Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

This is really exciting for me...ever since Jon and I have been married we have NEVER gotten to have a Christmas tree. Either we were going to be out of town, or some other reason, it has just never quite happened. Well this year I was determined to have a tree. Awhile ago my Grandpa called me up and asked if I would be interested in one of his old artificial trees, this was probably the best part because I had planned on purchasing one & it would have put me out at least $100 bucks or so... It already had lights wound around all the branches so that cut out another step for me too, and all I had to do was decorate it!

Of course, I tried to do it as thrift-aly as possible, and so I just tried to use things I already had. I did have to buy the poinsetta stems and the red and gold balls, but all I spent was $15. I had the gold ribbon already and just tied a big bow for the top and wraped the rest around the tree, I had the pinecones and just tied a ribbon around them so that I could hang them & that's all I did!

P.S. Sorry the pictures are so blurry...I had to turn the flash off and aparently I couldn't hold very still.

Our Elf Selfs

This is always fun to do each year... Bet you didn't know my dogs could dance?! The best part is when Jon does the splits at the end!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Yikes...

So, I am officially exhausted. I now have 2 part time jobs and am a busy lady! By Wednesday this week I had worked 37 hours! THat's 37 Hours in 3 days! Yeah....LONG days. Then, since today is Black Friday I had to be to work at 3:30 in the morning! Yeah. You crazy early bird shoppers--making me get up at 2:30 in the morning! Ahh. Haha. Just kidding...kind of... So, the only day I have had off this week is Thursday, which of course was Thanksgiving, which is never really a restful day because you are cooking ALL DAY long...and yeah, you know what I mean, so I am really, REALLY tired.

BUT...I am very thankful for SOO many things:
-Family
-Friends
-Home
-Big Puppies
....etc.... So, sorry for no pictures or anything exciting, but I'm going to bed even though it's only noon.

Goodnight.

TWILIGHT!!!

I L-O-V-E-D it! It was so much fun!

Of course, the book was better, but isn't that always the case? I think the best part was just being able to see the characters in "real life", if you will... There were a few parts I found myself cringing a little, but it was still so good! Jon and I went with some friends (see above) who had not even read the books so I was a little nervous for them, but they LOVED it too! Haha. They kept looking over at each other and going, "he is SOOO hot!" so that made me happy. The boys thought it was okay...they said they were hoping for a little more action, but yeah...I think they just enjoyed teasing us afterwards. Anyways, go see it! Of course, it is not the book, and you just have to go into the movie knowing that it's not going to be the book, it's just going to be fun and you'll enjoy it.

P.S. Edward is hot!

The last of Seattle

Pike Place Market

I can't remember what this freeway is called, but yeah...You can kinda see Mt. Rainer in the background.

North end of Pike Place Market

Mt. Rainer. That thing is HUGE! (p.s. I know i'm lame for taking a picture in the airplane, but...oh well)

Such is Life

Well, I have sort of been looking for another little part time job to earn a little extra $$. I found one...it's retail...I already somewhat dread it. Ahh. I have worked retail before and while I love being surrounded by clothes all day, I despise being surrounded by the "customer". I hate being treated like crap by said customers. So here's to hoping they are all angels!

P.S. I found this video the other day and really liked it...it's all about Great Danes.

And a few more Seattle...

Are you sick of Seattle pics yet? Haha.



Oh, look, Dwight! I didn't know he lived in Seattle.

Docks...

This place was kinda pretty...

It was down the street from the gum-wall thing. Weird.

And there are even more pics...I will try and do the rest tomorrow.

Seattle cotinued...

After all the times I have been to Seattle, I had never seen this before...


GUM!!

An entire wall dedicated to chewed up gum...nasty. Don't worry. I stayed far enough away from it.

Close up of the Gum Isicles



Kind of sick, kind of cool...kind of Seattle-ish.

Trip to Washington

Last weekend I made a quick trip to Washington to see my family. It was a lot of fun and good to just see and hang out with everyone. Jon didn't get to go this time, but next time he's coming no matter what! Over the next couple of days I'll add a more pictures, but here are a couple of the family and the Space Needle.

Now I have to go catch up on everyone elses blogs!

Federal Holidays ROCK!

Well, because today is Veterans day--NO WORK!! I love holidays...the best part was I didn't even know I had today off until I was at work yesterday and I heard someone talking about what they were going to do on their day off. So, today I'm going to be catching up on some serious laundry and cleaning house. Sounds fun, right?

But really, just so you know, I LOVE my dogs--I want to redeem them from that last post. They are really pretty good most the time. I love them like children so that's why I put up with them. I'm sure some of you who have children have had things ruined by your kids, so really, this is no different, it's just that my kids are furry, have tails, and slobber. Maybe your kids slobber too, I don't know. Anyways have a good Veterans Day, I hope you are all relaxing at home!

-Mal

Unfortunately to get any cleaning done around here I have lock the dogs up using any one of the following methods:

Sometimes I can even get away with just separating them...

Things my dogs have destroyed...

So today as I was trying to organize some pictures I ran across multiple pictures of things that had been destroyed and ruined by my dogs. Hahaha. I don't know why i have taken pictures of these things...but I have.

First we have...
What? You don't take pictures of your dog eating garbage?


Here is what I came home to another day...

Then most recently this was broken by Thor. I guess he wanted some candy corn. But let's not talk about it, it makes me too sad. Oh, and I don't have a picture of this thing destroyed, but you see that book sitting up there on the fireplace?


Yes, that too was torn to shreds as well one day.


Trigger had had this stuffed puppy since he was a puppy, but one day it was dragged out to the backyard by Thor and promptly un-stuffed. Every now and then the dogs will dig up a shred of the red puppy.

Then the dog beds. I don't know how many dog beds we've gone through, it has to be over 10 dog beds.

Somehow we still let them hang out here...they're lucky they're cute.

P.S. 95% of these photos were taken over a year ago when they were both still going through the puppy stage...the only one that has happened recently is my apothecary jar.

So...

I can't upload any pictures to blogger right now. WHat's up with that?

Is anyone else have troubles?

I have a few posts that i've written up, but they need pictures so i'm waiting until I can upload them...

Paramore

Wow. I love PAramore. When I grow up I want to be like Hayley.... If you want some background info on me and Paramore click here. Well anyways, you all know how I love Twilight, well Hayley wrote a song for the new movie! I really like it and here is the video:

Paramore - New Music - More Music Videos

Politics

I so badly want to spew my guts about all this political craziness going on!! Ehh... i'm just trying to hold it in & hoping that all of the educated voters out there, went and voted.

P.S. I'm still rootin' for ya McCain! I do think that the media has portrayed you in a very un-fair light. Unfortunately that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Is it tacky to put who you voted for on your blog? Hmph. I don't care anymore. I do, at least, feel a little better now that I've said something.