Veteran's Day 2009

On veteran's day we hit up the park:

(love the static hair after going down the slide...Mallory didn't get why we kept smiling at giggling at her):

Then for our salute to Veteran's past and present, we made these:

I realize they aren't the best lookin' things....and that is why I hardly ever make sugar cookies!! Love to eat 'em, hate to bake 'em.

I have no surface to roll them out on. So I have to put wax paper on my table and try to hold the paper down while rolling, no matter how much flour I use the dough always sticks to my rolling pin and every other thing that touches it, and if I do manage to get it rolled out, it never fails that when I go to cut the shapes (which in this case was just going to be rectangles), it falls apart.

So we made circle flags. :o) The girls did the stripes.

So they ended up being hardly antomically correct at all, and they caused me a lot of strife to be honest, but we did talk about Veterans while we made them, and apparently they tasted decent which is all that really mattered to the girls: