Huge Christmas Week Recap {Vlogging included!}

Hey lovebirds!! Thank the lord it's Friday!!! Today is an exciting day, I know I've been slightly MIA from the blog world since Christmas, but it has been a hectic week for sure! On Christmas eve I had Secret Santa with my cousins and we watched holiday movies and ate/drank to our hearts content. We also decorated some wooden ornaments and baked some yummy goodies.

Oreo truffles :)

Cake pops with Christmas sprinkles!

Wine and Mike's Hard kind of night

Absolutely love these girls!

Our finished ornaments!! 

Another great thing about Christmas Eve was being able to do a video chat with my cousins and nephew. I wish more of my cousins were available to video chat, but unfortunately all of us working in hospitals doesn't help our schedules to coordinate. I did do some screenshots which were awesome, enjoy!

Christmas day was a very chill day and I opted to stay in my PJ's all flippin' day, it was awesome! We had my extended family over for dinner and called it an early night. I unfortunately had to work the day after Christmas, but it was a slow day and I got to leave early so I did some after Christmas shopping and scored an awesome over-sized sweater from H&M for only $10! {PS if you watch the vlog later in the post you will see the sweater}. 

Yesterday was our first annual Friendsmas and lord oh lord did we eat, like A LOT! We also did a Secret Santa among all of us and I was so pleased with my gifts!! We had a ton of yummy desserts {most of them Pinterest inspired} and awesome homemade pizza for dinner. Here are some pictures.

PS This is the over-sized sweater from H&M

Now onto all my gifts that I've received this past holiday season!! I am soo thrilled with all that I got and am so thankful for all the friends and family that know me so well. 

Gifts:

{} EcoTools makeup brush set & makeup bag

{} Little Miss Princess coffee mug

{} Tribal print scarf 

{} Striped touchscreen gloves

{} Naked2 eye shadow palette

{} Peppermint Mocha via packets

{} Starbucks cold drink tumbler

{Not Pictured}

{} Ulta Giftcard

This is my gift from the boy, N. He saved the baby pictures I had sent to him at the beginning of our relationship and he made a collage of the pictures. The quote at the top is from Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." I am in love with it and it's housed above my makeup vanity in my room. I love the thoughtfulness behind the gift and his attention to details. 

These lovely gifts were from my work Secret Santa and I'm thrilled with all of it. The candle smells heavenly and the water bottle is so convenient along with the Target gift card which I'm sure will be gone by the end of this post! 

This is my gift to myself. I had been wishing for this on my Christmas list, but instead got some awesome others. I cannot stop listening to this CD and as I type Billie Jean is playing. {Fun Fact: Billie Jean was written about a crazy stalker of Michael's who claimed he had fathered her child, talk about psycho stalkers}.

FINALLY-

Here is my vlog that I did for my Secret Santa reveal for the swap hosted by Paige @ Eloping Stethoscope. 

Some notes about the vlog:

{} I realize I move the camera around too much, sorry for any motion sickness that may have occurred. 

{} I say swap funny a few times, but I didn't re-shoot the video because this was my 12th take, I am no editing genius so you get this.

{} At 30 seconds I roll my eyes up, my sister was staring at me from her room watching me film my vlog most likely judging me, sorry I'm not sorry.

{} I say umm WAY too much, sorry.

{} My voice is so weird, I don't think I sound like this, but hey whatever works.

{} When I'm showing off my gifts the camera is all up in my face, sorry for that lol.

{} I know I said rougher, again with the shooting too many times, you know I mean more rough.

So what do you all think of all my goodies?! Pretty awesome Secret Santa right! I cannot thank Jules @ My Mom's A Whack Job for all these awesome gifts, if you haven't checked out her blog, what the heck are you waiting for?! 

Here are pictures of my goodies! 

So so sorry about the overload of Christmas fun and pictures galore!! I hope you enjoyed reading and if you made it all the way down here, I love you for reading it!! What are some of your favorite gifts from this season, leave me your comments in the section below!!