Merry Christmas!

this is my wish for you this christmas

and all year round!

An Evening on Mt. Crumpet

The Christmas festivities started off with a dinner party hosted by Adele, the ultimate Grinch.  (Ironic that she would host such a thing since she's a grinch, right?)  Attendence in an ugly christmas sweater was required.  Our friend Matt took the cake with his ensemble.  He got out his dad's varsity bowling sweater and then proceeded to find the goofiest/creepiest/ugliest christmas ornaments he could and attached them to said sweater.  So there he was all night, a living christmas tree of sorts with ornaments hanging off him.  It was great!

O' Christmas Tree

Tonight we celebrated my friend Laura's birthday.  She turned the big 2-1 yesterday.  We kept it pretty small, as Laura requested, and simply went over to Adele's.  While we were at Adele's house, I got sooo jealous of the Christmas spirit that radiated from her tree.  Isn't it gorgeous?  We don't even have ours up, let alone decorated and lit. Sigh.

 

Isn't the glow magical? 

I'll be basking in it til we get our own tree up.

P.s. They even have gifts all wrapped up and packaged under the tree! ^^

Baking Cookies

Adele and I stayed up til the wee hours of the morning last night baking!  We baked cut-out cookies in traditional christmas shapes: trees, reindeer, candy canes, angels, etc.  I decided to take a knife and hand cut a special one for Adele...a grinch!  She seems to identify with him around the holidays.  (However, I'm not quite sure I believe this completely because would the grinch bake and frost cut-out cookies? ;) ) 

 

Side note: Adele's recipe for the perfect cut-out cookies is originally from a 1940s lifestyle magazine.  How cool is that? 

 

We also made nutter butter balls. yum!  Plus, they were ridiculously easy to make, which surprised me.  But I'm not complaining!  You basically just crush a package of nutter butters, combine with cream cheese to make into balls, and then melt chocolate to cover them.

^^Rudolph!!  And here's a few phone pictures:

 

 

Christmas Lights Glisten

I may have talked about this before, but...around the Christmas season, my mom and I love to look at all the lights and decorations that people put up.  We get in the car and just drive around, taking it all in.  "Happy Christmas" by John Lennon always comes on the radio.  Always.  It's one of those happy coincidences.  In fact, you should listen to it while looking at this post.  It'll be like you're on the drive too.  ;) 

xo,
C

Christmas I

I thought it was way too cute how my mom wrapped up my sweaters.  We really enjoyed ourselves Christmas morning- laughing a lot and simply having fun.  Plus, I think everyone was happy with what they received, not that Christmas is about the presents,... but good gifts always help, right? ;) 

Also, something fun about our presents is that we try to be environmentally friendly with the wrapping.

We encourage you to try it too!  There are a lot of great reusable bags and boxes.  And if you still feel the need to "wrap" the gift, newspaper is a fun and funky option.  Plus, you can still recycle it after opening the gift.  I recommend using the comics section or if there's a section covering the holidays.

Merry Christmas

Eggnog with the Griswolds

A glass of eggnog and "Christmas Vacation"

are just as good the day after Christmas

as they are leading up to Christmas.

(Is anyone else not quite ready to stop celebrating Christmas

or is it just me?)

Here's to ridiculous humor and a great night!

Christmas Eve

Today I celebrate Christmas with Spenser and my dad's side of the family.  Here's Spenser opening his present: (I've already opened mine!)

I always try to pick out fun cards...

And this was what I made him:

I started out with a plain black frame from Wal-mart, attached the hawkeye pieces collage-like, and then I finished it off by putting a heavy lacquer on it.  There were a few more steps, but that's the basic run-down. :)

Merry Christmas Eve!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Tonight after a full day of Christmas shopping, my mom and I drove around looking at everyone's holiday lights.  It's a tradition of ours- we get in the car, turn the radio on to a Christmas station, and drive around admiring all the lights.  In past years it's been kind of a funny coincidence, everytime we'd get in the car John Lennon's "Happy Christmas" would come on the radio.  It didn't this year, but that's not to say it won't catch us driving around in the coming week.  This is one of my favorite Christmastime traditions. 

better than christmas

Last night I was talking to Spenser and the conversation went something like this,

"So how are your finals?

and yours?....

I really miss you!

I miss you too!.......

(fill in with other Spenser-Chelsea talk)

                                                                S: I have a surprise for youuu.
                                                                C: Okay, thanks ahead of time I guess?
                                                                S: Do you want it?
                                                                C: You can give it to me over the phone?
                                                                S: Yeah, but I need you to do me a favor first.
                                                                C: What's the favor?
                                                                S: Come outside and get me!"

Talk about a surprise! I was so excited! I was not expecting him to come visit, but the not expecting made it oh-so-much better!

And when I got outside, he was holding a red box-my Christmas present.  He wanted to give it to me right now so that I could start using it, which was beyond sweet.  We've been playing with it ever since...here's the result:

I couldn't have asked for a better surprise.