I love everything about them
I love planning for them, and making them, and giving them and getting them and eating them!
I love going to the door and wishing all my neighbors a Merry Christmas, and nothing is more fun than opening up the door to find happy faces and a plate full of goodies.
I love neighbors gifts
This morning we woke up to this:
It was a surprise, there wasn’t any snow in the forecast. By the time it was all finished we got about 6 inches of wonderful white snow.
This is the left overs of the storm that closed the Las Vegas airport and all the schools.
Babies!
It decided to make its presence known in northern Utah, and us Utahans, we just go about our business. It takes about 18 inches to close our schools. (I am sure those in the north east are saying “18 inches??? Babies!”)
Just because all the schools and roads were “open” doesn’t mean that I felt safe driving around today. I live at the top of a hill, and my city isn’t known for getting that hill plowed and salted promptly. I have on a few occasions slid to the very bottom (scary) and spun my tires all the way to the top (scary and annoying). So I decided to clear my calendar (ahem) and stay in for the day. Since I was now free I dived into my neighbor gift making project.
The gift for this year, fresh bread and homemade raspberry jam in super cute bottles.
I made the jam back in September, so all that was left was the bread and some cute tags.
Voila
I wish we were your neighbors!!! The bread looks wonderful, the tags perfect, and the jam….who could ask for anything more?
You’re such an inspiration! Snow or no snow!
Hi–I found your blog when I googled “neighbor gifts.” This is so darling. Good job!
Your bread looks so yummy and pretty! So does the jam but I love making challah and braided breads they are so pretty. I wish we had as much snow as you did last week! Today we are warm again it was in the 70’s the dogs got baths outside in the hose it was so nice!
Erika
What’s your adress? I think I’ll move in next door! I’m hungry just reading this!
Wow, look at that snow! Your gifts are so nice. Everything looks beautiful. Could I get the recipie for the bread? It looks so good.
Challah Bread. So good. For my neighbor gifts we just stuck to frosted sugar cookies and after delivering 25 plates full we were tired!
This looked wonderful.
Wow, those looks awesome! I have your corn bread in my oven as we speak. And, at least where I live in the northeast, they freak out at the thought of snow. Even though it snows here a lot. My kids had school canceled because a snow storm was supposed to hit (which it did do at about 1:30).
Man, I am so not a bread baker and yours always looks so yummy!
I had to work today and I hate driving in the crappy weather. I was supposed to go back in tonight but called off. It took me an hour to get home this afternoon and I didn’t wanna take an hour to go back again and an hour home tonight 🙁
My hubby got stuck in Vegas for an extra day because of the dumb snow.
Hey girl! Does someone that lives 2 streets down count as a “neighbor”?????
Signed – neighbor that wantsta know
Can you ship some bread to the South. Hee Hee. Guess What…NO SNOW in our parts. And 75 degree weather, just thought I would let you know.
I’ve never made bread and that looked sooooo good!! I wish I were your neighbor too!
SO I’m SO glad to be your neighbor! Yes, faithful readers, I can confirm it tastes and good as it looks!
Thanks for the gift! You’re awesome!
ok, YUM YUM….mmmm, i’m baking this week for family gifts…and that bread just makes me drool and that jam is just looking taaaasteee! and yeah, i live in michigan, it took are you ready, 2 1/2 feet PLUS to close schools on friday…yeah…good thing it’s christmas break now, so it can snow all it wants for 2 whole weeks! i think we have around 3 feet on the ground right now, and lots of gusting bitter cold winds…definately time to stay in and cuddle up and knit and bake!
I want to know if being related to you and living in the next city over counts as being a neighbor? =) That is such a great gift, one they will remember always because people are too busy to take time to make special things like this anymore. Good job!
Now I wish I was one of your neighbors! That looks yummy. I’ll have to get your bread recipe from you and try it. (We haven’t gotten any neighbor gifts yet. I guess that’s what happens when you move 2 months before Christmas.)
Hope you have an AWESOME Christmas! Love ya
*hugs*