The Christmas and New 12 months’s blur

Sharing somewhat recap of vacation adventures and holly jolly enjoyable.

Hello associates! How are you? How’s the week going? I hope that you simply’re having an incredible one. It’s been a festive blur round right here. Stuffed with cheese and egg nog, and not sure of what day it’s. I hope you’re having fun with some down time, too!

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Some adventures from recently:

We had our annual journey to the Princess to benefit from the Christmas-y occasions and lights. I didn’t plan on going this 12 months – I figured we may go to Sedona or Mt. Lemmon as a substitute – and the ladies had been crushed after they discovered. I form of forgot how a lot of a convention it’s change into; that is our fifth 12 months in a row! So, I shortly booked an evening, and I’m so so glad we did. I all the time formally really feel like I’m within the vacation spirit after we’re on the Princess.

We had a tremendous dinner at Toro on property:

and spent the remainder of the night ice skating, driving rides, roasting s’mores, and having fun with all the lights and music.

(fave jeans are on sale here)

We got here house the place we immediately jumped into vacation baking. Often I prefer to get forward and freeze as a lot as doable and this 12 months completely acquired away from me. I made two pies for my dad’s home:

(a chocolate pecan bourbon and a chocolate meringue)

extra peppermint bark:

and we baked all the cookies for vacation cookie trays and for the packages we make for the neighbors annually.

We additionally put collectively the large Saran wrap ball:

Christmas Eve was at my dad’s home and it was superb as normal. They ordered PF. Chang’s (the Pilot and I had our first date at PF Chang’s! I had simply met him at Starbucks and was nervous that he may be a creeper and take me into the dessert and homicide me. My good friend was on velocity dial. Seems he wasn’t a creeper and our date of dinner + Starbucks afterwards was 5 hours lengthy and completely beautiful).

We opened items with dad’s aspect of the fam after which got here house for an *tried* early bedtime for the children (lol). I went to midnight mass solo which has change into an unintentional however stunning custom. I additionally went final 12 months on my own and beloved it.

Some pics from Christmas Day:

We had breakfast at our home and because the Pilot needed to go away round lunchtime, we had dinner at madre’s home.

Take a look at the lobster tails that Kyle grilled!!!

We additionally had steaks from ButcherBox (the very best), asparagus, tacky potatoes, and birthday cake for child Jesus.

The remainder of the weekend has been films, naps, hikes, and beginning to compensate for issues round the home. My aim is to start out 2026 with clear closets!! I’m within the technique of emptying Liv’s total room (pray for meeee) and prepping as a result of Maisey is getting a child sister… this week! I’ll undoubtedly report again quickly 😉

Hope you’re having an exquisite week! I’ll be again tomorrow with a e-book recap!

xo

Gina