Christmas Time is Here!

I can't believe it is already Christmas Eve! Wasn't summer just yesterday? Well, I guess not because baby is 3 lbs. heavier and 3 inches taller since his first birthday. Sooo many awesome things have happened this past year for us. I'll have to include a post about these amazing things on New Years Eve.

Anyways, we decided to have three special Christmas breakfasts--for Christmas Sunday, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. For Sunday, our menu was gluten-, grain-, and sugar-free cinnamon rolls with a "cream cheese" frosting, bacon, eggs and baked cinnamon apples with walnuts and raisins. I've never cooked a breakfast in my life that has smelled so REAL. Not that we don't eat good breakfasts, but this one just smelled amazing. All the different scents made a great combination. I will admit that this second time I made the cinnamon rolls, they didn't turn out like the first time I made them (they had a soggy texture--which led me to a great learning experience making this mistake) so I didn't even bother asking Andrew to try one. I'm making a new batch sometime later this week. They're THAT worth it!

Now that it's Christmas Eve, Christmas feels more real. I'm more excited about it, and so happy that our little bug is old enough to open his presents this year :)

Wow. It sure is a different {tough, yet fun} experience preparing for Christmas with a baby. I threw perfectionism out the door! And I'm okay with that :)

This morning, Andrew wanted crumpets with jam and more bacon. I had my typical breakfast {scrambled eggs with spinach and onions} with some grapefruit. So my breakfast wasn't as special, but it's definitely a breakfast I could eat every morning for the rest of my life! Baby enjoyed eating four different foods all at once, haha. All different textures and tastes--fun!

Sunday Morning

 

 

Christmas Eve Morning

 

 

Gift Wrapping

This year I chose simplicity and wrapped presents with

jute, tulle and floral/plaid wrapping paper.

{Brown. Red. White.}

 

 

We can't wait to spend tonight and tomorrow with our families! :)

 

{MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE}

For our Christmas morning breakfast, we had cinnamon apple french toast casserole with sour dough bread. To accommodate my gluten/grain-free diet, I used my sunflower seed bread recipe for myself. I was kind of worried it wouldn't turn out, but the bread held up just fine and it tasted great! What's interesting is that I used a different kind of coconut milk this time, and it turned my bread green. Why this happened I have yet to find out. But it sure fit the Christmas color spirit!

 

 

My green Christmas spirit bread. It usually looks like this: