I love Christmas time!

I am trying to get in the habit of posting here. I think it is a great way to keep in touch with people. We are so excited to be going home to Cali this month! We leave in 17 days!! We will be in Cali for a total of 8 days which will be really nice. We won't get a chance to see everyone. There just isn't enough time! We WILL be back next year though.

Thanksgiving was amazing. Alex and I stayed home and cooked for ourselves. We usually go to Kentucky to visit his mom, but it didn't work out that way this year. We were sad and missed them terribly, but we ended up having a really nice time. The whole day was amazing. I cleaned a little, watched a movie, took a bath, baked pies, and relaxed all while Alex played his video game. HA! We started cooking around 5. Alex fried a turkey (which was amazing)! We sat at our new table and enjoyed each other over dinner. It was truly amazing. I will have to post the picture I took of the table set up with the food. I know, I am a dork.

The day before (Wednesday), we decided to decorate for Christmas since we were going to Austin for the weekend. We decorated the tree and had our Christmas lights put up. Yes, we paid someone to do them. We won't do it again. It was nice not to have to worry about it all though! Here is how it turned out:

We really like the way it turned out. We also love the way our tree turned out!!

We still need to get a big bow for the top of the tree which we will do one of these days! I just keep forgetting every time I get to the store.

Friday morning we took a long drive to Austin. It took us about 6 hours I guess. It was actually a really nice drive. The first part wasn't all that great (it was flat and boring), but the last leg of the trip turned out to be amazing! Tons of trees, hills, and even some water! All the trees were turning colors, so it was really pretty. We got out and took a couple pictures in Llano which was this really amazing small town. I need to download the pictures from my camera and will post them here soon.

Once we got to Austin, we checked into our hotel which was beautiful!! Here is a picture of the lobby (we stayed at the Hilton Downtown):

The room was amazing too. We didn't hang out in the room much and headed over to 6th street which is similar to Downtown San Diego. Well, it reminded us of it a lot, but it was a little scummy. TONS of bar, bums and it kinda smelled like piss. haha!! It was neat looking though. I wish I would have taken more pictures from our trip. We walked up and down 6th trying to find a good place to eat and ended up at a really good tex-mex restaurant. After we had dinner we found this really cool place called the Alamo Draft House. It is a theatre and they serve alcohol!! I always thought they should have these and we found one! We watched JCVD. LOL. It is the latest Jean Claude movie that was mostly in French. It was weird, but pretty good. Alex loved it. The onllly problem with serving alcohol while watching a movie is the whole restroom thing. I had to get up a few times. I ended up missing a lot of the movie because the lines for the women's restroom was pretty long. Oh well.

After the movie Alex noticed that one of his friends Mc Lars was playing in town. So, we walked a few blocks away to some bar and watched him play. We ended up having a lot of fun and met a few people there who later took us to another bar. The night ended very late and many many beers later, but it was a blast.

Saturday we were just a little hunover, haha, and had to take his car to the Acura Dealership (we don't have one in Midland). We ended up walking to Sam's Club which was about a half mile away while we waited for the car and had a blast!!!! We were acting like little kids, laughing, and messing with each other.

After the car was done we headed to San Marcos for a day full of shopping at their outlet mall. It was insane. TONS and TONS of people!!!!!!!!!! It was okay though. We didn't go in a lot of the stores. I did wait in line to get into Victoria's Secret, ha! It was well worth the wait though because they were having some amazing sales.

That night we relaxed in the room and watched a movie. Well, Alex did -- I fell asleep, like always. The trip was all together amazing. The only bad part was the ticket Alex got on the way back for going 80 in a 70. Damn Sheriff.

Tomorrow is our office client Christmas party which should be fun. Free alcohol and food! Hell ya!

So much for keeping a blog!

Okay, so the last time I posted here was April. Whoa. I actually forgot I even started one until I posted a comment to my good friend Pete's blog. HA! That is just horrible. I should start keeping up with this thing!

Yesterday was my birthday. It was amazing. Alex spoiled me, as always. He got me a new Canon camera. We needed a new one so bad! The one we had wasn't horrible, just dated. The view screen was super tiny. It still took pretty good pictures, but it was also big and bulky. I am sure if you ask Alex, he will tell you we didn't need a new one...but I got my own now. ha!

My co-workers were amazing! I got to work and had a card from the firm on my desk which was really sweet. Jamie (the receptionist here at work and a good friend) got me a really cool picture frame, Leslie (my good friend) got me a gift card to one of the best salon/spas in Midland, Joe James for a one hour deep tissue massage - whoohooo! My boss got me a gift card to Pier One which was really sweet! Then for lunch, the entire firm went to Carino's for the Novemeber birthdays, which was kinda nice because it was ON my birthday!

Rick, our good friend came into town yesterday which was nice. He was there when I got home from work, so the three of us sat in the backyard and caught up a bit. We did a little bit of running around and then went to dinner which was amazing!!

Let's see if I can keep up with this blog thing. HA!!