It Christmas.....It's Christmas Time! : Christmas Cookie Edition

 This weekend, I baked A LOT of Christmas cookies. I was able to take some to my work Christmas party and give some away. The rest have been almost completely eaten by Timmons  us.

I made some peanut butter blossoms, chocolate chip cookies and we made cut-out sugar cookies together.

I think we'll probably make this a yearly thing. :)

We got flour everywhere and watched White Christmas as they were baking.

Ain't he cute? Sooo domestic.

My icing turned out a little runny, so we put it in the fridge until we could add more powdered sugar.

We ran out  (curse those gingerbread houses!) and since it was Sunday, I decided we could wait until today to frost them.

Timmons, however, decided he could not wait to eat them.

The picture on the left is how many cookies we made...on the right is how many we had in the morning. 

The icing had hardened enough to frost, so we frosted a few and dipped some others...

I was a little disappointed because I had bought food coloring to make really pretty cookies with details, and- let's just say- these are not exactly the pieces of art.

They sure are tasty though. 

I'll be surprised if there are any left when I get home.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

-Mo

P.S. Most of you know that I write the news. Now my voice is gonna be on the news; tonight! If you live in SE Idaho or western Wyoming it's gonna be on Fox at 9 or CBS at 10. It was for KIDK's 60th anniversary story, and it was pretty fun researching all the stuff KIDK has been through.

P.P.S. Thanks to the people who left food at our foor. People have been doorbell ditching us all day with goodies and even a box of food. You rock, whoever you are! :)

It Christmas.....It's Christmas Time! : Gingerbread Edition

It's Christmas time at the Timmon's home and we have been busy! Not only are we still working hard, but we are trying to play hard.

We have decorated for Christmas, trimmed the tree, made a few cookies, watched a few Christmas movies,  and jammed to Christmas tunes. Last night we took on the world of gingerbread!

Getting ready to make Gigerbread (graham cracker) houses.
We have everything we need!

After two hours of careful building (no joke), they were done!

Andrew wasn't super pleased with his.

 It was cute...if you're an amateur. Let's just say...if this were a contest, I would win. ;)

 This one is mine. Notice the intricate work. A wreath. A snowman. Yep. It's awesome.

I even have smoke coming out of the chimney. 

We had a lot of fun building them...and a lot of fun eating them. 

Six days until Christmas!!! :)

We hope you have a merry one!!!

-Mo

P.S. If you want to check out our first Christmas decorations, click here. I'm pretty proud of our thrifty-ness. Next blog post will be the Christmas Cookie Edition. Stay tuned.

Happy Thanksgivukkah!

Today was our first Thanksgiving as a married couple. In fact, it was our first Thanksgiving together ever. Last year we had Thanksgiving with our families separately.

We had a pretty chill day. I had to work, but -thanks to football- there was no 5:30 show on my station. That meant that I only had to write one show.

We started the day by driving down to my work together. I organized my show while Timmons met some of my coworkers. After a bit, I finished my outline, and we headed down for Thanksgiving dinner at Andrew's grandparent's house in Pocatello. 

His cousin, her family, his grandparents, and parents were all there to celebrate the holiday. Emily and his mom made some friggen fantastic food. Not gonna lie...I kinda wish my stomach could hold more. My mouth wasn't anywhere near finished eating. Yea... imma fattie. 

Timmon's grandparents have two dogs, Dory and Max. They are probably the funniest dogs ever. Dory barks when you put your hands in the air and yell 'touch down'. She also sings when you sing 'Happy Birthday.' 

After a few hours of festivities, Andrew took me back to work. He even came back to watch my 9 o'clock show....not that he stayed awake. I think it was his full tummy.  

This year, I am most thankful for my husband. He is the best husband...probably in the entire world. Maybe the universe. Yea. I'm gonna go with that.

-Mo

P.S. No more catchup posts. I'm all caught up!

P.P.S. This is the only time for the next 74 thousand or so years that the first day of Hanukkah will fall on Thanksgiving. Hence...Happy Thanksgivukkah....and no. We're not Jewish. I just think it's cool. Yea. 

    

Happy Thanksgivukkah Everybody!

Catchup 6: Family

Since it's November, I have been reflecting a lot on the things I am thankful for. One of the biggest things I am thankful for is my family.

