it's Christmas Eve!!

I might be 30, but I still feel like an excited little kid when it comes to Christmas.

and Christmas eve is almost better then Christmas day...I know...that might sound weird...but it's all the excitement that leads up to the day...the traditions we have, and it doesn't seem to fly by quite as fast.


so here are a few photos from the day...


we tried a new recipe...Dr Pepper cookies...

I got all dressed up for my annual visit to church




and we came out to see SNOW!!



made my Christmas Eve lasagna

watched It's a Wonderful Life

and the cats got adventurous

hope you all had a magical Christmas Eve!!!

get some sleep...tomorrow's a big day!

oh Christmas tree...woah, Christmas tree!!

so I've been home for about 24 hours, and we are in full on Christmas merriment.

we've had a nice family dinner, baked cookies, I made homemade gum drops- instructions will be coming for that!- decorated the tree, watched a few holiday movies...

oh, and got attacked by a rogue tree...yup, it decided it wanted to make a break for it, and topple right over onto me while we were re-packing the ornaments that we weren't using.


so much excitement in the air :)


gotta love the holidays!

takes me back

I was a huge fan of the Muppets when I was growing up, and I still make time, every Christmas season to watch the Muppet Family Christmas, where they all storm into Mrs Bears house, and Miss Piggy braves the snowstorm to be with them by the end...and of course the Fraggles in the basement, the stand up comic snowman and my absolute favorite, the Swedish Chef...

so you can imagine my glee, when I stumbled across this adorable print by Eric Slager...

I need to have this hanging somewhere in my house!  you can find it here!