Hello buddies! I hope you’ve had an exquisite week. It’s been a stunning blur between Christmas and New Years, and I’ve loved all of this time with the crew. We’ve loved gradual mornings, hikes, buying, nails, studying, and flicks. I’m undoubtedly not trying ahead to highschool returning, particularly the early morning scramble and hours of homework.
I hope that my buddies who celebrated Christmas this week had an attractive vacation. My dad and stepmom have been out of city – my step-grandmother handed away. She was so form and great, and I’m grateful we have been blessed to have her in our lives. We had a low-key Christmas Eve at house with Chinese language takeout and Christmas Chronicles, and I met up with madre for midnight mass. They turned the lights down for Silent Night time and it was the right option to begin the vacation.
The ladies have been up brilliant and early for Santa’a items and stockings, after which the household came to visit for household items, tamales, beans, egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, and the Pilot’s well-known egg nog.
We spent the morning collectively, consuming espresso and eggnog, and exchanging items,
and everybody went house to relax for a number of hours.
We took a stroll and dropped off cookies to our neighbors. — I bake for 2 weeks in December and freeze all the things. This manner, it’’s not anxious and we’ve a giant assortment of goodies for neighbors and vacation cookie trays. These cookies, these cookies, and peppermint bark are at all times on the record.
Then, we had 20 folks over for Christmas dinner and it.was.all the things.
Appetizers have been this big cheese board:
(plus a smaller board I positioned on one of many tables for snacking)
Artichoke dip and crackers
ALL the sweets (chocolate bourbon pecan pie, pear pie {that a} buddy introduced over, xmas log, completely different espresso muffins and cookies)
and for dinner, we smoked two giant natural turkeys, two big grass-fed beef tenderloins, made horseradish sauce, gravy, asparagus, salad, and madre introduced over tacky potatoes. The meat was all from ButcherBox and cooked completely on the Traeger.
The hit of the night time was the video games!! I acquired this concept from a buddies’ Christmas celebration: Saran Wrap Ball! You wrap a ton of goodies right into a ball, after which one individual unwraps it whereas the individual subsequent to them rolls two cube (die? I don’t know this stuff). When that individual hits doubles, the timer stops, and the ball goes to the following individual. If the individual unwraps a mini bottle of alcohol, it’s an choice for them to take a shot (or hand the mini bottle to a different prepared grownup to take the shot for them).
Listed here are a few of the goodies I wrapped into the ball:
and the completed product:
It was a day filled with enjoyable instances, good meals, and wonderful items, and as at all times, my favourite half is being with so many individuals we love a lot, on the identical time. I’m so unhappy the vacations are over!!
It’s time for the weekly Friday Faves celebration, however I solely have a number of for ya:
– Wonka. It was SO good; approach higher than I anticipated. Hugh Grant is a ten/10 Oompa Loompa.
– This retainer cleaner. I didn’t wish to spend $100 on a Zima, however discovered this one with better reviews and it was solely $40. It made my Invisalign look model new.
– Be a part of us for the Healthy Habits Challenge! All the small print are right here. I can’t wait to do that with you.
– The Organifi Shilajit gummies are SO good – I can do a submit on them when you’d like. You can check them out here and that hyperlink will auto-apply the code FITNESSISTA for 20% off.
Sending you needs for a Blissful New Yr and I’ll see ya quickly!
xo
