Holiday Happenings

What has been going on? Well sorry for the hiatus but here we go,



1st The Christmas tree auction:




Hubba hubba. ( He never dresses up for me, so this is all I get) FYI beverage in coffee cup, red wine, yea hes no "snobby drink out of a wine glass kinda guy", actually I thought that he wouldnt spill on himself if it was in a coffee cup. Worked well. Its kinda like giving your kids only clear foods if they are dressed up before church or something like that. (or only serving clear sangria because you have a 80% chance that Tara will spill on the carpet). Always thinking ahead. Don't look at me like that, Tara, remember the guacamole? :) Or the ice cubes?








Jeff, Petra and I. Jeff became clever later in the evening, (did I mention the all you can eat food and wine?) and decided that Petra and I were his "shrimps", go figure.












Petra, Pat, and I, (hey, look at our faces) Sorry Pat!












Of course the infamous Chupacabra, and his date Julie.


















Gary and Barbara














Oh, and Santa and Mrs. Claus were there.








We had a Chili cook-off at work








I won! (no matter what my boss says) It was fun, I am glad everyone participated. Yes I won by one point. Still a win.















It was also Kirk's birthday, and Petra and I managed to convince him to buy us dinner. That is tempura coated ice cream.







I was also busy with this as a surprise for Jeff.






















should keep him warm at the station, He carried it around like Linus all Christmas day

I was also busy making these for Robin, couldn't post till after Xmas. Hand dyed wool. (by yours truly)

Christmas came and Lauren was very interested. It happened to sing spontaneously, (OK only when I happened to squeeze it)




















Jeff's parents came for Christmas and we had a great time, Rodney tried his hand at Guitar Hero.



I was also up to this. My first try, turned out well. Yummy! I might be a tamale genius (maybe in my own mind)






























Just wanted to share this pic with you, how cute is that? Since I pilfered from my friend I will keep the names anonymous. But isn't that adorable? Gimme that cheek!













And finally a dose of Lauren all cute and wrapped up like a burrito.














Disclaimer: I tried for 2 hours to format the latter part of this post and it was very stubborn and wanted nothing to do with me or my formatting. Any suggestions would be welcome. Please leave me a comment about that or anything else, Im about to chew off my arm and throw it at the computer!)