Snow + More Snow = Hot Cocoa!

Alright everyone, winter has decided to arrive. Why it couldn't come a week ago I'll never know. I would have been much more excited about it then! But now... not so much. 

Mom can be seen here looking out the window as the street plow drives by to put more snow at the end of the driveway. We had just finished shoveling out the first round... *sigh*

Green Bay got 13.2 inches of snow, according to a weather post on facebook. Usually we get less than the surrounding areas, but this storm we actually had the most snow! And of course I was scheduled to work at 5AM, yeah that didn't happen.

But I still ended up waking up at 4:00 this morning, so decided to have a Star Wars marathon (episodes 4-6 to be exact). We saw the Force Awakens last night during the blizzard. It was quite fun trying to drive home cuz it was still snowing and already inches deep, luckily mom was driving and not me. Ha!

 So snow always means Hot Cocoa to me!

I actually made a mix from scratch for a few people for Christmas this year. I wasn't sure I was going to have enough for everyone so I did a double batch. Ended up with a SEA of hot cocoa mix!! It was like sand dunes in that GIANT pot!!

I also crushed up some peppermint pieces and packaged some marshmallows to give with the jars of mix. 

 

Made some tags as well with Christmas paper and wrote the directions for how to make a delicious cup of hot cocoa! They turned out better than I was expecting! :)

And the Christmas presents are DONE! 

 The hot cocoa tastes pretty darn good too, made myself a cup after shoveling out the end of the driveway today!

So I'm done with snow for the year... if it decided not to snow again the rest of the winter I would be OK with it. 

13 inches is enough, thanks!

Anyways, enjoy the rest of your evening!

 

Taylor Kay

NEVER Enough Cookies!! :)

Hello All!

So, I think the title of this post makes it pretty self explanatory. Haha! Yes, mom and I went to Marshfield last Saturday and we made MORE COOKIES!!!

PART 1

We went to Bri's house first and she had a couple cookies she was making

 

 Up first was an Egg Nog Cookie! Oh man, they tasted super good! I made an egg nog frosting to top them with and it basically made it seem like you were drinking a glass of egg nog. YUM!

 Up next was a Brown Sugar Toffee cookie! This here is just the cookie part. Once they were cooled you have to dip them in chocolate and cover with toffee bits. Unfortunately I was unable to sample the final product... :( Oh well, hopefully there will be some when we go there for Christmas Celebrations.

 

 Part 2

Next, we all went to Gramma's house to make

 EVEN MORE COOKIES!!

 

 

We were joined by my 14 year old cousin, Evan! And we put him to work too! He was a great help when it came to coloring the cookie dough. :)

He tried hiding from the camera... didn't work out too well for him... or the chair. Haha!! It had about 20lbs of sugar/flour on it, so that didn't help. ;)

Gramma made her Cherry Thumbprint cookies, Evan halved the cherries for her. And, by the way, unlike my thumbprint failure they turned out WONDERFUL! They really are one of my favs! Got the recipe now and we made some more at home that actually came out good. YAY! 

Also made some sugar cookies! And they did not taste like onions I might add!... Prolly cuz I didn't have much to do with making them... Ha! Naaahhh, but seriously tho. ;)

So here it is, the ARMY of COOKIES! You've got Pumpkin Penuche cookies in the top right corner, Russian Tea Cakes next to them, and Cream Cheese Mint Thingys. Then you have some Cherry Thumbprints, Candy Cane AND Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies, and Sugar Cookies to finish. 

Holy Yummy Goodness! :) Very fun time, but I don't think any more cookies need to be made this year... Haha! I think we actually do have enough

 

Well tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and I probably won't do another post till after so I hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas! :)

Taylor Kay

Oh Christmas Tree

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

How Lovely Are Thy Branches

 Put up the Christmas tree the other day! I had to try something different this year because I got a new little kitten and wanted to make sure she wasn't going to destroy my ornaments. On my actual tree I only have ornaments that I'm sure will not break if somehow the tree ends up on the floor.

