Day 164 ~ Turning a new page...

One of my new goals is to read a new book every week, so every Monday I have to be on a new book!   I know I need to pass up my remote and my controller for the exbox that holds many of my shows, for something more productive now and then and forcing my way through new books is how I'm going to start!  So the point of today's picture is that I'm putting my book first instead of the tv as you can see the remote and controller behind it!  This is the first book probably in over a year that I've read that isn't an Amish fiction book :)  It's a bit to adjust to since I am used to the simple lilt of the Amish ways.... i.e. there is cursing in this book, could do without that... but all in all it's a good challenge!

Day 162 (Saturday January 8th) ~ The Red Carpet!

Tonight was Nate's company holiday party!  The theme was "red carpet" and when you got there you checked your coats in and then walked down a red carpet at the end of which you stopped and got your picture taken!  We were the only ones at our table for a long time, but then Nate's coworkers from his team started showing up!  Chrissy is my age and she was a lot of fun to meet.  This year was so cool because they actually had dancing :)  I wore a pretty black dress!  They put our pictures in frames for us to take and this is the table and our pictures :)  Chrissy and I danced the night away and it was such a great time, even the founders and president of the company were dancing!  Only negative of the night is when we got out, it was absolutely freezing outside while we waited for the valet to bring our car up! Otherwise, fabulous night :)

Day 163 ~ Anchors Away

Today was Lyndsay's going away party as she leaves on Wednesday for Navy bootcamp!
I confess I did not take these pictures.... Lyndsay's dad did.  He is the far superior picture taker number one, and number two with all the craziness in there I didn't want to add to it by asking to get one on my camera!  But this is an important event in our lives and thus it must be documented :)

Lyndsay with her friends who were still at the party at the time this was taken.  Her rommate from college, Lauren, was also there but had left a while before.  I really love how we're all placed in this picture, I don't think that was planned either, just turned out awesome looking like that!

      The anchor that, according to her younger sister Melodie, has now replaced Lyndsay in the family ;)

Lyndsay's family!

Day 161 ~ Hermit Crab now has play toy :)

Day 160 (Thursday January 6th) ~ This girl knows me....

Christmas presents from Erika!

The address book was a complete surprise.... I literally needed a new one and was just randomly making that my facebook status!  She must have seen it and bought me one and how perfect are the colors!  I <3 her!

Day 159 ~ Meet ZhuZhu!

I think I was more fascinated by Kateri's Christmas presents than my own :)  Kateri loves this thing, and when she tips over, she gets all sad and hugs her!  Last I checked, hamsters don't bark like a dog, honk like a car horn, or ride in boats.... but Zuzu does! And she's awesome.  Kateri will hold her up to me and say "is ZhuZhu!" practically all day long.  Such entertainment... ZhuZhu gets stuck under the couch a lot because she's not to bright about the whole moving forwards thing when needed!

Day 158 ~ We match Part II :)

Kateri also got a Bumble bee pillow pet for Christmas :)  She calls it Bumbee and when she dances, she now goes and finds her bumbee and dances with it!  She's such a goof! I am easily amused by the fact that a 2 and a 24 year old both have the same things, knitted items AND a pillow pet!