I Have Been Blessed

I love the song Blessed by Martina McBride, and I thought of it as I sat down to write this post.

Lately I've just been noticing so many different blessings in my life. I think during the Christmas season, it's so easy to see all of the things you have going for you.

Here's a few of things I have been blessed by......

Excellent weather on Monday. The rest of the week hasn't been as nice, but on Monday I wore capris and a short sleeve shirt. In December. Love!

My sweet dog who loves me for me. She's currently curled up on my lap as I write this post!

Random calls from family. One of my cousins called me earlier in the week to tell me about a new cupcakery I need to try out (she knows me well!) and just to chat a little bit. I love that I have family I enjoy spending time with. I also love that my family puts our family first!

Parents that know me so well. Not many people would know that giving me a St. Nick present of Paris cupcake liners and a Christmas spatula is my dream come true!

The sweetest mentor ever for my Senior Project. I met with her last night, and she came with 3 cakes made that we ended up stacking into a 3-tiered cake and decorating. I brought the cake into school today, and everyone loved it!

She also gave me a ton of baking goodies to "add to my collection". I can't believe how generous she is.

Super sweet friends. My lunch table friends all decided to do a gift exchange. We picked names, and we're planning on going out to lunch over Christmas break to swap presents. I'm SO excited!

As Martina put it perfectly, I have been blessed.

Project 365: November

I'm almost done with Project 365 for 2012. So crazy! And sorry if these posts are super boring. I realize that a lot of the stuff is repeated from previous posts, but I like having them to look back on for my own records :)

November 1 - Angry Birds cake pops for Brandon's birthday party tomorrow!

November 2 - My sweet girl and I!

November 3 - Yum!

November 4 - Such a pretty day!

November 5 - Came out of school to find treats in my car that Mom left me!

November 6 - Random picture taking tonight!

November 7 - Target has all of their Christmas stuff out!

November 8 - Panera, hot chocolate, Christmas movie kind of night :)

November 9 - Graeter's with Danielle tonight.

November 10 - Savannah and I at Maddie's soccer game this afternoon.

November 11 - Obsessed with my new tinsel tree for my room!

November 12 - Dominic group at the NHS induction ceremony tonight!

November 13 - I love that tongue!

November 14 - Love working on homework under the covers with Coco :)

November 15 - My sweetie :)

November 16 - So cute!!

November 17 - Fun gender reveal cake pops I made for Erin's friend.

November 18 - Cracker Barrel for dinner!

November 19 - Super fun turkey cake pops for Danielle's sister.

November 20 - Panda Express night with Mom since Dad was working late.

November 21 - Shopping at Kenwood to start off my Thanksgiving break :)

November 22 - Spending my Thanksgiving morning watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, eating a doughnut, reading the Black Friday ads, and snuggling with Coco. What could be better?

November 23 - Black Friday shopping!

November 24 - Lots of goodies for the big birthday party tomorrow!

November 25 - Sweet Savannah's 1st Birthday party this afternoon!

November 26 - My Small One!

November 27 - It's been a Chick-fil-A shake run kind of night. Yum :)

November 28 - The lights are on!

November 29 - Decorated our tree tonight!

November 30 - Dinner, shopping, and Starbucks at Crestview tonight with Danielle!

I can't believe there's only 1 more month left in 2012!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

Our Christmas tree is up, and I have had a very good and {somewhat} relaxing weekend. All is right in the world - ha!

Wednesday night we put the lights on our tree.

And we finished decorating it on Thursday!

On Friday night my friend Danielle and I went out to a shopping place called Crestview just to walk around for a little while. It was SO fun! We had dinner at Five Guys, shopped a bit, and got Starbucks. A perfect Friday night in my opinion.

I got this amazing hand cream this is quickly becoming my new favorite thing. It's called Hand Food by Soap & Glory. I got a small tube for $5 at Sephora, which I didn't think was too bad. It makes your hands feels so soft, and it smells really good too. The scent reminds me a lot of Miss Dior Cherie!

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We also came across this really cute store called Altar'd State. They literally had the cutest clothes and accessories (PS - you can shop online too!). It's a Christian based store, which I really liked. The had really good Christian Christmas music playing, and they had a ton of those cute inspirational wall quotes for sale too. Some of their profit they donate back to charity too - I just thought it was a great store!

And because I'm a total dork I even took a picture in the dressing rooms. They had the nicest fitting rooms I have ever been in. It was like a lounge :)

On Saturday night I babysat one of my favorite little girls! I always have fun playing with her.....

How neat is this giant moose stuffed animal she has? I think I liked laying on it as much as she did :)

I turned on some Christmas music for us to listen to, and I was learning some very interesting facts off this channel. I thought this one was particularly interesting....

Today after church my family and I headed out to the mall for a little bit. It was crowded, but I honestly love the crowds during the month of December.

Then we came home and made homemade cinnamon rolls for dinner. So yummy!

I also worked on homework with Coco.....

........painted my nails festively........

.........and watched a Christmas movie!

I can't believe it, but tomorrow marks 1 year since I went to New York City at Christmas. (I totally thought it was today since I forgot it was a leap year - ha!). Oh how I wish I was on that bus right now headed to NYC again. Such fun memories.....

I hope you all have a great start to another week! I've been a little stressed lately about all the work I have to do and all of the events going on, but this weekend helped calm me down. It's going to be busy, but I'm looking forward to a fun couple of weekends! Next weekend's mission is to do all of my Christmas shopping, which I haven't even started yet....