Every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving, we bake Christmas cookies, make fudge and other cutesy Christmas food to give to friends and neighbors. Last year I ruined that tradition since we needed about 1000 sugar cookies made for the wedding that was 5 days away......oops. HA!
This year, we made Hot Cocoa Balls, Chocolate Sugar Cookies (NOT recommended, they are gross), and regular sugar cookies. I'm hoping to do some chocolate dipped pretzels with cute Christmas sprinkles too, but we'll see if I get around to that.......
We baked most of the day, from noon to about 9pm. I thrououghly enjoyed it, obviously, since I was the only one around still decorating the cookies by the time they were done.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving we always take a shopping trip to get some Christmas shopping done. The stores are generally empty on this day, because all the fools who were out for black friday are still sleeping. And there are still some really great deals if you are willing to drive to a few stores. There is nothing on the planet of earth that I need bad enough to wait in lines at midnight or to save $40 on....I think Black Friday is absolutely the dumbest thing on planet earth. But whatever. I officially wait until this day to break out any cheesy holiday tees. I chose the Happy Who-lidays with Cindy Lou Who from the original Grinch by Dr. Seuss. Hopefully I will find some more to add to my collection this year.
Our shopping trip was very much successful, I am waiting on 3 online orders and I want to pick up a 5 more small items when I have an evening off to get to the store and then we are completely DONE. YAY! I've started wrapping gifts so there is something besides empty space under the tree. I just love having the presents wrapped up and looking pretty well ahead of time!
Also, for the 2 people who read this......I'm trying to start a collection of Nativity themed ornaments. They don't need to be overly expensive, I just want each one to be different. If you are out doing Christmas shopping and happen upon some that look cute and aren't 15 dollars a piece, let me know please so I can travel to this establishment and buy them!
The countdown to anniversary is on! Just 4 more days til I get a quiet weekend away! Hopefully the Husband's present will get here in the mail before then and hopefully I'll have some inspiration for the poem to go with that just doesn't seem to be coming to me...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
matching merry christmas
here are a few photos of me and my grinch! oh how i love him and his goofy self :)
Holiday Craziness
okay so i apologized for my lack of postings before with the full intention of having time to update said blog.....yeah well we know how well that worked out for me. ha. december is such a crazy month with all of the holdiay things going on, and on top of all of it i had work, made an emergency trip to the good ol birmingham, moved josh into his new place, wrapped 3000 gifts, baby sat my favorite kiddos, stressed out over everything under the sun, and then came Christmas. so let's recap my last month-i will try to keep it short, but no promises can be made as i have a lot to say about this crazy month.
so at the very beginning of the month, my love was struggling with the decision to keep playing football yet again, he's never been in love with it like soccer, and he has wanted several times to give it up and come home, but he always toughs it out and stays, convincing himself that he'll love it with all manner of creative excuses, some of which made me laugh. but this time he decided he really was going to come home. i will let you imagine how that went down........so anyway after all of THAT was over, dad and avery and i drove our buns to birmingham to pick up the man. somehow we managed to cram an entire dorm into a mini van and a g35. we are packing geniuses. the trip was A BLAST (minus the ridiculously long 15 hour days of driving), avery and dad were hysterical, and then adding josh to the mix made it even funnier. we ate lots of yummy southern food, said goodbye to our friends, nearly died at the vulcan from slipping on ice, froze our buns off, laughed until we cried, and of course drove until our butts were numb from sitting so long. all in all, it was great, despite the less than lovely circumstances under which we were coming. i will definitely miss birmingham and the new friends i made there, but we have decided we will come back to visit often (and after the little icy episode, i think i'm rather grateful that i won't be living there after all.....) once we got joshua home we moved him into his dad's with all of his stuff and he settled in quite quickly. we have had a blast since he's been home-minus the 30 minute drive part and me having to always find a car since josh is currently using mine full time.
the week before christmas was chaos...as usual. it was mostly enjoyable though we had some fairly large stressors in there.... on sunday we went to church and had lunch with bachan (josh's grandmother on his dad's side) and then we went to zoolights with sammy and his girlfriend jen. it was interesting. and the weather was nice, like 70 degrees nice lol. on monday we had dinner with Chris and Jihae and the kiddos. love em. they are superly awesome, made us feel a little better about our current situation too, which is always nice when you have good peeps to talk to. they are great siblings even though they are not officially mine. the rest of the week was just busy with cookies and family and people visiting and work and present wrapping. Christmas eve josh and i dressed in matching Grinch shirts for our family parties, first his dad's and then my mom's. Christmas day we ditched the shirts and kindly wore nice church clothes, i'm bummed i don't have a picture tho because we did look rather dashing. Christmas morning was great with my family and then we headed off to the watson family christmas. it was good, but we were super tired and stressed after, so it was nice to be able to just relax. i'm glad the kiddos liked their gifts tho, they are super fun to shop for and so hard not to spoil!
