Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend celebrating (if you did) with friends and family.

My holiday celebrating began on Friday, Christmas Eve Eve, where I got together with some of my sorority sisters.  We’ve been celebrating on the night before Christmas Eve for the past several years – it’s certainly a fun tradition!

(side note: I recently darkened my hair and got a long overdue hair cut. No more highlights!)

We each brought an appetizer or a dessert to share, which made for a wonderful assortment of goodies to munch on:

I brought the cheese dip (which I bought at a local grocery store) next to the caramel popcorn. But I never even tried it because I was too busy eating all the other dishes!

And let’s be honest, I spent the majority of my time around the booze:

It’s as if we never left college

Good thing we all spent the night because by midnight we were dancing in the living room and acting crazy – which made for a hilarious night! Somewhere around 3am I fell asleep on the couch with my make up still on, contacts in, and wearing that same outfit above. Yeah, I was a bit drunk.  But it was worth the hangover headache (which was awful). We had a blast!

Christmas Eve

After making a pit stop for some McDonald’s breakfast on my drive home from my friends house (egg mcmuffin, hashbrown and a coffee – hits the spot after a night out by the way), I had to get to work on cleaning my house.  My parents were coming into town to celebrate Christmas with Andy and I.  I think the cleaning did me good though. I forgot about how exhausted I was!

By the time my parents arrived we headed out to Andy’s parent’s place for dinner.

To eat we had turkey, ham, cheesy potatoes, and salad.  Everything was delicious and I filled my plate with seconds of the cheesy potatoes. I also saved room for dessert and had a slice of cheesecake and a cannoli.  Yep - I was filled to the brim!

After eating we all hung out, played some games, and chatted. I’m so happy that Andy and I got to spend time with both of our families together. It’s so much fun when we all hang out!

This was little Claire’s (Andy’s God daughter and niece) first Christmas – she’s such a cutie!!

Christmas Day

My parents spent the night at our place and we spent Christmas day together, just the four of us.

It was a very relaxing day and we all pretty much stayed in our pajamas and relaxed.  It’s my favorite way to spend Christmas Day – relaxing with family!

We spent the morning eating breakfast and opening gifts. The pups were especially excited that they got to open their own gifts with us:

For dinner my parents brought up a ham and made breaded chicken.  Andy and I made the side dishes including green beans, carrots, salad and cheesy potatoes.

I ate mounds of the potatoes. They’re my favorite. Not healthy in the slightest, but delicious!

For dessert we had a pumpkin roll:

This pumpkin roll was amazing (highly recommend it – It’s from Whole Foods) and luckily we have left overs – I’ve been eating it every day!

We spent the rest of the evening relaxing and watching Christmas movies including The Holiday and Christmas with the Kranks. 

I hope those of you who celebrated had a wonderful holiday filled with fun, family, friends, and plenty of food!