Christmas is coming!

It seems that every time the TwentySomethings get together, we fail to make a blog post, probably assuming that someone else will make it. This time I shall!! Let the world (well the one other person besides ourselves that actually read this blog...I hope there's one other person) know that we do all still hang out together.

We had our third annual Christmas get-together at Martha S.'s house since she's the only one currently who has a house that isn't also shared by her parents or owned by the college. As always she had the place decorated all cute and Chrismas-y. The plan was to eat snacks, exchange gifts, decorate cookies, and just hang out. All of those things happened. We stuffed our faces too much, received more presents than we deserved, made beautiful cookies, and enjoyed each other's company.

Here are a few pictures for your enjoyment. Martha S. holds our group picture and The Farmer's Daughter has some better pictures, so I'm expecting some follow-up posts to this.

The collection of Ugly Christmas Sweater Cookies.

The group

My ugly Chrismas Sweater Cookies

Preparations to decorate.

Martha S. is starting a new trend with empty picture frames. She's famous, you know, so you better pay attention and follow suit if you want to be in style for home decorating.

The feast! We always say we're gonna have less food.

These adorable reindeer made by Martha S.

The tree and presents.

Anticipation

To take a break from my homework, I decided to post a bit about recent happenings and future happenings that I'm excited about.

Recent Happenings

After a recent bout with tendonitis, I am finally starting to heal up. Thank goodness! My leg hasn't been swelling up nearly as frequently or been nearly as tender and painful as it was. It's scary how even an injury as minor as mine is can dramatically impact the day so extensively. At first, I had no choice but to be practically sedentary for about a week. Then, I had to take frequent breaks so my leg wouldn't swell up and become painful. Needless to say, the experience was humbling and made me grateful for the health I have been blessed with.

Going off of that, our trip to New Orleans began only three days after my urgentcare visit. Honestly, although I enjoyed it, I spent most of trip lagging behind the hubs and sis attempting to keep up with them with my bum leg. I had to miss out on a few adventures because I physically couldn't participate. Again, the whole experience was eye opening. Despite my setbacks, I got to go to the cathedral again, ride the streetcars, see the riverfront, go to the World War II museum, enjoy some scrumptious food and live music. NOLA is a city to see y'all.

I've also been cooking up a storm lately. I've made chili, from scratch biscuits, an apple pumpkin pudding, cookies, gumbo-laya, and others. It's been my main source of me time and stress relief since I haven't been able to do much physical activity.

Future Happenings

Goodness, there are lots of things coming up that I'm excited about (anticipating -- hence the blog title) so I'm just going to make a quick list so I don't have to do so much writing and y'all don't have to do so much reading.

1.) Halloween parties galore - Carnival for school, trick or treat at work, and party on the farm!

2.) Check-up - Seeing the doc this Thursday with hopes to set my mind at ease about my health.

3.) Thanksgiving - The way it is working out with work and school, we get to go home for SIX days. I am super happy to spend some QT with our families.

4.) There's only a little over 6 weeks left in the semester! It has zipped by but I'm ready for this one to be over. It has been a drag.

Excited to see everyone on Saturday! Adios.