Christmas time?

As you all know, I hate it when Christmas decorations go up before Thanksgiving. Although, not so much when it happens at people's houses, more the commercial decorations. When we went to Twilight on Friday, Riverfront Squares Christmas tree was already up and a choir was there singing Christmas Carols, and the weekend before when Katie, mom and I went downtown, too many stores were already playing Christmas music. I guess it's just the commercialism of it all. I hate that they start with Christmas earlier and earlier so that they can get people to buy more stuff.

With that said, I am starting to think about Christmas presents for family and friends. Even if we weren't on an economic downturn, my feelings on presents is to buy and receive less. I'd much rather spend time with family and friends, or get something small but meaningful then just get stuff. I already know how much you all mean to me and what I mean to you. Isn't that what Christmas is about? Sharing in God's love with each other. Being reminded of what a gift the love of others really is. I don't need a present to tell me that.

So this year, look for gifts that show how much you love and appreciate each other instead of ones that fill up the empty bottom of the tree. Your hearts and mine will be much fuller for the change.

Twilight/ Women's weekend

This has been an eventful weekend for me: Twilight and hanging out at Pend Oreille River with the girls. Fun movie, People's sexiest men issue, a pedi, and gossiping with the girls...what could be better? Here are a couple pics from the festivities

Thanksgiving '08

Well, it's official. Today Katie and I convinced L-dine to go with us to Seattle for Thanksgiving. We can't wait for four glorious days with our family and friends. Get ready for some crazy fun people. The Longinotti-Kynaston's are headed to you.

Twilight

OK, I know it's totally dorky, especially if you aren't a fan of the books, but I am soooo excited for the Twilight movie to come out next Friday. Every time I see a new trailer for it, I get a little thrill in the pit of my stomach. This is definitely on par with a Harry Potter movie for me. I can't wait to go with my girls (yes, we've made a girl's night out of it).

So anyway, here's a couple of the newer trailers they've released. You can get a little taste of what is making me antsy! And if you haven't read the book yet, you should. It is really a fantastic love story with quite a bit of adventure!

Election Night '08

So Katie decided that we needed to host an election night party at our new digs so that we would get our act together and put our stuff away.  As much as I hate to admit it, she had a great plan.  I posted a photo album on the right so you could see the fun.  We definitely love the new place as much as we love that Obama won!

Party at the Reed's

My Halloween fun continued on Saturday night when my friends Monica and Dustin hosted their annual Halloween extravaganza.  The costume I had ordered ended up too small; luckily Katie saved my bacon by letting me borrow her scandalously short flapper costume.  I got tons of compliments on it, so I owe Katie big-time.  Here are some photos of my favorite costumes and people from the night.

Dave, Nate, and Kathryn

Todd the transformer

Before:

After:

 

Kathryn dressed as the sit and be fit lady from PBS:

                   

Erin and me:

          

Michael Phelps (funniest/creepiest costume of the night):

Halloween Fun

So Katie and I decided to go over to my mom's on Halloween to help hand out candy.  We figured no sane parent was going to let their children trick-or-treat in Browne's Addition.  We had fun watching Bravo's 100 greatest Horror movie moments and checking out the little kids costumes that came to our door.  But things really took off when we discovered the wooden hand that Aunt Sue gave to mom last weekend to use for shaping gloves and mittens.  We discovered that the bendy fingers were good for something other then flipping each other off.  And the fun began.  I haven't laughed that hard in some time.  We all had tears in our eyes as we played with the hand and watched the t-or-t-ers react to the creepy wooden hand.  Here's some pics of our fun!