Happy Thanksgiving

We spent the last week in South Carolina visiting Hannah, Brandon, Caleb, and Audrey. We were able to spend a couple of days at Myrtle Beach, collecting shells and enjoying the balcony on our serbert-colored hotel. We had a fun time visiting Caleb's school, playing at parks, watching animated movies nonstop, getting clawed by Kiki, and discovering golf on the Wii among other things. Dj and I enjoyed kidnapping both Caleb and Audrey and doing random things with them: the carwash with Caleb and the scary monster blow dryer with our windows rolled down and feeding Audrey fried okra at Little Pig's BBQ. The visit just reminded me how much I want to live closer to them all, so they can be a bigger part of our lives!

Dj and I bundled up under the pier.

Audrey the Velociraptor enjoying the view on the balcony.

And we came back with plenty of stuff to keep us occupied. Brandon gifted us with his entire music collection burned in mp3 files on a million CD's. Better than winning the lottery.

Hannah taught Dj how to crochet. Dj decided to make a camo blanket. The blanket kept growing and growing. I think the tread is starting to strech out more and more, because the blanket keeps growing. It is now much larger than him. We had to stop three times to buy more thread. We will see how wide this blanket gets with 14 bundles of thread, camo thread...

Decorating Time

Since we will be busy visiting in South Carolina for Thanksgiving, we decided to decorate our tree today for Christmas. Yes, I know it is really early, but this is the only time we could do it until December! With the snow falling outside, it could not have been a better time. Every year we try to get new ornaments as a keepsake of fun memories we have experienced. Here are our new ornaments for 2008:
This wreath was knitted by my Grandma Golden using a milk jug ring for the center mold of the wreath. Although she passed away in 2000, I was finally able to get one this year to keep forever.

Dj's first set of dentures. What else can I say? I think it is rather cute.

My Grandpa Golden worked very hard to win each of his grandkids a medal from the senior olympics. And every year he kicked butt big time! I decided to turn my medal into a Christmas ornament.

Lastly is our fishing boat from Maine with the little lobster trap in the back. Every year, we save our special ornaments for the very end, and try to remember stories to tell about each ornament as we hang it on our tree. Years from now, we will be able to look back on Dj's years in dental school, our trip to Maine, and the sweet memories of my Grandma and Grandpa Golden.

This is a picture that I took out at coopers rock. We wanted to try and capture the fall season in a photo. But most of the area was still green or a dead looking combo, not the typical fall colors we were hoping for.

This is our puking pumpkin George. He had a little too much eggnog. But the neighborhood kids sure love him.

Fall Visit

I've had a crazy time since last week. My wonderful grandpa passed away at the age of 95. I was able to drive down to Buckhannon and hold his hand one last time, and he was able to hold and squeeze it back. My sister drove up, and we spent some time with her cute clan. The kids are so grown up, so well behaved (for the most part!), and so sweet! Most of our time seemed to be spent shuttling back and forth to Buckhannon. Hannah was able to stay another day, so we actually got to visit and took a nice walk at Friendship Hill with everyone.

Dj's Life in Pictures

I did this with Dj too. He did not have as much fun as I did....

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into bighugelab's mosaic maker.
d. copy the mosaic image (right click, save image as) to your computer.

My answers:
1. What is your first name? Don
2. What is your favorite food? Chilli

3. What high school did you go to? Junípero Serra High School

4. What is your favorite color? Blue

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Alanis Morrisette

6. Favorite drink? Water
7. Dream vacation? Country of Georgia

8. Favorite dessert? German Chocolate Cake

9. What you want to be when you grow up? Dentist
10. What do you love most in life? A Good Laugh

11. One word to describe you? Happy
12. Where are you now? Morgantown

Becky's Life in Pictures

Kind of fun! Here is how you do it:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into bighugelab's mosaic maker.

d. copy the mosaic image (right click, save image as) to your computer.

My answers:

1. What is your first name? Becky

2. What is your favorite food? Mashed Potatoes

3. What high school did you go to? Albert Gallatin

4. What is your favorite color? All Colors

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Christian Bale

6. Favorite drink? Water

7. Dream vacation? Machu Picchu

8. Favorite dessert? Chocolate Fudge

9. What you want to be when you grow up? Goat Farmer

10. What do you love most in life? Sleeping In

11. One word to describe you? Hesitant

12. Your flickr name? rahbehkah

Not doing much, but with no time to spare

I haven't written anything lately, mostly because nothing exciting has really been happening. We have settled into our fall routines: Monday, Gossip Girl (it mildly entertains me); Tuesday, House and Fringe; Wednesday, Bones; Thursday, Ugly Betty and The Office. How depressing that TV has taken over my evenings? But it just so nice to sit and vege.

I also decided to take a Physiology course. I hate to admit it, but I work in a Physiology lab and have never taken a Physiology class. So this weekend instead of taking advantage of free museum day, OR making old fashioned molasses with the Chapmans, one of my favorite fall activities, OR heading to the Buckwheat Festival to determine if my teenage self was correct in exclaiming that buckwheat cakes are disgusting OR buying a scalped football ticket for $5 to watch the Eers, I spent a sickening amount of hours trying to figure out nine pages (nine!), with 4 pictures per page, of the above monster picture and evil friends. Who knows their histology?!?