Christmas is here

I was so anxious to get back to the beach to spend time with Scott on Sunday after not seeing him over Thanksgiving! Imagine my total excitement to arrive home and find my Christmas tree up and ready to decorate :-) Thank you so much Scott!!!!!!!! Here's the final product.......

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving

The beginning of the holiday season was wonderful this year. I got to spend an amazing 4 days at home relaxing and enjoying my family. Wednesday was dinner out, then home to watch some TV and get some Thanksgiving menu items together. Thursday was filled with cooking, TV watching, sale paper perusing, and eating. Friday started out at 5 a.m. at Target and Kohls, then we regrouped back home and all went to the mall, then Mom and Amanda went home to nap while Dad, Matt and I continued shopping. By 4:30 p.m., Mom, Amanda, and I were ready for a little post shopping relaxation courtesy of my dad. We had facials at the Red Door Spa in Richmond and got home at 7:30 to crash. Saturday we watched football and went to look at Christmas lights. It was very hard to leave and even harder to go to work today!!!!

Callie playing with her favorite toy from Grampy

Helping Grammy cook

Training her early :-)

Ready to eat

My mom is AMAZING!!!!!!!

Meet Millie

Scott and I went to the VT vs. NC State game this past weekend, but swung by Staunton on the way to see his parents and meet their newest addition to the family, Millie.

Millie is a 10 week old Miniature Labradoodle and is cute as can be. She looks like a little stuffed animal and feels like one too. She's learning how to hop up the stairs like a bunny and she already has the fetching down. I know Scott and his brothers are going to have a blast with her over Thanksgiving. On Saturday at 9:00, Animal Planet is has a show called Dogs 101 and they will be covering Labradoodles. Look out for Millies dad, Oscar, to be mentioned....... She's the daughter of a celebrity :-)

Doesn't she look like a little stuffed animal!!!!!

All Cute and Snuggly :-)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Since I'm going to be gone the next 3 weekends and spending Christmas at the Beach this year, I thought it would be best to get started this past weekend with my decorating. Unfortunately, I did it in a t-shirt with my screen door open cause it was in the mid 70's- I still played the Christmas music station though. Here's a picture of the VT tree in my office. The big tree will go up tonight or tomorrow since I always need assistance with that monster.

I've also been stopping by to see Matt, Amanda, the boys, and Callie a lot recently. She gets even more adorable every day and is doing so many new things. She's almost figured out crawling although she loves to stand so much that in order to move she tries straightening one leg which causes her to topple to one side and end up in a seated position. She can pull herself up in her crib like it's nothing by grabbing the rails. She's all about the cats and I know she's going to be a little terror once she gets the crawling down. There are many other exciting things going on that I don't want to spoil for grammy and grampy on the blog so you'll have to wait until after Thanksgiving break to get those updates :-)

Halloween

Halloween turned out to be a last minute event....... Scott didn't find out until Monday what his rotation schedule was going to be, so until I knew he was coming, i planned on being a German Beer Girl thanks to my roomie letting me borrow her costume from last year. Scott had planned to be a German Baker in honor of his Grandpa Schmeissing, but the costume didn't come together. SOOOOOOO........ swine flu it was. I ran out Saturday morning and bought pink t-shirts- yes, i bought them- no, Scott did not already own his contrary to many of his friends jokes!!!! I sewed on the H1 and N1, made myself some hooves and piggy ears, and made us both piggy tails. Then, for a last minute accessory we added a bottle of purrell hand sanitizer around our necks. We had a blast going out down at the ocean front with Mary, Pat, Harrison and the old gang. It was an early night since Scott had worked the day and night before and morning of Halloween, but we packed lots of dancing and picture taking into our evening :-)

October

October was a fun filled month of traveling. I went to the VT game and spent time with Kathleen, Lauren, Coleman, and Harrison. Lauren and Kathleen haven't sent pictures yet so I had to make one of my own...........

Then the next weekend I went to D.C. to stay with Krista since I have to work this weekend and won't be able to make her baby shower :-( We had a great weekend consisting of dinner with Jen on Friday, a visit to the Rash's Saturday afternoon, and homemade dinner and a sleep over Saturday night with Kathleeny, Rash, and Krista.

The next weekend I flew back to Chicago. Scott and I went to his grandparents house for dinner Thursday night when I landed. Then we woke up early Friday to go to breakfast with Isaiah, Greg, and Ebanita and started the 14 hour drive back to Staunton. Saturday evening we went to a wedding of two of Scott's friends. His dad did the ceremony and the reception was at JMU. After Church and lunch with his parents on Sunday, we drove back to the Beach.

That's the fast and brief review of the past month. I'm on my way to Matt's right now to watch the world series so the Halloween post and pictures will have to wait until tomorrow ;-)