Mom's Felted Hat

After Thanksgiving, I took Mom to the yarn store to pick out the yarn she wanted me to make her a hat out of. I knitted and felted it for Christmas. She said she forgot I was going to make it, so she was surprised. It fit her perfectly and looks so good on her. I forgot to take a picture of the slippers I knitted and felted for her. I took a few pictures of her in her hat before she left for Michelle's house. Here is the best one.

Baking Christmas Cookies

While we had Micaela and April here these past two weeks, we decided to bake cookies with them. So, on January 1st, the girls and I baked sugar cookies and they decorated them. The girls learned how to measure (flour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, etc.) and pour into the mixer. They also learned how to raise and lower the mixer bowl and turn on the mixer and turn it off, too. They only sprayed us all with flour once or twice! :o)

April's plate of cookies turned out so beautiful! So did Micaela's!

On January 2nd, Papa Rueben baked cookies with Micaela.