Hope you & yours are having a fabulous Christmas Day. Below is our 2012 Christmas card. The photos were taken by my friend Emilee Beth & the card was designed by Becca of Jumping Jax Designs.
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Merry Christmas
Tag: holidays
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Snack Day Recipes
My work had their annual ‘snack day’ last Thursday. It’s a 60 person pot luck which equates to an all day eating feast!
I brought in cranberry white chocolate cookies that I’ve made for years because they’re delicious & look festive for the holdiays.
There were lots of biscuits, cookies, cupcakes, donuts, sausage balls & meatballs. But what stole the show for me was the two recipes below. I begged for the recipes before 10 am & just had to share {plus posting them helps me remember the recipe}!
Fiesta Dip
8oz cream cheese, softened
16 oz sour cream
11 oz can sweet yellow & white corn, drained
15 oz can black beans, drained & rinsed
10 oz can diced tomatoes with green chiles, drained
1 1/2 tbsp taco seasoning
2 c shredded sharp cheddar cheese
I love the easy directions. Just dump it all together, mix it up & cover for at least 24 hours. It can be served cold or warm with tortilla chips. It had just the right hint of spicy to counter all the sweet dips & cookies I’d eaten that day. Perfect for any event.
Chicken Salsa Wraps
1 can chicken, shredded
1 container garden veggie cream cheese
1/2 c thick & chunky salsa
tortillas
Mix the chicken, cream cheese & salsa together in a small bowl. Spread thin layer on tortilla. Roll up the tortilla & slice in approximately 1 inch pieces. My coworker served them with extra salsa on the side & red & green tortilla chips!
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Meeting Santa
We braved the mall crowd the first Saturday in Dec to have the babies meet Santa for the first time. My MIL came with us to help & check out the photos.
This was the first time they’d been to the mall & their first time in a side by side stroller. Santa arrived at 11a. We planned to show up then, but Lucy girl pooped twice {just as we were leaving the house & again in the van on the way over} but thankfully didn’t get anything on her outfit.
They did great waiting in line for about an hour ~ they smiled at us, the decorations, the others in line.
Then we got up to Santa. Zach was fascinated with the big guy & wouldn’t take his eyes away from him. Lucy was fascinated with his outfit, until she discovered his {real} white beard. She grabbed onto the beard & didn’t want to let go! There were no smiles for us {& the camera lady}. But there were also no tears!
And we got great memories of it all digitally thanks to my MIL.
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Babies First Thanksgiving
This post is embarassingly late. But that’s me lately when it comes to downloading & uploading photos & often for social events too. I hope the ‘hello, I have two babies’ will work for a little bit longer.
While we’re still in the land of sick babies, so far today is our first fever-free day. And I thought I’d post Thanksgiving before we got into Christmas week. 😛
My entire extended family {us, my parents, brother & SIL, my mom’s sisters & my grandfather} arrived in OIB {where my Dad’s parents live} Wednesday night. We all gathered together first for a Thanksgiving church service on the beach Thursday morning.
Lucy & I had seen it become daylight that morning ~ what a way to be thankful~ to see the sun rising over a canal while holding your baby girl. I was also thankful a few minutes later when my Nana & Pawpaw woke up, took over Lucy duty so I could get another hour’s sleep before Zach woke up.
After church, we chilled, watched the parade, enjoyed a delicious brunch, then my SIL, Mom, aunts, Nana & the babies & I headed off to the two little local shops open Thanksgiving day. We bought a few birthday/Christmas gifts for each other then arrived back at the beach house in time for me to nurse & the others to finish up cooking dinner. My thanksgiving meal was interrupted by a big Lucy poo {not the last meal interruptedfor that reason of that I can be sure}. 
Friday, we took Z & L with us for their first black Friday shopping. They were a hit in all the stores & we all found a few deals too. Friday night, we went out to dinner at Inlet View. The food & company was great!
Saturday was more of a chill day, watching football, playing with the babies on the floor. We all bundled up & went to watch the OIB floatila Saturday evening. It was great. Lucy was snuggled on me in our Ergo & slept through it. Zach watched it from my Dad’s lap; one of his favorite spots. Overall, a great thankful weekend.
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Thirty One
::attention whoring ahead::
Today’s my birthday! At 9p tonight {I think}, I’ll officially turn 31 years old.
Last year, I was ‘all 3-0! Yay! Thirty’s the new twenty & I’m young, & hip & fun & pregnant with triplets! Woohoo!’
And now, I’m 31. Not quite as exciting as 30. But I swear I’m still young & hip & fun. But I’m not sure if “hip” if a cool word anymore. And I now sport dark circles, new wrinkles, & since I haven’t been highlighting my hair this year, a few grey hairs.
The past year has been wild but wonderful! And I’m so happy for the battle scars that I’ve earned.
Thirty one equals mid-thirties? Or early thirties? Either way, I say bring it on!
We celebrated with family the Friday after Thanksgiving, again this weekend wiht my parents, with friends Sunday night & I had a birthday breakfast break with my coworkers Monday morning. I think this might be my most chill actual birthday yet, but that’s perfectly fine. I’m asking the babies to give me a silent night {keep your fingers crossed for me, k?!}.
Oh & my birthday means it’s exactly two weeks til our babies first Christmas!!