Weekend Edition

hello, hello! I hope you've all had wonderful weeks. I can't believe the holidays are finally upon us.  S and I will be heading east in exactly one week from today! I'm very excited to see my family and to explore Nashville for the first time.

S's brother is in town for the evening so we will be entertaining, which is a very nice change from falling asleep on the couch at 9:30pm (which may still happen, who am I kidding?!).

We have our one and only holiday party tomorrow night (we made friends JUST in time) followed by a Holiday Cookie Exchange on Sunday.  We're supposed to bring 2-3 dozen cookies so I told S that we could each pick a recipe. Mine, of course, involves 2 types of chocolate, marshmallows and pretzels. His involve something vanilla-y and lemon something or other.  I think it's pretty obvious who's going to win this bake-off (are you impressed that I found a way to turn a holiday cookie exchange into a competition?! I am)

If our recipes turn out well, I will take pics and post them here so you all can get fat along side me!  Misery loves company.  Maybe you can also vote who made the better looking (and most likely tasting) cookie. We'll see how I'm feeling.

I'm forcing myself to go for a run now despite my couch and TV screaming my name at a level that's quite hard to ignore. Have a wonderful weekend & happy holidays!

(haha!)