60th Birthday Cookies

Last weekend was my stepdad's 60th birthday.  He doesn't really like celebrating his birthday and doesn't like to get "stuff" as gifts.  My sister decided we needed to celebrate anyway.  She invited my mom and him over to watch football and have a little party. 

Sugar cookies are his favorite, so I made a batch as his gift.  I was just going to do simple round cookies, but then I remembered I had my letter cookie cutters and thought it would be cute to spell out Happy Birthday Gary.  It was the first time I used them and some of the letters were hard to get out of the cutters because they were so thin.

I saw a tutorial on using a stencil to decorate cookies at Sweetopia, so I decided to give it a try.  I went with a simple 60 and it was pretty easy.

My niece thought that he also needed a birthday shirt.  Of course I had to go along with her idea.  I made him a shirt with guitars (he plays the bass guitar)

I didn't think that he would wear it, but R told him he had to put it on so he did. 

He was very surprised and excited.  Happy 60th Gary!