I Love ... L-O-V-E Love Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I love driving by the houses seeing lots of cars parked outside, the soft glow of candles or Christmas tree lights coming from the windows and just knowing that for a night - most of the world around me has slowed waaayyy down....

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...White Chocolate Peppermint Bark... Just some Christmas treat goodness that we passed out to our neighbors this year. :) Happy 2 days until Christmas! ...

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1 week til Christmas can only mean one thing - Baking Time! I had my family over this morning - along with all of the little kiddos that my mom and sisters babysit for - and spent the morning making some good old fashioned sugar cookies. Here's the Cookie Recipe we used today:...

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My mom likes to tell the story about how she went in to labor with me every year on my birthday. It's not a particularly crazy story, but it is meaningful to her (and me) because it started out the night of her birthday... It was December 13th, 1988 - the night of...

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My mom turns 50 today! We wanted to do something special for her big day so my dad got us a beach house down in the OBX, NC. (Outer Banks, NC) He and mom came down early on Wednesday to spend a couple days by themselves celebrating and then we (meaning her children...

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Feeling the Christmas Spirit as I'm watching the CMA's Christmas Special on ABC tonight, so I thought now would be as good a time as any to share some of the Christmas pictures my sister Mallory took of us a few weeks ago! Photo credit to Without Words Photography ...

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Some snap shots of our Thanksgiving! All the dishes prepped and ready to go the day before... I even labeled everything to make sure I had enough dishes :) The brine I used for our Turkey. I got the recipe from The Pioneer Woman's blog. My picture doesn't look quite as appetizing as hers,...

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