It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas... Well it is Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Since I finished exams on the 14th it feels like everything has just been go-go-go!! I actually started working during the week again during the holidays so it just feels like I've had no breaks since school ended. (Which I guess I really haven't) This is actually the first year that we have never gone anywhere during the holidays. It feels so weird not to be packing to go some place. 

To sum up the festivities here are some pictures from what's been going on this past month. 

Decorating the house

Can't have Christmas without Christmas cookies!! :O 

(And of course, Michael Buble's Christmas Special) 

Baking my all time favourite cookies! Pillsbury Christmas cookies!!

Hot Cocoa is a must! Had it almost every day this month. 

Baking up a storm! (over 200 cookies, that is)

My Christmas loot =P So Much TEA! I love it! 

Playing with nerf guns for the first time with the cousins =]

Overall it was a fun filled holiday, I hope that everyone got to spend time with family. Now it's back to the grind on the 27th :l 

My Favourite Time of Year

Merry Christmas Everyone! =]

Time With The Family

Exams are finally over! (well officially I finished on the 21st...)

For the past few days though I have been preparing for Christmas Eve at my house. This includes cleaning, shopping, baking and cooking. It has really taken a lot out of me actually.

The other day I spent the entire day baking cookies and making cake pops. It was definitely a busy busy day.

layers of sugar =]

cookie dough

vanilla and chocolate cake =]

refrigerating cookie dough

the finished product (well my finished produced)

I got the idea of cake pops from Bakerella.com it was a great activity to have with the family too. Especially when my cousins ages range from the ages of 3 - 19. We also decorated sugar cookies but unfortunately I did not get a picture of the all. The funny thing was that the youngest one decorated the cookies the nicest.

On Christmas Eve my family came over for dinner, so I got my cousins to decorate the leftover cake pops. Having family all together defiantly makes Christmas special <3  I love my family.

the finished product