Christmas in February

Yesterday, I spent a lovely morning with my dear friend, Jenna.

We've both been so busy, we haven't had time to exchange our Christmas gifts.

She made me the most beautiful gift which I will share with you very soon.

We have a tradition - Every year, we go to the Market in Larimer Square for breakfast.  Then we take in the shops.

It was a beeeeaaaautiful day outside!

What a fun morning, Slug! It was so lovely to hang out with you and your cute little baby bump...

xo

Over the weekend, we attended a 

2012 Oscar Pajama Party 

with some of our closest friends...

Our classy hosts, Mark and George hosted quite the soiree...

Notice - George Clooney was there, too. ;)

Here's Jef looking splendid in his new H & M pjs!

 Kimmy is looking stunning in her light grey sweatshirt! :)

Mister Christmas was so dapper in his Lucky T and newsboy hat...

But, I think Mark won the award for best dressed in his pj pants, vest, and bow tie.  So handsome!

We shared some bubbly and lots of yummy treats.

What a delightfully FaNcY Ocsar night!!!

So... I must address my lack of blogposts lately.

As you know, life has been a little rough over the last year.  I have been in a bit of a "FUNK" and I always said I would not use this blog as a platform to complain or feel sorry for myself.

The GOOD NEWS is - I'm out of this little funk and I'm ready to go.  There are lots of EXCITING things on the horizon.

 Travel!

A new business venture!

The Sugar Plum Bazaar!

New babies - for 2 of my BFF's!

BASEBALL season!

Spring!

I have lots to look forward to and LOTS to be thankful for!

Thank you for sticking with me. Luuuuuuuhvz to you all!

My ♥

I don't know how we could have made it thru the last six months and the last few holidays without Mister Christmas.

Evan took this photo of us under the mistletoe at the Kloewer's.  There were people EVERYWHERE but somehow, he managed to snap this picture at just the right moment.

This photo is very special to me.

This man is VERY SPECIAL to me.

I love you, Scott.  

Happy New Year.

Christmas 2011

Here's a little peek at our holiday festivities,

including Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day...

I hope your Christmas was MERRY and BRIGHT.

Stay tuned for a look back at my year...

photo credit 

2012 is almost upon us and MY, MY, MY - I am ready for that!!!

What are your New Year's Eve plans?

Do share!

Torture

I enjoy seeing the sights during the holidays, but there's no sight quite like seeing my dogs in a Santa hat and a Santa suit.

They torture me every day with their licking and their obnoxious behavior.

It's about time I torture them for a change.  

Don't you think?

Aren't they just ADORABLE????

(Even with that look of misery in their eyes.:)

Snowbound.

It's a cozy, wintery, lazy morning here at our house.

Here's what it looks like outside...

And, here's what it looks like inside...

The monkeys are lounging...

The pups are staying cozy...

Rodrigo is curious, as usual.

He is mesmerized by the snow outside.

We are all staying warm and RELAXING.  

I'm so glad all of my Christmas shopping is FINISHED!!

I just have a few presents left to MAKE. :)

Last night, we checked another holiday activity off of our winter break to-do list.

A GINGERBREAD HOUSE

I did the icing. (I'm pretty proud of those icicles!!!)  

The monkeys applied the candies.

I think we did a SPLENDID job!

This could be our best gingerbread house EVER!

Wherever you are, I hope you are staying nice and toasty!

Baking day!

Monday was BAKING DAY!

The monkeys and I went over to Natalie's house and we baked cookies all day.

The kiddos had a blast decorating the sugar cookies...

We also made chocolate button cookies, peppermint bark, and thumbprint cookies.

We were baking ANIMALS!!!

Speaking of animals...

...Bigsby even (reluctantly) donned his Santa suit for the occasion.

We are making a gingerbread house, tonight.

And Mister Christmas is bringing us a SURPRISE dinner!

Hope you are all staying WARM and FESTIVE. 

Things to do over winter break...

I must say, I'm really excited to see more of these faces over the next two weeks...

And the monkeys are soooooooooooo excited to be out of school!

We made a "TO-DO" list for the next two weeks.  Here are just a few things off the list:

Make a snowman.

Baking day.

Look at Christmas lights.

Make a gingerbread house.

Museum.

Make a fort.

Play dates and Sleepovers.

Movie marathon day.

Ice skating.

Roller skating.

Read. Read. Read.

Those are just a few - and we've already done a couple of them.  We are checking them off as we go.

We looked at Christmas lights on Friday AND Saturday nights.

Friday was our dear friend, Jef's birthday.  We started the evening with drinks and apps at LINGER,

and headed to the Denver Botanic Gardens to take in their beautiful lights.

(Hilarious picture.)

Good friends and great fun.  What a fantastic evening we had.

Happy birthday, JEF!!

On Saturday, we got hot chocolate and headed out for a look at some of our favorite holiday light displays from years past...

We started at the Kloewer's...

(Sadly, after 29 years of their holiday display, this is the Kloewer's last year.)

The monkeys will miss it.

These lights are only a block and a half from our house.

So pretty.

For some of you, this might be Christmas overload...

so I will wait until tomorrow to share pictures of our baking day with you.

Hope you are having a maaaaaaaaaaaaaarvelous week!