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It's Christmastime! But first, a quick re-cap...

We had Thanksgiving with friends. It was fun and food filled. Saturday, we went to the Vandy @ Wake Forest with them. So glad to cheer for a winning team! We had a great time with them. On the way home, J and I stopped at Steak N Shake. We needed a milkshake fix!

Other than that, not much going on lately. I am wrapping up my semester. My final Monday night class is tomorrow, and my final Wednesday class is Dec. 7. Both classes are just presenting our final projects. I am feeling confident that I will have A's in both classes. :)

Work has been busy, especially since I got a pre-schooler at the beginning of the month. Between adding a new student to the mix and meetings, I have been pretty busy! I was glad to have a break.

I did go out on Black Friday to get a few things, but mostly Christmas decorations. Since we are in a new house, we didn't have any lights for the outside. We also decided to get a real tree this year, so we needed more ornaments, garland, lights, etc. The house is now Christmas-fied, including presents under the tree. :) Less than a month now!

Outside :) I have a porch tree being shipped! So the porch will have a little light, too!

Christmas tree in our room. Since it is in the front of the house, we open the blinds so it can be seen from the road.

Mantle and the real tree! :)

Painting and Shopping

The semester is winding down for grad school, so I have been busy with all the final projects. I am done with half of them, so that is a relief!

The trees have been beautiful here the past couple of weeks. Now, the leaves are on the ground. It is beginning to get cold, which can only mean one thing! Christmas is coming!

We spent yesterday shopping for Christmas stuff. (We also ended up with a cute Halloween decoration marked down!) We now only have 3 people to shop for (we had no luck finding something for 1 person... even after going to 5 stores!) So we are close to being done with others. So far we have no idea what to get each other though, There is still time, but after going shopping yesterday, neither of us has any desire to set foot in a mall again. We ended the night eat in Cameron Village and an early bedtime. You see, since we were both off work yesterday, we decided to go see J. Edgar at 12:01. We didn't get home until after 3 am. I still need some catch up sleep, and I slept 10 hours last night!

Today, we painted the laundry room. It is about time because the paint for the laundry was actually the first gallon we bought!!! Now our house is all painted! (Except closets, but we are so not going there. Khaki is just fine for closets!) We have out Young Marrieds' Thanksgiving tonight. I made sweet potatoes for the first time. Hope they are good! I also made a pumpkin cheesecake, but I know that will be good!

December 7 I will officially be done with this semester. Cannot wait! Next semester I am taking 2 classes on Monday nights. So I will be in class from 4-10. Going to be a long semester. At least they are both considered distance education, so my tuition was lower than this semester!

Laundry when we moved in

Laundry Today :)