Turkey was so 4 days ago, bring on Christmas!!

What a wonderful four days off from work (or in Ben's case, 3) It was so wonderful not having any worry or thoughts about work during that time! Thanksgiving morning we went on a walk around Green lake with Jessie, Mark & James-o. Not as crowded as a sunny day in the summer, but still busy enough to have some quality people/dog watching.



After some cooking (we were in charge of mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and cranberry jello) we headed over to Jessie's for a feast. Everything was so delicious, we all definitely learned about the potent nature of mustard sauce. I think we all had a moment where our face turned bright red & our nostrils ignited. We are already out of leftovers- that creole stuffing never lasts long enough!


Friday morning Ben & I braved the early morning shopping and went to Office Depot. It was surprisingly not as vicious as I thought it would be. No pushing, running or stealing from other customers! We were able to get evertyhing that we wanted- a web cam, dvd player, wireless router & an external hard drive. Ben had to go to work on Friday, so I did some more shopping with my sister & cleaned our house.

Saturday we set off on the adventure of getting our first Christmas tree! I have to say, I think we might have scored the best one out there! We didn't quite judge the height of our ceiling very well, so we had a flashback of the movie Christmas vacation where the tree was bent at the ceiling because it was so tall. After some sawing, it fit just perfectly.
Here's some pictures of our new living room furniture, plus our tree!!