We were quite festive this weekend. On Thursday, we drove up to Scottsdale to do a lil Christmas shopping and stopped in at Sprinkles! (Honestly, I think Sprinkles is one of my favorite parts of moving to Arizona so far. It's so much happy goodness in one lil store.) Here is a picture of me displaying our delicious cupcakes (because Rob thinks there are too many pictures of him and food on the blog!) My cupcake was vanilla peppermint (vanilla cake with the peppermint in the frosting) and Rob's was vanilla with chocolate frosting and sprinkles.

The peppermint kind of made me want peppermint in everything, so on Friday we made hot chocolate on the stove top, added some holiday marshmallows (obviously) and I added a candy cane to mine. I even smashed the candy cane up to make it beautiful on top. Rob is weird and doesn't like peppermint anywhere, which I'm fairly alright with because, well, more minty goodness for me. I also took pictures of our hot chocolate (and popcorn because it was movie night) because adding random pictures to this blog amuses me.

Oh! And the best story about the red and green marshmallows is that the chip clip that closes the bag is magnetic so they are actually hanging on the refrigerator door and I laugh at this all the time.

The last part of our festiveness in pictures is the holiday lights festival we went to on Saturday night. It was in Tempe-we actually drove through ASU's campus to get there. There is a lil man-made lake and all of the boats there were decorated with Christmas lights and they made a parade. There were also fireworks at the end, but they made me miss fireworks at Jacobs Field a lot. Ok picture time. This is Rob and I playing in a "snow" machine in the festival. It sort of looked like snow when you were there and right under it, but when I stuck out my tongue, I realized it was most definitely soap suds. This is pretty obvious in the picture, but I still think it's pretty funny.

This week is a busy one for both of us. Rob's test is Friday so he is flying extra and studying all week. Please think smart thoughts for him on Friday! Again, we will keep you all posted as to how things go. I am planning a big chicken parmesean dinner for Friday night and hoping it is a celebratory one! This week (and also Monday and Tuesday next week) Rolly Pollies is holding open gyms for 2 hours each morning and evening, which gives me a lot more hours than usual at work. Figure this in with birthday parties at work next weekend, tutoring, meeting with the Chandler school district before I start student teaching, a few errands and finishing up the Christmas shopping and I should be a busy girl! I am actually looking forward to the hectic week, but am also excited for the end of it, when Rob's test is behind us. (And when we're that much closer to being home for Christmas!)

Again, we hope all is well with you and would like you to order in a lil bit of snow (not too much to mess up flying home, but something more than soap suds please) for our Christmas visit. I bet you never thought you'd hear me say that, but I still know I have the sunshine to come back to :) Love, Sarah and Rob