Our first snow of the year today! Quite a bit later down here in Oklahoma than it was in Colorado.
Very exciting!

Christmas Pictures

Hey all!  The tree is up, the mantle is decorated, and so is the porch.  We're all set for christmas, and only a little ridiculously early.  We'll be leaving for home on the 20th, so we got started early in anticipation of cleaning it up before we leave so that people can come see and hopefully rent our beautiful house!  here are the highlights:

First, a throwback to thanksgiving.  Our menu consisted of a Butterball Turkey Roast with light and dark meat, Stove-Top Stuffing (because if I'm not stuffing a bird, I'm darn sure not making it myself), Green-Bean Casserole, Mashed Potatoes, apple sauce and gravy.  The roast took 3 hours, the rest took about 1/2 hour, so it was about the easiest thanksgiving dinner ever.  Here's the table all set and some action shots:

Moving on, we also got our tree and decorated the house.  We drove all the way down to Oklahoma City for a 'choose-and-cut' tree farm.  It was adorable, but apparently all that grows down here are Pine trees, no traditional fir trees, so we end up buying a pre-cut fir that was brought in from North Carolina.  The tree itself is gorgeous, but it was still amusing.  We brought it back, gave the cats a little time to get used to it (they spent most of that time learning to protect it, like last year) and the next day took to decorating.  It's a little smaller than last year, so we have a bunch of unused ornaments.  Here, again, are the highlights (mostly):

     

Enjoy, there'll be one more coming once we get pictures of our obnoxio-dorable porch!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Normally I would refrain from putting this on here.. because I'm afraid of stalkers.. but it's so pretty!

(Yes, and thank you to Amy and John for doing most of it before we got there!)


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December

The next 2 months will be crazy, but in a good way. Let's ignore the next like 20 years for now ;)
Depart Enid: Dec 20th
In MD until Christmas Day
DE from Christmas Day until early on Dec 30
Eastern Shore Jan 2-3
Dayton 4-5 (look for housing)
Enid 6-12
Back to Dayton!

Our moving day is Monday, January 12th.
Put up our Christmas tree yesterday. It's super beautiful. Thank you to Kate and Eric for driving with us to pick it out and get a Chipotle fix!
I'll get some pictures up soon.