See you in the New Year!

I hope everyone is having a good storm weekend! We are doing fine and fortunately our power is going strong.

I will be taking a two week blogging break from today as I will be busy with family and Christmas and eating peanut butter balls for the next two weeks. Obviously if something major happens, I will keep you posted!

See you all in 2014! 

Happy Solstice!

Happy Winter Solstice!

The solstice marks the start of the traditional holiday festivities we will be missing by being here  as Isaiah's family has a solstice party every year that we usually attend. It will be my first Christmas away from home. I guess it had to happen at some point and it usually happens earlier than this for most people.

I'm actually kind of excited to see what a quiet Christmas is like without crazy amounts of cooking or driving madly back and forth from Isaiah's family to mine on Christmas Day. It will be different. But then my brother and wife are flying in Christmas Day and my parents are arriving a few days later so there will be no shortage of family around! 

Art lessons!

My Christmas/Birthday present from my parents this year is art lessons! I've had three lessons so far and it is pretty stupendous. The first lesson was on drawing/shading, the second was more drawing with a few painting exercises, and the third was painting the drawing from week two. Next week I will finish that painting and then move onto landscapes. Eek! Thanks Mom and Dad!

I drew some fruit!

Painting to be finished next Monday.

'Tis the season for Peanut Butter Balls!

Time for some Christmas baking! I love peanut butter balls so much, I really should make them outside of December. Now to somehow eat them all before Isaiah gets to them.

Balls pre-chocolate.

Post chocolate! Yum!

I had too much melted chocolate so I mixed up some more peanut butter + rice krispies, put it in the bottom of the muffin cups, and poured the chocolate on top. I'm sure they will be delicious too.

No more Rudolph!

The music at physio is driving me crazy! Usually they just softly play classic rock so I can block it out with my headphones but the last few weeks they have been blasting the Christmas radio station and I can't get away from it.

I'm not anti-Christmas music but it isn't exactly the most inspiring work out music. Nothing like Frosty to get you in the mood to lift weights! What they need is some Christmas workout music. Someone could make a lot (ok maybe not a lot) of money tapping into that market!

I demand only techno Rudolph from now on!