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Hi associates! I hope you’ve had an exquisite week. It’s been a beautiful blur between Christmas and New Years, and I’ve loved all of this time with the crew. We’ve loved gradual mornings, hikes, buying, nails, studying, and flicks. I’m positively not trying ahead to high school returning, particularly the early morning scramble and hours of homework.
I hope that my associates who celebrated Christmas this week had a gorgeous vacation. My dad and stepmom have been out of city – my step-grandmother handed away. She was so form and great, and I’m grateful we have been blessed to have her in our lives. We had a low-key Christmas Eve at house with Chinese takeout and Christmas Chronicles, and I met up with madre for midnight mass. They turned the lights down for Silent Night and it was the right approach to begin the vacation.
The women have been up vibrant and early for Santa’a items and stockings, after which the household came to visit for household items, tamales, beans, egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, and the Pilot’s well-known egg nog.
We spent the morning collectively, ingesting espresso and eggnog, and exchanging items,
and everybody went house to sit back for a couple of hours.
We took a stroll and dropped off cookies to our neighbors. — I bake for 2 weeks in December and freeze every part. This manner, it’’s not disturbing and we’ve got an enormous assortment of goodies for neighbors and vacation cookie trays. These cookies, these cookies, and peppermint bark are all the time on the listing.
Then, we had 20 individuals over for Christmas dinner and it.was.every part.
Appetizers have been this big cheese board:
(plus a smaller board I positioned on one of many tables for snacking)
Artichoke dip and crackers
ALL the sweets (chocolate bourbon pecan pie, pear pie {that a} pal introduced over, xmas log, totally different espresso desserts and cookies)
and for dinner, we smoked two giant natural turkeys, two big grass-fed beef tenderloins, made horseradish sauce, gravy, asparagus, salad, and madre introduced over tacky potatoes. The meat was all from ButcherBox and cooked completely on the Traeger.
The hit of the night time was the video games!! I received this concept from a associates’ Christmas celebration: Saran Wrap Ball! You wrap a ton of goodies right into a ball, after which one particular person unwraps it whereas the particular person subsequent to them rolls two cube (die? I don’t know these items). When that particular person hits doubles, the timer stops, and the ball goes to the following particular person. If the particular person unwraps a mini bottle of alcohol, it’s an possibility for them to take a shot (or hand the mini bottle to a different keen grownup to take the shot for them).
Here are a few of the goodies I wrapped into the ball:
and the completed product:
It was a day stuffed with enjoyable occasions, good meals, and beautiful items, and as all the time, my favourite half is being with so many individuals we love a lot, on the identical time. I’m so unhappy the vacations are over!!
It’s time for the weekly Friday Faves celebration, however I solely have a couple of for ya:
– Wonka. It was SO good; manner higher than I anticipated. Hugh Grant is a ten/10 Oompa Loompa.
– This retainer cleaner. I didn’t wish to spend $100 on a Zima, however discovered this one with higher critiques and it was solely $40. It made my Invisalign look model new.
– Join us for the Healthy Habits Challenge! All the main points are right here. I can’t wait to do that with you.
– The Organifi Shilajit gummies are SO good – I can do a put up on them if you happen to’d like. You can verify them out right here and that hyperlink will auto-apply the code FITNESSISTA for 20% off.
Sending you needs for a Happy New Year and I’ll see ya quickly!
xo