{My DIY Coffee Filter Wreath}

I made my grandma’s coffee cake and it turned out to be delicious! I can’t believe I forgot to take pictures. Next time!

My parents got me this beautiful capiz pendant from West Elm!

I’m in love with it and cannot wait to put it up! Now I need to figure out which room I want to put it in.

We got my parents a 16×20 canvas of me and my sister since my mom has always wanted these pictures to put up. I ordered them from WinkFlash since I was able to get 60% off of my order and I’m happy with how they turned out! My parents love them and actually hung them up on the wall in the hallway on their side of the house so they can see it everyday.

Here’s a typical kissy-face picture of me and my sister. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas/Holiday season!

The past few days have been crazy since I was stupid enough to wait until the last minute to finish my shopping. Also I shouldn’t have waited until tonight to wrap all of the presents in the same day. While I was at it, I thought I’d do something different this year with gift tags to make it more fun.

I found a good picture of each family member and printed them out. So we cut them out and taped them on each present. I didn’t need to put who it was from since we used the same wrapping paper for all of our presents.

My dad…isn’t he handsome?!

and my gorgeous mom & sister!

I cut up more tags so my parents can use them too with their presents. I can’t wait to spend time with the family! I wish Tyler’s family wasn’t so far away so we could celebrate with them too. We live only 4 miles away from my parents so we’ll be celebrating with them Christmas Eve then go home when we’re ready to go bed. Christmas morning we will immediately go back to my parents’ house in our pajamas. So much easier than packing up our stuff and besides our bed is way better than my old bed.

My mom has asked me to make grandma’s coffee cake this year and I’m so nervous that I’m going to mess it up. I’m probably going to be texting my friend from work who is the perfect wife who cooks and bakes everything. I’m hoping mine will turn out better than my mom’s last year. This will be perfect to make with my new KitchenAid stand mixer that I got for my birthday! I’ll keep you all posted and hopefully I’ll be back with good news.

I hope you all have a wonderful break and Merry Christmas!! xo!

We hauled our Christmas tree out of the garage and set it up. It wasn’t easy! I think the worst part was putting Christmas lights on. Tyler somehow missed a whole row of branches and had to take them all off to start all over again. You can imagine he wasn’t too happy about that. Oops!

Next year we’re going to buy a pre-lit tree for sure! Putting a tree up should be full of joy like in the movies. I think putting the lights up outside was more fun, haha!

It’s coffee season and guess what?! I love me some pumpkin spice latte and expresso frap. Thanks to my girlfriends! I always thought I was going to hate coffee. I can now stop buying coffee beans to just put in a bowl so I could just smell the beans. I’m not an addict though. I’ve been limiting myself to go to Starbucks once a week on Fridays. It’s stupid that I’m so giddy over this!