A Christmas Tradition

One Christmas tradition in our home has been making Christmas cookies and delivering them to our neighbors.  This will be the 4th year of our tradition!  It's a fun way to meet our neighbors and the ones that live below us and to the left told us they look forward to our cookies!  Usually we make 3-4 different kinds, but this year, we only made two, Red Velvet and Egg Nog cut-out.

Another tradition is the JQ99 Cookie Bake-off.  This year was their second annual Christmas Cookie Traditions Bake-off and our second year to enter (Hubby always comes as my helper).  This year I used a recipe from my aunt.  I called them "Festive Chocolate Chunk Cookies".  They had dried cherries in them and were pretty tasty.

 

Even though our cookie was really yummy,  there were lots of good looking cookies and we didn't win the competition.  It was a good time though!

Cherry Blossoms Welcome in Spring

A few weeks ago I went to visit my brother in the land of Cherry Blossoms. Spring comes much earlier there than here. Our Cherry trees are just beginning to bloom now. Here are a couple of pictures from my trip. EnjoyJ