I hope you all had a great holiday. I sure did, four-day weekends are the best. Until you have to go back to work, that is.
Around here there was a lot of football watching [ahem, the Packers now have home field advantage for the play-offs. Just sayin’ ],
yes, that is our "underwater" themed Christmas tree....
there was more than a fair share of relaxing- doctor’s orders 🙂 Gracie has a new best friend in my sister,
All while mom let her inner pyro run wild in the back yard, burning the ever-plenty fallen trees from Irene into a huge bonfire [notice the smoke in the background of the last picture].
Hey, so long as she’s having a good time, and we don’t have to call the fire department…again.
Considering my sister, the cupcake queen, was home- there was quite a bit of cupcake eating going on. Probably too much. But they were totally worth it: chocolate chocolate people. Chocolate chocolate! Excuse me while I go for a quick run.
Of course, there was a good deal of Bourbon drinking as well. Merry Christmas dad, aren’t I a good daughter??
Oh, and I baked. Just a lil somethin’ for the family Christmas dinner. My aunt had offered to host it at her house even though she was getting surgery only a week or two prior. In the end it was decided that “dinner” was actually going to be hor d’oeuvres and alcohol. Fine by me 🙂
drink. eat. play. repeat. 