The Mess is Worth the Smiles!

The boys decided it was a good day to make cookies today....so off we went to HEB at 8:30 am....

I did not particularly care to make a huge mess of my kitchen today, but it was totally worth the smiles I got from all three boys and Eli's comment of "Mom, you are the best mom ever!"  He is not typically the lovey dovey type, so coming from him, it melted my heart!

So we got to making the cookie dough....

 Never knew how exciting a mixer could be!

 We had to let the dough sit in the fridge for a few hours before we rolled it out, so we took a baking break at Phil's Ice House with some friends.

And then got back to rolling and cookie cutting and making a huge, floury mess!  Thankfully Rachel came over today and was able to help wrangle my herd (that is how I feel sometimes!).  You can kinda see her belly bump in the side of this next picture.  Owen has decided the baby's name is Baby Sausage, while Eli thinks Fifi is a great name for a girl.  So we currently refer to the baby as Baby Sausage for now.

 YUM!!!!!!