Last night I made a quick healthy chili recipe.  No beans, but sweet potatoes and carrots instead.  David thought it was my best chili recipe so far! I had the recipe on this blog in "Healthy Recipes" but have added a few more ingredients like cilantro, and cumin :)  Enjoy

This past weekend we had our friend Jeremy over for a cooking night!  We made a sweet potato casserole ( one with marshmallows and one with brown sugar on top), a spinach blackberry salad, bacon wrapped asparagus, and juicy tenderloin steak!  It was amazing!  I'll add Jeremy's sweet potato casserole recipes to the "sides" section.  It's always fun having friends over to cook and learn new recipes!

Here are the sweet potato casseroles:  

Bacon wrapped asparagus 

Spinach salad with blackberries: 

Finished plate: The steak was topped with garlic butter of course!  😉

Since we are expecting a baby girl to arrive in April 2017, I've been keeping myself busy by making her some stylish hats!  Can't wait to see her in them!

Saturday 12/17 was our Annual Christmas Cookie bake.  I made Oatmeal Scotcharoo's (Oatmeal cookies with cinnamon and butterscotch chips), Blueberries and cream cookies, and Rolo Toffee mini chocolate chip, Sarah made sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies, and Darlene whipped up some thumbprint jam cookies, Russian tea cakes, and fudge.  Each cookie was amazing!  This was my first year attending pregnant, so I had to take a few breaks in between batches to prop my feet up and rest, but all went well.  My nephew Calvin enjoyed his first year decorating cookies with us too!  Next year baby girl will be a part of the festivities!  David loved the Rolo Toffee mini chip and the blueberries and cream cookies.  We make goodie bags to hand out to friends, co workers, and neighbors.