My 1st Annual Christmas Cookie Swap!!

I am so excited to embark on a new adventure for this Christmas season....a cookie swap!! I got the idea from an ad for Domino Sugar. (I know, I'm a sucker) The idea is for about 8 women to get together on a weekend night or weeknight and bring 8 dozen cookies to share with the other 7 women that will be there. When you go home...you will have 8 dozen different types of cookies to impress your friends and relatives with!! How fun is that??

Here's what my cookie swap info: The first 8 people to respond to me that they want to come will be at the cookie swap! I will email an invitation out to you once we come up with a date. I was thinking of a weeknight instead of a weekend night since those tend to get busy. This is a girls-only event...a great chance to get out of the house and have fun and fellowship with other girls. Sorry...no kids allowed unless you're breastfeeding. :)

We can exchange our cookies and then I was thinking it would be fun to watch a holiday chic flick to get us in the mood for Christmas. And of course, you can feel free to eat some of your new cookies!!

Another exciting idea that Domino had was to bring a small donation that we can donate to the Great American Bake Sale which feeds hungry children. Because times are tight for almost everyone, I thought it would be neat to just bring all of the spare change that you can find around your house and donate it. If we as a group reach $35, Domino Sugar will send a free gift of an apron and a Sandra Lee cookbook to show their appreciation. I was thinking we could do a drawing to raffle off this free gift to one of the lucky girls!

If you want more details on the cookie swap, visit www.dominosugar.com/cookieswap and you can get all of the details.

So, if you're interested in coming to the Cookie Swap....email me at stacylcook@gmail.com. If no one responds, I will make 8 dozen cookies and eat them myself!! :)

See....it's not just a rumor.

For all of those folks who tease me about not being pregnant enough, well here you go. Proof that there is a boy inside of me who has set up his recliner right on my bladder and periodically kicks me to death!! I can't even button up my sweaters!!

Congratulations to Alan and Cassie on their wedding this past weekend. They are currently in Cancun. Right there is a reason to hate them..........

Eighties Night....and I'm Feeling Right!

So, on Wednesday night, our friends Scott and Kristin and Wes and I all headed to Castleton (sans kids) to party the night away at the Melting Pot. They were having a special promotion where if you dress up in all 80's clothes, you get their 80's pricing and you get a special gift.

Well you know Wes and I have done a lot less for a good deal so this sounded like a lot of fun! The Melting Pot is a fondue restaraunt where you cook all of your food at your table in the fondue pots. Boy was it good! By the end, you practically had to roll us all out of there because we had eaten so much!

Here's Wes and I trying our best to look 80's. I was kinda glad that by the end of the 80's, we were only 9 years old!!

And here's our friends Scott and Kristen looking very retro. Scott got a lot of compliments on his Karate Kid headband too!