It's beginning to look a lot like...

SPRING, what?! With it being 65, raining and on going tornado watches, yes, it feels like spring only a few days after Christmas.

Anywho, Christmas take 2 was a nice one. The menu this year consisted of bbq ribs (oh my god, they were goooood), hot spicy chicken wings, weenies, mac and cheese, beef house rolls, deviled eggs, and apple pie. We went to mass at Holy Cross this year and afterwards opened presents at home. This year I won the monopoly game, yeeehaa. Then on Christmas day we watched hours of The Christmas Story and then made some homemade pizza, after we did nothing at all.

We'll be heading towards Tenneesee on Tuesday for Christmas part 3.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all!

Whoot, we got the Mountaineer fixed yesterday! We dropped it off at 9:30 and it was done by 2, I'm making a shameless plug for the car-x on university ave, they are great!

Yesterday I was working out on the treadmill and completed the whole 1st program! Intervals of walking, jogging and running, a little over 2 miles in 30 minutes, go me!

The weather is a little crazy out there today, be careful!

Christmas Take 1

New photos are up!

Whoot New Camera!

Woohoo we got our new camera in the mail yesterday!

We got a Sony this time. I like the pictures it can take in low light, love it! Here is a picture, I didn't take it, it came from dphotojournal. 7mp, 4x optical zoom, love it.

And some photos taken with it:

This weekend we are going to Indiana for my Dad's side of the family's Christmas. Saturday we are making cookies at the Grandparents house and then Sunday is the official unofficial Christmas day.

New photos are up.

Photos from this past weekend...

This weekend we went to the parade of lights..and by went I mean we ate at the Great Impasta and watched it through the big restaurant windows, ha! We also moved all the furniture back to the rightful places and put up the Christmas tree!

The floors are finished! We have to wait a couple more days before we can move the furniture back but we are ALMOST there, no more poly and butts that hurt.

By the way, these pictures were taken with one of my older cameras not the new one. Meijer had the one I wanted on sale but then they upped the price the other day when I went to buy it, so I ebayed it instead.

The dining room before

The dining room after some sanding.

The dining room all polyed and pretty.

The sitting room before

The sitting room after sanding.

The sitting room after poly.

The entry before

The entry way after sanding.
The entry after poly.

New photos are up.

So I've not posted pictures of the floors yet for two reasons.

1. The day we started, the flash on our camera stopped working. The camera is pretty useless without it. Though I did manage to get a few pictures, b/c I have another camera, but I need to recharge the batteries. I suppose I shouldn't be too hard on our camera, as it had lasted almost two and a half years and thousands of photos!

2. We aren't finished yet. Apparently we are a lot older than we were last year, b/c last year it took us about a day to sand. This year TWO days of sanding, yep we paid the extra rental day fee. So we have one more coat of poly to do tonight, then before we move furniture back we are suppose to wait 72 hours. Mind you EVERYTHING from the entryway, dining room and sitting room is stuffed into the living room and the guest room, ohhhh and kitchen (glassware and alcohol), deeming the kitchen fairly useless.

And I am ape crazy about putting up the christmas tree! Not to mention going bat-y b/c to get into the livingroom I have to squeeze between a couch and a wall. Anywho, we are getting a new camera tonight, and tomorrow I'll post some pictures of the floor.