Shelbywatch

I'm still here and STILL pregnant.

40 weeks and 4 days now.

Lots of updates since my last post.

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First off, my Twitter friends have started #Shelbywatch so join in on the fun if you want. 

(hence the title of this post)

I'm @DeNanner on there.

Second off, a couple of hours after my last post the nurse called with our induction instructions.

She said we are to check into the hospital the night of the 11th and will be having the baby on 12.12.12

That's a day later than I posted but it is what it is and at least my baby won't have a problem remembering her very cool birth date.

Right?

Even, if it does mean me being pregnant for a little bit longer.

I keep getting the question of how I'm feeling.

Well, its day to day and depends on how I sleep.

Today has been a good day, but I slept well last night. 

I do get uncomfortable but that depends on how the baby is positioned.

As I sit here right now I'm comfy, but an hour from now might be a different story.

I'm done with work and so is Brad.

He's taking the rest of his vacation and a few personal days.

We've watched a lot of movies, cleaned a few things around here and are just trying to stay busy.

That includes, dressing Buddy up and taking pictures of him in front of the tree.

Cooking.

 Even doing a little holiday baking together.

 I decided I needed to get out of the house this weekend so I met a friend for a jazz brunch on Saturday and today I attended my Delta Gamma Charlotte Alumni annual cookie and ornament exchange.

Since, I have nothing better to do I packaged my cookies up in bags with tags.

I made Trisha Yearwood's White Chocolate Cranberry cookies that the Food Network posted last week.

They are amazing!

Make them.

I had Brad take a picture of me before I left for the party.

This is a really crappy one and I'm ginormous, but I least I have a record of it.

Dresses and leggings are what I live in these days.

 I haven't done anything with this group in a very long time so it was great to see some of these ladies.

Every year people bring their daughters.

Can't wait to bring Miss Shelby.

 There's always the ornament exchange.

 Which the kids really enjoy.

(by the way, this year's party was held at an alumna's photography studio)

There's another alumni who was a Dee Gee at LSU just like me.

Her sister was actually in house at the same time I was.

Always fun to see her.

She has a 3-year old and this little man.

Logan, who is now 5-months old.

Of course..

The cookies..

 Egg nog logs.

Can't wait to try these out!

 Overall, I'm glad I went and got out of the house.

I left with this pretty ornament.

And, a ton of yummy cookies!

 That's all I have for today friends.

We're going to look at Christmas lights with the neighbors tonight.

I'll leave you with another picture of our Christmas tree.

 And, all the wrapped presents underneath.

Hope you all are having a GREAT Sunday!

Holiday Cookies

Happy Wednesday!

I'm guest posting today over at Jess' at Rainbows and Butterflies.

Click here to read about holiday cookies!

Cooking, Baking - Jump Start on the Holidays

We've been laying low.

I've been feeling pretty crummy the past week or so and can't wait to move on from all of it.

Even so, we've spent a lot of time in the kitchen.

Last weekend we got a jump start on the LSU vs. Bama game by cooking a 'healthy' jambalaya.

 Brad cooked it the night before the game and used brown rice and turkey sausage.

 It's the first time we've tried this and definitely doesn't cook the same as it does with regular white rice.

 In fact, it took TWICE the time to cook.

I think we ate at nearly 10pm that night.

Good Times.

 It was yummy though and that's all that counts.

BTW -- how about my LSU Tigers!?

No words..

Pure awesomeness.

 This weekend, after a suggestion by a friend I decided to get a jump start on my holiday baking.

My friend makes all of her holiday cookie dough in advance making it easier and less messy on baking day.

We had an extra day off for Veterans Day so I made 4 types of cookie dough to freeze.

 The first was an oatmeal with cranberries, nuts, white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips and semi-sweet chips.

 I forgot to take pictures through the whole process but I also made peppermint cookies.

These will be super easy come December to thaw out and just slice and bake!

Quick and easy!

 Sugar cookie dough.

The recipe I used for these was weird.

I hope they turn out when it comes time.

 The last batch of dough I made was a cookie with chocolate chips, coconut and I can't remember what else.

 I love to bake during the holidays but I think this is going to make it a lot easier and save time.

My friend does this annually and I'm thinking I'm going to do the same.

Great idea or what?

 As if I didn't do enough baking Saturday today I decided to make pumpkin muffins.

 I should be posting all the recipes but I'm just too tired to dig them up.

 And, because I was bored I packaged a few of them up for neighbors and friends.

 Then..........

Brad mentioned he wanted some cookies to actually eat tonight.

So, I put my apron back on and made him some white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.

 Just what we need.

Right?

 It was dessert for the tortilla soup I made today though.

Pretty tasty.

 And, with all that, I hung my apron up until another day.

It was a low-key, quiet holiday weekend.

Something we haven't had in a while.

We're ready to take on the week which is set-up to be a big one.

Keep us in your prayers!

Tootles.

It's All About Cookies!..and....

It's all about cookies...and of course..

WINE!

I kid..I kid.

Well, maybe not. LOL!

Check out these cute wine charms my MIL got me last Christmas. So fun to use them this year!

My weekend started with a friend's birthday get together then hanging at the house and baking!


As I mentioned last week - I made Granny Lillard's lace cookies. Yummy indeed and pretty easy too! A little oatmeal, butter, sugar, flour, vanilla and milk and WAH-LAH!

I decided to drizzle chocolate on them using a squeeze bottle but had a little problem when the top came off on one cookie.

I proceeded to get my sh-t together after that and they turned out perfect.

Budster was in heaven this weekend waiting for scraps of anything to hit the floor. His jingle bell neckware about drove Brad over the edge though! It's all about being festive!

Then time for my cookie and ornament exchange on Sunday. Of course being the host I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked.

This was different but good. Chocolate chip cheese ball served with graham crackers.

I made apple walnut gorgonzola turnovers.

Along with poppy seed ham sammys, quiche, some other munchies served with mulled cider, wine, champagne, etc.

Friends..Terrible picture. Bad hair day, bad light, bad overall. Can't believe I posted.

Blurry. My camera has been acting weird. I think it's time for a new one.

Monster cookies.

Some sort of butter cream cookie. Delish!

We had tons and tons of cookies!

Toffee on graham crackers. Simple but YUMMY!

Oreo balls made with peppermint Joe Joe's from T. Joes

Always a fun time hanging with the ladies. This is the 3rd year for my cookie exchange and even though the group was a tad bit smaller this year it was a blast!

Brad is always a big help too. He helped make food and even got Buddy out of the house this year.

Ornament exchange.

I forgot to take a picture of the one I picked. Wait until you see it. Fits me perfect.

As does this ornament for my co-worker Ms. Von!

Only 10-days until we leave for the Bahamas! Until then -- time to wrap gifts, watch what I eat and workout.

I can't believe I have to get into a swimsuit in 10-days! YIKES!

How was your weekend?