We give a little look back at the holiday adventures and fun.
Hello friends! How are you doing? How is the week going? I hope that you are alright. There was a festive hustle and bustle here. Full of cheese and eggnog and unsure what day it is. I hope you enjoy your time off too!
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Some recent adventures:
We had our annual trip to the Princess to enjoy the Christmas events and lights. I wasn’t planning on going there this year – I thought we could go to Sedona or Mt. Lemmon instead – and the girls were devastated when they found out. I kind of forgot how much of a tradition it has become; This is our fifth year in a row! So I quickly booked a night and I’m so glad we did. When we’re at Princess, I’m officially always in the holiday spirit.
We had a fantastic dinner at Toro on property:
We spent the rest of the evening ice skating, riding rides, grilling s’mores, and enjoying the lights and music.
(Favorite jeans are on sale here)
When we got home we immediately started baking for the holidays. I usually like to get ahead and freeze as much as I can, and this year it completely escaped me. I baked two cakes for my father’s house:
(a chocolate pecan bourbon and a chocolate meringue)
more peppermint bark:
and we all baked cookies for Christmas cookies and for the packages we put together for the neighbors every year.
We also put together the giant saran wrap ball:
Christmas Eve was at my dad’s house and it was great as always. They ordered PF. Chang’s (the pilot and I had our first date at PF Chang’s! I had just met him at Starbucks and was worried he might be a sneak and take me out into the desert and murder me. My boyfriend was on speed dial. Turns out he wasn’t a sneak and our dinner + Starbucks date afterwards lasted five hours and was totally lovely.)
We opened presents with our dad’s family and then came home to *try* to put the kids to bed early (lol). I went to midnight mass alone, which has become an unintentional but beautiful tradition. I was there alone last year and I really enjoyed it.
Some pictures from Christmas Day:
We had breakfast at our house and since the pilot had to leave around noon, we had dinner at Madre’s.
Check out the lobster tails Kyle grilled!!!
We also had steaks from ButcherBox (the best), asparagus, cheesy potatoes and birthday cake for baby Jesus.
The rest of the weekend consisted of movies, naps, hikes, and catching up on things around the house. My goal is to start 2026 with clean closets!! I’m in the process of cleaning out Liv’s entire room (praying for me) and getting ready because Maisey is having a little sister…this week! I will definitely report back soon 😉
I hope you have a wonderful week! I’ll be back tomorrow with a book summary!
xo
Gina
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