{new year's resolution}

One of my goals for 2012 is to update this blog more frequently! I'm sorry I've fallen so far behind. One of the problems is that I've been so busy doing cookies, and I've been trying to post all those pictures here, too. I think for my own sanity, I will keep my cookie posts to Facebook and my Flickr page. If you want to see my designs, click and bookmark this: AMYTHECOOKIELADY.

I also hope to take more pictures of the kiddos. If I recall, I started this whole cookie venture so I could afford a new zoom lens for my camera. Gerard tells me I don't need to buy that lens anymore since I only take pictures of cookies these days. I promise I will try to take pictures of the kids!

In the meantime, here are some pictures that I did manage to take (or friends took) over the last 2 or 3 months....

Morgan and Savannah with Emily:

One of Morgan's besties moved away in November. Morgan is doing OK without Addison, but she often asks when Addison is going to come home, or when we can go visit her. Hopefully we'll be able to do that sometime. Here are some pics of Morgan, Addison, Addison's little sister Alivia, and their other friend Taylor the night before Addison moved:

Morgan also got her hair cut recently. It was entirely her decision to cut it short (she would have gone even shorter, but I didn't want her to) and she's LOVING her new 'do.

Here are a few from Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Debbie's visit for Thanksgiving:

Morgan, Taylor and Ava at preschool:

Gerard and I were also fortunate enough to get to go to Colorado in November while Grandma and Grandpa babysat for a few days. We got to be part of Nadine and Wade's beautiful wedding in Golden and we got to see Robyn and Jon in Denver. I will try to post pictures of that trip as soon as I can.

Happy new year!

{newest cookies}

Here's a quick run-down of some recent cookie orders:

Custom baby gift boxes for a set of twins. Hailey's middle name is Rose, hence the rose on the onsie and Hannah's middle name is Lily, so I put a lily on her onsie. This was my first attempt at so much writing on a single cookie (and cursive, too!)
All boxed up:

Another custom baby gift box for a little boy, Lucas:

Onsies for one of Debbie's coworkers. She got them a cute basket and knitted (or crocheted?) a sweater and put them all together. I think the gift turned out really cute.

Hello Kitty cookies:
Shofars and Jewish stars for Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur:


A funny gift box for Gerard's teacher's friend. She turned 60, her name is Roxann, she's a grandma, they have a lake house, and "Trophy Wife" is an inside joke between them. This one was fun to do.

I gave away 4 half-dozen pink ribbon cookies to breast cancer survivors:

Morgan's teacher is a huge Michigan State Spartans fan. Yesterday was homecoming, so she asked me to do 18 "S" cookies. I threw in the Sparty cookies as a little surprise. Her husband liked them so much that he already placed an order for 9 one dozen Christmas cookies for his store managers (he runs a large chain of restaurants).

{fall 2011}

Once again I find myself having to apologize for not posting in so long. I'm sure you're getting tired of hearing "We've been very busy", but it's the honest truth. I even have some pictures to share from THE SUMMER!

So, to get right down to business, here are some shots from a trip to the zoo at the end of the summer. We had a really nice time -- the kids navigated using the zoo maps and I don't think they missed anything, including the peacocks that wander around the zoo interacting with the people and feeding the giraffes.

We've had an interesting fall. The weather was beautiful for quite a while, then it got really cold and rained for days on end, and these last few days it has been beautiful again. So far we enjoyed a visit from Aunt Debbie (and went to the apple orchard), a visit from Grandma and Grandpa for Rosh Hashana, a family trip to the pumpkin patch, and Morgan's class trip to the apple orchard. Here's a glimpse:

Morgan's picture day at school was a couple of weeks ago. Doesn't she look cute?

Morgan is taking dance again, this time it's ballet and hip hop. They're really so cute! I took this video a few weeks ago with my phone -- enjoy!

Gerard is taking a hip hop class, too, and I'll post video of him sometime soon.

{saturday night date night}

Who needs fancy restaurants when you can have homemade sloppy joes, chopped salad and local corn with your two sweethearts?