Apologizing for lack of posting!

So first and foremost sorry for my lack of posting. As you know last week I didn't feel good and then on Monday I actually went to the ER because I had such bad head pain so after 14 hours, a ct scan, and a spinal tap, I have viral meningitis. The worst part about this is I still have head pain and there is nothing but Tylenol that I can take. I haven't worked at all this week so I have just been resting. I am so glad that while I was catching up with everyone that everyone had a good Christmas! Mine was good. Zach and I opened our gifts then went to my moms to do gifts. I didn't take one picture how sad! After my moms I started to feel bad so I came home and slept while Zach went to his aunts. I really enjoyed everything that I got especially our new pots and pans that we were in need of! So I am hoping that for NYE I will start to feel better so I can get out of our apartment!  I hope you ladies are having a good week!

Sorry!

Sorry for my lack of posting and absence I have been sick and still trying to get everything done for Christmas. I will try to update later tonight.

Catch up!

Day 11. Show your Christmas Decorations (indoor/outdoor)

This is a tray of goodies that is the center piece for the coffee table! when I light the candles I love how they glow through the snowflakes!

This is the window from the living room into the Kitchen the garland has lights on it too but I need a new extension cord which I have to get today.

This is the shelf above the couch that has the gingerbread stuff on it! I love gingerbread everything! The house on the left glows when you light a tea light inside and the one on the right you can put a tea light in as well at the top in the shade.

These are just little snowmen that hang on the lamps.

These are our stockings! I tried to stay with the red and green color scheme and I found those little presents for a dollar and the stockings for four dollars at Hobby Lobby! I love our stockings!

And thats our tree I love it this year the shape and all is so nice. The only down side its too tall for our angel.

These are just some of my favorite ornaments. The last one is the first ornament that I got Zach! I think it is so cute!

Day 12. What is your favorite Christmas Song/Carol?
I love them all! There's a play list at the bottom with a few of my favorites!

Day 13. What is your favorite Christmas Cookie/Sweet Treat Recipe?
This is hard I love anything sweet, but simple is always good! I honestly would say my favorite is chocolate chips cookies the recipe on the back of the nestle chips bag! Fresh out of the oven they are heaven.

Day 14. Show us your tree:
If you look up there are pictures of the tree from the indoor decor!

Day 15. Christmas/Holiday Crafts:

I didn't really do too much crafts in the first picture the countdown me and my sister came up with that idea and it was super easy. The other thing is for Zach's cousins there's two little girls I am making them rosette headbands! I will show pictures when I am done with them.

Day 16. What is your favorite outdoor Christmas activity?
*Going to get a Christmas tree

* Going to the see lights. I want to go down to 34th street and walk around with some really good coffee this year. I need Zach to pick a day this week!

Day 17. Show us your Christmas/Holiday Decor:
Again look up in the post and there is all the decor besides my Santa and snowman salt and pepper shaker and Santa spoon rest! Oh and all the presents under the tree! I plan to start tackling the wrapping tonight!



Did I mention that it is so nice to be done with school and come home eat dinner and have the night to get stuff done! Well last night I baked these!

And also had Zach hang this!I love it our apartment is so homey feeling and I love the Christmas decor everywhere!

Horrible Horrible...

So I have been a horrible blogger and have not done the challenge but I was trying to wait till everything was decorated to post pictures! Well everything is decorated but I have not taken pictures. I will be be posting everything tonight I promise! We are suppose to get snow here today only up to 2 inches if that but I would be so nice to have it snow, go home eat ham, potatos and cabbage thats currently cooking in the crockpot right now, bake some cookies and wrap soome gifts, oh while watching the Grinch. I can not believe that Christmas is in nine days! I cannot wait although it will be over way too soon! 

Day Ten!

Day 10. What is your favorite Christmas Recipe?

This is a little bit hard because I normally don't cook or even bake a lot.But this year will be different I am planning on baking three different kinds of cookies tonight and a cake for my cousins tomorrow. Now regarding recipes from my mom I love love her green bean casserole. My moms and my sister are the only ones I like and I look forward to the holidays for this reason. My mom also makes Mexican wedding cakes but she calls them something Italian they are the best cookies! I will most likely not be posting till Monday. We are going to get a tree tonight so I want to wait to show decorations till the tree is up and then I can get the recipe for my favorite cookie from my mom too ha! You ladies have a good weekend!  

Day Eight, Nine, and Gender Reveal Party!

Day 8. What is your least favorite thing about Christmas?

*Theres not many of these!

* Taking down decorations

* Crowds when going out

* Needles from the tree! They seem to get everywhere

Thats all I can really think of.

Day 9. Christmas party; are you having one or attending one?

Well this weekend will be our first Christmas celebration. We will be going to my cousins for dinner and presents where my family from out of town comes in. Then the next Christmas celebration will not be until Christmas Eve. Cannot wait!

So last Friday my sister had a gender reveal party! I will show you the night through pictures it was so much fun!

That was the food. She just did deli sandwiches, chips and dip, veggies and dip, crackers and cheese and cupcakes.

There is some of the decor! The banner says pink or blue and then on the right side is her eight week  and 15 week sonos and the ones on the right are her almost 20 week sonos.

That's my adorable niece eating her cupcake!
Then the reveal came she brought a box that said pink or blue!

Kylie opened and this is what we saw!

