hannah & matt get married

This past weekend, one of my little sisters got married!

The wedding was at the park close to my parents house... we spent a whole lot of time at this park growing up so it was fun to have another great memory made there!

Here's the ceremony set up

Hannah and Dad

So pretty

{close up}

The new Mr. & Mrs. share their first married kiss!

Hannah did her own flowers... they were so pretty!

Family pic

The wedding party

The ladies of the family

Dad & Mom

Kevin & I

April & Mark

{sister & brother}

My sister, Angela, made the cake. It was lemon and the flowers were tissue paper flowers.

It was delicious and beautiful!!! I was so impressed!!!

My sister, Bonnie, was the maid of honor

My sister, Angela (who made the cake), was a bridesmaid

My sister, Marsha, was also a bridesmaid

Sarah's wedding is next... later this summer!

I made all the cookies for the cookie buffet. It was fun and yummy!

What a fun day! Yes, I listed a lot of siblings, maybe I'll have to do a post to introduce them all!

and they lived happily ever after

Paul (Kevin's younger bro) & Krysten got married this past weekend!!!

They are both in the air force and the ceremony was in a beautiful chapel on the base!

The wedding party all ready for the bride

Krysten looked perfect!

Awww

Mr & Mrs Rogers

or Captn & Captn Rogers!

The Rogers with the newest member of the family

Me & my Mr.

Sydney & Kevin

Cute family picture :)

Proud parents

Claire is sooo cute!

So is her Momma!

Congrats Paul & Krysten! We're so happy for you two!

spiderweb cookies

As I previously mentioned here, I made these spiderweb suger cookies for a Halloween party

I actually took a few pictures during the process so I'll give the recipe and then break it down

a little with the pictures I took.

Suger {Butter} Cookies

1 cup butter

1 1/4 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Cream Shortening. Add Sugar, eggs & vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Refrigerate for at least one hour.

Roll out dough to desired thickness, cut with cookie cutters. Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes. Let Cool

Frosting

2 Tablespoons butter

3 Tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Powdered sugar (about 3-4 cups)

Heat together butter, milk & vanilla. Add powdered sugar till thick enough to spread.

Chocolate Cookies

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon vanilla

Add in addition to rest of cookie ingredients.

And here's the process with pictures:

After dough has been mixed and refrigerated; roll out and cut

Bake at 375 for 10 minutes

Let cool before frosting

To ice the cookies I pretty much followed these instructions, but instead of doing

a spiderweb shape, i just did a circle and let the web "techniqe" speak for itself

(give me a break, it was easier and have you seen how good her stuff looks?!)

Here's the finished cookies!