The most wonderful time of the year!

At my small group this week we drank wine, ate pizza and wrapped the presents we bought for our Angel Tree kids. Oh and our small group leader made Louisa decorate her tree haha, Louisa is always a chipper trotter!

Just a few things on my Christmas list this year...

The Tory Bombe Reva clutch, I have wanted it for like 2 years -

A portable fabric steamer, I have needed this for 2 years haha -

I cut up apples all the time at work and one day a coworker busted out this apple corer and divider. It rocked my world, like my iphone I don't know how I have survived this long without it -

Chelsea told me about her soda water maker she got last Christmas and I've decided this is also something I can no longer live without. I drink LaCroix like it's my job, so I think I need this one -

Other items on my list: Any products by Kiehl's, Bliss, Benefit and OPI and Essie nail polish. DVDs I want are Bridesmaids, Eat Pray Love, The Help and Water for Elephants. Oh and I may be asking for an US subscription...Hey I took a year off from getting it!

Here is my condo decorated for Christmas!

Snowflakes on my already vibrant Ikea chandelier

Love these cheerful, fun place mats from Target

I just could not bear to throw or put away my pumpkins, so I painted them haha

Strung lights everywhere...

Definitely felt a little like Buddy the elf hanging those everything

And I love this old manger scene that was my dad's when he was little, and it even was displayed on that same desk that was my grandmother's.

Just 9 days until Christmas!

Tis the Season!

I hope everyone had a fun, festive weekend! I was off work on Friday and did some shopping, running, cleaning and got ready for having my best Atl girlfriends over that night for a little holiday get together.

I made Brittany's bean dip that I have eaten "viciously" (quoting Sarah) over the years, really easy to make and not that bad for you -

Just make the layers and eat! You can add toppings like olives, onions, lettuce and tomato's but I opted not to.

I also made croissants filled with mozzarella cheese and turkey pepperoni with pizza dipping sauce, got the idea from Pinterest, and as you can see we had plenty of other snacks, too.

Just a laid back, holiday happy hour :)

Hayley made a really good hot cider made with apple cider from North GA, whiskey and oranges and I made some Christmas sangria! I used red and green fruit - strawberries, apples, pears and limes, soaked in chardonnay over night then mixed with chardonnay and strawberry sparkling water.

Former coworkers :) Molly is one cute mom to be!

Trotter reunion!

Trotting!

We did a white elephant gift swap, I got the cutest frame from Hannah

Baby bwown beayah crawled out of his cave and joined us later on in the evening

Matt/BBB commented that there was so much food leftover because it was all girls whereas if guys had been there everything would have been gone, haha.

But no cheese was left, we LOVE cheese!

Saturday night was my company's holiday party, at Vanquish in midtown. Scott, who we refer to as "kitty" after the fancy feast white cat because, well it just fits him ;)

haha who knows...

Bein' a kitty

Definitely not a quiet night out... mental note for next year: eat dinner.

My team - When you see me check into "Team Hosting" on fourquare, it's the hosting team - these guys!

More coworkers

Pom manhandling the kitty (I know the animal names are getting OOC)

Finished the night out at Opera, I said and did absolutely nothing embarrassing the whole night, I'm always a perfect lady ;)

Oh and I found this note -

Dear Ashley, It's time to grow up and be nicer to me. From, Your Liver

Family Christmas Pics

Chris, my dad and I went for a "hike" around the Chattahoochee Nature Center. Chris just loves candids. That's the same expression he wore when I asked him to update my computer's virus software.

Aspiring National Geographic photographer

Christmas Eve with Annie!

And the bros

By the amount of presents would you guess that we're ages 26, 33 and 38?

Puzzle Party for 1! Started at Thanksgiving and Tim finished this 1000 piece puzzle. He's the most intense puzzle put together'er I've ever seen.

If bichons could talk...

Me and my madre

Christmas morning! And by Christmas morning I mean 3:00 in the afternoon. I told Chris to look excited which he interpreted as creepy. He told me not to post this but maybe if he left a comment once in a while I would be more willing to listen.

Sleepy from chewing on bows and wrapping paper for 5 seconds.

Awwwww

At Ceviche in downtown Roswell after seeing How Do You Know. It was cute but could wait for dvd. Over the week I also saw Black Swan (amazing), The Fighter (loved), Easy A (Eh thought it was going to be funnier), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (ok) and other randoms like the classics Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story. Also played lots of Doodle Jump like Thanksgiving. A very busy schedule.

I got my ball chair for work!

But this is how I'll probably sit on it most of the time.

A sampling of beers and a snarky redhead at Taco Mac

Life is good. Actually Chris was numbing his pain from having his flight delayed 2 days due to the blizzard that hit NYC.