holiday baking!

This weekend I went to the baking extravaganza with the med school wives. We had a lot of fun! And we made so much food - mint brownies, peanut butter balls, gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies, hot chocolate, wassle, toffee, peanut brittle, chocolate candies...oh my goodness, I can't even remember what else! (above: Logan, Stacy, Rebecca, Aubrae, Callie, me, Darcie, Misty, & Beka)

(the "sig. others" from Jeff's mod: Callie, me, Misty, & Darcie)

living Christmas tree

My parents were in the First Baptist Church of Moore Christmas pageant this weekend. My dad was the lead role and my mom was in the living Christmas tree. They had an incredible light show and it was quite fun. Jeff had to stay home and study...such is life these days.

ornament exchange

Thursday, I went to the ornament exchange with the med-school and resident wives. It was a lot of fun and after a game of dirty santa, and having my ornament stolen a few times, I came home with the cutest ornaments. (above is a picture of the med-school wives that came: Jenny, Rebecca, Logan, Stacy, & me)

baking ideas

Let me tell you, I am so full of holly in my heart and these cookies cutters make me just want to go bake and have a wonderful time decorating cookies!

So, I am needing an excellent idea for holiday treats and I am wondering if anyone out there has any good suggestions.

What is your favorite holiday goodie?

rug-a-licious

So, I am in total decorating mode...finally time to make this place our home. However this is such a long process! At first I was so excited; picturing myself in a cute little apron making our home! Unfortunately, doing it mostly by myself in between working and life, it becomes very daunting. I just keep telling myself, one step at a time. Between decorating our home for our first married Christmas, renovating, moving in, and sorting through stuff,... I am starting to see small victories and it makes me ever so happy!

As one of our wedding presents, one of our dear friends is buying us furniture and a rug. Picking the furniture is a lot harder than we had anticipated. I will show you pictures of that whole process later. But for our big living room, we are getting a rug. Finding a rug we actually like, was difficult. I love this sculptural rug (above) from Gandia Blasco. It would be too small for our space. CLICK HERE to see a few more Blasco rugs I love...not for our house, but still lovely. However, I believe we are going with the rug shown below. We both really like the reverse skin, tan zebra...I never thought I was an "animal skin" person, but as I have been looking for things to decorate our home, I definitely see a zebra theme arising...which reminds me of Kelly.

wonderful month

So, I hardly blogged last month because I was having the best time and doing so many wonderful things that I didn't have time to share! But what a wonderful birthday month!!!

Jeff took me to Cattleman's. We also went shopping (we just looked, but it was a lot of fun). Of course we had a birthday party with both of our families and a big birthday party with our friends. We enjoyed our first married Thanksgiving, which we hosted at our house with my family and went to Julie's for his family's meal. I played football, for a while with Jeff and a little bit with Allison. Both my teams dominated...which means it can be contributed to my excellent football skills (but really it means when I was playing with Jeff that he played better than I sucked.)

Between Jeffrey Alan Hopkins, who is simply the best, our families, and all our friends old and new...I truly have so very much to be thankful for!!