December is a Good Month

I've been having lots of fun baking recently!

Baking.

Not cooking.
I always thought I like cooking more...turns out, I just might like baking!

And might I add, not only have I been baking more, but I've been baking goooooood stuff.

Like, actually successful good.

Finger-lickin' good.

Yummy in your tummy good.

Ya know what I mean??

Maybe this is it.

Ya know how I'm a disastrous cook?

MAJOR disaster?

Perhaps it's because I'm meant to bake!

So! What am I making these days??

First, it was the peach cobbler.

From scratch, might I add.

Paula Dean's Peach Cobbler.

And it was MIGHTY tasty.

It looked just like this:

Literally.

Perfectly golden brown.

Sprinkled with just enough cinnamon.

Oooh my goodness, I almost cried tears of joy when I pulled it out of the oven. I had never in my life cooked something even close to as perfect as that.

And it was a SUPER easy recipe too!
(Obviously, if I could make it!)

My next baking tackle?

The Pineapple Angel Food Cake I found on Pinterest.

Ahh Pinterest.

You are so amazing...

Anywho, it was this:

That's literally all you need.

Two ingredients.

Mix it up.

Put it in the oven.

Voila!

Okay, this one wasn't so much of a baking experience.

But it was delish!

Served it with whipped cream.

If I were to make it again, I'd make a cool whip frosting.

And the latest baking blue ribbon:

Gingerbread Cheesecake Bites.

My new favorite Christmas cookie.

Now, mine looked NOTHING like what you see here.

They were quite ugly.

I had a rather incredibly difficult time managing the cheesecake filling and getting it to fill the cookies all nice and pretty like you see here...

but the important thing is: Even though they looked ugly, they tasted so pretty in my mouth! I have eaten far too many.

That's the other wonderful "problem" with these: They're bite size. So you constantly think, "Oh just one more..."

Which, as we all know, really means six more...

Oh well.

Totally worth it.

As a completely different side note: I'm supposed to be 13 weeks now, into my second trimester. I had a really hard time with it on Sunday, I was crying in church. When I told Thomas why I was so upset, he held me and said, "You're not supposed to be in your second trimester. If you were meant to be, you would be. It wasn't meant to be yet."

I know he was trying to comfort me and be sweet, but man, that was a tough pill to swallow.

I keep getting weekly emails from "thebump.com" telling me how my baby is growing week-by-week...I really gotta delete my account or something...

We move into our apartment in ten days.

TEN DAYS.

I know. I'm freaking out too.

We have I think six boxes packed..,

Um, yeah...work to do...

And then we celebrate our One Year Anniversary in 12 days! 

And then we finally get Sealed in 17 days!

And then Christmas celebrations begin in 19 days!

Man.

December is a good month.