Our Office Christmas Party

This year for our Christmas party, Dr Bradley took us to the Viking Store in Franklin for a candy making class. Many of us had never made any kind of candy before, and we had a great time learning and spending some time together outside of the office.

Most of our group gathering around for instructions and to enjoy our little bit of savory brunch before the sweets...Yum!

Stella, Pam and Tanya working on our fudge

Dr Bradley and Dr Wilburn

Carol and Debbie mixin' it up!

Dr Bradley and Dr Wilburn again



Pam and Tanya working on our Butter Nut Brittle...I don't think Debbie wanted to be in the picture...Ha!



A before pic of our caramel pecan turtles.....

And after!! We ran out of pecans, so we made some caramel chocolate "patties" with the leftovers. Haha

Breaking up our brittle after it set

Cutting our white chocolate fudge with cherries...I'm not crazy about white chocolate or cherries, but this was really good!!

We all really enjoyed ourselves, and the candy turned out great too!! We also made some double chocolate peppermint bark...not sure why I don't have any pics of that, but it was DE-lish!! This class inspired me to try to make candy for Christmas. I'm going to make the butter nut brittle, double chocolate peppermint bark and fudge, but I'm going to make dark chocolate fudge with raspberry instead of the white with cherry. YUM!!! I will keep my fingers crossed that it all turns out okay!!

Thanksgiving

This year we went to Texas for Thanksgiving. We drove down to Dallas on the Monday before Thanksgiving and stayed with Bailey that night. It was great to get to see her apartment for the first time. It was really cute and she even had her Christmas decorations out since we were coming! :)
The next day we drove the last hour to Keller where Brad's parents live, and we stayed there through Sunday. We really enjoyed our visit. We did a lot of shopping and a lot of eating!! Brad's Aunt Patty came down from Austin and joined us for Thanksgiving dinner. We played a few board games, opened presents and had our Christmas celebration. (Since we don't get to see Brad's family at Christmastime, we always celebrate both holidays when we see them for Thanksgiving.) 
Our visit was great, and hopefully we will get to see them again soon!



O Christmas Tree!



Group Photo

Mr. Jerry

Brian and Annie

Oliver taking a nap on Brad's lap...so sweet!!

Bailey and Oliver

Waiting in line at Old Navy at 1:00am on black Friday

We shopped til we dropped!