I will be having a new niece!
Team Pink!

Team Blue!
As much as I thought it was a boy and wanted it to be I will love this little girl no less considering I already bought her something for Christmas the next day and she will not be here till April!

Day Seven!

Day 7. What is your favorite thing about Christmas?

Really! I could not just pick one favorite thing. Let me tell you everything that I LOVE about Christmas.

* Decorating the tree and around the house

*The Candles

* Baking

*Shopping and Wrapping gifts

*Spending time with family

* The cooler weather

* The Music

* The drinks

 Pretty much anything gets me excited when it comes to Christmas. I cannot wait, but I also don't want it to be over ha!

Day Six!

I love love how our Christmas cards turned out!

Sorry that the picutre quality is bad. Something is wrong with our camera and the flash and we have yes to fix it. Happy end of Monday.



Day four and five!

Day 4. Write a Letter to Santa.

Dear Santa,

All I really want this year is to have a relaxing day with possibly some snow on the ground and just enjoying family and the boyfriend! I want my niece to be so overly excited at everything she received this year. some things I wouldn't mind getting would be a new ravens jersey, some new clothes, some things for the apartment, and maybe this new coach purse or this new open heart necklace that I have fell in love with!
Day 5. What is your favorite Christmas Movie?
Hmm I just have to pick one, this is kind of hard. My favorite would have to be the Grinch with Jim Carey. My next would be Elf or the Christmas Story.

Day Six will have to be done later tonight because I need to go home and take a picture to post of our Christmas cards! I am so pleased on how they turned out and the fact that they were free! 

Day Three!

Day 3. Gifts: What your giving:
Wow this could get lengthy!

-My favorite person to buy for is my niece! I spent way too much and shes not done yet! I bought her tons of cute clothes! Sweater dress, a cord skirt, skinny jeans, boots, the most adorable cupcake robe and slippers! Then I got her a princess pop up tent that comes with a sleeping bag and flashlight! My sister and I used to have tents that we put up in the living room and "camped" out! They were the best. So I got my two cousins who are always around with my niece a Cars and Toy Story tent.

-My sister I got her an icing tool with tips for decorating, pampered chef stuff, and some other little things she asked for.

-My mom and Step dad I got her a new straightener, a sweater, a movie. I got him a shirt and am getting them a combined gift card to go out.

-Zach I haven't even started yet, he wants stuff for his car and truck.

-His SIL I got her Victoria secret lotion, body spray, and body wash and the movie dear john.

I think that is all that I have finished so other then that I am not sure what else I will be getting people!

On a different note tonight my sister is having a gender reveal party! I am soo excited. I think that it is a boy so I can't wait to find out if I am right or not. She is at home decorating pink and blue right now! I will post pictures and left you know the gender tomorrow. Team Brendan I am!

Day one and two!

Day 1. What are some of your Christmas traditions?
It starts with usually the third weekend in December when my aunt and some extended family from out of town come to my cousins and we do dinner and presents and relax. Now that me and Zach live together and have kind of started own traditions and split time between both families, Christmas eve we go to his family in the afternoon then we head to my aunts in the evening for dinner and presents! Both of these were traditions before we were together so we had to do both! I wouldn't miss my aunts for anything. Now Christmas day we open presents at our place, get ready, head over to my moms for breakfast and gifts, then we usually stop by his aunts just to visit and see what the kids got, then come home and relax!  
Day 2. Shopping: Your best bargains, favorite stores, game plans and shopping team members.3
Hmm I can't really answer this one lol. I do look for bargains but those and favorite stories all depends on what I have to get for who. this year I am actually ahead of the game and don't have that much shopping left. Zach will be the last and the most stuff. My favorite people to shop with would be Zach,  My bff Ashley, or My sister!

25 days of Christmas!

So I thought that I would participate in this 25 days of Christmas challenge to get me oh so excited for the holidays! 

Day 1. What are some of your Christmas traditions?
Day 2. Shopping: Your best bargains, favorite stores, game plans and shopping team members.
Day 3. Gifts: What your giving:
Day 4. Write a Letter to Santa.
Day 5. What is your favorite Christmas Movie?
Day 6. Show us your Christmas Cards (Sent/Received):
Day 7. What is your favorite thing about Christmas?
Day 8. What is your least favorite thing about Christmas?
Day 9. Christmas party; are you having one or attending one?
Day 10. What is your favorite Christmas Recipe?
Day 11. Show your Christmas Decorations (indoor/outdoor)
Day 12. What is your favorite Christmas Song/Carol?
Day 13. What is your favorite Christmas Cookie/Sweet Treat Recipe?
Day 14. Show us your tree:
Day 15. Christmas/Holiday Crafts:
Day 16. What is your favorite outdoor Christmas activity?
Day 17. Show us your Christmas/Holiday Decor:
Day 18.What is your favorite family Christmas recipe?
Day 19.What was your favorite Christmas vacation?
Day 20. Show us your favorite ornament:
Day 21. If you could play Santa this year and could give coal to anyone who would it be and why?
Day 22. Show us your stockings:
Day 23. What is your most memorable Christmas or thing about the Holidays?
Day 24. Christmas Eve: What are you doing?
Day 25. Christmas Day: What are you doing?

Well there is the list! Since this was suppose to start yesterday I will do Day one and Day two a little later today! Feel free to join in and I found this on Just a Geek Named Jess.