Beginning the New Year

Hey y'all! We are now 5 days into 2017, and it has already had a great start!

2016 wasn't the best year, but at least it ended well! Nathan's parents were in town, and when they are here, we always have a blast! New Years Eve day was full of fun at the Museum of Appalachia. Although it was a chilly day, it was perfect for walking around taking pictures! The entire area was abandoned due to the cold weather, so we had the place all to ourselves.

After spending all afternoon at the museum, Cancun's Mexican restaurant was our choice for dinner. Yum! We had our margaritas and delicious food.
To stay awake till midnight, we played games like Exploding Kittens and Phase 10!
Midnight finally arrived, and we brought in 2017 together!

January 1st was spent relaxing before getting ready to go to Breakout Knoxville! We chose the Casino breakout game, and broke out with 6 minutes left to spare! We were teamed up with another family of four, so it helped having the extra brains! Our success picture ended up sticking the image on my face, but oh well! Hehe :)

January 2nd, the group of us went to the Knoxville Gun Range to shoot some targets! We had fun, and all did a good job! I look forward to going back!

This morning was chilly, which made it perfect to bake some delicious pumpkin muffins! I haven't baked in a long while, it was wonderful to finally make these again! The recipe comes from Skinny Mom blog - Skinny Pumpkin Spice Muffins

I doubled the recipe and used to boxes of cake mix, 30 ounces of pumpkin, and 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce. 

My KitchenAid mixer makes baking a million times easier!

Today we actually had our first flurries of 2017! I can't wait to get some real snow though! :)

I hope everyone had a fantastic New Years celebration! 2017 is going to be amazing! 

Question Time!

* How did you bring in the New Year?

* What are your goals for 2017?

* What are you most looking forward to in 2017?