Nine People, Seven Desserts

This Thanksgiving Mike and I spent the day with my family and his mom's family.  Matt and Kim flew accross the country to Florida, to spend the holiday with Kim's family and friends.  I am sure one of the first things Kim will do when she gets home is post about their vacation!! The morning of Thanksgiving Mika and I went up to Tutu's house and spent time with the family there.  It was really good seeing all the Jacobs! After that Mike, Debbi, Dayton, and I went toWatsonville, to Auntie Linda's house.   It was such a beautiful day!!! I couldn't believe it... it was at least75 degrees!! Gotta love California!!  Of course there was tons of food...especially dessert.  We had cheesecake, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, mince meat, apple pie, chocolate mousse pie, and of course I forget the last one.  Anyways there was seven desserts and only nine people.... gotta love Burkholder holidays!!  It was a great day to spend time with family...we had great food, great weather, okay football (those games really sucked!!), and great company!

The day after Thanksgiving Debbi and I decided to experience our first black friday.  We woke up at 3:45 am and hit the sales through out Dublin and Pleasanton.  I was totally expecting rude people all over the place, but in fact everyone was really nice...I guess people are actually getting into the holiday spirit this year! The sales were pretty good... I just bought stuff for our house, which I realize defeats the purpose of Christmas shopping, but we really needed stuff for our new place.  Anyways we shopped for about 5 1/2 hours!! When we got done my legs were cramping and my knees hurt so bad!!! But it was definitely fun...next year we will go with Kimmy because she goes every year... which we always made fun of her, but I guess now we can't!! Anyways I am so glad December is finally here!!! The greatest month of the year!!!

Vampires + Margarita's = FUN!!!

On Saturday night we had a fun girls night out.  Molly, Tweedy, Kim, and I went out for dinner and to see the movie New Moon.  We went to this new restaurant in Blackhawk called Coa.  It's this new place that replaced Alberto's Cantina.  It was actually super good... not just the food, but the margaritas!!! The cadillac margarita was amazing... and a little strong!!  We had a really good time catching up at dinner and getting prepared for one of the best movies of the year...NOT!! Yes I did just pull out a 1990 "NOT joke" just to emphasize the corney-ness of the evening.  What can I say about the movie??? The acting was terrible and Edward (Robert Pattenson) is not very attractive... he has a hairy chest!!!  What is that about?? The only good thing about the movie was Jacob... boy is he nice to look at!! I will say that this movie was better than the first one, but that isn't really saying much.  But if you ask me if I am excited about the third one... yup I am!!! And I have no clue why...lol.

Mike's Ankle

So as most of you know, Mike tore his achilles tendon about four weeks ago in a basketball game. He had surgery three weeks ago... He had to be in a hard cast for the last three weeks, so we didn't know how many stitches or what the scar looked like.  On Monday he went to the Doctors and they took his cast off and put him in a walking boot.  He still can't put any pressure on his foot... so he is still ridin' dirty on his scooter and crutches! He did have an incident on Sunday falling off his scooter because he was going too fast...lol I wish I would have seen it happen!!  Now he can take the cast thing off and see the scar (and even better he can shower and wash his foot!!) Have Mike tell you that story... super gross!!
It is eighteen stitches and about eight inches long!! His calf muscle is non existent which is kinda funny to look at.  He started physical therapy yesterday... and of course he is already talking about how great his foot already is!!! LOL!!

Anyways... hopefully he will be walking by Christmas and definitely by January so he can help move. Sometimes I wonder if he planned this ;0)
Well enjoy the pictures!!!

Spring Cleaning in Winter

So this picture is of my side of the bed in our bedroom...I realize that we are moving in a month, but at what point does it become so messy that you have to clean? I can't even get into bed from my side!!!  The second problem is that the cats have decided that this is their fort, which they decide to play in all through the night.  If you notice the HP box (the colorful one) is flipped over... well thats because there is a cat stuck in there, meowing of course!! The flat box on the left side is their slide.  Anyways this picture reflects the rest of our house too.  So I spent the day cleaning... there was definitely times through out the day that I thought of pulling a Kim (not cleaning until you move)...lol!!! Sorry Kimmy I just couldn't hold off for another month and a half!!

Getting into the Holiday Spirit!!!

So Mike and I went to the movies on our day off.  Gosh I love it when a holiday falls on a Wednesday!!  What a nice break in the week!! Anyways we decided to go see Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol... you know to get us into the holiday spirit!!  It was super good... but it wasn't like the other Christmas Carol movies, it was pretty dark.  It stayed really true to Dicken's novel.  Not that I have read that book, but I heard that it was pretty dark.  What cracked me up was the ghost of Christmas present... he looked exactly like the guy at the Dickens Fair!!! It was super weird!!! Anyways people should go and see the movie... but don't expect anything like the Muppet Christmas Carol ;0).  I feel like I am so ready for the holidays now!! I also can't wait to go to the Dickens fair this year... Gabby you have to come back in time!!!

Family Portraits

I know Halloween is over but I just thought I would post one of the craft projects that we were most proud of this holiday season!!  Thanks to Mad dog and Tori the picture turned out great!!! Along with Matt's super photo shop skills... that he didn't even know he had.  The pictures turned out great!!  Each couple had their own creepy photo also...which I think turned out excellent!!! Everyone looks scarily good!!!

Okay I am now officially done posting for Halloween!!! I just love that holiday so much, it just takes over!!!

The Scary Night of Halloween

The Halloween season came to an end and we sent it out on a high note. We had a great party with butter beer, muddy buddies, dirt cake, and sangria. (Which I forgot to tell you Matt...it was very, very, good!!!) Everyone came over and we just hung out having a good time...Jim and Pam from the Office showed up and so did Scooby with his chicken breast for a date. The weeks spent decorating the house really paid off, so party go-ers were really scared walking up to the porch...not to mention many, many scared trick-o-treaters.

Everyone had really good costumes...Molly was Dorthy, Sam was Miss. Wanda Waldo, Tori was a French Maid (of course having the "prettiest costume" award again), Tweedy was Queen of Halloween, Jon was some sort of ghetto monster, Debbi was a pink lady, and Dayton was some version of death.  My Mom and Dad were quite funny actually.  My Dad was old and my Mom was the scariest Scarecrow there ever was...even though she didn't think it was very scary.

Anyways we all worked very hard for many weeks to pull this party off...so thank you to everyone!!! It was really a Halloween of fun craft projects....and I think every single one of them turned out amazing!!!

So my costume was finally revealed and no one knew what I was!!! Bummer!!! Sorry for the build up...I will use this time to officially retire the chicken suit (I think it needs to go to the cleaners anyways ;0) But for those of you who did not see me on Halloween night I was not a chicken boob....but a chicken breast!!! Next year will be better!!!