Tree decorating

My dog helped decorate the tree....

We got some fabric and cut it into stripes and then braided it for tree decor. Aveen helped braid, too!


This is the finished product. We used a real skirt for the tree skirt and put a few lights. It's fun to look at in our cozy living room.
Rachel and Cristi enjoying some couch time together at our chili night. Both are so beautiful!!

My best friend and my's traditional christmas pic in front of the tree, only this year with puppies and babies.

Rach gets cuter everyday, and now she's cooing and making sounds.

disclaimer--I'm not obsessed with Aveen or Rachel, I promise, even though these blog posts might reveal other wise. They just seem to be the only objects of my pictures lately. And in general bring a lot of life and laughter to my daily life. So I like them.

Thanksgiving

Well, thanksgiving is over for 2010. I had 4 different Thanksgiving dinners this year, wow. I'm kinda tired of the mushies. I had one at the Feast, one with the Espinosas' core group, one with my lifegroup, and one with my family. But it was great food and family and thankfulness. I am blessed, that is for sure!

I gotta say, my family has some great cooks!

I dediced, though, that we need a designated "monitor" that stands in the door way and regulates your portions before eating a huge paper plate mountain full of food and becoming totatlly uncomfortable afterwards. I mean we all ate our mountains of food, and then were like pre-hospital admittance-full for the next 4 hours. Stupid. Who can be that person that says "too much mashed potatoes, put a scoop of green bean casserole back, you need about half that much turkey".... maybe I'll do that next year.

haha.

I had fun being with family, as always.

Dfoo and I went out for ice cream... we've been on a Paciugo kick lately (italian gelato shop). They usually have really weird flavors in their rotation like orange basil ice cream, carmalized maple bacon ice cream, or Black sesame ice cream.

But we stuck with traditional "good" flavors and got chocolate turtle, peanut butter crunch, and Bailey's.

And this is a funny video of Aveen playing in a leaf pile in my back yard. She's so cute! Until she started choking and had to pause for a cough fit.

November

Sweet November.

Has it been sweet? hahah, I guess so. It's been crazy that's for sure. My life is sooo dramatic, when did that happen? I feel like there's is always something to be "figuring out".

But I'd prefer it that way. Life is unwritten! So full of surprises, full of circumstances that you'd never imagined. Life at 26 is different than what I thought it would be, how much more so the future will be!

I don't have many pictures to post, because I've been in survivor mode--- not really taking a whole lot of pictures, not really blogging, not really communicating with anyone except for those in front of me. (sorry anyone else! I do miss you!)

But I've moved into a new house!

And I have a new job that's fun and allows me to be creative and organized and peaceful. I work at a store called 201 Collective in downtown Waco. It's for sure the trendiest and cutest place to get clothes in Waco. It's fun because I get to dress up for work, by whatever inspires me that day. When I get dressed in the morning, I just never know what I'll end up coming up with for the day. And they encourage me to grab something off the hanger and wear it at the store for the day, which is so fun! I get shop and play dress up! And then of course, I find some amazing Summer Ellis earrings to go with the outfit.

I'm watching myself on wanting too much.... expressive and original clothes and jewelry, uh-oh, my debit card is in trouble!

This is a odd picture, but it's the only recent on I have! My friend Maegan had a 1920's Murder Mystery costume party. We all had to dress up accordingly. I was Mrs. Toosteal, wife of a Congressman. I didn't kill anyone or get killed, so I cam out pretty well. But I am pictured just two left of the murderer!