3 Days?

Tonight we are going over to our friends house for our annual Christmas party. We are having, make your own chicken burritos!! Sounds great! Lauren, made a HOMEMADE raspberry white chocolate cheese cake, and I am VERY excited about trying a slice of it! (I went to the grocery store looking for fresh raspberries and they were $5!! I could not believe it. Actually I kind of could. We got frozen)

I was just thinking about what makes me most in the Christmas mood. Here they are-

THE FIVE CHRISTMAS SENSES

1. Sight- In order for me to feel like it is Christmas, the Christmas tree needs to be up, holly berries on the mantle, and the rest of our Christmas galore

2. Smell- The Christmas tree, baking cookies and goodies, the weather. When it gets to be winter, you can really smell the difference. (at least I can! ;)

3. Hearing- Christmas Carolers, busy streets

4. Touch- Snow, icicles, rolling out cookie dough

5. Taste- Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, Paprika, other spices

Those all make me really get into the Christmas mood. What makes you get into the Christmas Spirit?

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With these last three days, ticking away, I hope you really realize the true meaning of Christmas.

Have a very Merry Christmas,

Lots of Love,

Caroline

Blog Makeover

I decided it was time to change my blog. I also changed the name, and the blog address. It is now- www.themonogrammedprep.blogspot.com

I hope that it wasn't to confusing!

Have a VERY Merry Christmas.

xoxo

Snow Day

SNOW!!! YAY!! We just got about 5 inches. It was wonderful!! Some of our relatives got 17 in.! Wow! Abby & I made a snow-family! I made a big snowman and the baby, and Abby made a medium sized one. The snow is (sadly) melting a little bit, but it still has a nice wintry glow! It is supposed to snow here on Christmas Eve! I hope that doesn't stop us from getting together with family.

We just got back from my 2nd cousins house. We were there for lunch, (which was Delicious) and got to swim in her pool.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 5 more days! Incredible.
xoxo
Caroline

Sweets to the Sweet

Hello all my faithful readers! Emily, over at Vineyard Vogue, let me have a "HAPPY 101" blog award! Thank you so much Emily!

Here are the rules-

1. List 10 things that make you happy

2. Tag 10 other people to brighten their day!

Okay, heres my list.

1. Christmas foods (see post below)

2. My family & friends

3. Lilly Pulitzer

4. Siamese cats, and weimaraners

5. Cake decorating

6. Spring cleaning

7. Making pulled mints with Gigi (Gran Gran) at Christmas time

8. Reading good books

9. Taking photos

10. Decorating the house

I TAG.......

1. Liz, at Mabels House

2. Lindsey, at Sweet Simplicity

3. Kelly, at Mr. & Mrs. Smith

4. Whitney, at The Glam life of a housewife

5. Summer Wind

6. Muffy, at Muffy Martini

7. Sweet Pea, at Horse, Hound, & Home

8. Katie, from a Hokie & a Wahoo

9. Megan, at Tales of the Trees

10. Tickled Pink & Green

xoxo

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

CCR

Getting into the Christmas Spirit

Some times getting into the 'Christmas Spirit" is hard for me. Once Thanksgiving is over, we have gotten our tree, (might I say that our tree looks fantastic!! Gets better every year! ;) and bake Christmas food, I feel a little bit more ready!! Sooo, here are some of my very favorite Christmas treats!

Ice Cubes Candy

Sparkling Cider

Mary Poppins (or sausage Cheese balls)

Peppermint Chocolate cookies

My Grandmas Punch

My grandmas Chex mix (aka Trash. Have no clue where the name came from!)

Chex

Sugared Pecans

Mini Spinach Quiche

Cheese Straws

Hot Chocolate

Italian Wedding Cookies

I hope I have done my job in getting you into the Christmas spirit, and making you extremely hungry. (I know I made myself hungry!)

What are some of your family food traditions?

xoxo

CCR

Dear Santa.......TIS THE SEASON!!!

I can not believe I just wrote those words in my title. Shocking!?!? Christmas already? I guess 15 weeks of school has gone by but I am still amazed at how quickly everything happened! Well now on to the "Dear Santa" part.

Dear Santa,

I have been good this year and would love to find-

A monogrammed necklace

A Charm bracelet (With a charm)

Some boots

Itunes GiftCard

Manicure

Mascara

Socks

The Wii

A Taylor Swift CD or one by Michael Buble

What do you want for Christmas?

Two days ago while we were trimming the tree, my mom made some delish Mexican wedding cookies. Now if you have not tried those yet- YOU REALLY NEED TO!!!!

They have pecans in them and are rolled in powdered sugar. Sheer bliss!!! YUM~

I hope I have given you some interesting gift ideas~~

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

xoxo

CCR

Christmas Ornaments

Lately Target has had some really cute christmas ornaments.. Like this

Or this (This is not the actual Target Christmas ornament, but it was really similar!)

Sorry for the lack of posting. This week has been kind of crazy. Christmas shopping, drivers ED, ETC.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

xoxo

Caroline

Drivers Ed.

Yes. I am now taking drivers ed. I only have 9 days until I am finished! YAY! Then I can take in-car. I started yesterday. We go everyday from 3:50 until 6:40. I am taking it at a strange school, and I do not know one person in my class. The teacher has been telling us lots of scary stories about people who got into car crashes. That makes it kind of depressing. They all start out something like this- "Brandon was really a good kid. The ideal kid a parent would want......." or "Jennifer always obeyed the law. That was until one crisp January afternoon......"(The part about crisp January afternoon's was actually in there.) You get the picture. The only thing border line funny is the fact that the movie was made in the 80's, (aka big hair and jumpsuits.) and every 'cool' kid in the movie looks really geeky.

You could pray that I pass, meet some one I could talk to, and also pass in-car.

xoxo
CCR

GIVEAWAY!!! Go and check it out!!!

Christmas COUNTDOWN!!!!

How exciting is that? Christmas, right around the corner! I can not believe how fast it came this year

I felt like after Thanksgiving I could actually get into the "Christmas mood." Before that I got stressed out thinking about it, and watching as people stuck huge blow up snow men, Reindeer, & Santa Clause's in their front yard, and put up their Christmas tree. (If you really want to get stressed out, go to Florida, and see Christmas decor everywhere!) But now I think I am ready. So bring on the snow, the Christmas cookies, and hot coco! Bring on the Christmas carols, red & green!

I just hope I will be able to think up some good Christmas presents ideas. (Any thoughts would help a lot!)

Right now we have 24 days until Christmas, and only 23 until Christmas eve! I see a lot of shopping in my future! (HA ;)

CHRIST IS BORN!!!!!!

xoxo

CCR