Scenes from the Weekend

Who's excited for 12 Days of Blogger Christmas to start tomorrow?!

{raising my hand and pointing to icon on my sidebar --->}

If you have no idea what I'm talking about...

Read my post from yesterday to catch up! You don't want to miss it.

This weekend was filled with so much beauty...from just enjoying Christmas lights, enormous trees, family gatherings (our annual cookie exchange), to my friends choir concert and Christmas play that ended the weekend perfectly. I often wish Christmas time lasted longer because everything is so beautiful and everyone is so happy! Well, except the cah-razy shoppers at the mall that you run into every now and again. Billy and I spent Friday evening by going to Easton Town Center (gorgeous shopping mall in Cbus all lit up for Christmas) to get some Christmas shopping done and have a nice dinner together. Saturday was spent baking cake balls ALL evening since I had to make 2 extra trips to our store for missing ingredients (whoops!) and Sunday was my annual cookie exchange with my Mom's side of the family.

The cookie exchange is always a great time..I really value the time I get to spend with my Mom's family. Although, my aunt Peggy did threaten to smash the windows of my car if I didn't give her cut out cookies back (I played a little joke on her and hid them from her...obviously we take cookies very seriously in our family ;)) ha. I came home with 9 dozen cookies and a happy camper...that is until we got a call that Billy's grandpa suffered a bad stroke. They rushed him to the hospital yesterday and he has since not been able to talk since and doesn't recognize anyone. This is devasting for all of Billy's family...his grandma and grandpa are truly the "rocks" of the family. We will find out more today and later this week, but it seems pretty severe.

 Thank you to everyone for all your well wishes on twitter and facebook!

Here's our scenes from the weekend:

big tree at Easton

carriage rides

O.O.T.D:

I tweeted this picture..but I wore this to my annual cookie exchange

(boots: urbanog, maroon skinnies, sweater, and belt: F21, scarf: gift)

In these pictures the sweater looks more pink, but it's actually more of a beige color.

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Oreo cake balls

My recipe (amd semi-long process explanation) will be posted tomorrow!

All the cookies I came home with

A picture from my friends church choir/Christmas play we attended last night...

It was so uplifting, motivating, and just awesome.

This picture is when they did a flash mob at the beginning.

What did you do this weekend?!

I can't believe Christmas is so soon...

these weekends are flying by (like they normally do!)

and don't forget that this starts tomorrow....

so stop by my girl Lindsey's (The Bargain Blonde) blog

to enter her giveaway!

{Mine isn't until the 19th}