Yet again I’m behind on updates- sorry, people! I have the most random series of pictures, so just bear with me as I do a quick fast forward through our holiday season!
The house got decorated outside! Albeit 5 weeks ago, but whatever. Here’s the house with our candy cane posts! Also, all the decorations you are seeing for the first time are now down. Sorry. again.
Eric and I opted out of buying each other presents since we’re trying to save for the wedding, so we decided to buy the best coffee maker ever and split the cost. It has a side for brewing a full pot or if just one of us wants coffee there’s a single cup brewer on the other side- we LOVE this thing! We also got a burr grinder so we can buy whole bean coffee and fresh grind it before we brew it. Is it obvious we're coffee people?
I did manage to do some baking, nothing in comparison to last year, but it was just enough to keep the hubby happy. I made the basics- magic bars, mint sugar snowballs, gingersnaps and kolaczkis. I did not take pictures of the kolaczkis as they weren’t the most photo-worthy cookies ever, but they are yummy! I made an attempt at homemade caramel, and FYI there are high altitude adjustments for candy too. Four years here and I’m still trying to figure out how to account for the elevation! Anyway, the caramel was so hard it was virtually inedible—Oops!
We did get Christmas cards out, at the very last minute, but they still went out. Indy also received his first Christmas card! It was a rawhide card from Eric's parents and it lasted just long enough for me to get one picture of him enjoying it!
Christmas Eve was low key and we spent it with our friends Cody, Trista and their son, Hudson. Eric and Cody cooked a fantastic meal- cioppino (seafood soup) to start, bracciole (Italian beef roast) for the main dish and veggies and potatoes as sides. We had some bananas foster fondue for dessert, which was really good- think Melting Pot good.
Christmas Day we were with Dad’s family in north Denver. Kathy and Jayne made quite the spread! Kathy made a great pork roast, and she saved the ends of the roast for Indy. Needless to say Indy has a new favorite person, and it’s neither Eric nor I. We had tons of food and we celebrated Noah graduating with his degree in Chemistry. I also got to eat potica, or as I always knew it- Grandma’s nutroll, anyway, Billy made quite a bit of it and holy cow have I missed that!
We did open some presents my parents had gotten us before we went to Jayne’s for dinner, and the biggest present was the fondue set below. Yes, I’m serious. Yes, it’s 2011. Yes, we’ll use it. Do not judge us :)
That’s basically it. Sorry we don’t have anything elaborate or exciting to share, but this was quite a low key holiday.
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