Thursday, December 23, 2010

Santa's message

Santa sent Tiffany and Josh a message (separately) the other day. I loved it so much I had to keep it so it could be posted.

Here is Tiffany's:



The message was super cute and she was so excited to get her peronalized message and get to meet the reindeer.

Josh also got one as well. Here is the link to his message:

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/Jy3MmWhtK3M-3UFNPL7d8w

Josh's work holiday party

Last week was Josh's work holiday party. We all went to Christophers and we all had a great time. It was a small cozy group of just the 8 of us. Josh and I, Mark and Trisha, Darwin and Annette, and Destiny and Will.



Josh is taking the picture and I am on the other end of the table that can't be seen...which is fine by me. LOL. All in all, it was a fun night.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Putting up the tree and the decorations

Every year as a family, we put up our tree and the decorations. It was a little weird this year because normally we put the tree by the window, but because Tiffy is working on 2 solos andneeds to practice, we had to relocatethe position of the tree so that it would work with all of her practices which take most of my front room floor- even with all the furniture being moved. It's all good though...we worked it out.



Black Friday

On Black Friday, Tiffy and I got up at 3AM and let Josh sleep in until 3:30AM. We got ready and left the house at 4AM so we could go shopping. We were out shopping and having fun. At around 12PM, we went to brunch. We got home around 1:30PM and decided we wanted to take a nap and chill a bit before we went out again.

At 4PM, we were up and ready and left the house to finish shopping. We shopped until it was dinner time and we caught a late movie- Burlesque with Cher and Christina Aguilera. It was a great movie and a great way to end the day! We got almost all of our shopping done so it was a very productive day.

Thanksgiving

This year Thanksgiving fell on the 25th of November. In the morning, we went to brunch with my family. My brother John, my dad and Lonnie came. Brian decided he wanted to sleep instead. So stupid to ditch family for sleep (especially when it's something you do every day), but whatever! People can do what they wish. Anyway, we went to brunch at Madelines steakhouse cause they had a thanksgiving brunch. We were there for about an hourand change and then we said goodbye.

All was mostly fine and no real "arguments" except for the fact that the server was a complete idiot. Anyone who knows me knows that crappy service is a total peeve of mine. On the whole, she did mostly ok with keeping drinks refilled and what not, but when it came time for the bill....she SUCKED!!!! She made several mistakes: 1) she hands Josh the bill instead of placing in the middle of the table or in between us. 2) when I grab the bill and then hand it to her with my card, she brings it back and then hands it back to Josh. HELLO!!! What is wrong with her???????? What a stupid girl!!! Talk about being in a different century and not knowing how to be an appropriate server. I made a comment on their survey comments slip because I think it's important that servers place the bill in themiddle of the table and should ever make an assumption as to who is paying the bill. Also, you ALWAYS return it to the person who paid for it. DUH!!!

After brunch, we went home and got dinner ready. Jeanie and COby and the kids were coming over to have Thanksgiving dinner with us. It was nice and chill and not stressful at all since we all get along really well. The kids love each other and we all have a blast- which is what Thanksgiving should be.

At about 10PM, Josh and Coby went to Walmart to aquire some items we wanted on the black friday prices. I choose to not go to Walmart because I get very aggressive in situations where people aren't behaving properly. I do not approve of people grabbing stuff out of my cart of hand basket. It sets me off and I knew that especially at Walmart, I would probably get ina fight over stuff like that. I don'tdeal with people like that well. So, Josh went instead. He said it was absolutely insane and that he had no idea people would be like that. LOL!!! He said it was absolutely nuts and that people were trying to grab crap out of his basket and I guess some lady got thrown into a pallet full of stuff. I thought it was pretty funny but VERY glad I didn't go. He finally got home around 1:30AM.