The beginning...

...of a new tradition. Since it appears that we won't be near family for Thanksgiving in the foreseeable future, so Anna and I are starting our own family tradition for the turkey day weekend. It involves baking lots of cookies, watching lots of Christmas movies, and going to a movie theater to see a movie.

So, here is the first cookie we made. In the event it isn't evident, it is a snowman. I got this great cookie sheet in the shape of a snowman at WalMart the other day.

Before decorating (other than white frosting) and the after photo

and the artist herself decorating the snowman - ok, I did the writing, but she did the candies.

Shortly after I took a picture of the final product, we decapitated the snowman and ate.