Good morning!! TGIF!!! I am really excited about this weekend and the next 2 weeks to follow, let me tell you why! Today I am baking and cleaning all day for a little Christmas get together with my girlfriends for our annual gift exchange and dinner! This year we decided to save money and make tacos and margaritas, not traditional holiday food but we are all far from traditional! This year our budget for our secret Santa was $10, which always poses a challenge but it was pretty fun for me! I had to buy for my best friend Megan and let me tell you I had a lot of fun with it! I bought her her favorite wine which is Cabernet Sauvignon, plastic popcorn holders, red fingernail polish, a 16 month calender with the ocean and lighthouses and a can of olives which are her favorite and yes all for $10...thank you $1 bin at Target!!! She can use it all at once for a night at home with her boyfriend since they love to watch movies!! I am excited to give it to her and have some yummy Mexican inspired food!! Each girl is bringing something for tonight but I have the majority of goods so I am going to prep them today for dinner tonight! Along with making dinner tonight I am making brownies, banana nut muffins and vanilla butter cookies for my in laws goodie tin I am making for them! We are going over to their house tomorrow for our 1st Christmas celebration! Since I could not afford to buy everyone gifts I wanted to make homemade goodies for those I didn't buy gifts for in a container that they could reuse! I got these great plastic Christmas containers 3 for $3 in the Christmas section at Walmart, they are large and have a cute design on them with a great snap on lid! Our family is celebrating Christmas 4 times this year, with so many family members its hard to get them all together so we have decided to venture to everyone's house instead which means a lot of travel but it will be fun! Tomorrow we are celebrating with Nathans Dad and step mom. On the 23rd we are going over to Nathans grandparents house for dinner and gifts, on the Christmas eve we are going to Nathans Mom house for dinner and gifts, then back to our house for gifts which opening gifts on the 24th is a tradition! On Christmas we always go down to my grandparents house for the day but this year we are leaving from their house early to go over to our friend Joe's house for dinner and we are going to play on his new WII!! I am cooking dinner on the 24th at Nathans Mom's and then on Christmas at Joe's! Then if that was not enough my Dad is coming from Great Falls Montana on the 26th for a few days! I share my birthday with my Mom and our birthday is on the 27th so we are all going out to dinner and then my friends are planning something fun for after the new year for my birthday as well! Woo, see I told you I would be busy! But I cannot wait and plus this is Audrey's first Christmas so she has lots of opportunities to open presents and eat!!! Now I have to start my cleaning and baking!!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Celebrations!!!!
Good morning!! TGIF!!! I am really excited about this weekend and the next 2 weeks to follow, let me tell you why! Today I am baking and cleaning all day for a little Christmas get together with my girlfriends for our annual gift exchange and dinner! This year we decided to save money and make tacos and margaritas, not traditional holiday food but we are all far from traditional! This year our budget for our secret Santa was $10, which always poses a challenge but it was pretty fun for me! I had to buy for my best friend Megan and let me tell you I had a lot of fun with it! I bought her her favorite wine which is Cabernet Sauvignon, plastic popcorn holders, red fingernail polish, a 16 month calender with the ocean and lighthouses and a can of olives which are her favorite and yes all for $10...thank you $1 bin at Target!!! She can use it all at once for a night at home with her boyfriend since they love to watch movies!! I am excited to give it to her and have some yummy Mexican inspired food!! Each girl is bringing something for tonight but I have the majority of goods so I am going to prep them today for dinner tonight! Along with making dinner tonight I am making brownies, banana nut muffins and vanilla butter cookies for my in laws goodie tin I am making for them! We are going over to their house tomorrow for our 1st Christmas celebration! Since I could not afford to buy everyone gifts I wanted to make homemade goodies for those I didn't buy gifts for in a container that they could reuse! I got these great plastic Christmas containers 3 for $3 in the Christmas section at Walmart, they are large and have a cute design on them with a great snap on lid! Our family is celebrating Christmas 4 times this year, with so many family members its hard to get them all together so we have decided to venture to everyone's house instead which means a lot of travel but it will be fun! Tomorrow we are celebrating with Nathans Dad and step mom. On the 23rd we are going over to Nathans grandparents house for dinner and gifts, on the Christmas eve we are going to Nathans Mom house for dinner and gifts, then back to our house for gifts which opening gifts on the 24th is a tradition! On Christmas we always go down to my grandparents house for the day but this year we are leaving from their house early to go over to our friend Joe's house for dinner and we are going to play on his new WII!! I am cooking dinner on the 24th at Nathans Mom's and then on Christmas at Joe's! Then if that was not enough my Dad is coming from Great Falls Montana on the 26th for a few days! I share my birthday with my Mom and our birthday is on the 27th so we are all going out to dinner and then my friends are planning something fun for after the new year for my birthday as well! Woo, see I told you I would be busy! But I cannot wait and plus this is Audrey's first Christmas so she has lots of opportunities to open presents and eat!!! Now I have to start my cleaning and baking!!
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