Flowing Through Mountains

This was the only picture I took today.  Yet, it captures the day perfectly.

We started out the day bright and early,   drove home from Chattanooga, and dropped off/picked up some stuff.  Then, we headed down to Florida to spend the weekend with my family. 

What. A. Long. Day.

We ended up spending 14 hours traveling today.  Yuck!  But, we made it safe and we’re here now.

Once we got into town, we meet my folks for dinner, and then headed back to their place to open presents.  :)

Now…time for bed.  Night.

Merry christmas!

This is my first shot posted that I’ve taken with my new camera.  I gotta say, I really like it!

Today, the clouds finally parted and we had a nice, beautiful day.  Thankfully.

We were able to install the stereo without too many hiccups.  Now I have a pretty, color changing stereo that can play music off my phone. 

I was also able to get in a mini photo session before we had dinner, and afterwards we went to the movies (Night at the Museum 3).

All in all, we had a great visit here in Chattanooga.  Tomorrow we head down to Florida to see my folks.  Yay!

Christmas eve was wonderful.  My fantastic, wonderful boyfriend got me a new camera!!  Its a Nikon D3200.  I’m super excited to learn all this thing has to offer.

Dinner was very nice, and overall I think the night was a success.

Tomorrow we try and install the new stereo in my car…wish us luck!  :)

Tennessee Aquarium was our destination today, and what a lot of fun we had!  I love aquariums, zoos, and anything with animals really. 

I especially loved the jellyfish exhibit, and the cuttlefish, and the seahorses…ok…all of it.  :)

I love days like today where I have a bunch of great pictures, and it’s hard to choose one for the pic of the day.  I chose this one because it looked so dramatic and interesting.  But, I’ll add some of the cute critters too.  :)

It was great to see Kerri today, and I got my puppy fix too.  I love puppies! :)

We’re in Chattanooga now for a few days, and I’m hoping the weather improves tomorrow.  It was very gross and rainy all day today.

Finally done baking…but I never got to the cookies.  Ah well.  There’s always next year.

I ended up making 5 different flavors of bark, and they all are yummy!  Endless number of trays of that stuff were created these past few days.  Plus, 6 loaves of banana bread.  :)

Tomorrow we head to Tennessee.  First, we’re stopping in Pikeville to visit Kerri.  Then, we’re off to Chattanooga to spend Christmas with Will’s family.

Should be fun!!

I had great plan of writing something good tonight…but I’m exhausted and heading to bed.

Another day maybe…

Baking, and baking, and baking…

Day 2 of baking craziness has been mostly a success.  I made 2 more loaves of banana bread, a mint chocolate brittle, and a chocolate/pretzel brittle (to be tested in the morning). 

I did have one failure today as well.  I was trying to make a chocolate/white chocolate swirl brittle…and ruined it.  I didn’t think about how sensitive white chocolate to heat, and I’m pretty sure I over cooked it.  Ah well.

Time to bake!!

It always seems to happen that when the holidays roll around, I get this huge urge to bake a bunch of fun treats.

This year I’m making banana bread, peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and a new brittle candy recipe.

I might make some more stuff, but I’m not sure yet…we’ll see what happens.

I don’t normally post more than one picture…but here are a couple more for fun!  :)