2010

Another year gone and a new one beginning. Here's hoping that this one will be better than last year, not that it was bad but just a lot without Matt, and hopefully I will be able to spend more time with Matt at the end of this year. We have a couple of trips planned this year, including 3 weeks together this summer when Matt returns. So here is hoping that this year will be one to remember, in a good way.

Happy New Year Everyone! Please be safe Matt and return home to me safe and sound!

Let It Snow!

Wow what a winter wonderland it is for us outside today. Matt and I have just been relaxing, tourchering the puppy by throwing him out in the snow to go potty and watching movies. Matt had to literally pull Archer out of the house on a leash and carry him to the street so that he could go potty. The snow is as tall as Archer so he has to jump around in it. And we are still going to be getting more snow.

Right now, I finally talked Matt into shoveling the snow to make a foot path from our door to the street so that I can go to my neighbor's house for a cookie swap. Matt is being such a wonderful sport about it. As long as I keep the chapstick and hot apple cider coming he will shovel the driveway for me.

We already know that church is pretty much canceled. They canceled it 2 weeks ago due to about 4 inches of snow and we currently have 2 feet of snow in our driveway. Fun for us. I don't even know if Matt will be able to safely make it to work on Monday as Charlottesville is getting slammed with even more snow than us. We shall see, but here are few pix for your viewing pleasure. Oh and I added the pix of our Thanksgiving feast. Have a great Saturday!

~Archer's Hole that he landed in and made~

~Our Backdoor snow pile~

~It's up to Matt's knees! CRAZY~

2009 Christmas Pix

Hey everyone. Well now you all get to see my RED hair. It is a different look for me than what you are used to but it is kind of growing on me now. Anyhew it will go back to normal after a month or so.

Last week Matt and I had our Christmas photos taken at Maymont Park in Richmond. It is a beautiful location. There is a zoo, stables, and a Japanese Garden located inside this park.

A HUGE thanks to Cami for taking the photos for us. Here are a few of my favs. Enjoy!

Humm part 2

Still not any wiser this year maybe by next year. I'm excited though we are supposed to get snow today, that is a nice surprise.

Thanksgiving Bliss

I am so sad because today is the the last day of my Thanksgiving week off. I had such a restful week of working on Christmas gifts, (sorry mom, won't let it slip this year what I am doing) planning and making our Thanksgiving feast, it truly was a feast this year. I made everything but the stuffing, Seth did that and everything turned out wonderful. Last night Matt and I put the ornaments on our tree and sat back and listened to Christmas music and admired all of our little ornaments.

Thanksgiving feast menu:

perfectly golden turkey

brown sugar baked ham

Boston Market sweet potato casserole-totally yummy!

mom's famous spinach leaf salad

stuffing

corn bread

mashed taters

3 streusel topped pumpkin pies

I even have a picture to prove it. But I can't download it till Matt gets back form St. Louis at the end of the week.

I have already turned over the house from autumn decorations to Christmas decorations. Our neighbor will be putting up our house lights this Thursday for me while Matt is away. They are going to be all over the house for the first time in 2 years. I am sooooo excited for the lights to go up.

I must say that I am so excited for the Christmas season! I love Christmas so much. Matt and I are getting professional photos by a friend of a friend, and I am so excited for them. Matt and I are also flying out to AZ for Christmas and a family reunion on my side of the fam. My Grandma is turning 90 this December so everyone is coming out to celebrate. I haven't seen some of my cousins since our last family trip last year. (Goal for me is to have lost 15 lbs by then.) Oh yeah if you didn't already know, I have a personal trainer kicking my butt 3 days a week right now. I will be healthy by mid next year and down 60 lbs. That is my goal.

That's it for now, pix to come later! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Must Reads!

I have to tell you all about my new fav series of books that come in a close second to the Twilight books. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I read Hunger Games last year just after I finished reading Twilight a few times, I really enjoyed the book. I was upset cause I would have to wait a year for the next book to come out. Catching Fire came out in Sept and I have been waiting for it to be released on Kindle so that I don't have to buy the hardcover book, cause since I have the Kindle I shouldn't need to buy the hardcover. Well it still has yet to be released and Matt let me get the book. I started reading Catching Fire and felt a little lost since it had been a year from reading, so I decided to re-read Hunger Games, and fell in love with it again. I went right into Catching Fire and in about 7 hours I finished the whole thing. AMAZING!!!!! I loved the book better than the first one, and I am mad cause I have to wait another year to read the 3rd and probably final book of the series. So everyone I highly recommend the Hunger Games series. It is a teen book but has some violent attached, as it is a book about kids who fight to the death. It is very good!!!!

Halloween '09

People have been asking for some pix of halloween this year. So here are some pix. Just some info, Matt did not wear his uniform as a costume, he left for his military duty from the party so I got a few pix with him and that is it.

This year we have about 250-300 kids stop by for some candy. We were going straight from 6-9pm with kids. It was a lot of fun. My students had a ton of fun stopping by to say hi. I even had some families that don't participate in Halloween stop by just to see me. It was a lot of fun. So enjoy the pix!