Category Archives: Weekends

Merry christmas!

December 25, 2012

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. We are in Oregon having a blast but I wanted to share a few photos from some holiday events and celebrations earlier this month.

-The trees at the conservatory in Volunteer park close to our home.

-What I ended up wearing to a Christmas party.

-A really big Christmas cactus.

-Walker and I celebrated our Christmas early this year since we were going to be out of town. He made meat pie ( a holiday tradition passed down by his grandfather), we drank wine, and opened gifts.

I’m going to take a short break from posting and let everyone enjoy the holidays, get some good relaxing time in, and get caught up on fun events and projects. I will see you all next Monday! Again, merry Christmas!

Christmas preparations

December 24, 2012

Today we’re on a bus heading to our Oregon Christmas. Before we could head out though we had a few things to do.

I mailed my last packages on Saturday afternoon and then we started to prepare for our trip. May I just say what a relief it is to be completely caught up. It didn’t last long but it sure felt good. I’ll taking a little break until after the first of the year and my body sure could use some heeling.

Next we had to wrap all the gifts we’re taking on our trip and start making all the goodies we are planning on sharing. On the list were ginger cookies, candied orange peels dipped in chocolate and as an added bonus chocolate covered pomegranate seeds. I’m so excited to share all of our hard work. It’s my favorite part of Christmas.

What have you done in preparation for this Christmas?

Snippets of my life lately

December 11, 2012

1. I talked Walker into trying a Mexican restaurant close to our place and we were quite pleased. The food was ok but the place was so cozy and the staff was so super nice. Walker was talking in Spanish to our waitress and I think she was pretty impressed. I practiced what little Spanish I could remember with him. It was pretty funny.

2. We made apple butter. Our canning was sketchy at best so I hope it doesn’t go bad.

3. Packages….oh so many.

4. I found a discarded rose head on the ground and rescued it.