Hello, everyone :) I hope you all had an aaaamazing Christmas!! Ours was quite nice, even though our families were definitely missed. Our little family had a great weekend, though!
Soooo, I did a lot of cooking this weekend. Made turkey tetrazzini on Friday (my office sent me home with a 10 pound turkey; had to use it somehow!) It was good; nothing amazing, nothing awful, just good. I am quite impressed with myself for carving a turkey, though! Saturday night the husband requested our favorite sausage dip (the one I always beg my mom for!), which was fantastic as always. Sunday was the day of feasts!!! I made breakfast casserole for breakfast (duh), which turned out perfectly; I was so excited! It's way way way too much food for two people, though. Thank goodness it's yummy leftover! Dinner was the big production. We glazed the ham and cooked it; SUCH a good ham. Thanks to my office for that one, too. I made my favorite kale casserole, which turned out yummy, as always :) I made sweet potato casserole - Josh's absolute favorite!! I'm not so big on sweet potatoes, so it didn't impress me, but Josh loved it, so that's all that matters! I "made" rolls, which consisted of putting them on a plate. And I made a cheesecake, but we were soooo full by the end of dinner, we didn't eat any :) We did drink coffee out of our fancy china coffee cups after dinner, though. SO POSH.
Well, when I wasn't cooking this weekend, I was watching movies!! We watched The Christmas Story (a present for Joshua), Die Hard (Joshua got the entire collection on Blu Ray from his lovely wife), and The Social Network (thanks, Joshua, for this movie!). We also got The Hangover II from Dan, The Wizard of Oz from the Brians, and Tangled from the husband. Woohoo! Last night, per Jessica's insistence, I watched Revenge on my laptop. It's good! I got through the first 3 episodes. Thanks, Nakamuraaaa.
And when I wasn't cooking/watching movies, I was shopping! We hit up the after Christmas sales on Monday! Picked up a new wreath, tree topper, and Christmas cards for next year at Target - SCORE. Then, we finally did it: we bought a grill!!!! My fancy husband put it together while I cleaned up inside. I can't wait to use it :)
We also went to see Christmas lights! First, we had to stop at Dunkins for some hot chocolates! Then, we went to a home in southern Tallahassee (HUGE house) that had a light display set to "Proud to be an American" - it was really amazing; we'd never seen anything like that in person before. Then we went to a park near our house to walk around and see more lights. It was a great time. Thanks to the husband for taking me to see my nerdy, girly Christmas lights! :)
We used our fireplace for the first time - major successes! We got all of our fancy pants fireplace tools, so we're set! It was way too warm for fires, but we enjoyed them anyway :)
In other amazing news: I came into work today to see my boss had put a $50 Bonefish gift card in my chair. Major score! I cannot wait to have a feast.
In the amazingest news: MY FAMILY IS VISITING THIS WEEKEND. I can't wait to see you guys and ring in the new year with you <3
Oh, dear. The coffeeholic hasn't had any tales lately :(
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