Santa Baby

Is it sad that I feel compelled to keep you all updated on us with photos of our pet?...and our little Charlie Brown tree which just so happened to be also a great deal.

We're getting ready for the holiday season here. We finished ALL of our Christmas shopping. Yes, secret santa schtuff included because we are THAT impressive. Also, it turns out that my mom is going to be working on THE Eve, which means that I will be making the traditional Akin cioppino this year. Mmm! Beware: there will be a lot of cooking and cleaning this year, and Nolan is not excluded from THOSE kinds of festivities ;)

Work is winding down, and we're going to be short-staffed the next three weeks, which means we can wear jeans, listen to blaring Josh Groban christmas cds (heh), and decorate our desks.

Nolan has his final this Friday (tomorrow), and then he is officially on break! This is also very good news because it means a few things:
a.) he will have time to read Twilight
b.) he won't be stressed out as much, and will have time to study for boards
c.) he can help with the laundry/entertain Milo

That's all the excitement in our world for now. Until next time!
~A

Tree time!

It's that season again, and we've just finished our decorating, gift buying, christmas card sending, and tree chopping! We got our tree this last weekend, but since Nolan was busy studying for his final this weekend, I flew solo. We still managed to photoshop him into the picture successfully though, you can barely tell! See:


Soon I will add some pictures of Milo in his spanking new Santa suit (hah!), and give more holiday updates! For now, we are both excited about Christmas with the WHOLE family in Placerville, and for the new year and the new Presidential administration. We'll see what happens with this country, because right now it kind of feels like it's drowning in a pool of its own spit. Blech.

december: 80 degrees

Apparently it's now around 80 degrees almost everywhere. Even up in Oregon, it was baking all day long. What do we think: global warming or plain old psychopathic December weather that may result in a drought? I love me my California weather, but seriously...what about my scarves and warm coffees and mittens? 'Tis the season, indeed.

Since I write in here only about once a week or so, here is a photo-update of how we're doing :)

Ducks game at Cal


Thanksgiving feast!


Playing croquet...kind of


Our Christmas 2008 picture :)


Hope you enjoyed! There will be more to come! This weekend we pick out our Christmas tree! Happy Holidays!
~A