oh and i almost forgot, joshua bear bought us a red wii for christmas, it is pretty cool if i do say so myself. it is currently living in his room at his dad's as i have no house or place to put it and we already have a wii in the family room, but one day it will have a place of its own when i have a place of my own....one day.
things seem to be winding down a bit, which is good, i'm looking forward to the new year even though it feels like it is coming too quickly. i am ready to leave this year behind though. it has been nice, but a little too stressful lately and i'm ready to move past that. however, i am not looking forward to the next 12 weddings we must attend, and NO that is not an exaggeration. we know 9 couples who have been engaged in the last week and a half and we already had 3 other weddings to attend starting next week. so blah on all that. even though i should be congratulating all of them. in light of our current situation and the fact that once again we will have to wait because people are having issues and the fact that they are in complete control of the situation i'm rather bah humbug about anyone else getting married. i shouldn't be, but i am. especially those who have dated approximately 6 months and are getting married in 5 or 6 months. we know 4 of those. they seem slightly unfair. tho that is just probably my bad attitude talking since EVERYTHING seems rather unfair at the moment. hopefully things will be brighter soon.
so at the very beginning of the month, my love was struggling with the decision to keep playing football yet again, he's never been in love with it like soccer, and he has wanted several times to give it up and come home, but he always toughs it out and stays, convincing himself that he'll love it with all manner of creative excuses, some of which made me laugh. but this time he decided he really was going to come home. i will let you imagine how that went down........so anyway after all of THAT was over, dad and avery and i drove our buns to birmingham to pick up the man. somehow we managed to cram an entire dorm into a mini van and a g35. we are packing geniuses. the trip was A BLAST (minus the ridiculously long 15 hour days of driving), avery and dad were hysterical, and then adding josh to the mix made it even funnier. we ate lots of yummy southern food, said goodbye to our friends, nearly died at the vulcan from slipping on ice, froze our buns off, laughed until we cried, and of course drove until our butts were numb from sitting so long. all in all, it was great, despite the less than lovely circumstances under which we were coming. i will definitely miss birmingham and the new friends i made there, but we have decided we will come back to visit often (and after the little icy episode, i think i'm rather grateful that i won't be living there after all.....) once we got joshua home we moved him into his dad's with all of his stuff and he settled in quite quickly. we have had a blast since he's been home-minus the 30 minute drive part and me having to always find a car since josh is currently using mine full time.
the week before christmas was chaos...as usual. it was mostly enjoyable though we had some fairly large stressors in there.... on sunday we went to church and had lunch with bachan (josh's grandmother on his dad's side) and then we went to zoolights with sammy and his girlfriend jen. it was interesting. and the weather was nice, like 70 degrees nice lol. on monday we had dinner with Chris and Jihae and the kiddos. love em. they are superly awesome, made us feel a little better about our current situation too, which is always nice when you have good peeps to talk to. they are great siblings even though they are not officially mine. the rest of the week was just busy with cookies and family and people visiting and work and present wrapping. Christmas eve josh and i dressed in matching Grinch shirts for our family parties, first his dad's and then my mom's. Christmas day we ditched the shirts and kindly wore nice church clothes, i'm bummed i don't have a picture tho because we did look rather dashing. Christmas morning was great with my family and then we headed off to the watson family christmas. it was good, but we were super tired and stressed after, so it was nice to be able to just relax. i'm glad the kiddos liked their gifts tho, they are super fun to shop for and so hard not to spoil!
oh and i almost forgot, joshua bear bought us a red wii for christmas, it is pretty cool if i do say so myself. it is currently living in his room at his dad's as i have no house or place to put it and we already have a wii in the family room, but one day it will have a place of its own when i have a place of my own....one day.
things seem to be winding down a bit, which is good, i'm looking forward to the new year even though it feels like it is coming too quickly. i am ready to leave this year behind though. it has been nice, but a little too stressful lately and i'm ready to move past that. however, i am not looking forward to the next 12 weddings we must attend, and NO that is not an exaggeration. we know 9 couples who have been engaged in the last week and a half and we already had 3 other weddings to attend starting next week. so blah on all that. even though i should be congratulating all of them. in light of our current situation and the fact that once again we will have to wait because people are having issues and the fact that they are in complete control of the situation i'm rather bah humbug about anyone else getting married. i shouldn't be, but i am. especially those who have dated approximately 6 months and are getting married in 5 or 6 months. we know 4 of those. they seem slightly unfair. tho that is just probably my bad attitude talking since EVERYTHING seems rather unfair at the moment. hopefully things will be brighter soon.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Christmas here we come!
