Our new Christmas "wreath" :)

It's nothing fancy.

And CLEARLY I need a lesson or two in how to make bows. lol

Over all though, I was pleased and had fun planning, shopping and creating this with my DH!:)

This blog will no longer be Jake and I both sitting down typing up posts together. Chances are we WILL still have a few posts like that, but mostly I feel like it will be just me (Lauren). It's too much of a hassle trying to get Jake to sit down and help me write.

Also, it will not just be about what's going on in our lives in hopes of keeping all of our friends and family in Itasca/Whitney/Waco/Hillsboro/ect... up to date.

It is now being written up with the idea that anyone and everyone is going to read it.

 Jake may be getting a new schedule at work. If it does change it means he will no longer have Thanksgiving off but he will get Christmas Eve and Christmas!! :)

His new schedule wont give him Savannah's birthday party day off, but then again his schedule now wont give him that day off either... so I guess nothing really changes there.

Also, we wont have our anniversary off either.. :/

We wont really know anything until Tuesday, at the earliest.

In other news:

 

This was Jake's dinner last night. I had the day off so I fixed him up a well deserved meal.

I even went so far as to make him homemade biscuits! :)

If you were wondering---These are for the hot chocolate I made him to go with his dinner.

I got the idea off Pinterest.

The coconut one was a horrible idea, by the way.

The one with sprinkles was great though. :)



I also had this yummy treat waiting for him when he got home.

It is lemon pumpkin cake sprinkled with powdered sugar. 

I just used a box of lemon cake mix, a can of pumpkin puree, a dash of ginger, nutmeg and all spice, 3 eggs and little veg oil. I didnt measure anything (I usually don't) so I don't know exactly what went into it.

It tasted amazing and moist though:)

 

My next day off I plan to make Jake cranberry glazed ham for dinner.
I've never made it before, but it sure sounds like it should be yummy!