A late Happy New Year :-)

Happy New Year to everyone. I know it is a little bit late, but I was not feeling that well. I updated my german blog though :-) I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Season and a good start in 2015.

Our Christmas was just lovely. We baked and cooked a lot in December, watched Christmas Movies and cuddled on the couch, I got to wear my Ugly Christmas Sweater evey friday in December and just enjoyed the time with my hubby. I skyped a lot with my family in Germany as well and let them see how we spend our December.

Christmas 2015 we celebrated at my mother-in-law's place. We all came together on Christmas Eve :-) She made a great dinner with ham, mashed potatos, brussel sproats, rolls and pineapple stuffing. After dinner we all sat together in the living room to unwrap some presents. It was so much fun :-) later that evening we all went to church and met up with my brother-in-law's parents. It was a lovely mess and I was able to sing most of the songs - thanks to 97.1 WASH FM :D they played Christmas music since Thanksgiving Day - a tradtion of the radio station. Afterwards we all went back to the house for some coffee and dessert.

Back home it was time for my hubby and me to unwrap our presents. This year I put a lot of thought in it. We had a lot of presents under the tree, but small ones, things we need and loved to have. My hubby got some Yankee Candles, his favorite sweets, passport covers for our first big journey together, a book to learn german and the big surprise: a indoor grill :-) we just got a grill in May 2014, but than we moved. We are not allowed to use our grill on the balcony and since than our grill isnin my mother-in-law's basement. So I thought that would be a great present. He also got some steaks to it ;-)

I got really spoiled this year by my hubby. First he suprised me with a camera for Nikolaus which is why I expected something really small for Christmas. But I got a bodymist and body lotion from Victoria Sectret, sweatpants and a sweatshirt from Under Armour aaaaand a Michael Kors purse :D Oh my gosh :D so lucky to have such a great man who sometimes spoils me too much hihi I love everything he got me. I was suprised how nice the Body Lotion is and my purse :-) so nice!

Christmas Day my sister-in-Law, Kelly, came over for breakfast and she spent the rest of the day with us. For dinner we went to my father-in-law's place. He made a yammi stew :-) on friday most of americans had to go back to work, but not us. JT got off from his work, so I decided to take off as well and enjoy a long weekend with my hubby :-) We both got sick on our long weekend but we decided to got for a walk to the Great Falls Park in Maryland to enjoy that first sunny saturday in days.

For NYE we invited JT's friend, Ronnie, and his girlfriend, Abby, over for Dinner and movies. We had a great night. Abby and I went grocery shopping and than cooked Rouladen with Knodel and Red Cabbage - my favorite german dish. It was so much fun to cook with Abby. The guys were playing N64 and after dinner we all played Mario Kart on N64 and Wii :-) it was so much fun!

Last week we had our first Snow Day of this year. We enjoyed it at home and later that afternoon - when the snow stopped - we went out for a nice walk to Savage Park. Afterwards we stopped at this cure french bakery and got a little dessert for the way home :)

My last two weeks of my winter break started today :D time is flying I guess. I will enjoy this as much as possible and just do nothing. Or not nothing but enjoy the time with my hubby, see friends, go outside, party and than it's time to say "Bye-Bye social life"! :-/

Happy Halloween :-)

I hope everyone had a great and safe Halloween :-) I myself spent it with dearest friends and there little one. We went trick or treating with the whole family and than handed out some candy for kids ;-) Unfortunalty, Jt couldn't join us, because he had to work overtime on friday. The rest of the night I spent with my hubby, some wine and pizza :-)

I wanted to share with you guys the cupcakes I made the day before Halloween. I was not feeling that well which is why I just got a cupcake mix. But i got the good ones :D my hubby loves this kind, because they have a chocolate filling in it. 

For the decoration I went to Micheals and got some gummy eyeballs, monsters and pumpkins :-) at the store I got Icing from Betty Crocker in typical Halloween colors - blood red and green!

Halloween Cupcakes

I just love to bake and cook for family, friends and my co-workers. I made a total of 24 cupcakes. Four stayed home for my hubby, four for my friends as thank you for taking me trick or treating and the rest of them were for my co-workers as Halloween treat :-) and since they were all gone I guess they were a hit ;-)

Victoria Secret Chocolate

I was shopping again at Victoria Secret. This time for Valentines Day and Victoria Secret offered this delicious chocolate again. So I saved everything up that I reach the wanted 75$ and here we go:

nice boxing

 All the chocolates were super yammi, but I really liked the one in the middle: Love. And the nice looking box is getting used now as make-up box :)

yammi chocolate

new favorite: Crumbs Bake Shop

Our new favorite Cupcake shop is Crumbs Bake Shop. I got a newsletter from the Mall in Columbia and there I saw that the Crumbs Bake Shop had open a new store. We wanted to go anyway to the Mall, so we decided to check it out. And oh my god :D I never saw so delicious cupcakes. So we decided to try them. Super delicious :) Go visit Crumbs Bake Shop and in my opinion much much better then Georgetown Cupcakes.

Devil's Food

left: grasshopper right: I can't remember, but yammi :D