Christmas Dinner success!

Everything went really well, the food was good and most importantly the guys all liked it (they even went back for thirds!). Once everyone was stuffed we played games like we were all kids and had a blast, this was by far the best Christmas we've had here!

Preparation

I have been preparing for our Christmas fest for the past week! I started making cookies, since they hold the longest. So far I've made multiple batches of sugar, peanut butter, snickerdoodle (thanks to Abby), chocolate chip and fudge as well as meatballs. Tonight when I get home, I'll make the meatball sauce, a cheeseball, pumpkin pie, apple pie and cheesecake; the ham will start thawing and I'll chop everything I possibly can.

I know this will sound wrong, but I can't wait for it to be over! AND I appreciate my family meals SO much more lol

Our Furbabies

These are for their 'Grandma'

Honey - the experienced model

Rowdy - the modest one (ie too quick for pictures)

Gella - the baby, excited about everything which means she rarely sits still for pictures.

Finally some Halloween happiness

I never thought I'd be one of 'those people' who dresses up their pets, but alas I am. Here is my adorable pup on Halloween night. Our pup is a monkey, her friend is a hotdog and the black doggie was a punk rocker.

Book reviews

I finally finished three books: A Child called It, The Lost Boy and A man named Dave by by Dave Pelzer. They were heart wrenching but also wonderful. The story of this mans life is shocking, I intend to purchase the books and write Dave a letter (not something I've ever done) but I feel so much for him after having read his stories, that I would like to do something. Anything. Here is his website, he's written six books total http://www.davepelzer.com/ I'm a sucker for a happy ending and I'm glad I stuck with it and read through all of the books. He's a fantastic, brave man and I would strongly suggest everyone read his book(s); his story will stay with you.

I'm a movie star

I would include the link to the actual interview, but I don't want you to all hear how I sound (it's quite embarassing hearing yourself) I apologize for all of the black spots, but I don't want too much info 'out there'.

We were doing a Fire Prevention Demonstration and we had loads of fun. It was great to watch the kids crawling out of the house and play around with the firefighters and the fire truck. I feel we got some great information to the community and they enjoyed themselves.

The 2008 Navy Ball

We sat through the slew of speechs from high ranking officials, some had wonderful things to say, some were funny but the one person I was most impressed with and feel the need to mention is a woman. She is a three star admiral, there is only 1 five star in the navy, so you have to figure she's worked pretty hard to get where she is. It was brought up that it's the Navy's 233rd birthday. I am slightly ashamed to say, I didn't realize the ball was for the Navy's birthday. That aside the ball was quite lovely, it was wonderful to see everyone all dressed up and even better to see my hubby in his uniform. Oh my goodness, he looks great!


Here are a few pictures:

*Little comment needed here, I'm not sure why I'm holding my dress up! I hate that I didn't get a second pic, but what can you do. I also missed having a picture taken of the back of the dress, there was a train, it was so fun to wear!

Abby brought up a good point, the food was delicious! Even Joe, who doesn't care for Italian food (in Italy) loved every course. So, so good!