Yes i know it's only the day after thanksgiving....well technically it's 2 days now since this is after midnight, but don't get technical with me, i don't like it-i know it's still early, but i'm so ready to decorate the house and tree and wrap presents and bake christmasy things and do a million crafts and wear sweaters and drink hot cocoa and watch christmasy movies. and listen to christmas music-which i have already been secretly doing for about a week now-it makes me feel warm and fuzzy and i happen to like it-i pulled out all of my christmas music for the piano too-it is my favorite music to play by far! i can't wait to have my own place to decorate next year! i have so many cool things that i keep finding on clearance or am inheriting from others and i am SO ready to have a place to show them off! next year better come quick!
thanksgiving was good-we had a tiny group of 25 this year, so everything was ready wayyyy earlier than normal, but it was kinda nice cause we had lots of time to just chill and be. i was definitely ready for everyone to go home by 2 though lol. i know i'm such a party pooper, but it's just too much comotion for me, i love my family, but i can only do so much! small doses is better for my sanity. i even got to webcam with josh for like an hour and a half in the evening and we talked on the phone while he was shopping in walmart-the booger bought something while he was on the phone with me and said it was a "perfect christmas present" so i am curious to see what he found! he is so very sweet, but it sounded mildly suspicious when he stopped mid sentence while talking on the phone, laughed and said, "babe i just found your christmas present, i'll call you in a sec after i buy it!" i think i might want to be mildly afraid. but i love him so i'm sure it will be awesome whatever it is!
today we decided to be super lazy and instead of keeping with the tradition of baking christmas goodies the day after thanksgiving, we instead watched a million episodes of criminal minds and late in the afternoon we ventured out to hobby lobby (yes, it was glorious) and found some super cool dealios and awesome fun things that i would just love to buy. i refrained however and only spent $20.00- i was a good girl! i bought some to die for wrapping paper that was $3 and i found these super cute letter pictures on clearance and bought them mostly for a wedding reception (yes it's early, and yes we're unofficial, but i feel gathering small things that have dual purpose is not criminal and a very good use of budgeting :) ) they hang from a ribbon and spell out "xoxo" and they are super uber cute and i love them, and they look SUPER awesome above my little photo collage of the man and i-by photo collage i mean the 4 pictures ever printed of the two of us, a birthday card, his valentines poem to me and several inspirational quotes bahahah probably need to get working on more pictures of the two of us-we royally suck at taking pictures of the two of us anywhere!
tomorrow we shall venture out to do our annual saturday christmas shopping-tracy, mom and i go every year and it is always a fun adventure-i will miss it next year when i can't come home, and this year we won't do quite so much since tracy has been so sick and uncomfortable-i feel so bad for her! hopefully the doctors can fix her soon so we can get her back in tip top shopping shape! and i think tomorrow i might be a sweet girlfriend and bake some goodies to send to the dorm for the man and jesse-maybe-if i'm feeling super crafty and house wifeish-which i may not since i made homemade rolls all by myself the other day for everyone to devour and leave me no leftovers-cool peeps-but i guess it is a compliment since they could have hated them and not eaten any! :) here's to happy shopping!
thanksgiving was good-we had a tiny group of 25 this year, so everything was ready wayyyy earlier than normal, but it was kinda nice cause we had lots of time to just chill and be. i was definitely ready for everyone to go home by 2 though lol. i know i'm such a party pooper, but it's just too much comotion for me, i love my family, but i can only do so much! small doses is better for my sanity. i even got to webcam with josh for like an hour and a half in the evening and we talked on the phone while he was shopping in walmart-the booger bought something while he was on the phone with me and said it was a "perfect christmas present" so i am curious to see what he found! he is so very sweet, but it sounded mildly suspicious when he stopped mid sentence while talking on the phone, laughed and said, "babe i just found your christmas present, i'll call you in a sec after i buy it!" i think i might want to be mildly afraid. but i love him so i'm sure it will be awesome whatever it is!
today we decided to be super lazy and instead of keeping with the tradition of baking christmas goodies the day after thanksgiving, we instead watched a million episodes of criminal minds and late in the afternoon we ventured out to hobby lobby (yes, it was glorious) and found some super cool dealios and awesome fun things that i would just love to buy. i refrained however and only spent $20.00- i was a good girl! i bought some to die for wrapping paper that was $3 and i found these super cute letter pictures on clearance and bought them mostly for a wedding reception (yes it's early, and yes we're unofficial, but i feel gathering small things that have dual purpose is not criminal and a very good use of budgeting :) ) they hang from a ribbon and spell out "xoxo" and they are super uber cute and i love them, and they look SUPER awesome above my little photo collage of the man and i-by photo collage i mean the 4 pictures ever printed of the two of us, a birthday card, his valentines poem to me and several inspirational quotes bahahah probably need to get working on more pictures of the two of us-we royally suck at taking pictures of the two of us anywhere!
tomorrow we shall venture out to do our annual saturday christmas shopping-tracy, mom and i go every year and it is always a fun adventure-i will miss it next year when i can't come home, and this year we won't do quite so much since tracy has been so sick and uncomfortable-i feel so bad for her! hopefully the doctors can fix her soon so we can get her back in tip top shopping shape! and i think tomorrow i might be a sweet girlfriend and bake some goodies to send to the dorm for the man and jesse-maybe-if i'm feeling super crafty and house wifeish-which i may not since i made homemade rolls all by myself the other day for everyone to devour and leave me no leftovers-cool peeps-but i guess it is a compliment since they could have hated them and not eaten any! :) here's to happy shopping!
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