Congrats!

Congrats, Chaz and Lena. That is SO exciting! Your family sure is growing fast.

Well, i had "christmas" with Drew last night and it was really great. I came home and he had cleaned my apartment, candles were lit and he cooked me dinner. He gave me a cleaver and a paring knife that I wanted. He stuffed my stocking with Kraft singles and CD. I was so excited. Then we watched love actually. Cheesy I know but it was really cute. He leaves today for 3 1/2 weeks to colorado :-(

Cant wait for the holidays. xoxo

The GOOD News! the bad news.

Well, the GOOD NEWS IS:

Is it an Anna Lisa or a Freddy? At this point, we only know it isn't twins. Thank God for that.

The bad news is that Lena and the kids will not make the wedding Lu. I will be attending by myself. It is just too close to the due date. I am so sorry.

Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. I am in holiday mode, ie go in late and leave early. Football by the fire. Cooking all my favorite dishes. Etc... That along with a few long weekends, some time off to go skiing, and a week in the Caribbean makes for not such a tough winter.

Of course, we have a few other things to plan too. Like getting a new car, adding on to the house, etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...

I am on a roll. Watch out Lyd.

Love to all.

May-hee-ko

Well, I AM jealous that Magoo's in Mexico. I'd kill to get out of this freezing cold weather. Poor Drew was up all night cause his upstairs neighbor had a leak at 3:30 am and came dripping down into his bathroom and it was a mess. Oh, to be a homeowner... So he must be tired today. Work is super busy this week which is tough cause everyone is in holiday mode. I am excited to go home for Christmas. Plan on eating a lot of sandwiches from Guignes and cooking. Lucille and I have some killer reservations in the city so we will have lots of girl time. Drew leaves on Thursday for 3 1/2 weeks. It's so frustrating cause I stay here and work and miss him and he's off skiing all over Colorado and having a blast. I got all my holiday gifts out the door and I am pretty proud at how on top of it I was this year. We certainly have a lot more people to shop for this year. I feel like between in laws and children our family has doubled. So sorry if you guys aren't getting major presents but all these people get expensive!

Too Many Communication Avenues!!!!!!!!!!

I just can't keep up with e-mail, 2 blogs, a cell phone and facebook!!! Jesus, it is a full time job! Very Christmasy around here. It is colder than I can remember so that helps. Not quite what you all have in Chicago though. My kids would die for snow, but the sky is clear. It is cold enough though. Baker had his school Christmas concert this morning and class party. Mom went and I think she was ready to shoot herself after. She was hysterical. She has been incredible, it will be depressing when she leaves on Thursday. We have shaken things up a bit this Christmas. We are going to be here for eve and day, then going to Chapel Hill on the 26th. We are having about 20 adults and 20 children for Christmas Eve after church for Dill's Oysters. Should be great. We are going Ice Skating this weekend. Hopefully Dad is coming this weekend, but I have not hear d from him yet. Can't believe Lucille in Mexico. Not jelous of the Mexico part, but am very jelous of Justin's thoughtfullness of putting it all together, talking to her boss etc. That is so wonderful. Miss all.

Well, well, well

Hello Everyone! It's been a real busy week at work and I am so happy to have returned to the states with no jet lag. All you gotta do is make yourself stay up on the way back and you are golden.

Tonight is the night that Drew is taking me to Sepia, the restaurant that I have been dying to go to. I am wearing my fun gold dress and i am really looking forward to it. Today he dropped off flowers at my office and a gift card for a cooking school. He does know me.

Tomorrow we are going to go up north and see the brown's and drop off presents at Chaz's. Then, we are going to Kage's big hockey game which we are really excited for. Alex is home from school so we will see her, too.

I am on the holiday party circuit and boy am I tired. I LOVE all my new work friends. They are so fun and I feel like I have made some great new friends. I am really loving my job but I still have a lot of learning to do. I am getting better slowly and sometimes I get frustrated.

Looking forward to CA for xmas. Love to all

Hi Guys! Happy Holidays! So I have bragged repeatedly about having completed my XMAS shopping early. What I guess I forgot about was that it doesn't help much if you don't get around to wrapping them. So, despite my early start, I am sure I will still be FedExing everything to you guys to get them there in time. Oh well. What's more, we are down to the wire on getting out our XMAS cards but they should be in the mail on Sunday. Always the rebel, we emblazened them with Merry Christmas. So tired of all this PC nonsense. I know even my Jewish friends will appreciate the conviction.

Lizzie, those pics looked amazing. I can't wait to hear about your trip. Hope to see you on Sunday.

Lu, Justin must be quite busy. I know when I saw you guys last that I said Obama had a good chance. He's looking even stronger now. Thank God. I can't stand Hilary. Of course what I worry about is our candidate. I mean, lack of a candidate. Two bible thumpers seem to be in the lead on our side. God help us. I would like to say though that I thought Romney's address regarding his religion was pretty amazing in today's politics. I gotta respect him for that.

Lyd, long time no talk. Hope you guys are having a great holidays. We received O's gift in the mail last night and Lena wrapped it. Boy is he gonna love that one. You will love the gifts I got your crew of course the kids are going to be kinda ho-hum about them. I'll make it up to them.

Mom, I love you and miss you. Hope you guys are enjoying the holidays as well. I will call this weekend.

Not much going on out here. It is freezing. Made for a good day of sledding last weekend though. The boys loved it. Should make for a good ski trip this year too. Lena bought Oscar skis, boots and pools for XMAS and we have him enrolled in a few days of ski school. Should be fun to see him get going. He has his first pair of hockey skates too though I haven't gotten him out yet. We are going this weekend.

I love you all.

Off to Italy

Ambien? Check. Cocktail on plane? Check. Eye mask? Check. Wake up in Rome. Priceless.