I decided to throw a cookie exchange party for my new friends! This is the table!

 I made sugar cookie Christmas trees. :)

 Check out how I made them on my Culinary Creations page!

 Party favors! Hot pads and spatulas :)

 The goodie bags

 I won best looking!! Woohoo!

The votes are in...

 Car Show 2012

We finally found a park with swings! Yippee!

 There is a beautiful little strawberry patch a few miles down the road from us and we decided to check it out. We ordered a Strawberry shortcake dish, which the girls loved of course and purchased some fresh strawberries and strawberry butter. Homemade bread and this? Heck ya!

 We went to a manatee viewing center, but they didn't want to show their faces so we went off exploring what other things the center had to offer....this butterfly habitat was there. One of the workers could tell my girls were upset they could not see anything and let some of the monarch butterflies loose. Abigail was all about that! Savannah was a bit more timid. Abigail got to hold one! We also took a minute to have some fun in a tornado wind machine. They loved it!

 I made my own Christmas cards again this year. Simple. I cut out some large letters as seen, embellished them and used some Christmas lights to "light" up the picture. Above are the ones I chose to use, but they were all good. The "O" pictures below are cute. Enjoy!

 Rudolph

 Santa Baby

 What a yummy feast! We had turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, yams, rolls, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, cream corn, raspberry pretzel salad AND five pies....chocolate caramel walnut, banana cream, apple, wild berry, and pumpkin cheesecake!

 Food coma? Yes. 

We had some wonderful new friends of ours over for the holiday and we think they're awesome! The kids got to have a lot of fun. The adults played games for like four hours and we all ate ourselves silly. That is how the day is supposed to be spent. :)

Florida. Our new adventure! Beaches. Sunshine. Enough said :)