Our FIRST Christmas (married)

Here are some pictures of the house, and our

Christmas decorations...

Our super cute stockings that we
got for $6.00 on black friday!!! 

Our Christmas tree...

Adam's small Christmas village...

Christmas candy dish..

Looking at our kitchen from the living room

Love this card (from Adam's parents)

and it matches the ornaments!

Looking at the dining room...

Living room...

AND NOW: CHRISTMAS EVE & CHRISTMAS!!!!

These are the most delicious and fun Christmas 

cookies ever! They are candy cane sugar

cookies and they actually have a peppermint flavor!

You make a normal sugar cookie dough, 

but add a secret ingredient (not really) of peppermint

extract along with vanilla. Then split the

dough in half, and die one half red. Next, take 2 tsp 

of the white dough and 2 tsp of the red.

Roll them both into a 4 inch string, and then twist 

them together. Place on a cookie sheet, 

bend one end ( make sure it is a big bend cause

if not the hook will attach to the cane), and

cook in a 400 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

YUM!!!!

Us in front of our tree...forgive the light lines..

they are from the coffee table :)

Traditional building of  a gingerbread house...

My super cute salt and pepper shaker...

The final product (after much stickiness and snacking)

 Christmas morning...opening the stockings FIRST!

This is what we pulled out of them!!! 

And we both had a $10 limit......  ;)

Next: BREAKFAST!

I made us each a personal breakfast casserole.

They were cute, DELICIOUS, and we didn't have

left overs (which we had no room to hold).

Present Time..... forgive most of the faces  ;)

We got up at 7:00 am to accomplish

all our Christmas morning things before church

which was at 11:00. 

After church, we had Kyle and Kristy over for

lunch and the afternoon. This

is the only picture I have of them unfortunately.

You can also see the living room :)

Lunch is complete and I look worn out...

It wasn't that bad. We had potatoes au gratin, green

bean casserole, stuffing casserole, cresant rolls,

and a delicious ham. Kyle and Kristy provided the 

beautiful ham for us to cook up!!!

We had a WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS! 

The services at church made it

even more special. They were such a blessing

and everything was beautiful!