Broken Glass

Currently there are two adults living in our house. Now, you may dispute our maturity levels, but legally we are adults. There are NO children in our house...in fact, there is no one under the age of 24 currently living in our house. And yet, we have broken more glasses in the year and a half since we've been married than I think I have broken in my entire life.

We break them in the sink, we break then because they drop (rarely, maybe once), we break then putting ice in the glass (yes, I think this has actually happened at least three or four times), we break them in the dishwasher, and my newest method of breaking the glass was when I tried to wash it (the result can be seen in the above picture)! We started with a full set of glasses...we currently have...wait, I'm going to go count...

I'm back...in our cupboard (all the dishes are clean, so all of the glasses we own are in our cupboard) we have ONE tall glass and three short glasses. Those are all the non-broken glasses we own! We used to have eight...of EACH! I have to admit, I knew we had broken a lot of glasses, but I had NO IDEA we only had four left! No wonder we are always out of glasses!!!

The Best Day of the Year, Almost

One of my absolute favorite holidays was this week...I know what you're thinking, and no, it was not Thanksgiving. Don't get me wrong, I like Thanksgiving; I just don't love it (don't tell Wil I said that! It's his absolute favorite holiday, so I try hard to be a good sport!). You see, the great holiday that took place this weekend was the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Shop-Til-You-Drop day, or whatever you prefer to call it.

I think I was about ten years old the first time we went Black Friday shopping. My grandma and I decided to go get the free gifts. It stuck. Even though most stores no longer offer free gifts for the first fifty in the door (the way we used to decide which stores to go to was by who had the best gifts...Mervyn's almost always won, but then...they're out of business now, so it might not have been the best business model for them). Now, we base our shopping on the best deals for the gifts we want to buy.

Once she was old enough, my cousin Lynda started coming with us too. It's a grandma, granddaughter tradition. We wake up uber, super early - this year it was about 3 a.m., and get to the first store about half an hour before they open! HOORAY! I LOVE it! Wil teases me because it's the one day of the year I wake up singing (the other 364 days, I typically beg for five more minutes when the alarm goes off).

The picture is of my grandma and Lynda in line at Kohls (our first stop). They opened at 4, so we got there about 3:40 a.m. From there we went to Walmart (which is insane! the best way to do Walmart is to leave one person with a cart in line and to send search parties out to get what you're looking for. There are way too many people to try to navigate a cart through the aisles), Michaels, Target, Petsmart, Einsteins (it's tradition that we have Einstein bagels for breakfast!), Big Five Sporting Goods, Macys and JC Penney. It was a busy day...but oh so worth it!

Lights, Camera, Blog

TA DA...


We inherited a few outdoor Christmas decorations from my Aunt and Uncle last year...and decided to put them up today (we didn't decorate outside last year, so I was excited to put up lights!).

The cute trees and candy canes were from my Aunt and Uncle's house - you can't tell from this photo, but all three of the trees are shorter than they are supposed to be...we shortened them so you wouldn't be able to see the burned out lights on the bottom (creative solutions are in my blood).

All of the white lights are from our wedding, and Wil was happy to note there were already nails in our house for Christmas lights! The person who lived here before us must have been seriously awesome!

Pie!

I try to remember the fun things my aunt would do with me when I was little and then do them with our nieces - Aunt Jody always had the best ideas for inviting me to help her with things she was already doing and that I would enjoy, like baking or making things.


I was assigned the pies for Thanksgiving, so I thought it would be fun to invite Hazel and Arlene over to help me make them.


We made apple, pecan and pumpkin. Yum! They were delicious, and I think Hazel and Arlene had fun too!

When Life Hands You Lemons

Make lemonade...in our case, really tiny glasses of lemonade...

...made even sweeter by the fact that these babies were grown on our very own tree!

Warning

A quick warning to all robbers, attackers, would be assailants and future children...

Wil sleeps with one eye open, so whatever you're thinking...don't even try it!

***Editor's note: I thought it was so funny (and creepy) when I saw Wil napping like this on the couch this afternoon that I just had to take his picture. The flash didn't even wake him up like I was expecting.

Squirrel!!! I mean cat!!

What's Elvis doing you ask? He's 'treeing' a cat that's what he's doing. And he did it very well. After all he is a coonhound, but since we don't have any raccoons around our house, cats will do. Notice how he still has his leash on. Well, I may or may not have been holding onto it very well. He spotted it when we were coming back home from a walk today. Since we never let him chase the rabbits around the house I thought "why not, at least he'll teach that cat to not sleep on top of my car at night."

Good boy Elvis!


*Posted by Wil. Jessica is too nice to cats. Nor would she admit to doing something like this.

Car Costumes

Last night was the trunk-or-treat at my Grandma's ward.

Lili and Lalo turned their truck into a dog and I thought it was the cutest thing ever!


This is all of our nieces and nephews getting ready to go trunk or treating in front of the dog truck...they were so cute!


So cute in fact, that Junior won the costume contest for the infant to three year olds - he was a cow.This is him playing with his super cool prize - a flashlight...and Lyzette trying to take it away from him (I think he started crying right after this picture, and she had to give it back.)


Happy Halloween!

Puppy's First Halloween

Yesterday was Elvis's first Halloween at our house...I think last year he spent Halloween running into cactus and avoiding snakes and coyotes in the desert, so I'm pretty sure no matter what annoying thing we did to him that this Halloween was better than last Halloween!

TaDa...Elvis's Halloween costume! Can you tell what he is? Can you?


He's a ROAD! Because Wil was a road construction worker and I was a construction cone, duh! :-)

This is him howling because he is SO excited about his Halloween costume!

Boy Girl Differences, Part Dos

Can you tell which one is Wil's and which one is mine?