Christmas time!!!!

Well it is officially Christmas here at The Z!! We spent the last few days hanging fresh garland in the house with huge gold bows!! The outside of the house is decorated with wreaths drapped with big red bows and the house is lined with lights!!! Ahh I love Christmas!!!!!!! This weekend was a sad one seeing that it was the last football game of the year for the rebels. We had SO much fun with the Tutton and Forrester families. We spent Saturday night at Taylor Grocery and ate wayyy too much catfish!! Then polished off the night sipping homemade hot buttered rum by the fire...what says winter more than that?!

If you are here in Oxford then you know how gloomy the last couple days have been....I am ready for this rain to come and go as fast as possible!!!

We may not win every game....but we have never lost a party....

So, this weekend was such a success....well maybe not on the field but we sure had a good time at The Z!!! Ole Miss put up a good fight against Auburn but we still had less points on the score board when the buzzer went off :( maybe we will have better luck next year?!

This weekend was Kappa parents weekend and The Z catered the KKG tent. We made SO much food-I think the biggest hit was the homemade pulled pork bbq sliders or the grilled chicken breast kebabs with bell pepper and red onion. We have enjoyed catering so much that we are already scheduled to be in charge of the tent this weekend (Ole Miss vs. Louisiana-Lafayette). Although it is very time consuming and our fridge looks like it is about to burst because we pack it with so much prepared food, Brittany and I have loved every minute of it!!

We have guests checking in this weekend from Arizona and Texas. Tomorrow we have a couple staying who are celebrating their anniversary...So special!!

How exciting is this?!?!

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This is a blog post from a guest of a guest that came to visit us at The Z!!!

It is SO rewarding to read such a sincere review...Thank you Caroline-I hope to see you soon!!

An afternoon filled with.....

Carving pumpkins and sipping hot cocoa on our front porch!!! So much fun!! As you all may know, I love the Southern Living magazine! The October issue has a great cover so I decided to be ambitious and attempt to copy what they did. I am actually very pleased with how it turned out! Thanks to the little pumpkin carving kit we bought I was able to scrape just the peel and make it look like the way the pros did it at Southern Living! I can not wait to make our first pumpkin pie of the year! We salvaged the pumpkins seeds and baked then in the oven....yummmy!!

*Grandmother, thank you for emailing me the pie recipe....I can not wait to make it!!! I love you. Come visit us soon!!! You're the best :)

I can not tell you how excited I am about this cold weather!! Not only because it gives me an excuse to make apple cider and hot cocoa but because we can make blazing fires on our front porch. Last night we had a lovely evening with our guests!! We enjoyed a nice cheese plate and a bottle of wine while sitting on our front porch swings!! It was soo much fun and relaxing..I am looking very forward to many more nights like this in the near future!!!!

I am so sad to see this weekend come to an end. It has been full of family, wonderful guests, great football, and so much more!! We had 3 lovely couples check-in on Friday afternoon. Our guests were greeted with a homemade peach cobbler, vanilla ice cream, and sweet tea with fresh mint!! We have a couple of people checking in early tomorrow morning...looking very forward to their arrival!! I am keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that this perfect weather will not leave Oxford too soon. Alright, I'm off....time to go sit on the front porch swing and enjoy this crisp autumn air!! xoxo, Annie.

hotty toddy!!!!

And we are back......After a long, exciting weekend in New Orleans we are back to work!! We have quite a few guests checking in this weekend for the Ole Miss vs. Vandy game on Saturday. We are so excited and can not wait to try out some new recipes and see what our guests think!! The more time I spend with Ole Miss fans, the more I seem to love my alma mater :)