved and sure made assembly the pierogies go by quickly. We all agreed though that a double batch was not nearly enough, as the best part of pierogies is eating them as leftovers the following week!





















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