So, I bought some garland to hang across the giant window in my livingroom to hang all my breakable ornaments on. I actually like how this turned out. Kind of scared that the garland will eventually fall down and break everything I was trying not to. Wouldn't that just be how it goes. Ha!

 I've also hung up lights on some of the shelves in my livingroom. Once they were up, I thought it would be pretty cool to hang some ornaments off of them too! This here is my bird shelf, so I hung my bird ornaments on it! 

 And on my horse shelf I hung all my fairy ornaments! I love these fairies!! Aren't they just the cutest?? My grandma started me on this series years and years ago, they come out with a new one every year. She also started me on the 12 Days of Christmas series (which are the bird ornaments in the last picture).

 Now that the tree is up, I wrapped the first Christmas presents last night! It's one of my favorite things to do, wrapping all the presents. :)

 My attempt to have the kitties pose by the tree. Haha!

Kitten Fuzz (left) and Little One (right)

Kitten has signed my presents by chewing on the bows.. Grr. Ah well! Cats will be cats!

Anyways, hope you enjoy your evening!

I will continue to watch the Packers lose to the Lions... These Packers... What am I gonna do with them..?

Taylor Kay

Apocalyptic Snow Storm!

WELCOME TO DOOMSDAY!

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... According to some news stations...

*cough* Fox News *cough*

...

Yeah, so apparently this was supposed to be some huge storm that would have given us like... 2 feet of snow... Mmhmm. Not much there. But it didn't stop me from freaking out about it cuz I had to work this morning at 7 before any of the plows came out! Honestly it wasn't bad tho.

It was actually kind of pretty! It was those big fat flakes of snow in the morning, then it went to those kind of shimmery shiny flakes by the end of the day. Yeah, it's been snowing since I woke up this morning. But what can you expect in Wisconsin?

I was telling Emilie, at work, that we need to get a new groundhog. HA! Cuz since his prediction that we would have an early spring, we have had probably 3 big blizzards. LIAR!!! But then I came across an interesting thought. Maybe because we are having an early spring, winter is just trying to cram in all the weather that we would have had spread out over those extra 3 weeks of winter that is now 3 weeks of spring. See what I mean?

BRILLIANT!

What an artistic picture!

I didn't even really mean for it to turn out this cool :)

 

Anyways

HEY EVERYONE!!!

IT'S FRIDAY!!!

Today is the LAST DAY to join my 100th Post Giveaway!

Since I probably won't be doing another post tonight, I would just like to thank everyone who joined (so far) and everyone who follows my blog and has done posts about my giveaway on their blogs! :) You guys are all awesome! Can't wait to find a home for my hat!

 

In case, by chance, you haven't joined my giveaway yet

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I will be picking the winner tomorrow afternoon!

YAY!!! :D

WHO'S EXCITED??

I AM!!!

 

Hope you have a wonderful Friday night!

Don't get stuck in any snow piles :)

 

Taylor Kay

 



I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas!

Is it too early for Christmas songs? I think not!!! :D

I saw this year's FIRST SNOW in Marshfield, WI. I was visiting my family there and it started snowing on Sunday. Of course none of it actually stayed on the ground for very long, but it was still fun to watch! The flakes were big and poofy! :) It got me in the Christmas Mood!

This is a look at my Great Grandma's house across the street. Do you see the tiny little white specks? Yup, that be snow! This was before it really started to fall.

This picture was taken from my Grandma's living room window. Her backyard bench already had a tiny layer of snow on it! 

Ha! You can see all the snowflakes streaking across the picture. :)

All the white lines that go across the backyard is snow that stuck for a little bit. I think it looks kinda cool like that

 November 14th

Marshfield Wisconsin's First Snow

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! :D

I hope Green Bay gets some snow soon! It will inspire me to do some Christmas shopping. HAHA!

Have an awesome (hopefully snow-filled) day!

Taylor Kay