Christmas Party Mayham

I know its a little late, but at least its in time for Christmas! If you haven't had a Christmas party with your friends yet, you should. It feels so good to be home and hanging out with all the best people I know! We had such a great time catching up and just having a great time with loads of different food and drinks. I hope everyone is having a great holiday season so far! Enjoy! 

 The table set up

christmas styled food  

 fresh bread 

 cheers

 popping champagne

 typical us

 Justin being a box head

Some family shots!

 The boys with my dad

 The girls with my mom and sister

 sister sister 

we are just too happy when were together!

My very first DIY !

Wine corks for my room :)

Christmas Party Baking!

I have invited a few of my close friends over for a Christmas Pot luck tomorrow evening. I am so excited to have everyone over all dressed up and finally having a lovely dinner together to celebrate Christmas. Of course for the pot luck I decided to make dessert! I whipped up some home made quinoa brownies as well as some vanilla cupcakes! Here are a few pictures of the baking process as well as the table I have set up for the night! Enjoy! 

Of course I can't go through a whole night of baking without listening to Christmas music. 

My mom was supposed to give me this in my stocking for christmas but gave in and gave it to me early! She clearly knows me too well! I love making cupcakes! 

 Vanilla cupcakes from scratch

Quinoa brownies (as usually), I had to add some red food colouring to make it a little more festive though :) 

 My mom and I love baking! 

Wreath cupcakes!

Compilation

I'm sorry I have slacked in my posts lately. I have been swamped with my finals. I promise after the 12 there should be many posts since I will finally be able to whip out the old camera again! For now I shall post a few pictures from my phone that I've taken over the past few weeks that I've been MIA.

Homemade chicken noodle soup. I over cooked the noodles a little (they cooked super fast since they were egg noodles) but it still didn't taste all that bad :)

I have been going on a baking spree as my little stress reliever from my exams slash treat for my roommates. I really do pamper those girls ;) love em too much! This was all made from scratch. It is a vanilla cupcake with Nutella icing. 

My parents came down over the weekend to take me out for breakfast, buy me some groceries and drop off a few things for the house. So lovely to go out with them and such a treat to have some flowers from my Mom to brighten up my room. I am obsessed with flowers but can never fathom spending the money on them every month when they die so fast :( 

As we all know I have a slight obsession with online shopping. I just purchased these over the weekend from Aldo. They were so cheap I had to :s Originally $80 they were on sale for $30. They are perfect the christmas parties I'm going to over the break and am currently on a hunt for a cute dress to go with it ! If you have any ideas.. please let me know ;) Can't wait to wear these bad boys out

If you have yet to try this you must. Take 1 peppermint tea bag and 1 green tea bag and steep them for a minute or 2 (so they aren't too strong). It is the best combination of tea... so fresh and light! 

Snow!

We finally got our first big snow fall last night! I was so excited.. it is actually the most gorgeous thing to see. There were a whole bunch of kids throwing snowballs and attempting to toboggan down the hills with the little snow that was on the ground. 

I ended up spending the entire night in the library with my roommate which was a bummer (I would have way rather been playing in the snow) but it was so necessary! We got loads of work done.

 

We were inside for 3 hours and when we went to go back to the library this is what we saw! So exciting

 My roommate going hard cleaning the snow from the car while I sit toasty warm inside!

We were at the library for so long we started going crazy and decided to send my cousin pictures of us making silly faces. By the time we left it was 1am and it was so light outside we were shocked! There was pink in the sky and we thought our phones were wrong. It seriously looked like the sun was about to rise!

This morning I was woken up by my parents who came up to drop off a few things and take me out to breakfast! It was delicious, but I still can't move! Ate way too much! On top of a lovely breakfast I came back to my house only to realize it was December 1st, meaning I could finally dive into my Lindt advent calendar! I couldn't be more excited and happy! I absolutely love Christmas time! Now back to the books I go :( 

Poached Eggs with Peameal Bacon, Dark Rye Toast  and Homefries... how can you go wrong