merry christmas!

i am so happy i booked my flight to leave tuesday instead of wednesday! lubbock ended up getting a "big" snowstorm and the airport was shut down! i thought i left this snow in philly...

i bought beer in the lubbock city limits for the first time!

been hanging out with a lot of high school, college and old coworkers who are now good friends.

taking the dogs out in the snow (they love it).

i showed my parents my newfound shoveling snow skills.

i've done some baking.

last night we had our annual christmas eve party.

after the party the family got to opening presents. we open presents christmas eve, then santa comes christmas morning with more!

i'm going to go out on a limb and say my mom had the best christmas. she got a new computer...

and a new car...

and now we are spending our christmas day just relaxing.

i hope everyone has a great day!

photos from the weekend

so you might have heard we got some snow in the northeast over the weekend...






all of those photos were taken early in the day, when there were only a few inches. we ended up getting around 23 inches at our apartment.



this was eric's car mid day...


and this is what it looked like sunday morning...


we had planned a few weeks ago to have a christmas party on saturday night. once the snow started we figured no one would actually show up, but we continued on with our idea by baking and decorating all day.


slyfox christmas ale is amazing




i finally finished the wreath!


this idea was from real simple. i made the sugar cookie recipe from vegan cookies take over the world, then i sliced the dough into rectangles. once they baked and cooled i dipped the ends into melted chocolate, then sprinkled with crushed peppermint candy.


this was another real simple idea. i melted 12 oz. of chocolate and poured it in a 9"x13" cookie sheet and sprinkled with mixed nuts. then refrigerated for an hour, until hard.




we had four people make it to our christmas party! four! ha. we plan to have a another party when there isn't 2 feet of snow on the ground.


sunday morning we both woke up craving pancakes. we needed to fuel up for shoveling!


we needed to get eric's car out, and shovel a pathway to the road.


i've never shoveled snow before, and was actually pretty excited.








success!


i then convinced eric to help me finish my christmas shopping.


except two of the main places i needed to go where closed. I'M SORRY! MOST PEOPLE ARE GETTING THEIR PRESENTS LATE BECAUSE THESE PLACES WERE CLOSED.






adam and juli were hardcore enough to walk over saturday night in the snow, so eric and i walked over to juli's sunday night for dinner. they even cooked for us!


and dolly put on her sunday best.

tomorrow's my last day of work for a week! wednesday i fly out to lubbock and eric flies to pittsburgh.

photos from the weekend

i cut hundreds of felt circles


for a wreath i am making


i also made other crafty christmas decorations


it was really rainy so we lounged with the kitties


and went to my company christmas party


and sunday we went to a philadelphia to hawaii potluck going away party. i made green cupcakes in honor of the philly eagles...or something like that.


and pretzel bites

i'll post recipes for both later!