Christmas Gifts

Today we ate a lot and I mean a lot of chocolate! I'm so glad that after a super crappy start I actually accomplished what I needed to today--

Brynley's last day of School is tommorow before Christmas break so I had to help her finish her little gifts and I actually ran after the mail man today to make sure I got the Christmas letters in the mail today :) I'm pretty sure he thought I was crazy. O-well they are at least in the mail.

And I figured since some of our friends are leaving this weekend it would probably be best to get the gifts to them actually before Christmas instead of after--

So we cranked up the Pandora Christmas Tunes got the kids in play clothes and we went to work making  Peppermint bark and Chocolate covered pretzels. It was alot of fun and Payton was my huge little helper- Bryn helped mostly put the Chocolate in her mouth and on the table and all over her-- It was great!

Here's the final finished product :)

The little baggie is full of Reindeer dust (oatmeal +glitter) to help Santa's reindeer find your home. along with a little poem-- all thanks to Illustrator- did I mention my undying love for Illustrator :)

And here's Brynley's friends gifts to give-- she helped me put together the pattern for the Braclets and cut and tie the ribbon on and these little clippies are so easy to make (I love them)-- here's where I found the tutorial for them.

I'm feeling a bit better about being closer to being done-- Its slightly crazy-- see I was really done with all my Christmas shopping like the first week in Dec. but than I'm like "Oh I can do this and this and this since Christmas is so far away still" so in the end I'm still trying to fit everything in and being stressed :) when will I learn :)

On a totally opposite note----
Thank you Mom & Dad Foster for the Covey''s they have been very useful this year working in the freezing garage :) cuz' of them I finally finished the dresser which I can't wait to show everyone :) I love it!


Hope everyone is enjoying the season!