The dig out

Here are a few more pics of my beautiful car, post-dig out. It started snowing again today, so you can see how my car's dealing with that. It's not looking pretty my friends. My car has definitely seen better days. So far I haven't freaked out. I'm sure it's coming!

Finished project

Since I was stuck inside all day, I decided to try a pattern that I got from one of my Ravelry friends to test knit. It's a design for a book of Twilight-inspired designs that the TKB group is putting together and is called the Isabella hat. I think it turned out really cute, and was super fast to knit up. I love it though. Thanks for the yarn mom!

Car disaster

Katie and I woke up this morning ready for a fun day of ice skating and (for me) a bridal shower. We were getting ready to hop outside when this site greeted our confused eyes:


In case you're not sure what you are looking at, this is what was left of our carport, and under that mound of snow sits our vehicles. My BMW and Katie's Trailblazer have had better days. We spent the last hour or so getting hold of our landlord (who had already been by and knew about it), and our insurance agencies to make claims. It's a great day!
Here's a link to the rest of the aftermath.

Fun with Carports

Finished project #2

I put my jury duty time to good use and got a good bit of my Anisette wrap I've been working on done. Add in some movie time while I'm stuck in my apartment, and you get a finished project. I haven't blocked it yet, but here are some pics so you can see how it turned out so far. I'll update later when my mom helps me get it perfect!

Fun with the goat

Katie and I were visiting my mom the other day while she was working on the goat ornament for her advent tree. While she was in her office blogging or working on her website or something fun like that, I decided to have some fun with her goat. How could anyone resist using the wooden hand really? Please note the Fragile leg lamp in the foreground! Good times, good times.

Happy 26th brother

It's hard to believe that 26 years ago today, we welcomed home our baby brother (finally dad got his wish). Who knew how much we would love our little Tonsy. You put up with your three older sisters torturing you, making you play all our cast-off roles, go diving in Cannon Hill Pond for a bike, being called Mer-girl baby, and being the only boy cousin (besides Kip, who ignored you like he did the rest of us). From winning the soccer State championship with his penalty kick to running his own Carquest store (a couple of times), the boy's done good!

Love you brother. I hope this year brings you happiness and health. Perhaps even back this way again!

Christmas decor

Megan inspired me with her beautiful Christmas decorations, so here's some pics of our pretty apartment! I love this time of year too Megs. My favorite is the mismatched tree decorations. I love a million different ornaments that have no reason to be together on my tree!

Uncle Chuck

Katie and I headed out to the Naval station on Sunday to watch our uncle Chuck's change of command ceremony. It was pretty cool actually. He's been the commander of his Reserve unit for the last two years, and is now moving up to a new command/duty...I'm not totally sure what it is except that he will be based out of Honolulu, but will be able to report out of Washington, so no move! Here are a couple of pictures from the event. The sign was from the stations fence-line (a little going away present from his men).

Sorry for the non-posting!

As with all teachers, the weeks leading up to Christmas seem to be the busiest time of the year. I'm busy trying to get our research papers finished, and keep my students focused on school when their minds are clearly on snow not school. I have most of my vacation dedicated to grading at this point. Oh well. There are worst things I could be doing.

In fact, I have been doing worst things, I got assigned jury duty this week! Could the timing be any worse?! I spent the last two days sitting on a jury for a weapons possession case (of course I got picked... did you expect anything else?). It was an interesting case, and we found the young man not-guilty. Now hopefully, I can get back to my classroom and do some teaching. I'll know after 5:30. So that's my week. Hope yours is a bit more joyful!

Happy Thanksgiving

So Mom, Katie and I trekked over to Seattle for Thanksgiving weekend. Needless to say, good times were had by all. We braved the chaos that is the family dinner at Mimi's house (too small and too fun). BZ saved the day with her quick run to the store for Potato Buds when we discovered no one had brought mashed potatoes. It was so fun catching up with the cousins, aunts and uncles, Mimi, and family friends. And oh my goodness those babies are getting too big!

We stayed with Auntie Sue. Katie and I got to give the new hide-a-bed it's maiden voyage. Our backs survived somewhat intact. We braved Bellevue Square on Saturday (no Black Friday for us) and found some cute stocking patterns (stay tuned for the finished project), and a little Christmas shopping. Our adventures ended with a stop at the Davis "cabin" on our way home and a quick visit with Zaide and Baba, Ryan, Megs, and Hadley. What could be better? We even let mom stop at Vinnie's on our way home.

I hope that your Thanksgiving was as blessed and happy as ours was! Thanks for the amazing time family. You make it hard to stay on the East side of the state.