What's your True Color?
Your color is black. The color of night. Serene and mysterious, black conjures up images of elegant evening gowns, dashing tuxedos, and gleaming limousines. Traditionally a symbol of success, black also represents power and an uncompromising demand for perfection. Not surprisingly, you tend to set challenging goals for yourself and do whatever it takes to achieve them — your strength of character is second to none. This unfaltering determination, along with your natural elegance, impresses people. But keep in mind that your personality might be intimidating to some. Try to temper your demanding side with a little softness — trust us, it won't kill you. Overall, though, black is the color of professionalism and achievement, which means it's clearly the color for you.
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We are all (almost) snuggled up in bed, we have the stocking hung by the chimney / fireplace with care.... we are ready for St. Nick / Santa to visit!
& a couple of the Lights. At the end of the display there is a giraffe "Shorty" to take donations, I used to love to "feed" the giraffe money when I was little.
We made, Sugar Cookies, my personal favorite, but can take a long time, the making of the dough, chilling the dough, cutting out the cookies, baking them & then you still have to frost them!-- That is when it is much more fun to make them with friends & a couple bottles of wine! We also made Monster Cookies, Peanut Butter cookies w/ Reese's Peanut Butter cups (not sure the actual name for those cookies) & Chocolate Chip Cookies. 
Then we got together the next day to frost- we only ended up frosting 1/2 the cookies the first day. About a week later we got together again & frosted the remaining Sugar Cookies- that is quite a feat! We did make it a little bit of a competition- we each made our own Sugar Cookies and after they were all done & decorated we had a tasting contest. For Michelle's sugar cookies, she relied on her personal favorite- Betty Crocker (yes, the package where I think you add just water), Karla made cut out Sugar Cookies & I tried a new recipe Sour Cream Sugar Cookies. And the winner was.............. Karla!!!! We decided to just make one kind of sugar cookie next year & divide up. It's hard to have 3 different kinds going, taking them out of the oven & trying to remember who's was who's.
Then last weekend we got together at Karla's house to make some Christmas candy- we were mixing & dipping....& dipping.... & dipping for I think close to 8 hours!!! We made Wreaths (similar to krispie treats) dipped pretzels, dipped Ritz w/ peanut butter, cake balls (white & chocolate)- this was my first year for cake balls & I highly recommend them- yummy! Oreo balls, peanut butter Bon Bons... humm, I think that might be it. It was a lot of dipping- I think everything except the wreaths were dipped in almond bark! I forgot to take pictures, I did take a quick one towards the end, but some of the candy had already been boxed up. 
We did the same at my mom's, we got there, fed the kiddos & then me & D.J. were able to eat! I LOVE Thanksgiving dinner, I think it's my favorite... turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, greenbean casserole.. yummy!! Then we enjoyed the rest of the day chatting with my family. We swapped Christmas lists (I don't know when the heck I'm going to get shopping!) Watched all the kiddos play (mine didn't seem to want to nap too well!) Heard about Jenna's surgery, yes, my poor little sister had to get her gallbladder out Wednesday night! Glad it went well & she is feeling better!! Then we had to head out a bit early because Austen was feeling a bit warm. After we got home & fed the kiddos some dinner, I headed back down to spend the evening with my mom. I really miss just sitting and chatting with her, got really used to it during the summer when we stayed with her so much! Happy Birthday Mom, Love you!
