Weekend Recap

I had a fabulous weekend! Nothing all to extraordinary, but good all the same.

Friday night I had a little graduation party. Some of my friend came over to enjoy some food (that lacked good presentation) and games.

I was so excited to get to spend some time with Shannon. Many of you know just how great she is and sometimes it just goes far too long between seeing her...

Two of my most favorite people ever! I just love these girls...
The Losing Team. We got rocked. (Left to Right: Raul, Kara, Trevor, Steve, me)
Another one of my favorite people: Steve. One can never be serious for too long, and he feels that pictures just get boring with the same face. I personally happen to like cute pictures, not that this is one of them. (For those of you wondering, yes, Steve and I are dating again. He realized he just couldn't live without me, or something like that.)
Playing Mad Gab, one of my favorite party games. It is SO funny to hear people say things on the card when you know what they are supposed to be saying. Shannon stole the game away and answered SO many of them. She was awesome. Too bad she wasn't on my team. We had German Trevor reading for us (the game isn't in German).
Saturday is one of our long standing traditions of Bake Day. We get together and bake cookies ALL DAY. Now, when you have about 12 people making cookies for 6 hours you can imagine the number of cookies that are produces, somewhere over 2000 cookies.

There is not always something for everyone to do, and Jamie and I took a moment to have a little photo shoot. Neither one of us are ever happy with the first picture so we always take about a million. I didn't think any turned out great, but Jamie looks great in this one, so I picked this one.

This picture kind of shows the mass amounts of cookies. This is just one of the four kinds we made, and only about 1/4 of them. They had to be filled up with frosting (which was my job this year, LOVED IT! I feel like I graduated to the professional cookie maker).

Jenny and I, once again working hard. Jenny always adds that little artistic touch, isn't she a cutie? I can't believe how grown up she looks sometimes.

Saturday night I wasn't feeling great and spent the night at home. Steve came over and we just kind of hung out all night. We did add some Christmas spirit by sitting by the Christmas tree and reading Christmas stories. He fell asleep during them, so I guess I was just reading them aloud to myself.

Sunday was a Steve filled day, and I loved it! It was filled with video games at his house (I am not a fan of video games, especially when I am destined to lose all the time), his friend's farewell, and a night of family fun at Steve's mom's house.

Steve's family has a tradition of making and decorating sugar cookies. I had experienced the creative side of this family at Halloween with pumpkin decorating, and I knew they took this pretty seriously. We had a wonderful turkey dinner before we started the cookies, and it was like Thanksgiving take 2.

We made the cookies and had about 100 cookie cutters to choose from, Heidi would have loved it! We made about 7 or 8 dozen cookies, all to be frosted. One of my favorite moments was when Steve's mom asked me if I have ever made so many cookies. It made me laugh (reference further up in my post) because she had no idea just how many cookies I have made. Steve brought this up that I had made over 2000 cookies just the day before. They all couldn't believe it and it made me laugh.

The cookie decorating was so fun. They had about 8 different colors of frosting and sprinkles and the whole 9 yards. I stuck to the traditional origin of the cookie, if it was a Santa, I made it look like a Santa, if it was a snowflake, I made it look like a snowflake. Not very creative, but they turned out so cute! I should have taken a picture. The creativeness came from everyone else, there was everything from Spock and The Hulk to a bikini, an eye, a surf board, etc. All made from Christmas themed cookies. It was really fun to see what everyone came up with.

This isn't the best picture, but it captured us playing the video games. I just can't get enough of this boy and it was so fun to spend so much time with him. He is always so busy with school, work (he is a ski instructor for the winter), and getting ready for Lacrosse to start, I'll take any time he can give.

So nothing too crazy special about my weekend, but it was good. I am so lucky to have such good friends and a wonderful family to spend my time with.