Santa Baby- 3 days

Well, it rained. Looks like we are going to have a green Christmas this year. Tomorrow is my last day of work, then nothing but Christmas.

Light of Christmas- 4 days

I now have three kinds of Christmas cookies made and my shopping is almost done. It's almost here!

Christmas Tonight- 5 days

The Christmas count down begins! However, I missed yesterday. The truth is that I forgot about my Christmas count down until yesterday. So I'm going to finish up the last 5 days til Christmas.

The Big One

 The tree is up! And it is most defiantly feeling like Christmas. Every Year we like to do a different tree. We've done the nature tree, the candy tree, the purple tree etc. This year we went BIG.











And it didn't even fall over.

The guy at the store looked a bit shocked when we told

him the giant bulbs were going on our tree, you know, the one in our living room. 

 Oh Christmas, you make me want to bake cookies.

The One and Only Cake

You will be happy to know that we had it out of the Grand Canyon alive. My absence in the blogging world does not signify my demise. We made it home from our adventure safe and sound. I have a lot to catch up on but first, in the light of thanksgiving, I am thankful for my mom. There are many reasons and I won't go into a long list. But, one reason is her ability to make a cake. My birthday cake!

After I turned 18 I stopped receiving presents for my birthday. The only thing I get is a cake. A fancy cake of my choosing. This year I picked a chocolate cookie dough cake I saw on Pinterest ( I never have the same cake twice). My mother made it for me. It took her hours and according to her, after step 215, it was finished. She swore to never make this cake again.  But I tell you what sir, it was delicious!

Something Grand

We went to the Grand Canyon, stayed with friends in the sun valley Indian school and crossed off a lot of miles. We made it to Tennessee in time to get Spencer settled at school. And tomorrow we head out again on our trip home. I'm getting tired of driving but I'm having so much fun.

Pictures

I added pictures to my posts. Go back and see. I'll be back on the road tomorrow so no more pictures till I get home, which is in 1 week.