Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ornament exchange party

We hosted a little ornament exchange party this past weekend and it was lots of fun! I spent every nap time Hadley had all week preparing for it (no joke).  I'm super busy this week during naps doing our homemade christmas gifts for my family (which is why this will be short, sorry!)

We had spinach lasagna roll ups and they were delicious.


I made a candy cane centerpiece.


Reindeer cookies and a nice mason jar cocoa favor for everyone to take home.

"grinch" fruit was also available.


So cute champagne drinks were flowing. We also had a non-alcohol punch that was a real hit (empty punch bowl, actual punch not pictured but it was red). I doubled the recipe FYI.


I got these two really cute ornaments!

Here's an unclose picture of the mason jar hot cocoa (thanks Pinterest!) 


Those are edible marshmallows made with an edible marker pen (hot topic at the party). Everyone seem to really love all the attention to detail I spent so it was worth all the hard work! 



Friday, December 13, 2013

Cookie drive

I thought I would share something I thought was pretty cool with you. This base (and I'm sure tons of other ones) do an annual christmas cookie drive. Everyone and anyone can bake cookies and then they're delivered to the single airmen on base, deployed families here, and also deployed members overseas. They even made it into a friendly competition between squadrons.


I did my part of baking 10 dozen cookies (which wasn't much but all I could do this year with my busy bee at home). They also had volunteers sort and deliver the cookies.


Here's a picture of mine.

Look how many cookies!

So cute!

They had local school kids make the bags that the cookies went into.



Can anyone guess how many cookies our SMALL (it's seriously small) base made?!?!






1,000 DOZEN COOKIES!! 
BOOM