Gluten-full sugar cookie time

We have always made sugar cookies, cut them out, and decorated them for as long as I can remember. So today Mom made the dough and we let it cool in the fridge while we enjoyed another tradition (boys excluded): watching the Nutcracker.
Then came the rolling out, cutting and decorating...my favorite part.

Mom bought a few animal cookie cutters this year, so there was some Kenyan style with a giraffe, lion and elephant.

Sugar Cookie Recipe
1 1/2 powdered sugar
1 c butter, softened
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
2 1/2 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
Combine all but dry ingredients and blend until smooth. Add in dry ingredients. Chill in the fridge for 3 hours. Then roll out with powdered sugar/flour and cut. Bake on lightly greased pans at 375 for 7 minutes