Why I love Thanksgiving.

It's my favorite holiday because:

1. Family time
2. Holiday centered around food. Of course I can get behind that!
3. FOOTBALL (Seahawks v. 49ers!)

Family time being the favorite part of the day. I love lazing around the house with everyone just enjoying their company. I don't do the whole Black Friday thing, so I don't have to deal with crowds or overpricing of merchandise only to "slash" it back to the original price.

This year will be different in that we're not going to both sides' houses for dinner. We usually go to Jason's parents' house first and then drive over the bridge to my parents. Jason has to work early on Friday, so we're just staying close to home this year. I'm kind of sad about that, I love seeing my folks.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Enjoy the day spending it with those you love and please be sure to thank the cook. They work hard!

Happy December!

I love this time of year. Christmas is my fave!! I love the sights, sounds, smells, you name it. Since it is officially December, my goal for this weekend is to holiday-ify our townhouse. Last week I hung the stockings above the fireplace. Hubs was none too thrilled [He's a total Scrooge]. He will be putting up the Christmas tree this week on his next day off though. He said he was waiting until December 1st and when I asked him to do it yesterday because it was his day off, he said no because it wasn't December yet. Hmmph I say!

I mailed out our Christmas cards today. Yay! Very excited to get them off our buffet, they've been sitting there for a few weeks now.

I love the festive Forever Stamps!

We also received our first Christmas card in the mail yesterday, Jason's friend, April, who is also a new partner at Jay's dad's CPA firm. So happy for her! I need to figure out how I want to display cards this year. I think I'm going to hang some ribbon on our kitchen cabinets and just paper clip them on...or something of that nature..I'm not sure yet. I may need to peruse Pinterest for ideas.

Thanksgiving Weekend Update

I had a fantastic Thanksgiving with my in-laws. My sister-in-law got engaged a day or two before the holiday, so it was wedding talk extravaganza at the Favors household. Food was plenty, alcohol was flowing freely. (I may or may not have gotten sick from too much champagne..may or may not..)

Favors family tradition is the "In Bed" game with fortune cookies. This was mine. Boom.

Yesterday (Black Friday) consisted of heading over to the local mall so Hubs could go to Express (they were having a 50% everything in the store until noon). The mall was not busy at all, I was surprised. I normally do not, repeat DO NOT participate in Black Friday. I refuse to sit in the cold at 10pm waiting for stores to open up at midnight to get a good deal. I'd rather sleep in my warm bed! Hubs really wanted to go to the mall, so we decided to get in and get out with a mission. We went to two stores, Express and Nordstrom (only because we parked at Nordstrom). Hubs bought a new pair of pants and a sweater at Express. I got a new pair of pumps at Nordstrom. It wasn't that good of a deal, but I loved the fact that they were nude patent leather and not pointy. As I'm typing I am currently wearing them to break them in. I plan on getting a lot of use out of them with two work Christmas parties to attend this year, and two weddings in 2013 already lined up.

After getting out of the mall in under an hour (hallelujah!), we headed down to the Tacoma waterfront to grab seats at a local restaurant/bar to watch the highly anticipated Apple Cup. Washington State University vs. University of Washington football rivalry. What's not to enjoy?? I was the only person in our group rooting for WSU and one of the only Wazzu fans in the bar in general. It was so nice to see all the Husky fans let down :)

Much love,
B-