Catching up

So as you noticed I haven't posted the last 2 days leading up to Christmas. I guess the holidays got the best of me and I either got way to tired or way to busy. Rest assured, we did get in everything planned and it has all been well documented with the camera. I am just going to combine the 23rd thru the 24th on this post. So sorry if it is overly long.

December 23- Baking cookies for Santa

Well we couldn't find just a regular sugar cookie mix at the Dollar store they were sold out, but they did have one box left of funfetti sugar cookies (score)! It was fun did the trick and we had a great time baking the cookies. First of all I had gotten off work early that day, Ryan went shopping with my mom to buy me my Christmas present (the kid has great taste, of course he did learn from the two best people his mom and nanny). When he got home we took naps, long naps. He slept till 7 and that usually means we are both up late. So we started baking cookies at 9,

then we played the wii and then at 11 we loaded up and went to Reasors to buy dessert because I didn't feel like making it this year and I wanted to avoid crowds. I know I looked like a winner walking in the Reasor's at 11 p.m. with my 5 year old, but hey we had naps and we weren't going anywhere the next day. Anyways we never got around to decorating the cookies because then we were tired and we slept.

December 24-frosting cookies and fondue

So we woke up Christmas Eve Ryan at 7:30 excited it was Christmas Eve, me at 9 because I was exhausted. I went ahead and pulled my new Kreuig out of the box and plugged in it and proceeded to try a million different kinds of coffees and then I spent the rest of the day in the bathroom, yikes! Won't do that again. Sorry TMI, Anyways so we got around to frosting cookies,

picking out the best 2 and putting them on Santa's plate for the evening. I had a special secret Santa mission to accomplish so we got ready I took Ryan to my mom's house and I ran all over Green Country. I finally made it to my brothers house that evening where I was promptly told by my 5 year old that I was late and the last one to come here. Then the festivities began for the last several Christmas eve's and for a lot of my child hood we had fondue. Back before it was popular (I know it was popular in the 70's but not so much in the 80's and 90's ok) back before chocolate and cheese fondue and we just used oil and cooked different meats. Time has evolved on how we cook the fondue and now we all have fondue pots and we bring them out this time of the year. Well Ryan loved the meat fondue, he didn't try dipping in the chocolate or the cheese but just ate the stuff plain.

After fondue we had present time and it was great, I got everything I ordered myself (ha ha, it's true). Ryan had a great time and then we went home.

He said his sad goodbye's to duke (elf on the shelf) put milk in Santa's cup got his Christmas jammies on and then he went to bed. Then the waiting game began. I was so excited on what Santa was bringing Ryan I couldn't sleep at all.

Advent Calendar

23rd- Silly putty

24th-  More magnets