We love making cookies at our house. Ben complains that we do it a little too often, however he always eats them. (I guess that is the problem.) lol My amazing, wonderful, fabulous, thoughtful friend Lindsey has loaned us her camera and so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take pictures. (It has been so long!) Thanks Linds!!
This year we had the most fabulous Christmas. I love my little family and we had a great time together just the four of us in abnormally warm Virginia. On Christmas Eve we had our neighbors over for dinner and then after the kids went to bed Ben and I watched our current obsession “Wonder Years”. It was nice and quiet; we loved it. Hallie woke us up on Christmas morning just like she does every other morning. She walks into our bedroom climbs on our bed and tells us it’s morning and we need to say our prayers and get going. This time she also added that she couldn’t wait to see if Santa had eaten the cookies and drank the milk we left out for him. Haha no mention of presents she just wanted to see if he had eaten our food.
This year we attempted a whole gingerbread village. I quickly learned that next year I will do the assembly after the kids go to bed and let them decorate to their hearts content the next morning. They were monsters while I was trying to put the houses together. Oh well, it’s all good fun.
I have two exciting things to share with you…
1- Ha you thought I was pregnant. Nope! 🙂 My friend Brittany is doing a 25 days of recipes on her cooking blog and today she featured me and my favorite recipe. Go check her blog out. I always find yummy recipes. In fact I get more recipes on her blog then anywhere else at the moment. Love it! Brittsapron.blogspot.com
2- My cakepop company Ladylove is currently doing an online giveaway. Go to the facebook page and look for the details. The winner gets a dozen free cakepops! (If you don’t live by me I will mail them to you!) Hurry and enter you have until midnight on Dec 10th.
See 2 exciting things!!!
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving again this year. We had our friends the Eng’s over for some dinner and then later that night we walked next door to our wonderful neighbors, the Frogan’s, for dessert. I really enjoy cooking and with the menu split between me and Kami it wasn’t stressful at all. Time consuming yes, stressful no. Our menu this year included: Turkey, Homemade stuffing (once you try this stuff the box just doesn’t do it for you.), pumpkin bars, rolls, green bean casserole, mash potatoes and gravy, jello pretzel dessert, apple pie, homemade whipped cream. It was delicious! This was my first year cooking the turkey. I was so nervous! I got the Martha Stewart recipe here and it turned out really good. YAY! Ahh Thanksgiving is the best. Maybe one year we will make it back to Utah so we can eat with our families. Fingers crossed but not holding my breath.
We are so blessed beyond our own comprehension. Life is good.