Christmas Cookie & Cocoa Party

              Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday! I can't believe we are now 1 week away from Christmas! I am so excited!! I wanted to share a fun and festive party I hosted last week that was full of friendship, fun, and festive treats. I had my girlfriends over from our community group last week for a cookie & cocoa party at our house. We had such a good time (even though we were on a sugar high) haha! It was a lot of fun to have them over and spend time with them while enjoying some holiday treats. 

              I made hot chocolate in a crock pot including a dairy free hot chocolate as well since of my friends doesn't eat/drink dairy. The cookies that I made included a sugar cookie, peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip, chocolate ritz crackers, and I purchased gingerbread men and peppermint pretzels from Trader Joe's to add to the cookie tray. I added in some mini candy canes as well. For a salty treat, I made a big batch of holiday party mix (which is always a crowd pleaser) and bought some whipped feta and roasted pepper dip from kroger as a nice salty treat. The girls brought some more cheese & crackers and a few other salty treats as well to balance out the sugar. We had a great time catching up, sharing stories, and enjoying a Christmas night together. I already can't wait to host another one next year :) I hope you enjoy this post and hope this inspires you to create your own Christmas party or cocoa bar. Have a great week and enjoy all the fun moments before and during Christmas! xoxo Tesla 

Home Decor: Holiday Home Tour 2017

               Happy December, Merry Christmas, Happy the best time of year to YOU! Can you tell I am a little excited Christmas is finally here? As you all know from many blog posts, the Holidays are my favorite. I thought it would be fun to share our home decor with you by pictures on my blog and also by video! I am by no means a video blogger or I think they call it a "Vlogger" but I thought this would be fun! Tune into the live video version on my social media accounts on (Instagram and Facebook) and here below I am showing all of the pictures of our home decor!

I hope you enjoy our Home Decor for the Holiday's and I hope this inspires you to create your own happy places :) Merry Christmas and as always thank you for stopping by!

Click this link for the Home Tour video: Home Decor Video

Front Porch Decor 

Entry Way Decor 

Living Room Decor 

Kitchen Decor 

home decor: Christmas 2016 decor

                  Merry Christmas ya'll! I can't believe we are only a few days away from the best day of the year. this year sure has flown by and what a year it has been. i am so thankful each and every day for the wonderful people we have in our lives and that we have each other. i am so excited to head home to indiana on friday with reed, my brother, and paw of course. we have a wonderful weekend filled with family traditions and lots of holiday treats (the diet starts in january) ha! 

i am finally getting a free second to share my holiday home decor with you!! sorry for the delay! i am so excited to share the main areas in our home and how we decorated for this year's holiday season. we added several new pieces this year but also used a lot of our tree ideas from last year. i wanted to keep the tree simple this year and not overload it like i did last year. 

                 i shared my gift wrapping ideas last week and you can also see more packages as well in these photos. this is the first year reed and i aren't buying Christmas gifts for each other. yes! i know! you are probably thinking, what in the world and why!? we are actually trading gifts for memories and have decided to book a few trips in the coming months instead! we love to travel and thought this was a great idea. i can't wait to share where we are planing to go, but that's for another post.

 in the meantime, i would love to hear your holiday traditions and what you are doing for the holiday season. send me a message or comment below :) i would love to hear from you! 

while it is very easy for us to get caught up in the "stress" and the material things of the holidays; let's reflect on family time and the true meaning of the season and thats the birth of Jesus :) I hope you all have a wonderful week and I will be sharing my Christmas go-to treats with you later in the week. see you real soon xoxo