...GoOd GoLLy...

... am I a blogging slacker!

I'm hoping now that the tree is up, the gifts are bought and wrapped, and the cookies are baked I'll be a little better :)

Here's a tiny bit of what's been going on here...of course, part of being a blogging slacker is NOT taking pictures of things you're doing/making :)  ...I did a lot more...honest...but sadly have no photographic proof...


Enough excuses... here's some of the cookies I decorated last weekend...I made a bag for each of the kids who's mom is a primary carpool driver...I try to suck up wherever I can :)

While I'm  ReaLLy grateful that I'm not driving at all this year...I feel like a total sLaCkEr in that department too....

Here's a few quick photos of the living room decorations...the mantle and the table by the entry way...

The $2 Santa boot ornaments  sitting on fake snow in the apothecary jar have been a huge hit with everyone who's seen them...kinda funny since the boots were a last minute home depot purchase while I was buying new outdoor Christmas lights...

Here's the mantle..it's the one thing that looks the same in this room after my husband got a WILD hair this Saturday and decided we needed a ReaL, LaRgE, space sucking, evergreen in our front window...had to buy a stand and a tree skirt too...HaPPy HoLiDaYs!!!  

Ca-Ching! 

 Then we got it home and I LITERALLY had to move EVERY piece of furniture in my living room to make it fit and not look horrible...then the hubby and the boy went to watch TV and i spent an hour and a half decorating it alone....hence the LARGE Scrooge factor!!

Here's the boy at his 5th Grade Band concert...it was AwESoMe!!!  He did great!  We were soooo proud! :)  (notice his Santa hat says ~Bah Humbug~...I totaLLy should have been wearing that Saturday night while I hung ornaments on the piney monstrosity in my front window!) 

ok...before you get too impressed., the bottom tier is from the freezer section at Trader Joe's :)  and man were they TASTY!!

 I did make the top section...brownie bites with peanut butter mousse drizzled with chocolate ganache...mmmmm.....

and I made these gingerbread eggnog trifles in itty bitty individual parfait glasses from Pier One...they were sooooo cute...and everyone knows that anything you eat with a doll sized spoon has ZERO calories! :)

Okay...off to finish the last of the homemade gifties and clean the upstairs MaN CaVe...the boys are BeYoNd pigs during break!!

Thanks for looking...

Have an AmaZinG Monday!

jen