I'm back...

I know, i know, i've been slipping on the blogging lately.
What with the Thanksgiving holiday, running in the annual Run for the Diamonds race, black friday shopping, trying to get my whole house spring, er winter, cleaned, trying to get my house decorated for Christmas, and dealing with weight certifications at work (yuck), i just have lost track of time completely.
But i'm back now.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and i hope you all did too.
There is nothing quite like spending quality time with your family...it just puts you in a good mood (if you have a great family like i do).
Black Friday i managed to get a decent amount of shopping done, although now as i look at what i got, i still realize that i have a ton to get yet. Yikes!
It always seems like i need to get something else, even when it's down to the last minute. I could totally go out on Christmas Eve and shop some more, no doubt.
We managed to get our house decorated for Christmas, though i won't let Frank turn the lights on just yet.
We have a ton of stuff in our yard, and a ton of lights all around...and the bill is going to be high.
But it looks so nice, i figure it's only 1 month.
But i won't let him turn anything on until this coming weekend. It just wasn't time yet. I'm not totally sure why, since Thanksgiving is over and all, but it just didn't feel right yet.
I'm big on not turning anything on until AFTER Thanksgiving is over. Since when did it become ok to just skip over Thanksgiving all together? I for one love Thanksgiving, and i don't want to skip over it.
So we wait until i say so, lol.
This weekend, we will most likely be going out to get our Christmas tree.
We are real people (by that i mean we prefer real trees to fake trees)
I don't have anything against fake trees, they look very real and sometimes really nice.
We are just real kinda people.
We like the tradition of going to the tree farm, searching around for the "perfect" tree, cutting it down ourselves and taking it home.
I DON'T like the part where no matter how hard i try, and no matter what i do, the darn thing dies early and sheds needles all over my house making a huge mess!
But i digress.
We'll most likely be getting the tree this weekend since my indoor seasons start next weekend and i'll be busy almost every night again.
We have to go out and get new ornaments for the tree this year. A ton of our old ornaments were destroyed in the flood.
On the positive side, we saved all the really important ones. And we get a chance to go out and buy all new pretty ones to decorate however we want to.
We'll see what we end up with and how it all turns out.
I'll be sure to add pictures of our tree cutting expedition and our ginormous tree sometime this weekend.
Now that we have a bigger house, Frank can't stop me from getting a huge tree, nor can he guilt me into a smaller one. Watch out people, i'm a girl on a mission!!