just made these cookies and let me tell you, this dough was truly a joy to work with. not to mention the cookies are so festive and fun. the one thing is i didnt have strawberry extract on hand so i decided to take a different route and squeeze fresh lemon juice into the half portion that was suppose to have strawberry instead.  there are going to be some lucky people receiving some yummy cookies. :) thank you heather for the recipe and pictures.
Sprinkle Bakes: Colorful Spiral Cookies



i wanted to take this moment to say, everything is great!  love my new job, adore my boyfriend, love love love my london. london and i have been working hard on a snow fort outside and doing a ton of baking. she loves baking and crafts and it makes my life so much easier. she is always in such a great mood when we do activities all day. plus, i have yummy stuff around the house all the time and a snow fort to eat them in. fantastic. anyways, patrick is coming over so im going to post a couple pictures of my delicious rainbow cake, gingerbread house making and london. boom.

oh man, been trying to get everything around done because tomorrow is my last day before i start my new job. exasted but of course i cant sleep because i am so strung out on stress and mountain dew. it was nice to spend the day with london today and i am looking forward to spending the day with her tomorrow. thinking im going to make it craft day. heres some awesome ideas that have been credited to the sources by links..



wow. what a great weekend. i went up to my cabin with patrick and laura. i had so much fun and it was a great relaxing weekend. we got a late start on friday but we got up there and went to my other cabin first. we had some speghetti and stayed until 3 am playing spades and drinking wine. i havent laughed that hard in a long time. we came back to the other cabin and it was freezing so we lit a fire and got some sleep. the next day we went into spooner and drove around a bit. that night we went to crow bar and played some giant jenga and ended up hanging out there that night. it was a shame to come home the next day.

I think I definitely had one of the best days in a long time today. london and I got up and made special dough and put hand prints in it. baked it so it was hard. painted them and made ornaments. she had so much fun with it that I decided not to stop and we baked all day and made cut out ginger bread cookies and banana bread. yum.. tomorrow I am headed up to the cabin with my wife and my boyfriend for some spades time and relaxation. and best of all. big news.. one of my close friends gill finally had her baby today. she named him preston and he looks just like her. I haven't even met him and I love him already.

well, the charger to my laptop broke so ive been kind of slacking but i just thought of my lonley blog so why not. things have been good but a lot of big changes. i got a new job at panera bread i am pretty excited about. it obviously wouldnt be my top pick for a job but the hours they gave me are fantastic and they arent paying me half bad either so i am really excited to start.  i alsooooo (drumroll please) got a new boyfriend. he is my first boyfriend in two years and so far has been nothing but amazing so i am really excited to have him in my life. and bonus, the family likes him too.
thanksgiving was great but now i am just excited it is FINALLY christmas season. my favorite time of the year and i assume it will be nothing but magical like always.



well looks like i got back in town from great grandma thompsons funeral in st. james just in time to do some serious trick or treating.
ill start with talking about st. james a bit. we drove in yesterday and checked into the st. james hotel around 330. i was so tired i even fell asleep on the way there on the two hour drive. once we were checked into the hotel we headed on over to the stern funeral home for the wake and visitation. london was all over the place. man, was it alot of work. finally i left with london around 7 and we did two hours of swimming and hot tubbing at the hotel. by this point i was so tired and so was she so we went up to the hotel room and turned on the tv and little miss fell right asleep. my family came back to the hotel too but decided to hang out in the lobby and drink and play games. its times like that where i wish i didnt have to watch a kid sleep so i could spend some time with my family but i ended up watching tv and crashing around 1130 i was so tired. we woke up in the morning and headed to the funeral but once again london wasnt wanting to be in there so i mostly just sat outside the church. around 2 we FINALLY headed back home. (yes, st. james is by far the most boring town ive ever been to)
we got back here and went trick or treating.. london was a little candy hustler. haha. she would say trick or treat and they would give her candy and she would keep holding out her basket like she wanted more. it was so funny. we got so much candy and she was the cutest damn bumble bee anyone has ever seen!