Good Bye 2008

Well then, it seems that it is time to end another year.  It has been a crazy one with gas prices bouncing all over, the economy sucking and all.  There have been some good movies that came out and some good video games as well.  I personnally have gotten to do a lot this year, bunch of traveling and got married and all.  Hopefully next year works out fairly well also. 

Anyhow as far as a year in review, I'll leave it to JibJab.   I'm gonna go make breakfast.  

Tada!!!

Ok... real quick like.  Look to ths side of the page.  Check out the photoblog and my nerdy blog for info on the trip to New Mexico Skies.  It was really cool, and now it is nap time.

Goodies

Ok, so I figured I would post up some of the stuffs that I got for Christmas. Undoubtly I will forget stuffs, but it will give you all an idea.

Little Big Planet for the PS3 (it is a really cool game, and even Stella will play with me)
Iron Man Bluray
Indiana Jones Bluray (the new one)
A nice red sweater
A knit cap
Brad Paisley CD (the new one)
A book on being the president
A book about Eagle Scouts
An American flag flow on a combat mission over Afghanistan
A pail o' people chow
A set of coaster with pictures I took in them
A little multitool
Canasta deck


Again, I'm sure that there is more. I would like to thank everyone that I got something from and I hope you have all enjoyed your gifts as well. Go ahead, post up some of the cool things you got, either as a comment or on your blog.

As for me now, I'm enjoying another present. I am up at an observatory for a couple of nights. Hopefully there will be some really cool images to put up on the photo blog.

Christmas Morning Video

Christmas Menu

Just thought it would be fun to post up our Christmas Menus.

Wigilia

Caesar Salad

Platski

Dinner Rolls

Seared Salmon Steaks

Shrimp with Cocktail Sauce

Parmesan and Romano Rice

Vegetable Medley

Sparkling Cider

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Breakfast

Cinnamon Rolls

Fruit Salad

Mimosa

Christmas Dinner

Caesar Salad

Warm French Bread with Dipping Sauce

Honey Glazed Ham

Orzo

Green Bean Casserole

Garlic Mash Potatoes

Gewürztraminer

Ice Cream

Feel free to post your Christmas Menus as well.

Happy First Day of Winter

Well... unless you should be on the southern hemisphere... in which case, welcome to summer time!

Yes, once again we are in winter according to the calendar.  Today we will get the least amount of sun of any day of the year.  This will be much more noticable if you live in say, Alaska.  But still, less sunlight then any other day of the year.  

Turns out that meterologically we were in winter right after thanksgiving.  There is a very interesting thing about winter out here.  Yesterday I was wondering about in a tshirt during the day, but at night it dips down around freezing.  Oh, and there is snow in the mountains.  The ski resorts are open, but apparently only texans are there since there is only about 20 inches of snow. Thats right, 20 inches of snow and everyone is waiting for them to get real amounts of snow.  Last year the ski report had some with close to 150 inches of snow. And that is a lot of snow.

Now then... where are my tacos?

Christmasy Stuffs

Greetings to all of you,

  I know it has been a bit busy since I posted last so it has been some time.  But fear not, there has been much happening.  A lot of it has been work, which just hasn't been all that fun.  Also we finished out scouts for the year.  

Now then, as far as Christmas stuff goes, we have been having our advent dinners.  It has been really nice to get every one together and just get to relax.  As you may have guessed our last one will be tomorrow.  

The tree and inside stuff went up the friday after Thanksgiving.  A week or so later the outside lights went up and had a timer and all.  I should probably put a few pictures of them up so you can all bask.  It is not at the levels of Spud extravaganza, but I do have lights up outside. 

This morning I made Christmas cookies!  There are now happy chocolate chip cookies and not so happy oatmeal raisin cookies.  The oatmeal raisin cookies lack cohesion.  I think that I may need to get a new recipe for them.  But the chocolate chip ones came out quite nicely.  And they are red and green for the holiday spirit.  

Tonight we will be having a Holiday movie marathon.  I am working to watch all of our holiday movies plus a few that we rented.  I have made up a list of Holiday movies that we own (in no particular order):

• Bells of St. Mary's
  
• Muppet Christmas Carol
  
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
  
• The Year without a Santa Claus
  
• White Christmas
  
• Santa Claus is coming to Town
  
• Frosty the Snowman
  
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
  
• Little Drummer Boy
  
• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
  
• Cricket on the Hearth
  
• Frosty Returns
  
• Christmas with the Simpsons
  
• The Simpson's Christmas 2
  

Now before you ask, I don't really know this Cricket on the Hearth business, it was in a set of Christmas DVDs and I knew all the others.

I need to look into getting Its a Wonderful Life as well and would like to get National Lampon's Christmas Vacation.  Feel free to add your suggestions too.