so bring me some figgy pudding..

Another fun weekend! Friday night we headed down town for the great figgy pudding caroling contest with some of our community group friends! Unfortunately, we didn't judge traffic on a Friday night into downtown, so we crawled along the freeway and got downtown around 7:15- right at the end of the caroling. We were also pretty hungry so we ended up eating in the food court & caught the end of the carol-off on the stage. Next year, we'll pack some food and leave about 40 min. earlier :) Pics to be posted later..

Saturday Ben & I split up and did some of our Christmas shopping- I ended up returning some of my impulsive buys that weren't so great after I got them home. Sat. night we had Ben's old college roommate over for dinner. We had a wedding gift for them that was long overdue to give to them (about 7 months) They are expecting their first baby in two weeks, so we also got them a little fuzzy outfit! It was fun to catch up with them and eat some tasty food. We discovered that Trader Joe's makes chocolate covered jo jos.. needless to say, the entire container was devoured in a matter of a day (we'll blame it on our dinner guests :)

We finally got our Tivo hooked up, and we have been enjoying lots of Christmas movies. So far we've watched Christmas Vacation, Home Alone & the Grinch. I was bummed when we went to watch Miracle on 34th street and it was a version from the 70's!

Tonight we're going caroling at a senior center with Jessie's community group, and tomorrow we're having some friends from community group over to dinner. I need to go shopping! It is supposed to snow here on Friday/Saturday, so that should be fun. Nothing like the high being 32 degrees!!

ps- today I got to work and had this sitting on my chair .


Inside? A beautiful silver cross.