Happy December everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season thus far.
I love Christmas SO much- the lights, the music, the decorations, the snow (as long as I'm not driving in it), the parties- all of it is just so magical. One thing I especially enjoy are all the yummy treats I get to eat!
I haven't made any sorts of treats this month yet so today I decided to look on Pinterest for some inspiration and get to bakin', and I'm sharing my recipe with you!
My husband really isn't a fan of sugar cookies (boo) so I had to put my cookie cutters back in the cupboard and search for something else.
I found a TON of super awesome recipes but I unfortunately didn't have all the ingredients to make them, and with it being Sunday, I didn't want to go to the store to buy things. So I had to find a few recipes that contained what I actually DID have (that happens more often than not actually so I usually make things up as I go, whoops haha).


I was lucky enough to stumble upon both a cookie recipe AND a frosting recipe containing all the ingredients I had, and they turned out soooo delicious! Tay and I have already eaten enough to consider them our dinner, and our home teacher came over and ate four!


They were seriously so quick and easy to make, not to mention super tasty. So, my dear reader, if you're looking for a simple, yummy, minty Christmas treat to make this month, look no further:


INGREDIENTS
(cookies)

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix 
• 1 egg
• 1/2 butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons of water
• chocolate chips (optional)

Wow, what a busy month this has been! We've spent this October moving in and settling into our new apartment up here in Logan, Taylor has been busy with school, and we both started working new jobs, all while participating in this month's festivities (haunted houses, corn mazes, scary movie marathons, pumpkin carving, etc.) with a bunch of newly wed friends we've made- which we've been pretty successful in if I do say so myself haha.

I was finally able to meet up last week with one of my closest friends and have a little photo shoot in Big Cottonwood Canyon. I hadn't seen her in so long and it was so nice to have a few hours of girl time (sorry Tay!) I've had the desire for a while to try out photography with a really nice camera instead of just my iphone6 lens (what a wonderful difference lol) So here's some of my work, along with my friend's as well. Maybe with enough practice we might have a shot at doing this professionally!

P.S. we ran into Ty French (look him up on instagram- his work is fantastic!!) while he was doing a shoot and basically DIED! Such a historical moment for us haha!

It's been almost 4 weeks now since we've moved from Alabama back to Utah, but most importantly almost 4 weeks since our end-of-summer trip to Orlando! Man, time flies when you're living at your in-laws' house, still looking for a place to live and places to work, while your husband commutes to school an hour and a half away every Tuesday and Thursday lol. But really, it has been a great time, I'm much much happier back home in the mountains.