christmas gifts!

I had such a great Christmas this year!

It was nice just hanging out with my family.

I'm soo happy with what Santa brought me ;)

The contents of my stocking: I've been listening to Glee pretty much all the time and I'm in love with the bow headband and flannel pj pants! Plus I can't wait to go buy a couple new books at Barnes and Noble.

Gift card to my absolute favorite clothing store

Dorm Life semester 1 and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

(If you haven't seen Dorm Life it's great)

A Vera Bradley wristlet in Cupcake Pink!!

And my big present...

A Flip Video Camera!!

It has room to take 2 hours of video! I'm still getting the hang of it and whenever I tried filming my family on Christmas, everyone would get camera shy, so it's going to take some getting used to, but I love it =)

Thank You Santa!!

I also wanted to show the lovely Christmas cards I got from my grandfather, my aunt, Amanda, Elyse, Vanessa, and Sara-Jane.

Thanks again ladies!! The cards are hanging on my wall =)

How was everyone's Christmas? What did Santa bring you??

=)

"the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear"

Merry Christmas!!!

I hope Santa has given you what you asked for,

you eat until you can't eat anymore,

you sing to spread Christmas cheer,

and that you have a wonderful day with family and friends

=D

"i like to smile, smiling's my favorite"

The other night, my friend Shelley and I were bored so we decided to make peanut butter blossom cookies!

I don't usually make Christmas cookies. We have TONS of dessert at Christmas dinner instead.

For the recipe, we just used one from the hershey's website.

mixing the dough all up, mmm...

3 trays of them

I could have eaten the kisses alone

They were delicious and we had fun just hanging out =)

It's Christmas Eve!! I'm just hanging out with my family tonight and we're going to have Chinese food and make some apple pie for tomorrow.

I'm like a little kid when it comes to Christmas. Just a few years ago I would wake up at sunrise because I was soo excited to open presents. I still wake up earlier than some of my family members, but I'm getting better at waiting. I can't wait until tomorrow morning!! I love Christmas =D

december

Remember when I said November was going to be a fantastic month and so much better than last November?

Well it certainly was pretty dang great!!

I did fun things

I saw family who live far away

I had an all around good month!

I can not believe it is already freaking December!!

It doesn't feel like it today (especially with the 67 degree temperature outside!) You have to remember this is New England people. We have freezing cold temperatures one day, but the next day we'll be in t-shirts. Fact of life with living in New England ;)

I'm very excited for December. I LOVE Christmas! It's my absolute favorite holiday ever <3

There's only 5 days of classes left before finals start. I'm hoping they won't be too difficult, but we'll see how that goes...

My dorm room is semi decorated for Christmas and there isn't many days left until break =)