Baby It's Cold Outside

I'm a bit snowed in at work and realized in all of my year-end madness, I haven't had a chance to blog too much. Here are a bunch of random updates though!

• We're getting hit with about 8" of snow today and you'd think the world was ending the way the weathermen dominate every second of airtime. Forget any of the national news occurring -- hello! Bush finally took some medication for his Senioritis and decided he may as well do something about the auto industry -- it's all weather all the time on TV right now. Hell, I could make a living as a weather person right now "Yup Sheila, it's really snowing out here! There's snow on the road, snow covering cars, snow on trees..." REALLY GENIUS? The good news is my bro Uncle Juniper will be able to enjoy a true White Christmas at home. :)


• Took my last vacation day this past Monday and had a blast Martha Stewart-ing it up in the kitchen (no that's not actually a verb but I just made it one). Made 8 loaves of pumpkin pecan bread, 8 jars of bath scrubs, 3 batches of truffles and packaged them up for my team members at work. Take a look at the countertop:



• Following that, I had the extreme pleasure of meeting our new niece, Brier (pronounced Bry-er). She is just SO tiny and it makes me realize that... Hunter was never this small! Okay so obviously he was at some point but I sure don't seem to remember that! Here are two quick pics of her all bundled up:



• I have yet to post about the fun we had Thanksgiving Weekend at the Macaroni/Cheese and Wine Festival up north but never fear@! I just downloaded the pics from the digital cam and will get those up in a bit.


• Saturday was our annual Bobenmoyer Holiday Dinner Party and we opted to put a bit of a twist on it this year with a Bad Holiday Sweater theme. And everyone had SO much fun with it! Here are the Nevilles, Serdas and Stropps all posing by the Xmas tree but we forgot to snap one of Brad and I! Just know Brad was donning his Grinch t-shirt. :)
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• The menu consisted of sausage and sage stuffed mushrooms, mint ravioli with goat cheese, rosemary and garlic breadsticks, whiskey-marinated beef tenderloin, sweet onion relish and a gingersnap-pear cheesecake. (SFX: Stomach growl)
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• The next couple weeks will be family-filled and we are so excited to host Butch/Susan, Ross, my mom, PJ, Bill/Cherry for some time over the vacation. We will forego our usual venture to Indianapolis this holiday season as it conflicted with other family plans but hopefully will be able to jaunt down at some point later this Spring.
• In the meantime, here's a little video to leave you with -- it's HWB and his first 'real' encounter with the Christmas tree. Enjoy!