End of year 2014, Hello 2015!

Hi kids!
Welcome back! Whew! I've been gone for a while, huh? Life's been crazy wonderful and super busy. I'm sure yours has been too. I've made a couple fun crafty things here and there, between all the holiday activities, out of town travel and all the "Girl, I gotta tell you what happened" type of dates I've been on these past couple months. Here's some of the highlights of the past couple months. And No, no juicy gossip about some truly horrible first dates. sorry.

Most recently, we went out of town for Christmas. We went to my sister's house in Utah. It snowed for Christmas. So beautiful.

The family taking a pause at the bottom of the sledding hill

My Las Vegas wardrobe wasn't quite prepared for over a foot of snow. Or any amount of snow, if you want to get technical. My sister and I stopped at the store after our fun sledding and snow angel making adventure and bought real legit snow boots and later we found real ski pants. Wearing two or three yoga pants wasn't quite cutting it. The snow just seemed to stick to me and not want to be brushed off. So, a tip for all those who don't live with snow, the outer layer needs to be made out of that noisy, slick material. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's like the polyester some exercise or track suits are made of. That way the snow wont' stick to you and make your seat wet and cold.

Then moving backwards, for Thanksgiving. I made homemade cranberry sauce for the very first time!! I was really proud of myself. I scoured for hours through Pinterest, and wound up using the recipe on the back of the bag of cranberries. They all seem to be basically the same, with varying amounts of sugar or orange juice. Did you know that if you forget and leave the crock pot on high for 6 hours, it'll turn the cranberry sauce into jam? Yep. Not only did I make the tastiest orange cranberry sauce, I made jam! It was so good my sister who doesn't care for cranberry sauce at all, took a container of it home. (And kept piling it on her plate, and had to put a bit of cranberry sauce with every bite she took. Then sang little songs while she ate, it was that good!) To bad I didn't get a picture of the cranberry sauce/jam. I was kinda busy eating turkey and mashed potatoes :) all with a huge side of cranberry sauce, of course!

So.. since it's January 1st. I'm cleaning house and finally posting some of the crafty stuff that's just been sitting out there in draft land.

What are your goals for the new year? Some of my are: save money and really stick to a budget this year, exercise more, be and get healthier, go out on more dates, meet better quality of men, you know, the basics. :)

now for something cute:

Happy New Year to you all, and may 2015 be the best year ever!
Hugs!
Caroline