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Life Lately: Snapshot Style

Hi guys! I feel like it has been forever since I last posted, but it has actually only been a few days. I’ve been enjoying 2017 so far and wanted to share a life lately post in snapshots with short captions!

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Jimmy took a picture of me in my photography zone. Man do I just love taking pictures, especially of people.

button-art

Button art has consumed my life in the very best way lately. I can do a separate post if anyone is interested 🙂

love

I just realized the other day that Jimmy and I don’t take nearly enough pictures together. I’m on a quest to change that!

challah

Baking challah makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside 🙂

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Speaking of baking, I practiced making a cake for Hannah’s bridal shower and Malcolm wanted a taste of the buttercream!

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My mom and I spent the day together and ended up in Target. Dangerous!

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Malcolm is cute. I found my new favorite t-shirt (At Target. Told you it was dangerous!). Had a lovely coffee date with Jimmy. Succulents are my favorite. I took Lola to the pet store and I’m not sure who enjoyed it more; me, Lola, or the employees?!

What would you life lately look like in snapshots?

Christmas Cookie Baking Day

My mom and I had our second annual Christmas cookie baking day on Saturday. It was wonderful and included laughter, a melted plastic spoon, Christmas music, and lots of cookies.

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What we made

Russian Tea Cakes
Chocolate Covered Oreos
Ritz Toffee
Polar Bear Cookies
Chocolate Crinkles
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Snowballs
Peppermint Bark
Chocolate Covered Pretzels

We baked at my house this year because I had to run out to pet sit in the area a few times. While my kitchen is much smaller than my parents’, we made the best of the counter space and piled cookies wherever we could.

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We melted chocolate, rolled balls of dough, unwrapped countless Hershey’s Kisses, got sick of hearing the oven’s timer beep, and taste tested all day long.

For some reason, my mom left that night absolutely covered in flour and powdered sugar and I was left unscathed. We’re still trying to figure that out, haha.

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We baked for eight hours and were exhausted by the end of the day. That delirious, happy-type of exhaustion, though! It was worth every minute of work to be able to give our neighbors, friends, and loved ones tins of cookies the next day.

It was also worth it to eat copious amounts of cookies 😉

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Do you bake around Christmas time?

What’s your favorite type of cookie?