The Charming Comforts of Life: Holiday party, good food, and the cutest picture ever

First I'll start by addressing the post I made a couple of weeks back about the amazing scents going on in our house. Wild rice soup and beer bread, and the fact that it was the easiest meal ever makes it that much better. I recently went to a Tastefully Simple party where we were able to try a lot of their products, all of which I can honestly say tasted great. I ended up ordering the beer bread, wild rice soup, and jalapeno jam. Kyle and I had the soup and bread for dinner PLUS I had the soup twice as leftovers and ate the leftover bread all week. It tastes just as good as leftovers and it clearly makes quite a few servings. Then there's the jalapeno jam. Oh. My. Word. I spread some over a block of cream cheese for a party appetizer and dipped Wheat Thins in that. I also snacked on just crackers dipped in the jam all week and it was equally as good. Such an easy (addicting), snack. I'm going to order more of the jam and some other dips they have to just keep on hand for company that comes over or to bring to parties.

Any carbonated beverage will work for the bread if you don't have beer

So easy and so good

I decided I'm going to have three parts to this post because I need to do some major catch-up.

This was the first year we didn't have our holiday party (tear) but I'm so glad now that I decided to skip this year. With Christmas, a month full of birthdays, and moving (oh yeah, we've moved, more to come on that later:)) it would have been damn near impossible. Needless to say, I'm glad other people hosted holiday parties this year and we were able to just show up with an appetizer in hand and have a good time! Here are a few pictures from a holiday party we went to before Christmas...