Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 03:37PM Happy anniversary to the love of my life! Nineteen years ago today...
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Is it weird if I prefer this recent photo instead?
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I feel that we've grown up pretty well, and there's no one I'd rather have had by my side along the way. This past year, especially, has been a fabulous one...there aren't enough words to express how very blessed I am.
And, yes, that means next year will be TWENTY, folks. Wow.
Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 08:13PM So. How was your Christmas? Ours was lovely. Here are some highlights:
- Christmas Eve, we went to watch the new Star Wars movie and very much enjoyed the show and the reserved seats.
- After that, we drove around town looking at Christmas lights...which is something of a tradition. We found a couple of spectacular new (to us) homes with plenty of lights, one which was even set to music!
- And boys experienced their now traditional frustration at my gift labeling methods. Bwahhaahaahaa! (This is, I think, the third year of my shenanigans. See 2014 and 2013.) This year...the packages were labeled with completely random words, like garbanzo, seven, pickle, happy, yahtzee, zucchini, because, science and blue. Christmas morning, I finally told them the code, since they hadn't figured it out.
Since I know you're wondering, lol...Noah's had a second letter of "a"...Asher's were those where the fourth letter was "e"...and Micah's were the ones with the third letter being "c"...(and I'm kicking myself because I should have had Noah's be those with a second letter of "o" instead. Then each of their first names would actually have worked with the code, too.)
- We spent a lazy day enjoying gifts that had been opened, took a walk, facetimed with some folks and texted with others, watched some new dvds and played some family games. (For the sake of recording it somewhere, Noah's main gifts were HeroClix related, Asher's were legos and Micah's were Star Wars action figures. All were pretty happy.)
- And today we headed out to take advantage of Christmas clearance sales to stock up on some outdoor lighting and decorations for next year. Asher and I, in particular, are pretty excited.
Next up on our list is to spend the final week of 2015 doing some purging and rearranging...which may not sound too exciting but is going to be awesome. :)
Friday, December 25, 2015 at 06:13PM From our holiday cards...
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Just enjoying a quiet, lazy Christmas here...savoring the lack of schedule and the time together. :) Will update more this weekend with stories. In the meantime, wishing you and yours a joyful holiday!
Friday, December 18, 2015 at 04:42PM Five things making me happy right now:
1. This picture:
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(We took this just after Thanksgiving (with my selfie stick). Notice the little imp in the background? lol)
2. Yesterday, I ventured to the post office and actually had an employee help me promptly and happily! It was a Thursday miracle. :)
3. Our new local theater rocks! They have reclining seats that you specifically select when you buy tickets (like picking seats for a flight). We just reserved seats for the new Star Wars movie for next week and are stoked that we won't need to wait in line early to make sure we don't get stuck in the front row.
4. I'm on my way to the kitchen momentarily to enjoy the yummy mint brownie my friend Lynne made me. :) (She hands these out at Christmastime at boot camp, and we think she's in cahoots with the instructor to make sure we need to keep going to boot camp, lol.)
5. And the biggie...all our packages and cards are officially in the mail now! Woohoo!!! (Also, dude, every stinkin' year I forget how much time it takes to wrap and package everything, lol. And every year I swear that next year's presents are going to be smaller and lighter. ;) So. Be warned, folks.)
Whew. ;)
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 02:32PM Still here. :) More to say but in the meantime...
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Took advantage of the fact that Noah's already out for break and the rest of the schools aren't yet (and don't have a snow day today like yesterday) and went to see the Old Town Santa. As per tradition (albeit not a very longstanding tradition, lol), we stopped and fed boys first then took happy boys and didn't have any lines to wait in. Yay!
