Hello and welcome to my Friday Favorites! Today I am linking up with Andrea. It's been a little while since I've done one of these, so I have a little catching up to do!
1. My birthday was last month and I had a nice day. I bought the flowers on the left for my December bouquet but then my mom surprised me with the pretty bouquet on the right!
I received some nice gifts, went out for burgers for lunch, and had a funfetti cake!
2. I finally got an air fryer. I ordered one on Black Friday and have gotten to use it a few times. (I ordered this one.) I went back and forth on getting one for quite a while because I wasn't sure if I would use it very much, but finally decided to give it a try when I saw this one was 25% off.
Since I have not been lucky enough to have a double oven, I mostly like that I can free up oven space and time by using this. It's definitely taken some figuring out though. I always assumed there was a tray or something you put oil in, but apparently that is not the case! So it seems you either just toss or brush oil on whatever you want to cook.
Do you have an air fryer? What do you think of it? Have any recipes to share?
3. We had a really nice Christmas! My whole family was able to be here which was really nice! I spent Christmas eve baking and preparing our Christmas eve dinner of appetizers/snacks/finger foods. I baked macarons, sugar cookies, and peanut blossoms, and for dinner we did little pigs in a blanket, bbq chicken sandwich sliders, mozzarella sticks, popcorn chicken, and a snack mix. Maybe not the healthiest of dinners but it's what everyone loves and wanted! And then we ended the night by watching a really horrible Christmas movie on Netflix. Allegedly it was one of Netflix's top Christmas movies but it was so bad!
And yes, the lights on the bottom part of our tree went out about a week before Christmas. My mom tried changing the fuses and replacing a bunch of the bulbs and nothing worked. And considering the fact we know two different people who were electrocuted by Walmart Christmas trees, we didn't really want to mess with it too much! And then a week after Christmas another section of lights went out!
5. In case you missed it, on Monday I shared my December Photo A Day pictures and on Wednesday I shared my recent purchases!
Hope you have a great weekend! We are supposed to get ice and/or snow this weekend, so we're planning on staying home and I'm going to make some chili! Do you have any weekend plans?