I have the best husband in the entire world. We understand each other. We support each other. Most important, we love each other, and we love God.

We have been able to visit family a lot. We were able to go down to Utah and see my family since they've moved there. We had a nice weekend with everyone and a nice dinner and visit with my grandma.
As you can tell, it was a really relaxing weekend.

We have tons of fun with his side of the family too!
There have been many Sundays where we'll drive down to American Falls for dinner and games. It's the best! Good food, good people and good fun.



What more could you want? -Mo

Catchup 5: Halloween

For Halloween, I dressed up as a hipee... complete with a peace sign "tatoo" on my ankle.

Unfortunately, we had to work. I had watched all my Halloween movies beforehand and we ate like four bags of candy by ourselves. :")

We also took advantage of the pumpkins we chose and had a fun night on Halloween Eve carving faces on them. Mine had a funny face, but the one I'm holding in the picture, was Timmon's.

He carved Red John's smiley face of death from the Mentalist. It was a pretty proud moment for him. See the similarity?

I love Halloween! It's one of my favorite holidays. I'm excited for the day we live in a neighborhood where kids come trick-or-treating.

Other than the costume, the day was pretty normal. If you don't count the insane amount of treats in the break room at the station....or the bat that flew overhead and swooped down on workers and customers at Albertson's (that's not even a joke. It happened.).


Happy Halloween. :) -Mo

Catchup 4: Fall Festivities

I love fall. That's it. No ifs, ands or buts. I wish sometimes that winter would never come, and it would always be fall. Unfortunately...winter always comes in Idaho. It comes and refuses to leave until June. This year, we tried to make the most out of fall.

I blast John Denver anywhere I go (my fall music, much to Andrew's dismay). I made pumpkin cookies, zucchini bread and pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. I undid a scarf I wasn't happy with and started knitting it again. Yes. Fall is a wonderful time.

After getting spooked straight at Frightmares...and I mean spooked- those suckers in costume would sneak up on you- we decided to start going on a few more relaxing dates. Fall themed, of course.

We ended up going to the corn maze (free tickets from work again!), apple picking and to a pumpkin patch.

The corn maze was really fun. We basically got lost...... threw stuff at each other..... and played hide and seek.     Oh, and we got hot cocoa of course!

When we went apple picking, I had envisioned making applesauce. After we finished picking, I
realized that we didn't have enough apples for
applesauce. Before I could think of another delectable creation to make, Andrew had eaten them all. Not even joking. He ate every. single. apple we picked. How can I blame him? He's a man who loves his fruit.

I caught him taking a bite while picking.

And we all know fall would not be complete without a few pumpkins. We went to the Red Barn Pumpkin Patch by Tautphas Park. We found two awesome pumpkins, a rope swing and....wait for it.

KITTIES!!! Now, you may be thinking 'Morgan hates kitties.' Oh. But not these kitties. These kitties were the nicest, sweetest kitties in the whole entire world. They came right up to me and started snuggling. They would play with me while I dangled straw in their face. Even though they had claws, they never used them. They would only paw playfully and purr. I considered stealing them, but I found out they were owned by a little girl in a nearby house, so I tore myself away from their cuteness. It was terribly difficult though.

We still have a few more weeks, but when it's over...I will be sad to see fall go. It has been a good one.

-Mo

Catchup 3: Lagoon Frightmares

On October 12, we headed down to Utah with our friends, Lauren and Kody, to party at Lagoon. Lucky for us, my work gave away tickets to Lagoon right before I started there, and one of my coworkers was super nice and gave us his tickets.

We went right in the middle of something called Frightmares. Basically, it's their Halloween specialty season. They have extra employees dressed up in scary costumes. They walk around trying to scare you. They also set up haunted attractions and have trick or treating for the kids.

We had fun riding rides and hanging out. My favorite ride was one of the roller coasters. Andrew's favorites were the swings, and one I didn't get a picture of. Kody got him a belated birthday gift, and they went on the high bungee jump, swing thing. I was too much of a chicken to try it. Maybe next year? :p

It was only a day trip, but it was tons of fun. I am excited to go back. I am a huge fan of amusement parks.

   -Mo  :)