I Hate To Be The One...

but I did not love Twilight the movie; now the books...phenomenal! Curt and I went and about 45 minutes into it I looked at him and said this is kind of "hokey" isn't it; he agreed. And then when Edward started to glisten and sparkle because he was in the sunlight; I was like if I hadn't read these books I wouldn't know what all the hub-bub was about! Towards the end though when James and his crew came around I enjoyed it a bit more; I thought the actress who played Bella was wonderful, and it made me like/appreciate Edward more than I did when reading the books. As we were leaving Curt said that it did make him want to read the books so maybe it was me coming in with too high expectations. I'm sorry to be the one; but I'd only give it *** stars.

Black Friday

Black Friday shopping is as much of a tradition as Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house. My mother, sister, and I scour the ads at least 3 times; once for fun, once again to pick out the must-haves or must-gets, and then a last time to get serious and make a plan! We were out at 4:30 in the morning and had a great morning; not too crowded; not too pushy; just right! We got home around 1:45 and from there I took an almost three hour nap ;sleeping through the doorbell and the phone ringing for some catch-up sleep! I can't wait till next year's day after shopping!

Christmas Decorations

My nieces came over for a few hours this afternoon and helped us decorate for Christmas. Granted the decorating took an hour at most including the tree as we don't have a lot of decorations and we don't have a lot of space to even put decorations! So that's why the nativity scene is atop the microwave but for me it's a must to have the Nativity out during the Christmas season; goofy locale or not!

Curt and I with the doggies by the tree; our stockings hung from the window ledge with care.

Our Christmas tree in all it's shiny glory and the carefully placed Nativity Scene.

The girls had a lot of fun setting the nativity up and remebering the characters and parts they have played in our church's Christmas program.

Deer Update

So Curt got a deer right away on Saturday and then no other action for the rest of the weekend. He is home now and will leave again on Wednesday evening with his crew of family men again for a longer weekend. He stopped at the butcher and ordered deer sausage, hot sticks, jerky, and ground meat. I've only had the deer sausage and that was okay so we'll see about this other stuff and how it will taste! Don't worry I won't put up any pictures of his deer.

Seen a llama lately?

Or ever? Friday afternoon I went out to the Falls to visit my good friend Melisa and her new baby twins, Ari and Caden, as well as the best older sister Darby. On the way I was stopped at a red light and looked to my right and right there was a woman walking a llama down the street ready to cross the intersection. This I have never seen so I snapped a picture out the car window! I wonder who thought the other was stranger; me taking a photo of her out my car window or her because she was walking a llama down a busy street in Menomonee Falls?????

Happy Birthday Mom and Jodi

Both my mother and sister had a birthday this past week (Jodi's the big 20-10!) so we got together and celebrated on Friday night with the family. Eating, playing games, and cupcakes make for a great Friday night! I bought mom tickets to go to the Fireside Christmas show for the weekend of Thanksgiving; or so I thought! Low and behold when she opened the envelope and read the date it's for today, November 22nd...not November 29th! Thankfully none of us were busy today and could go a week early! What a duh, should've had a V-8 moment on my part!

Deer Widow -- that's me

Curt left Friday afternoon from work to go deer hunting with his family; in one cabin is his uncle, two cousins, close friend, and his father. Another house on the land has two other uncles, an aunt, and another cousin. I am home as a deer widow! So my sister and mother and myself are heading out to Johnson Creek Outlet Mall and then to the Fireside Theatre for their Christmas Revue show!

It's a ...

Girl!

We had our 2nd trimester ultrasound yesterday and saw a healthy baby. Being our first, neither of us realized how long this ultrasound would be; but it was a great 45 minutes of watching and smiling. The ultrasound tech said that we had a well-behaved baby because she kept positioning herself nicely for the shots and angles she needed. Right now she is about 8 inches and 9 ounces with a heartbeat of 143. Me; I'm up about 7 pounds so far so I'm happy with that considering we are halfway there but now I know let the gaining and growing begin!

Merry Christmas!?!?!?

I've tried to contain the holiday cheer but I can't do it any longer! I admit that I have been listening to Christmas music in the car and the only reason I don't have lights outside is that it's been so cold the past week or so! Curt is leaving to go hunting so I have my dad lined up to get a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving! I am halfway done Christmas shopping too! Usually I do it all "Black Friday" and wrap it too but I'm on the ball a little more this year. However, I bet there's tons of you shopped and wrapped and waiting! (Melisa!!!) So here's to the Christmas spirit with a new blog background! Maybe I can have Christmas music playing; Rachel can I have more than one playlist?

Congratulations Trisha and Jeremy

Trisha with Jeremy after the ceremony

Trisha with her dad coming down the aisle

Saturday was one of my good friend's wedding! She was absolutely stunning and had a beautiful wedding. Here are a few pictures of her at the church but I didn't get many more than that. She was calm and collected and was having a blast the whole day. It makes me miss my wedding! (Yes I know Maria, I will always miss my wedding; I'll get over it one day!)

I SAW IT........

Gas for $1.99 a gallon on corner of Capital Dr. and Hwy 100!

Sleeping Beauty

Tonight Curt and I spent quality time together; I typed up a document to send into the state eucation department to help Mt. Mary get DPI approval and he napped on the big chair in the computer room. One of the things that I love about us is that we like to be a

round each other even if we aren't necessarily doing the same thing.

That's Mulligan curled up with him... Don't they look comfy?

Random Picture

Here is a picture of my sister Jodi and my brother's two girls. I don't know where this picture is from or when but I don't know if my sister has ever made it onto the blog so here she is...Jodi Ellen!

New Addition to the Family!!!

No not ours, Curt's parents. Curt's mom and dad got a new dog last weekend from the same breeder that Bogey and their current dog Max is from. That makes four miniature daschunds in the family! This one's name is Emmitt and it is the biggest out of all of them but seems to have a personality like Bogey, playful but snuggly and relaxed in attitude. They got another dog because their first dog Max would sit by itself all day and not interact with them alot but whenever our dogs came around he began to open up more and play more often. So Curt's parents decided to get another one! Here he is... Emmitt Mutz!

Cute Puppy

Our white dog Bogey is a character. Since we got the new couch we have not been allowing the dogs to come up like we did on the old couch. So we bought them a bed that they could share. Mulligan loves this bed and will lay in it for hours at night sleeping. Bogey on the other hand doesn't stay put too long; too much to explore in our teeny tiny house. In this photo he was inching his way out... cute to us but probably lame to all of you but we love these puppies!

Public Musuem

On Friday afternoon, my sister, my mother, and I all went to the public musuem to tour the Titanic exhibit. It was a nice exhibit but none of us were overly impressed. The Titanic and its story is interesting enough on its own for me and what I saw did not get me more interested. Tough critic I guess. While we were waiting for our time to enter the exhibit we went to visit the butterflies. One landed on my mom on its own and I of course was like one of the kids and picked one off of a tree; with my finger under its legs not by the wing though! It was another fun afternoon with just the girls!