our christmas before the sickness

so here are some pics of our big snow that just happened.. that was,,, before we were cooped up in our apartment sick as dogs..

someone here at the barn just said: "jonathan here is a marble.." ha.. thought i would add that in..
anyway.. we decided to maximize the snow.. but we only had two seconds to take a picture cause our hands were falling off with cold.. frigid.. frigid..

SNOW SNOW SNOW.. we watched white christmas too.. all we want is SNOW! ;)

jos

christmasssss vacation

we are staying in the Japanese room .. hurray


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poor orca...

It is official. I am a person who dresses their cat in ridiculous outfits and then laughs their head off..
We were with steph and steve and I had bought Kenton this bear, and it happened to be wearing a polo and we thought.. hey .. why not?

So here is our unhappy Orca.

LOVE IT

my house is going to be covered in books and pictures.. and beadboard.. and... the list goes on..
but mostly.. b&w pictures! ;)

christmas is coming, the geese are getting fatttt

Well , I tried like you said to be upbeat, but not TOO upbeat.. and we got our little Charlie brown Christmas tree.. I love having a tree, no matter how small it really is.. I like that we have something for our “first Christmas..”.. its really special to me..
Also, thank goodness I tried to be more upbeat, later that night when I was doing dishes.. he set up the tree with little paper ornaments he made me with little sayings inside; 12 kisses, 11 hugs, 9 apologies.. (so on and so forth..) that made me feel REALLY special, and my whole mood changed.. it was a nice romantic gesture… *something I haven’t seen in awhile.. and my ice melted.. we went on a little walk outside .. saw the snow coming down, got red noses.. it was just very, very needed.. I feel like we haven’t been close or companionable for that matter in a long time.


also . i attached some pics of gussying up the place for christmas...
i am so glad i was able to takl to you last night.. sorry for the blue note in my voice, next time, lets just talk about good things.. i am afraid i am just weighing you down with my woes..
enjoy the terrible pics and clicks!

turkey trots ;)

Too bad I didn’t hear from you this weekend,, I was looking forward to a chat..

Now I have to be all worried about minutes when it is not the weekend as J. and I know share a “family plan” that has the same amount of minutes as I use to burn myself alone.. so we will have to be ‘aware’ of our talking limit.. if you call on weekends though, that should be good!! Too bad I didn’t hear from your travel wearied body ;) haha.. I wanted to wish you a belated turkey day!

Thanksgiving was good.. no one was sick.. food was great.. I went to see Australia.. a movie I really enjoyed,, didn’t do any black Friday shopping.. but we did get to go to cut down a tree, and we had a lot of face time and play time with our little nieces.. they are getting so old .. but they are in that fun stage of jumping around and dancing and wearing twirly dresses..

Speaking of nieces, Kenton’s birthday is this weekend.. !!! can you believe he will be 2? I think we will just have a family Christmas party for him where we decorate the tree or something? Leah has plans a rumbling!so that is what we will be doing this Sunday,.

Tonight I am just itching to be a HOMEBODY.. I cant wait to dig up in my closet all the Christmas trimmings.. (*which is quite few and far in between as you can imagine. ..) and decorate the little apartment.. I feel like I haven’t been home in ages.. I cant wait to get my sticky fingers on some Christmas spirit.. in fact, right now at work I am listening to “celtic christmas’..though when I decorate, I am going to have to be careful of the cat.. I cant put out any glass ornaments otherwise ill be in trouble..

SPEAKING OF the cat… last night J and I were eavesdropping on the rumblings of my drunk neighbor, who had the cops called on him again.. and low and behold we hear a squeaking and YES>. YES,.!!!!. orca had a MOUSE in her mouth.. she has officially passed the ‘mouser’ test.. of course I got all worked up cause it was a baby mouse and I felt awful, so I am all wild eyed on the couch while J is trying to get it from the cat.. who is batting it around with immense glee… Oh golly.. I felt soooo bad.. but I know we cant have any mice in our place.. .. so .. well, j flushed it down the toilet.. and then continued to eaves drop on ole damien and his drunk friends.. .. hopefully orac wont get in a habit of putting mice offerings in our bed or something? Oh man!!!

Anyway,, wanted to say hi and post some thanksgiving pics.. miss you squinkers!!!
hope you had a columbian turkey leg or some such nonsense!!!