Christmas ended up being very nice. My sister and her husband and my Mom came up in the 23rd and we celebrated and opened gifts on Christmas eve. I made a standing rib roast that turned out excellent! Craig and I did a whirlwind of church services starting with singing at ours at midnight mass on Christmas eve, going back for the 9am mass that ( Read more... )

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish every one Happy Holidays! I hope that all is well with everyone even in these tough times. I have to say that I am blessed with good health and a loving husband and family and good friends and that is all that matters. Cheers!

Perkk nudged me quite a while ago to post and I decided I needed to get busy and update a bit. According to LJ, it has been over a YEAR since I posted. Well, a lot has happened that I won't bog you down with, but I will let you know what I am doing now. I have been through a couple of work transitions over the past year, all with the same ( Read more... )

You know, some times you just have to laugh. Craig and I hosted Thanksgiving at our home this year for our family. Having a house full of people can certainly raise the anxiety level just a bit. Our meal came off very well. I did the Alton Brown Brined turkey again this year with rave reviews from my family ( Read more... )

It has been almost 7 months of silence from me on LJ. I am so bad at this! So very much has happened so I won't bore you folks with all the details, but suffice to say we have been busy. Our spring involved a trip east to Craig's family's farm. We drove again and had a blast. No New York City this time. We had my Mom with and she didn't want ( Read more... )

I got a "nudge" email from Perkk to update my journal, so here I go. I know that it has been a while. The holidays went very well, albeit too fast for both Craig and I. Work is getting very busy for both of us. I finally have time to get back into my stores more as we have opened our last store for the building season ( Read more... )

Well, the Thanksgiving holiday is behind us and we move ahead into the Advent season. I have to say that I have plenty to be thankful for. Craig and I just went to Mexico a could of weeks ago and the devastation in Cancun from Hurricane Wilma was quite evident. I had been there before and was amazed to see the lack of vegetation. Even with all ( Read more... )

Craig and I are finally getting to go on our offical honeymoon. We are headed east with eventually ending up at his family's farm. We are going via Falling Water in Pennsylvania and New York City for a couple of days. We are going to spend 5 days at the farm. I can't wait to get on the road ( Read more... )

Went to Loring Park yesterday to get hawked at by all the vendors. I read Bearnight's entry from yesterday about the pushiness of the vendors this year. I would have to agree. Geez people, back off. All I wanted to do was bump into people that I knew and socialize. Craig and I spent about and hour and a half there and called it a day. The ( Read more... )

Two weeks til our wedding. Nuff said about what we have been up to! New job is great. Went to a great organ concert today. One of Craig's friends was in town and we went to hear her play. St Helena in MPLS. Nice church, nicer organ! We are going to Chicago the weekend after our wedding. Going to do the Frank Lloyd Wright house walk again. ( Read more... )