December was a whirlwind of activity around our house, and I was completely overwhelmed with holiday shopping, hosting parties, attending parties, and just being in the moment, hence the radio silence around here and instagram.
A couple of days before Christmas, we took a shot at gingerbread-housing. Basically, I put royal icing on the house with marshmallows, while Anabelle ate every Jelly Bean and chocolate covered caramel in sight. She thought it was the neatest idea ever.
On Christmas Eve, we hosted a small get together at our house with a cheese and grape appetizer plate, pot roast, scalloped potatoes and honey roasted potatoes. It was pretty damn delicious, and I'm kinda beating myself up for not taking pictures of the spread.
After dinner, we made reindeer food for Santa's reindeer, since, let's be honest, he gets a lot of cookies during Christmas. It was a mixture of old fashioned oats, shredded coconut, raisins and grape nut flakes. The leftovers that Santa left made for fantastic cereal for mommy ;)
We woke up at our usual time on Christmas morning and opened our gifts together. It was the sweetest thing to watch Anabelle ever so slowly open each gift, one piece of wrapping paper at a time. She received more toys than I even imagined, and she's being running around the house taking care of the millions of babies she received. Let's just say, there's a lot of children to take care of. She's one busy momma.
The rest of the holidays were spent low key with our family, watching classic movies like A Christmas Story and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Oh, and Elf about sixteen times.
We spent New Years eating craft burgers and drinking craft beer while popping fireworks with Anabelle. She was a little petrified at first, but she slowly warmed up to light show her daddy put on. After each round of fireworks were over, she would shout. "yay!" We only popped a few, since it was freezing and she wanted to go inside.
Oh, and we got a puppy. Three cats, one puppy and one toddler makes a jungle house.
We watched the same flicks over and over too. National Lampoon's is one of our faves - Elf too. It's mandatory Elf is on when decorating the tree, and we're such dorks that we bought the moose mugs from National Lampoon to toast with egg nog. Gotta love christmas - and it's so fun now with having a little guy around!
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Moose mugs. Haha! I need to snag some!
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