Spoiled in all CAPS

Hello my dear friends and readers, I hope you all had a joyous holiday. My belly is full, my house is even fuller and I believe a Merry time was had by all.

To start the recap...

Christmas Eve, we headed to Jason's aunt's house for a fab prime rib dinner. And of course to tear into Christmas presents. I was so shocked to unwrap this beauty:
Yes, Jason's lovely parents gave me the wonderful KitchenAid I have been dreaming of for years now. Can't wait to whip something up this weekend!

We slumbered at my parents house while visions of sugarplums danced in our heads. We woke up Saturday morning to unwrap this wonder:
Now Jason and I can start to master the art of photography together with classes at Wolf Camera. After unwrapping our present we made a huge breakfast with my parents of pumpkin pancakes, eggs, bacon, hasbrowns and really festive drinks.

In the afternoon we headed up to have Christmas dinner with Jason's parents. We enjoyed a Wii bowling tournament with the family - I lost in the first round.

On Friday, my cousin Karen came into town and the weekend then just flew by. We had a day-after Christmas dinner with my family, and then headed to the Zoo Lights. I was slightly let down by the zoo lights, they seemed so much cooler as a kid.

Saturday we had a great dinner at Cheesecake Factory, and then Sunday we saw Marley & Me. I may be the only one to think it, but I wasn't that impressed by the acting, the portrayal of book, but overall I guess I was entertained.

Yesterday I still had the day off to do more errands in hopes to get some wedding stuff caught up.

Now back to work for 2 days before heading into another long weekend. I hope Santa treated everyone well (as I know I was a way beyond spoiled, but I couldn't be more thankful for gifts and the best gift of family), and may I wish an early Happy New Year.

Are You Hungry?

We had a rockin' food drive at work. In all we donated 920 pounds of food. Check it out:


I hope that everyone has a joyous Christmas and safe travels. I'll be taking a little holiday myself and staying off the computer for the next six days (ahh, bliss). Happy Holidays.

You wish you could be this ugly

Friday was the Ugly Sweater Party at work, oh man were there UGLY sweaters to be seen.
Here is a group of us:
We also had a food drive battle between account teams, here is a pic of the food my account team brought in. Overall the food drive was very successful for only have an office of 30, we really have a load to get over the Food Bank of the Rockies.

Healthy Happy Hour

Last night went to Origins for the very first time for a Healthy Happy Hour. It was so GREAT. We did all kinds of face treatments and test all kinds of products, and I course had to buy all kinds of products - that I really shouldn't be buying...but I LOVED a couple of the products we tried and have decided that my skin isn't getting any younger I better start taking care of it.

Looking forward to the weekend of course. Saturday will be Christmas cookie baking and the Steitz's holiday party. Sunday will be lefse making at the Norgren house and last minute shopping and wrapping. Gotta love the holidays.

At work we tomorrow have the results of our food drive competition between accounts - I personally think my account team has a good chance at winning (stay tuned for pictures). Plus we have the gift exchange and ugly sweater contest - watch out for pictures of UGLY sweaters too.

I Would Cry Too

I hated Santa as a little kid. I have several photos screaming my head off with Santa... I understand these children.