Stockings and Skiing

For the FHE before Christmas we decided to try our hand at the fine art of stocking-making. We learned a couple of key things in this process:
1) Never trust ehow.com for accurate instructions on how to make a Christmas stocking
2) Always have a husband on hand who thrives off of jimmy-rigging things -- it saves a wife like me from having a sewing melt-down five days before Christmas


Turns out, they look quite nice (just don't look too closely!) and they were perfectly functional come Christmas morning, stuffed full of fun goodies.

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One of the perks of watching three ski movies in a span of a month or so is all the free stuff they gave away/raffled off to viewers like us. At the first movie, Gregg won a sweet Flylow ski jacket, which was too small for him, but just happened to fit me perfectly! (Score!) The next two movies provided free day passes to a couple of ski resorts, so we decided to put both the jacket and the pass to Wolf Mountain to good use on the 28th. While it wasn't the sunniest of ski days, we still had a marvelous time.


(Coincidentally, it was also our four month anniversary. Yeah, this is the life.)

100 Days

.... and counting*

*at the time of publication of this post we're up to one hundred and three

O Tannenbaum

one freshly cut fir = $14.00

one heavy duty tree stand = $12.00

(we don't have a saw, but that didn't stop Gregg from using our 'saw knife' from the knife block)

(note the swell tv fire, complete with popping fire sounds to add to the ambiance)

four hundred twinkling, colored lights = $11.52

our first Christmas tree = priceless