What? A heat wave?

As most who read this know, Adam and I spent most of his Christmas break in Vermont, " Skiing". It was quite unfortunate that when we got there, December 26th, after a long 6 hour drive there, there was a "heat wave". It was 40 something degrees, with the next two days going to the 50s. Needless to say, there would be no skiing those days. Sadly, the town we were in, West Dover, is VERY tiny so there wasn't anything to do but play games!!! We had games of Apple to Apple ( a word game ) and train ( Domino game ) going on all during the day. Though I was not having fun because I kept getting huge numbers! I was trying to look mad, but I just look kinda silly!




I was glad to finally be done with train, I think I had the worst score by like 100 points! But oh well, it was good fun, family time!



The next day we decided to go and see a movie. Well wouldn't you know, there was ACTUALLY a movie theater in little West Dover. But it only had three theaters, that's right. One was showing Benjamin Button which we had seen on Christmas Day, and Marley and Me ( Way to sad to watch ) and last was Bedtime Stories. It was so cute, a GREAT family movie, and great for kids! But the theater was tiny. We took a picture to give you the idea! Adam's comment was " Isn't our TV this big?" It was sad but pretty close to true!










Soon, it was time to ski!:) Sorta!

Merry Christmas to us!

Adam and I decided that we would buy a mutual Christmas gift, then have a set amount to other gifts. So after thinking long and hard about it, we decided we wanted a home theater system! We watch TV, it's what we do. We have two DVR's for our tv down stairs and one for our upstairs, becuase we wanted to watch more than we were able to record!!! We have a netflix subscription which we also watch regularly. So we bought ourselves a home theater system today! It's a Samsung system that has a Blu-ray player. We are sooo excited, netflix has blu-ray disks for $1 extra a month. Can it get any better than that?
Alright, so I have to admit, that our buying this was a little selfish, becuase it's really thrown the dogs and cat for a loop. When we were testing the speakers, Bailey just about freaked out. Which should have been expected since she is so afraid of thunder, it's kinda the same thing. Siren also didn't like the noise, but she is more disturbed becuase there is a speak on top of what used to be her spot, the cable box! So even though we feel sorry for our "Kids", they will get used to it. We love it to much to take back!:)

Thanksgiving was a blast. Almost everything we made was homemade, from homemade dinner rolls, to cheesecake. Everyone had a great time and the food was great. I'll post pictures whenever I get a chance!! Hope everyone had a great break from school, and had some quality time with family!!!

When did it become okay??

When did it become okay, to put up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, or Halloween, in the case of areas around here?

For as long as I can remember, you weren't supposed to get out those decorations until the day after Thanksgiving, let alone getting them out BEFORE Halloween! Janelle and I were strolling through, what might be the biggest mall in the country, King of Prussia, and I noticed that the HUGE Christmas tree in the center of the place was already up and decorated! Alright,alright, it was Halloween that day, but you get the picture. Then, Janelle told me that SANTA CLAUSE was going to be at the mall for pictures starting NOVEMBER 15. How crazy is that?

On my way home from the gym tonight, I drove by a house that always decorated to the nines, and they had taken their glow in the dark pumpkins down, and strung Christmas lights in the tree, and changed their porch lights to be green and red. CRAZY!!! Especially since it gets SO dark here so fast these days. I am talking 5 PM it looks like it's 10. It's crazy!! Anyway, just wanted to know, when do you put out your Christmas goodies? Me? Probably not until December 1 or something. We live in an area of the country that produces, the most BEAUTIFUL real trees, so last year Adam and I went to pick out our first real Christmas tree. Though, along with a real tree come, having to water it to keep it alive, and vacuuming, daily, if not hourly, to keep all the pine needles off the floor and out of the dogs and cat's mouth!!!

On another note: I read that it's national blog month, so I'm going to try to post everyday!:) Lets see if my life is that interesting!!!