Sunday, November 30, 2008

A great Thanksgiving


We made it through our first Thanksgiving in our home. We were joined by Nick's parents, Barb and Mike, from Fresno and Josh and Erin from here in Riverside. The actual meal was really good and we had a really nice time with everyone.
The early part of the week was a bit more trying. The whole preceding weekend, I was baking, cooking and cleaning, which gave the week a slow start. Then, I worked Monday through Wednesday 8-7, though a bit unecessarily. After coming home from work and eating, I proceeded to cook and clean more. Oh yeah-and on top of all of this, Sierra had massive diarhea making us get up numerous time in the night for checks and bathroom breaks, and clean-up, if needed. So, by the time Thursday got here, we both were dead tired. Sierra is doing much better now. We think she picked something up the weekend before at the clinic when she was spayed.
Friday I picked up a new Christmas tree at Lowe's and made a trip to Michael's with Barb. We also went downtown Riverside and walked around the Mission Inn and downtown area. We also had a tour of Nick's work. Saturday we did more of the same and went out to eat at BJs. Today, I have been taking it easy and putting up some Christmas decorations.
I can't believe it's only 3.5 weeks until Christmas! I have done zero gift shopping, so I have a feeling everyone will be getting gift certificates and/or online gifts! I also will be doing some Christmas baking, but not as much as usual, as we are going to be in Fresno.
I hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving!

Monday, November 17, 2008

New projects, fires, and extra hours


Sorry about the lack of blogging lately, but I have been working a lot of extra hours and haven't been too motivated to do much on the weekends. Nick has done a number of projects including installing a new faucet, putting together a kitchen cart and tiling our master bathroom. Both have turned out very nice (see pictures).
The fires came fairly close to us the past weekend, about 30 minutes away. I didn't even know there was a third fire until I was driving down the hill from our house and looked toward LA and saw a huge orange blaze. We didn't have any smoke because of the Santa Anas, which is one good thing. A few of my patients had to evacuate their homes, but they were able to return last night. Hopefully, things will calm down. We really need some cooler weather and some rain.
We are really getting excited about Thanksgiving. We will be having it at our house with Nick's parents and friends Josh and Erin. I am so excited to eat some turkey!!!