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Weather where I am now: 29 degrees (feels like 22 degrees)

Weather where I will be in 3 days: 61 degrees (feels like 61 degrees)

Nice.

Thanksgiving and a tag

I've been tagged :) I'm posting the 4th pic from my 4th folder, and surprise, it's of our basement. That's what we've been using our camera for the most in the last 3 years!


Fortunately, the 5th pic is more interesting, so I'm putting it up here too :) It's one of my friend Holly's baby shower back in February. I actually remember we had so much rain that week and seeing some flooding as I was on my way up to the shower, so it's fitting that the basement and shower made it into the same folder. Thanks for the tag, Hols!

Here are our pics from Thanksgiving. You can see them all HERE if you don't have the time to sit through the slideshow.

What a fun weekend we had, even if it was super short.

decorating for Christmas

Every year there's a bit of a balancing act going on in our house. We like to decorate some for Christmas but we're always gone for at least a week over the holidays, so in some ways it's kind of a hassle, especially with all of the other things on the calendar. So we don't really want to go all-out. We don't do a live tree because they will just die while we're not here. Same for poinsettias and other holiday plants. But this year even though we'll be out of town for 2 weeks, we did buy a few extra strings of lights and decorations. Steve's been trying to get them out on the pine tree in our front yard, but by the time he'll finish we'll probably be about ready to head out of town :) We underestimated the amount of strings we'd need and I need to go buy 2 more at least.

Steve's a pretty traditional guy when it comes to the holidays. We have a few traditions of our own, and I think that I've tamed him down as far as his expectations of how those traditions are carried out because I'm not really that traditional. I like to mix it up and play it by ear. But each year as we set up our slightly pathetic-looking, pre-lit tree, I remember the first Christmas we were married. We did the whole, picking out a tree (the only year we've bought a real one) and setting it up, etc. Steve was taking out each ornament of his and telling me who gave it to him, or when he made it. I had a few ornaments that I'd bought on sale when I worked in a bookstore, or that people had given to us as wedding gifts, but as we were going through them all, Steve looked at me and asked very seriously "where are your ornaments?" I thought it was so funny, it was the classic "his tradition" meets "my non-tradition" moment :) That memory always makes me smile.

Anyway, here are a few pics of our decor...

Our tree, notice our topper. Yep, it's up there each year. No angel or star for us!

that time of year again!

The holidays are upon us! I just looked at my calendar and there are less than 6 weeks left of the year. We are going to be out of town for almost 3 of them. Goodness, the time will go by fast. Bring on 2009 :)

crafting - sneak peak

When I finished the first one, Steve promptly informed me that I couldn't take a break, that I had 3 more to finish before Christmas. Can you guess what they are?

I'm glad to say now that I have 1 finished and two more almost finished. I can't wait for Christmas :)

spewing house

Our house has turned the tables on us and started spitting water OUT :)


I just think it's really funny to watch our sump pump now that it isn't hooked up anymore. Actually it's not funny that it's still not hooked up and our yard is still torn up, but they've said that they'll take care of it and we keep believing them. And they've said that at least they'll hook the sump back up to the drainage pipe sometime next week. Then I won't have the entertainment of watching our house spew like old faithful.

more progress

Steve and I finally ordered him a new wedding ring. I think that we will both like it, we really liked the picture. That's the trouble with ordering online, you can't see it before you buy it. But it's Tungsten and I like every Tungsten ring I see with similar styles in stores so we should be fine. Plus for $35 and free shipping, we'll like it for that reason alone. But wait, there's more! (said in my best infomercial voice) If we ever need to resize it, I can send it back to them and pay a $3 restocking fee and get a brand new ring in his new size. Ahh, I love finding a good deal! And it's about time, I see from my former posts that he lost his ring back in late July/early August.