We went over to Cathy’s place for New Year’s Eve. It was a casual and relaxed party. We all brought over food and alcohol to share, which was nice (I brought brownies!) Midnight seemed to come pretty quickly. Cathy was super-prepared with glow stick necklaces and bracelets for everyone. We turned off the lights, had [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Day 36: New Year’s Eve fun
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friends, New Years Eve on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day 35: It’s Santa! I know him!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, ornaments on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Look! Santa is climbing up the Eiffel Tower! This is one of my favorite ornaments. My mom and dad gave it to me one year from Christmas (not sure if it was actually 1995 or not). It’s cute isn’t it? When thinking of what I definitely want to take with me to England once I [...]
Day 34: Do you see what I see?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged car, weather, winter on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I was driving home from tutoring, the rain seemed to get louder than usual on my car. I realized that it wasn’t actually rain, but sleet! I had a hard time getting photos since I was driving and for once, there wasn’t any traffic to slow down for that would let me take a [...]
Day 33: Take me home, country road…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged car, Christmas, Mandy, Marion on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was so beautiful today driving home from Marion! Perfect, sunny weather. It was a bit cold still (though as we get farther south it warmed up!) Here is a nice view of the mountains along the way. I think we were in NC at this point. We saw some snow leftover from recent snow [...]
Day 32: Meet the Gingerbreads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brandy, Christmas, family, food, Marion on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brandy, my super-talented baking sister-in-law, made these gingerbread cookies in the likeness of all of us! Aren’t they so cute??? I think it was a sweet idea for her to do this! From top to bottom and left to right, they are Dad (in shorts and glasses!), mom, brother Mike (with a guitar and glasses), [...]
Day 31: Christmas, part deux
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Marion, Willow on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, we came up to Marion, VA to visit our brother, sister-in-law, and baby niece for the second day of Christmas. Well, baby Willow had a great time opening and exploring her new gifts from us! Here she is getting to know the fuzzy reindeer in the pop-out puppet book that Mandy gave her [...]
Day 30: Making pie…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, food, home on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is the set up for making pumpkin pie! My mom randomly arranged the ingredients like this! I liked the geometric pattern and wanted to record what really is needed to make her homemade pie, so I captured it here. Oh, just a side note- the mimosa isn’t actually necessary for making pie, but it [...]
Day 29: Candlelight service
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, home, Mandy on December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every Christmas eve, we head to our church (that we’ve been going to since birth!) for the traditional Christmas eve service. Generally, the best part of the service is the candlelight portion at the very end. We sing “Silent Night” as a congregation while ushers light a few candles of those at the end of [...]
Day 28: Oh the places they’ll go…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, gifts, UKY on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These are my new fuzzy, warm socks! I did a secret Santa gift exchange on UKY and this was part of the gift I got! For some reason, they remind me of Dr. Seuss! They are soooooo soft and warm. AND bonus- I don’t slip and slide on the kitchen linoleum in them (like previous [...]
Day 27: So… whatcha think?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, haircut on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, this is my meager attempt at taking a self-photo in the mirror at the hairdresser’s today! My hair was out of control. I was happy to get a long overdue hair cut/color today. Here’s the end result! I meant to take one while Ellie was working on it, but forgot sadly. It’s not quite [...]
