Making A List & Checking It Twice

This weekend I feel like we got a lot accomplished as we Christmas shopped, wrapped, sent out cards, prepared to ship and I got to see a couple friends.

Friday night started with Andy and I doing a little Christmas shopping and then after that we decided to check out a wine and pizza shop in Desert Ridge.  It was a place we had driven by a million times and always said we should check it out and we finally did.  It was called Humble Pie and it was pretty good.  It was a cute place that was extremely busy.  I would go back.  Following dinner we headed home for more wine and to get our Christmas cards finished.  I know Miss Manners says you should hand address the envelopes, but who has that kind of time these days?  Andy and I decided to send our envelopes through the printer to get it done faster.  We had them printed, stuffed and stamped by 10pm...that is not without Andy whining through the process.  I will give it to him for helping me though.  I am very proud that we got our first Christmas cards sent in the mail on Saturday.

Our Saturday started with errands around town to try and finish our Christmas shopping.  Well, we didn't finish, but I would say we are about 90% done.  We then headed home where I wrapped all of our Christmas presents.  We finished off the day with Chinese food and a bad movie from Netflix.  Yup, we rented the Invention of Lying and it was horrible.  Of course that is our fault though for even putting it in our que.

Sunday morning I woke and headed down to Old Town Scottsdale to meet my ladies for breakfast.  The ladies would include Amber, Kim, Stella and Ella.  It's always good to see the ladies and have chit chat, but it's just as good to get to see their little girls.  However, Ella is not so little anymore.  She is growing up so fast and she is turning into a little lady.  Following breakfast I had a chance to give Stella and Ella their Christmas gifts and Stella her birthday gift.  We did this in the back of Amber's SUV.   We got Stella an Elmo Play-doh Color Mixer.  This is where Stella can take her play-doh and mix it together in the machine to make new colors.  She can use the machine to learn about colors.  Andy and I figured Amber and Stella will have tons of fun with it together since Stella is just starting to play with play-doh.

Here is Ella helping Stella open her birthday present.  It was too cute!!!

For Christmas we got both of the girls princess dress-up outfits.  It was so cute to watch them open their Christmas gifts together.  Ella was so excited she wanted to go home to play princess.

Stella handing the wrapping paper to her mom as they finish opening Ella's gift.

I then went home to finish wrapping and start to package our gifts to ship off to freezing cold Wisconsin.  Tom and Karen came over to watch the Packer game and it's always nice to sit and visit with them.  Karen brought over some Christmas cookies, which makes me think we should make them too.  I have never made Christmas cookies, ok, we make sugar cookies a few years ago, but that is it.  I want to make sugar cookies, the cookies with the chocolate kisses and the peanut butter balls that I love so much.  Mmmm...we will see what next weekend brings.  This weekend I also got my workouts in so I am going to say it was a pretty successful weekend.