Christmas 2010

So we stayed in Alabama this year for Christmas. It has been a great weekend. Very relaxed and lots of hanging out with family. Oh and of course, lots of food! Here are a few pictures from the last couple of days.

Christmas Eve started out with no electricity. It finally came back on and I started baking and making Christmas candy:

The tree with all the presents ready to be opened:

Stephen trying to teach his granddad how to use the new digital camera:

Christmas morning at our house:

I can't believe it but we had a WHITE christmas! I snowed until lunch. This was right when it started. Wish I had waited a few more minutes because the ground was covered in snow before I walked back in the house. It was perfect! Its snowing again now. Sitting by the fire and enjoying it through the window.

Chase and Stephen playing old school games. Who knew this was coming back?!

Sock Monkey Cake

Cade is turning 2! Leslie found a napkin that she wanted to base his cake on this year. I thought it was too cute. We have been talking and planning this one since June! Ha ha! You can never be too prepared. Hope yall have a great party tomorrow! Happy birthday, Cade!

60's/Zebra print

Made this for Olivia this week. The inside was tie dyed. Loved it! Wish I could have seen when they cut into it. Its been the talk of the town since the party. People keep asking how I did it. Olivia designed this cake. She wanted zebra print and peace signs. Hope you had a great party, Olivia! Happy Birthday!

Twilight

Twilight Cupcakes:

Large cookie cake to match:

Made these for a co-worker's niece. She was turning 16 and having a Twilight slumber party.

December is here

December is here already! I can't believe it. We went to Wassail Fest last night in downtown Columbus. Enjoyed all the christmas decorations and tried all the wassail that each store was offering. It was so crowded though that you really could not do much shopping.

Today I went to Callie's Sip and See to shower baby John Thomas with gifts. It was fun to go to a shower and the baby be there for us all to pass around and love on. He slept through the whole thing! I made the cake to match the invitation that Brooke designed. I think we make a good team!

After a long nap this afternoon, we are now watching the Auburn/South Caroline game. Wishing they could both lose. Isnt that bad?! Oh well, I just can't pull for Auburn no matter what.

Merry Christmas!!

Finished the tree today. The house is all ready for Santa now!

Thanksgiving

We just rolled in from our Thanksgiving trip to Canton. We love meeting there and hanging out in our cabin in the woods. We spent 3 days just relaxing, eating, napping, brutally competing in board games, watching lots of football and loving on the dogs.

This is the favorite spot at the cabin, the two red chairs that look out over the lake:

Playing Taboo. Whoever was on Mom's team won. Whoever was on Carol's team cheated.

Leigh made me a birthday cake-Peanut butter banana- Yummy!

Yea for presents!

I still cannot believe my parents bought me a houndstooth scarf!

Dad found a 100 year old glass jar that had my birthday imprinted on it. Its going in my kitchen!

It was a great trip. Amazing how tired you get when all you do is sleep and eat. Time to unpack now and get ready to finish wrapping a few more Christmas gifts!

Casey's Birthday Season

My birthday season officially started this weekend. Yea!!! We headed to Tuscaloosa last night with Jim and Tara (and of course Ruby) to do some more Christmas shopping and get some japanese food. We had a great time and came home tired and full of good food! Thanks for coming with us, Blakes! You are great friends! Thanks for my gift too :)

I cold not resist looking like a total dork and putting these glasses on at Charming Charlie's. Ha ha, oh well.

Happy Birthday to me!!!! More celebrating to come.

Picnik Edits

Typical Saturday morning. Stephen playing xbox. Casey playing with her Macbook. Decided to edit some pictures on picnik this morning. Enjoy:

In honor of Camp Carol starting next week. This was taken 4 years ago! Right after we got engaged. We met the gang for Camp Carol to celebrate Thanksgiving. Excited to see the gang next week. Unfortunately we will be missing half of our group. Ill post more on that later.

Fiddle Dee Dee

So my friend, Tara is launching a new business called Fiddle dee dee. Isn't that just the cutest name ever?! Her motto is "Inspired by you. Created by me". She is creating custom art and vinyl designs for your space. Check out her facebook page here. Or you can email her at fiddledeedee1@yahoo.com. Hurry and get those Christmas orders in before it is too late!
Santa is coming soon! Ho Ho Ho :)

Tea for Ruby

I helped host Tara's first baby shower today. We had a Tea for Ruby based a children's book by that name. Many, many pictures to follow (Mom, these are really for you :))

Me and the little mama. So glad to call her my friend!

Brooke, Tara, Me

I got to make the cake:

Liz and Mrs. Linda did a great job with the food:

We had punch (that actually did not have ginger ale in it! Yea!), water, hot tea and coffee:

Jim's grandmother's silver and china was used at the shower:

The hostess:

Time for gifts! I made this tutu for Ruby. I made it weeks ago and was so proud of myself for keeping it a secret from Tara for so long!

Ruby will be the best dressed little girl at the Bama games next year. Jim's parents got her this adorable outfit.

The hostess got her the nap nanny

The parents-too-be with all the goods

It was such a special shower. I cried several times which is no surprise since I cried as much as Tara did when she told me she was pregnant. I started thinking about that moment again at the shower and cried all over again! Goodness, I'm a mess! I don't know how I will make it the day Ruby actually comes. I cannot wait to hold that sweet girl in my arms in just a few weeks! We are so blessed to call the Blakes our friends and get to share in this special time with them. They are going to be GREAT parents! Ruby is a lucky girl! Love you, Tara!