Happy New Year, my blogger peeps!   Before moving on into a fresh new year, I’m sharing one last post about holiday celebrations.  A few weeks before Christmas,  the gals in my husband’s family get together with all the kids and have “Barnett Bake Day.”  It’s started about 12 years ago and has become a tradition for us and our kids. 

It requires a few days of  pre-planning and pre-cooking, and it culminates in a Saturday of baking and decorating cut-out butter cookies.  Hundreds of them.

The kids LOVE painting and decorating the cookies.

So do the adults!

Colorful royal icing – yum.

Our families eat a lot of the butter cookies, peanut butter brittle, ginger snaps, snickerdoodles, fudge, and rock candy – but we try to give a lot of it away as gifts, as well!  If you’d like the recipe for the best butter cookies EVER, I’ve posted it here.

What are your special holiday traditions?