BEST MONDAY EVER!!!!

TODAY IS AN ALL CAPS DAY!!!!  

I GOT MY BOARD SCORES BACK AND I WILL NEVER EVER, EVER HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER EXAM IN MY LIFE!!!!!  I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PASSED ALL MY BOARDS AND GRADUATED FROM CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOL!  

REAL WORLD HERE I COME!

Chestnut's Roasting on an Open Fire...

We had our FIRST fire in our fireplace last night!  This is something we have both been looking forward to for a long time!  Bailey was VERY curious!

This year, we decided to stay home just the three of us for Christmas.  Tonight we are going to church then come home for French Onion Soup and open our gifts.  Then tomorrow we will lounge around and play games after opening Santa gifts :)  
We hope you have a Relaxing and Merry Christmas!
Love the Robinson's

Tuckered Out!

This last weekend, we made the trek back to GB, where we are both from but only my parents still reside, for the Boone Family Christmas!  We picked up one of my brother, Jordan's, Christmas gifts here and hauled it back to Christmas.  It was an air hockey table, which seemed easy enough... except when you are transporting a mini-horse in your back seat...

Bailey and I in the back left side of the car with the hockey table taking over the entire right half of the vehicle!

Not the best pictures, but you get the idea, it was TIGHT!  To make the ride even more enjoyable, for the last 20 miles our car decided to pull an attitude and not go above 30 mph... NICE.  We finally got to my parents, unloaded and fed Miss Bailey then headed out to eat.  When we got back the car had gotten its rest and of course lost the attitude.  Despite this we still took it in the next morning for a $200 attitude adjustment!

Then I got 'ze flu' (read the flu with a french accent).  Thankfully I never threw up but other areas of my body were drastically malfunctioning!!!  Needless to say it could have been much worse, but there was no way I was leaving the house!  I also had no appetite which REALLY sucks b/c my mom always cooks basically whatever we request when we go back!  :)  

Miss Bailey and Duke got along much better this weekend, which was great!  Jordan totally wore out Miss Bailey - chasing her and Duke and playing with them up in his room and in the backyard, she didn't even get her morning/afternoon/evening naps!  I know she had a blast at Grandma and Grandpa's house! :)

Saturday night I pulled it together and went with the family to Jordan's Christmas Play at church where he was one of the 3 Kings!  Then we went back to the house and opened gifts.  My mom and dad got a new bedroom set which I am in love with!  So happy for them to finally have something they enjoy!  Sunday they made a prime rib for lunch which I'm sure would have been amazing had I not been queasy still! :(  Then we played games for a while before heading back to Lawrence (thankfully we drove ABOVE 30 the whole way ;)

Miss Bailey tuckered out on the much more spacious backseat on the ride home.

Naughty Puppy!!

Bailey has done really, really well with our Christmas decorations... until last week!  First I came home to this... 

Ironically this sign once read 'Be Good for Goodness Sake!'


Next she just couldn't wait and had to open a present...

Really like the bath salts though... Thanks Husband!


Then we were eating dinner the other night and she looked us then grabbed the hula girl ornament and pulled, the tree swayed back and forth before stabilizing itself - thank goodness!  Then, when my parents were here, she was playing with her ball and it got stuck behind the tree, so she went for it and accidentally sent the tree crashing down... right on my dad's lap!  In her defense she didn't mean to do the last one and our tree stand was ment for a 6' tree while our tree is at least 7 ft'!  So needless to say, she has been spending a little more time in her kennel during the days :(

All Things Sweet

My kitchen is by far the MOST favorite part of my house!  Not only because of how great it turned out but because I LOVE to bake!  It is my stress reliever when things are crazy & my happy place when I'm frustrated.  This was my previous kitchen - unfortunately I didn't get a picture before I boxed up everything.

Here is my new kitchen before anything was changed... (that's Travis our Realtor!)

Here is my new kitchen after the changes!

Back to the baking, in the last year I've started making cakes/cupcakes for mainly baby showers and a few other events.  Here are a few pictures...

Halloween Birthday Cake

So if all this took place in the old kitchen... Imagine what can happen in the NEW kitchen!!  Can't wait for the next event!