home for a gnome

Last night the hubs and I made a gingerbread house. Well, I made it and he just watched/took photos.


I have never made a gingerbread house before and I have ALWAYS wanted to. Uuuumm, no one told me how difficult they are. I was like, "Seriously? I worked kind of hard and even used my own pastry bag & tips and it STILL looks this crappy?"


Oh well. Maybe next year it will be better... I hope. It was also technically not a gingerbread house. It was made out of chocolate, not gingerbread, and the decorations were all peppermint. As much as I LOOOOOVE peppermint, I was pretty bummed that all we could find was a not-so-traditional house that wasn't already pre-assembled.


Whateves. It turned out kinda cute and it's about as close as I'll ever get to having a gnome in my front yard since David loathes gnomes.

 Bogie is such a little investigator

 my lil helper <3

a few of my favorite things lately

It's my 100th post today! 

I probably wouldn't have even noticed my number of posts had it not been brought to my attention by Kacie recently with her 200th post post, so thank you for bringing it to my attention without even realizing it Kacie! <3

p.s. I need to catch up with you, haha :)

There are a few things I've been really into lately.

It's been pretty cold out 

and I am loving & celebrating it 

by lighting the fireplace, 

which fascinates Bogart to no end.

And when there's a fireplace, 

there's gotta be some roasting of marshmallows 

and possibly making s'mores. 

I'm not a fan of Hershey's chocolate at all,

which means when I make s'mores it is usually sans chocolate,

but the other night I thought,

"Why not use a piece of my Godiva dark chocolate with raspberry??" 

and oh boy was it yummy!

If I'm not having a s'more, 

I'm having a cup of diet hot chocolate 

and, of course, marshmallows 

(I've been really into chocolate lately).

I looooooooove sweet potatoes 

(or yams, whatever you want to call them, I'm still confused) 

and my favorite version is spicy sweet potato baked fries. 

Delish.

And berries. I adore berries of all kinds. 

This week it's blueberries and blackberries.

Bogart in a festive hat. 

He hated the hat and fought it off immediately after Dave sat him down 

(there's proof below), but he looked so adorable!

And my most favorite thing of all: my David and his cute little texts.

This video is of Bogart desperately trying to tear off his hat. 

The first 20 seconds are pretty boring, so you can skip it, 

but after that it gets pretty funny. 

He goes nuts! 

Also, at the end it looks like I kick him, but I don't. 

I gently nudged him with my foot for scratching at the carpet 

and he jumped back a little. 

Don't worry, I'm not a cruel mommy!