As you may have noticed, I've slacked on the blog, but for once it's not because of lack of anything exciting to write about--there was too much excitement to write! Let's go in chronological order, shall we?
December 15th (aprox. 9 months after moving in) was our 1st Annual Holiday Brunch/House Warming Party. It was a hit! I've never had a child friendly party before, but I will say it went quite well. And because I couldn't let my Pinterest inspired decor outshine the food, I made some delicious holiday themed Pinterest inspired goodies...
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| Cheese Ball Snowman |
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| Doughnut Snowmen |
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| Their fruit roll up scarves are keeping them warm! ;) |
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| Brownie Christmas Trees |
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| Melted Snowman Cookies |
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| Oh No! |
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| The spread minus the pancakes and baked french toast |
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| Cinnamon Roll Wreath |
The food was fabulous, and because this was a brunch of course there were mimosas! Yum! We had a blast, and were pleasantly surprised by 30+ guests. The kids made edible Christmas trees on the patio, and played in the yard (with a ball that a neighbor kicked over our fence, that we decided to wait to return until after the party ;) ). The adults ate, drank, got house tours, and were merry!!
We truly had a blast!
For Christmas, we did our usual tour of Florida. First stop was Derek's Grandma Joyce's house where his sister, Monica, and brother-in-law, Larry met up with us.
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| Lucy enjoyed her presents until she could no longer stay awake! |
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| Lucy was, as always, the fashionista of Christmas! |
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| PRESENTS!!!!!! |
It was at Joyce's house that Derek received his big present from Monica, Larry, Jacquee, my parents, Kyle, and myself...
Yeah baby! Derek got a riding lawn mower for Christmas (and this gorgeous construction paper picture)!!! He is super excited! He will no longer have to spend an ENTIRE day mowing the lawn on our 1/4 acre lot!
After two days in Port St. Sleepy, we headed south to see my family, and Derek's brother Kyle. As always, we stayed with the ever gracious Cassie and Justin (whom for whatever reason we didn't take a picture with this year...schucks!)
It was good times, but after 4 days away from home, we were ready to head back.
This weekend we undecorated the house. It was a little sad. The house felt so cheery with all our snazzy decorations up. I did, however, find a way to repurpose the hurricane jars that housed some of our holiday decor...
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| Before |
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| After |
This weekend I also worked on a
little HUGE project... our office/first grade classroom/junk room/unpacked box storage facility/tornado disaster area...
...yeah. It was embarrassing. My first task was to figure out storage, and because I am dimensionally handicapped, I had to be clever to "see" how big the various shelving units I was looking into were...
I decided to get two of these...
And I had Derek put them together (and he thought he had the day off! HA! He just had a hotter boss!)...
With the added storage, the office is nearly complete...
And once the drywall is repaired from the plumbing (you know, the plumbing that was finished in July), and the shelves are hung in the closet, the floor will be completely free of clutter, and the desk (which is currently in one of our guest rooms) will be able to go into the office.
2012 was quite an adventure for us, and we have big dreams for 2013, but in the immediate future, our eyes are on tonight's deserts!
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| Slutty Brownies: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Oreos, and Brownie Mix baked to prefection |
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| Cookie Dough Dip |
Happy New Year! Stay tuned for more adventures in 2013!
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