Birthday #5

As regular readers know, I don't talk a lot about my kids on here.  In earlier posts I have detailed some of our issues with my son's allergies.  I also have a daughter and this past week she turned 5!  I'm not sure how that happened but it did and like most girls her age, she is a huge Frozen fan!!  I had planned an elaborate 3-stage birthday celebration:  Stage 1 - make snowflake cookies to take to Children's Church (I teach her Children's Church class and her birthday landed on a Wednesday so we had class on her birthday), Stage 2 - sledding party with her friends, Stage 3 - family dinner with Frozen themed foods.

This post is about Stage 1 - making cookies!!

All our yummy ingredients!!

Butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract (although any flavor could be used)

It looks like a solid chunk of dough but it was actually very crumbly.  

This was after DD smashed it together!

Glittery snowmen and hearts (we discovered we didn't have a snowflake cookie cutter) ready to take to class!  The kids liked them and I was excited to find a sugar cookie recipe I could actually make without them being too crunchy.  I'll link to the original recipe.  They make their own frosting but I didn't want to deal with that mess at church so we used sparkly, glittery sugar crystals.  The kids ate on a cheap 97 cent tablecloth and we gathered it all up and threw it away when we were done!  Success!!

http://creativedetails-eventplanning.blogspot.com/2014/10/frozen-in-california-frozen-birthday.html?m=1

I also did a birthday interview with her and here are her answers:  

 (hopefully they show up ok)

Here is the link to one I used:  http://www.agirlandagluegun.com/2012/04/party-shout-outs.html