We celebrated Thanksgiving last week - it was nice to have some time off (I find myself so much more productive during the week!). Truss' mom, mike and sister, Olivia came in town on Wednesday evening and we went to dinner, then Thursday we headed to my parents house late in the day for Thanksgiving dinner. My aunt Susy, cousin Jason and his two kids Georgia and Wilke were in town from LA. It was good to see all of them and catch up. Patrick, Court and Brett also came for their second Thanksgiving dinner - Patrick was, as usual, his cute, hysterical self. He's getting so big and he's so smart - already before the age of two he knows all letters, numbers and can name almost everyone in a room (if he's familiar with them). Genius baby has set the bar extremely high for our future kids. Here he is at Halloween and out to lunch - doesn't he just look smart??!
Thanksgiving food was great - all the fixings as usual: turkey, mashed potatos, green beans, cranberries, LaLa's rolls (family favorite from my Great Great Grandmother), stuffing, brussel sprouts - to die for! and of course, dessert, including Tippins french silk pie. Needless to say, I got my carb count for the year during that meal.
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| Pretty Dining Room Table |
Now, on to Christmas! I came home on Sunday to a cleaned up yard and Christmas lights on the house - courtesy of Truss. He did a great job and I added some faux trees from Frontgate that my mom bought me last year. I'm pretty impressed - they do appear to look real from the street!
We'll decorate the inside of the house and get our tree this weekend. And, we're having our annual holiday party on 12/15. Typically this is held at Truss' house and considered an ugly sweater party. However, it's moved to PV now (our West side or 'summer home') I'd like to see this be a 6:30 cocktail party, yet Truss still wants it to start at 8:30. I tried convincing Truss, that people (including me) at our age don't like to wait until 8:30 to go out (what is this, college??). So, we've compromised and made the start time for 7:30. The flow at the PV house isn't as good as the KCMO house, so I'll be really interested to see how crowded it gets. Might have to shave down the guest list a little bit this year.
Speaking of house, we'll probably be here for a least a few more years and I've really want to make it 'my own' or, I guess 'our own' now (I'm still having a hard time with the words 'my' and 'ours'). I had planned on painting a few rooms after I moved in (the red office and the green guest room), but haven't gotten around to it. I recently received a pretty good estimate from Court's paint guy, but Truss is trying to convince me that it's easier and more cost effective if we do it ourselves. Two problems there - it probably won't get done anytime soon and I'd do a really crappy job painting these rooms! Take our office for example - I went out and purchased a great Benjamin Moore color I saw on Pinterest. I primed a section of the wall and painted a sample. The proof is below....after three coats of primer, you can still see the dark red through. I did a pretty shoddy job painting, and, like most rooms in the house, there is wallpaper underneath that's pretty visible. Truss says he can take down the wallpaper - I'm going to relinquish control and let him do it. The dark red paint is hideous, so the room can't really look any worse, right? Gotta love homeownership - next up, have foundation folks come look at some nasty cracks in the basement....that will be a blast.
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| The proof is in the paint... |
