A more recent family tradition has become one of my favorites. Every Christmas morning, we have breakfast with my parents. We are greeted at the door with champagne flutes of guamosas. Like its cousin the mimosa, the guamosa is sparkling wine with a splash of guava juice. My parents discovered this drink during a trip [...]
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Guamosa Tropical Bubbly Cocktail
December 28th, 2011 
Emily 
Posted in Christmas, Drinks, Food, Holidays 
Tags: champagne, christmas, cocktails, drinks, traditions 
1 Comment »A Very NewlyWife Christmas
December 27th, 2011 Emily It was another NewlyWife reunion this weekend as Megan and Matthew came up to celebrate Christmas with the Northern California side of the family. The weekend included a trip to San Francisco’s Union Square, eating, gifting and playing games like Wits and Wagers. Oh, and there was a wrapping paper wad war or two. Here [...]
Christmas Reflections in Luke 2
December 23rd, 2011 Megan I wanted to end our Christmas Biblical reflections with a chat about the angels appearing to the shepherds. Let’s go ahead and read Luke 2: 8-14; And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the [...]
Bags of Candy Coal Tutorial
December 21st, 2011 Megan Did your man make the nice list this year? Mine did, but I’m going to put coal in his stocking anyways. It was his idea, after all! We saw little bags of “coal” (chocolate) at the apple farm a few weeks ago. Hubby thought I could make them just as easily; and when we found [...]
Posted in Christmas, Sewing, Tutorials Tags: christmas, coal, sew, stocking stuffer, tutorial No Comments »NewlyWife Likes #28
December 20th, 2011 Emily Last week was busy and fun and now we’re in full-on holiday scramble mode. Still have some gifts to buy and then wrap. Here’s hoping I don’t get swallowed up by angry mobs in the stores. Are you all done with your gift shopping? No? Then how about procrastinating on the interwebs a bit with [...]
