Christmas rolls. From the joy of cooking — a really good recipe, although Bailey ate half of them, and after a few days they were a bit hard.

The Christmas star!

The Christmas Jax! We get these every year, because you can’t buy Jax in Michigan, and they are our favorite cheese doodle.

This is Barefoot Contessa’s Sour Cream Coffee Cake.

This is the strudel for the coffee cake. In my opinion, this strudel could stand to be doubled, to add a more delicious layer to the cake.

This is a lake, by my sister’s fiance’s cottage. There are bikers on the lake….Jon assured me that it’s frozen enough…I wasn’t so sure.

I stopped to take a picture of this farmhouse. It was pretty. I don’t know who lives there, but they probably think I am creepy.

We played a lot of cards.

We had some coffee. With friends. We laughed. We gossiped. Some friends are forever.