This was was totally Christmas in Full Swing! I snapped the picture above when we were downtown for dinner. I just love the town I live in. They decorate all of the downtown and park from head to toe with Christmas decorations. The minute you drive through that area, your heart just bursts with joy. I love how they make that a priority each year.
The Candlelight home tour I talked about is also downtown with all the Victorian era homes, and it was amazing this year! I was too caught up in the history to take many pictures on the actual tour, but I did take this one as we were walking around.
Just a quick iPhone picture, but I adore this home! It wasn’t on the tour, but it was on the same block as one of the houses.
Little fact about me, I am a total architecture fanatic. Yes, it seems strange since I am the ultimate chemistry and math nerd, but true story, I planned on majoring in architecture in college and even had all my classes signed up for at Texas Tech. Some family sickness happened, and I quickly applied to the local university to stay near my family. They didn’t have architecture as a degree, so I chose chemistry on a whim…and here I am now lol
My mom and I did our annual sugar cookie baking this week (check out my other Christmas traditions here) and utilized some new methods we learned for our decorating class a few weeks ago! It was so much fun and I must say our decorating techniques have gotten much better over the years. If you love baking chocolate chip cookies, check out my secrets for the perfect cookie here. For sugar cookies, it’s a bit different, but I will be sharing a few of those secrets in my newsletter which will be coming out any day! Sign up below to get some of those tips 🙂
I made a bunch of my chocolate coffee sugar scrub yesterday and I packaged it up to add to all the gifts for my friends along with a bunch of baked goods. I can’t wait to deliver them soon! This stuff smells so heavenly, you could almost eat it! It would be totally safe to eat it, but is slightly salty lol.
By the way, I did some soul searching about my blog’s purpose which I would love for you to read! And I am now offering sponsorship which I am so excited about! I can’t wait to work and connect with some new people and help them reach a new audience!
Lastly, I finally finished up my Christmas cards yesterday! My husband and I are old school and send out traditional cards although sometimes we include a picture inside if we have had some recent ones done like last years was the one below. This year things just got way to busy to schedule anything, so I bought some beautiful cards and just wrote some sweet things to everyone.
I am hoping next year we can do a fun photo shoot again, this time with the bulldog 😉 I love some of these unique photo shoot ideas from Tiny Prints! These are my favorite ideas:
I’m thinking all of us wrapped in Christmas lights just may be on the books for next year! Do you do Christmas photos or traditional cards?
This weekend I look forward to relaxing, Christmas shopping and playing catch up!
Have a great weekend!
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Yay for getting your cards done – i’m sure that big to do is a good one to get off the list!! Hope you have a great weekend! xo, Biana –BlovedBoston
It was a huge thing! I feel so much better when I get everything sent off 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend!
We still do traditional cards also! We are in need of updated photos but I’m thinking I may wait until my birthday next year and do a big photo shoot. PS – love the Chocolate Coffee Scrub and going to make a batch!
That sounds super fun! We try to do some each year, but we always get so busy! I hope you love the scrub, it is wonderful!
Happy Friday, Alexis! Loving all the festive fun in this post! That pic of you and your hubby is too cute! Looking forward to checking out your Chocolate Coffee Scrub! Have a lovely upcoming weekend! xo – Brenda // ChattingOverChocolate.com
Thanks so much Brenda! I hope you get to try it out, it is wonderful! Have a great weekend!
Those sugar cookies look like they came from a bakery! So impressed!
Thanks girl! Your comment made by day 🙂
Those cookies look sooooo good.
They turned out wonderful! 🙂
I usually just do traditional cards since I never remember to get photos done haha! And your sugar cookies turned out amazing! You definitely need to share your decorating tips! <3, Pamela Sequins & Sea Breezes
It’s sooo hard to remember! lol I definitely plan on sharing some of my tips 🙂 I have some fun ones coming up in my newsletter, I was so happy how they turned out! Have a great weekend!!!!
Coffee sugar scrub sounds so good! I bet it smells great
It smells like the two best things in the world! It is really good 🙂
Congrats on getting the cards out! That chocolate coffee sugar scrub sounds awesome!
Thanks girl! It turned out great, I love it!
We do a photo card, which I’m happy to say we had ordered over Thanksgiving weekend and which I mailed out this past week. Yeah for me being on top of something, because Christmas shopping is nowhere near done! Ha! The candlelight tour sounds like fun and I’m sure is so pretty. Have a great weekend!
That’s awesome! I normally am on top of things, but this year, time flew by too fast! Oh yea, I definitely need to get on top of the shopping, only two weeks left!!
Love that you do traditional Christmas cards! So fun. Those sugar cookies look adorable!
Thanks girl! I love the look and feel of an old school Christmas card 🙂
I can’t resist coffee or chocolate, so I’m afraid I WOULD try to eat that scrub! 😉
I’ve been tempted to eat it too! And I actually did have a taste when I was mixing up a batch just out of habit…wasn’t bad ,just salty lol
Those cookies are gorgeous, and I can’t wait for your tips on baking sugar cookies. I have to do some for my son’s preschool. Love the pic, congrats on finishing your cards! I always do a simple photo card for my Christmas cards.
Thanks Amy! Those tips will be in my newsletter coming out today! 🙂 If you would like to sigh up, but haven’t let me know and I can add you!
Fun post! My husband and I sent out our first Christmas cards this year 🙂 We just got married in September. We just finished our wedding thank you notes (tired hands!), so we decided just to send cards to our family members and best man/maid of honor. It was so fun! We decided just to do Shutterfly cards this year with a few of our wedding photos. I just shared the photos on my blog- love how they turns out! … thanks for sharing cute ideas for the future!
Oh how fun! Congrats to you both. I remember our first Christmas cards we sent out, it was so fun! I will come check it out 🙂