New Shoes

Here are my new shoes. I went shopping with SM on Saturday. He needed to get new workout shoes to replace those that had been stolen from his car this last week. As we were shopping, he remembered that I had been saying that I needed to get new shoes because mine were pretty worn. We were at the outlet shops and went in and out of the different stores trying to find some shoes that I liked...and then I saw these. I had to take a picture of them outside so that you could really see the color of them. In the store they had a grayish look to them but out in the light they are purple. Yep, purple and I absolutely love them. You can't see from this picture but they have a very small pattern of flowers on part of them. They are so beautiful. SM found shoes in the first store we went to and I like his very much also. They are a black, gray combination.

Icicle

I know that icicles are not a big deal but the first time I saw this one I was amazed at how one icicle split into two and so I took a picture. It's hard to see the icicles but I thought with the tree behind it you could probably get the idea.

Side effects from staying up past midnight

The side effects from staying up past midnight, surrounded by family and lots of food are sometimes really scary. This is not the norm for these two love birds, but as you can see, they did have a lot of fun.

Christmas Pictures

Christmas morning was a lazy morning. We all slept in, showered, ate breakfast and finally got around to opening presents. (It was 10 am when that started). The above picture is of SM's mom and his youngest brothers' girlfriend.

SM loves opening presents which makes it fun to give him presents.

My niece's family came over as we were opening gifts. I just had to throw this picture in and show everyone the "baby" that she received for Christmas.

And there's a crazy picture of me opening one of my presents. I can tell from the label that it is a present that I bought for myself, wrapped for myself and wrote the tag "to" and "from" myself. Ahhh, the perfect Christmas present.

And the hoodie that SM is wearing is the present that he bought for himself, wrapped for himself and gave to himself. I know we don't always follow tradition with gift giving and receiving, but we love getting just what we wanted!!

In search of a friend

I have a friend who used to live in Falls Church with me and moved her family to Arizona after her husband finished law school. I know she follows my blog but I don't seem to have her email any longer. This friends' name begins with the letter "A" and last name begins with "P." Last I knew, she had two daughters with names of cities (at least the eldest daughter has a city name). As you can tell, I'm trying not to give any personal information away. I was hoping to get an invite to her blog so that I can follow her and her family as they grow. If my friend reads this, please contact me (somehow)...I'd love to get back in contact.

Yarn

I have been crocheting a shawl to wear during church, to keep warm...and it is almost finished. I'll post a picture or two when it's finished. Meanwhile I am posting a picture of some yarn that I purchased on sale at Michael's last week. It was so hard to make a decision on what to buy so I bought a little bit of my favorites. Now I just have to make something small.

Favorite Christmas Gift

I wanted to post a few pictures of my favorite Christmas gift. SM surprised me with this pearl necklace. All of these pictures are of the same necklace, it just looks different because of the background.

Thanks, SM for a great gift.