Sunday, November 28, 2010

Have I mentioned I like to eat?

Happy Thanksgiving! RJB and I have continued with our tradition - Turkey Trot in the morning, dinner with the in-laws in the evening, then out to FdL for our second round of turkey lovin'.

Mom with her bird

Dad doing the honors of surgically breaking down Mom's bird


It was good times all around though I cannot believe Christmas is right around the corner! Hopefully work will let up a bit so I can enjoy my favorite time of year! 

RJB and I continue to make home improvements. The third plumber was a charm in fixing our forever leaking faucets, a home theater (or something) guy is mounting our TVs this week, we purchased some uber cool and modern fixtures (lamp and bookcase to hold TV components), and are in the market to buy more furniture. We are selling my old TV stand and arm chair and plan on replacing the chair with some goodies from Design Within Reach. Thank goodness RJB also likes mid-century modern design.  Nonetheless, we are making progress but as we bring in new furniture, our old stuff looks bulky. Perhaps this is all part of the consumerism plot to get people to buy more. 

We are still considering whether or not we will put up a tree this year.  I noticed that a lot of people in our area have their decorations already up.  Not sure if they are really motivated or just taking advantage of no snow and abnormally warm weather.  I, however, am currently too lazy to open my Christmas decoration boxes. :-(

Tomorrow is the much awaited doctor's appointment for Dad. Cross your fingers and pray for a big zero on the test results!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Yee Haw

A few weeks ago the gals met in Austin for a brief (too brief!) weekend visit. ADF got a fancy new camera and was our weekend photographer...enjoy!

Fun at CCs



At Salt Lick. ADF asked some poor guy to take
about 50 shots of us like this. In a way, it is a little creepy family photo-ish...


As it turns out, Salt Lick is BYOB, so while we
waited, we took care of a nice bottle of red.


KH and YM...hee hee hee



The glorious meat


Walking around a lake downtown. no idea what lake it is. 


Dressed up for Sushi..again, we are all prepped for staged family photos! FYI, I was the only one in flats; I'm not really THAT short.