Chaotic Christmas Cramming

Not sure about everyone else but I feel like I am going thru a week of finals in colleges related to Christmas. Trying to cram in everything that needs to get done and in order before the final hooray. With that being said you should then have an idea how the weekend was spent.

Saturday morning though was all about my littles.   We even broke the "rules" and played with some crayons, markers and water with a paint brush.

 

Then it was time for them to go see Santa.  Our city's theme this year was Whoville..and whoever did the little girls hair did an absolutely amazing job

 

 

After Santa we had some milk and cookies too of course.

Clearly they got a puppy in their stocking from Santa.

 

The afternoon was spent shopping with the hubbie.  A little field trip to Menards to get a new light, which then turned into a new thermostat and door knob.  And getting stalked by this penguin...

 

You see L had this penguin in random places all along her daily journey on Friday.  Well she did a great job keeping track of it until Saturday when she must have forgotten about him because all of sudden there he was sitting by my hubbie.  After we were able to ditch the penguin, we took some time out of our day for a stop for a quick appetizer and cocktail.   Then it was home to work on the projects....as of today, we have a new light, lock, and thermostat installed and working.

 

Later in the evening we checked out an Italian restaurant that I have been wanting to try one town over.

 

Oh my goodness I absolutely loved the food and can say we will be visiting again.

 

After sufficiently stuffing ourselves, it was time to head home for a little rest...ok more like we sat up and binge watched "The Following" while wrapping Christmas presents.  Clearly the puppies just wanted to rest.

 

Sunday was basically dedicated to baking...like all afternoon baking. 

 

Cashew brittle, Kiss cookies, Mexican wedding cookies, Cherry cookies, oreo balls, peppermint/chocolate bark, cake batter fudge...oh my.  We were busy.  The hubbie did help of course we have very different kitchen tactics.  He cleans as he goes...and I destroy like a natural disaster and rebuild later.  

This is the cake batter fudge experiment...now after additional reviews, I may just share the recipe with you guys.  Now that I have your tummie a rumbling, best that I go.

 

Later days,