The Nogger

Here we are, at the end of the night. We got snowed in at Kim & Jeff's cabin.

It ended up being a most fabulous evening. I wish you could have all seen Mitch

in his entire outfit. He had on wool knickers and a boy scout shirt.

A great way to start our Christmas season.

DC

(Mitch, Spencer, Sara & Claire at the Botanical Gardens.)

Isn't Claire so so so so cute?

(Andi & me)

We just happened to see Andi. How perfect.

2010

I am a little behind on blogging, I still haven't uploaded any of our pictures from the holidays.

Here is 2010 in review:

1. Got run over by the imp.
2. Finished the legislative session.
3. Ran two marathons (Grandma's & Chicago). Mitch even ran one.
4. Fabulous vacations: Beach with the Henriods, Hebgen with Rach & Ash, Salt Lake (Salt Lake is no longer our home, very sad), Chicago, Nauvoo, NYC, DC, Denver, Tahoe, Mesquite, Madison, Northern Minnesota, & Kirksville.
5. Uncle Kevin passed away, my heart still aches every time I think about it.
   
6. I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner with the help of Sarah M.
7. Looked for a job and applied for a million jobs.
   
8. Made great friends in Minnesota, I would be lost without them.
9. Learned how to sew and kind of became crafty. (I owe the craftiness to Megan.)
   
10. Had visitors: Mom, Chase, Rach & Ash.
11. I remembered how much I love dance.
    
12. Became a dance teacher.
13. Translated the 1917, 1918, & 1919 Lithuanian Constitutions.
14. Celebrated our 1st anniversary. (Don't worry we went to McDonald's three times that day: 1st -breakfast, 2nd -Diet Cokes and 3rd - ice cream cones (the chocolate is the best)).
15. I won second in the county fair for baked goods. (It's kind of humorous, considering the fact I am horrible at cooking.) My prize was $2.00. Amazing.

Happy Sunday.

And we are back.

The temperature is currently 4 degrees,
although it feels like -11 degrees
according to the weather channel.

We are so thrilled to be home.

Loves,

sj

A I R P O R T

Last night, most unfortunately, Mitch and I got stuck in the airport FOREVER. Seriously forever. In fact, I was losing hope that we were never going to get home.

Here is a little timeline of our afternoon yesterday:

3:20 pm: Arrive at the airport for our 4:12 pm flight.

4:12 pm: No flight.

5:00 pm: They inform us our flight will leave at 7:00 pm. I am thinking to myself, "This is great, at least we will make our connection in Minneapolis."

6:15 pm: I have been waiting in line for 30 minutes to find our if we can get on another flight. And oh, yes we can get on another flight on Monday at 4:12 pm. Yea, right.

7:15 pm: Our flight is supposed to leave at 8:00 pm. I am losing any sort of hope for making our layover.

8:15 pm: Mitch and I enjoyed a McFlurry, Oreo of course.

9:15 pm: Still waiting. still waiting.

9:20 pm: Our flight has been changed to 10:07 pm. I can deal with this. We will just sleep over in Minneapolis.

10:05 pm: Our flight is changed to 10:47 pm.

10:45 pm: They board the plane.

10:46 pm: They un-board the plane. The crew timed out. Awesome.

10:48 pm: They inform us, that they THINK they will be able to get a crew to take us at 1:00 am.

11:00 pm: The fire alarm goes off. Most annoying sound.

11:15 pm: The fire alarm goes off again. The sound is still annoying.

12:00 am: The fire alarm goes off again. We are still waiting ever so patiently for a crew.

12:45 am: The crew arrives. There are cheers.

1:30 am: We board and leave.

3:00 am: We arrive in Minneapolis.

3:08 am: Mitch and I sleep like homeless people on the airport floor. We also find our there are no FLIGHTS to Rochester until 9:35 pm. Again, yea right.

6:0o am: Wake up. I really love waking up in the airport.

6:48 am: We take a shuttle to Rochester as the snow welcomes us.

8:30 am: Arrive at our home, sweet home.

Happy Monday.

Our Christmas Tree

Mitch and I decided to go way out and get an awesome tree the year....

Don't you love our tree?

Mitch picked it out and I decorated it.

At least it's real.

And oh, if you look close enough you can see silver sparkles all over the tree.

I decided this year to be crafty with our Christmas decorations. Let's just say that I feel like all I have been doing is crafts. (I am not a crafty person.)

1. I made these Christmas trees with Megan, she is much better at this stuff than me. We had an excellent time making these trees as we sat, talked and drank our Diet Dr. Peppers.

You can find the link to make these trees here.

2. I was way in over my head when I made this wreath. I wish that I had a better picture, the wreathe shines in the sun. Next time I will make sure to use only the hot glue gun and no wire.

3. The table runner. All I have to say, is I am so glad it's finished. Our front room has been looking like a disaster for the last three weeks. I found out how to make this table runner here.

4. Lastly, I bought these large ornaments at Ikea. I think I got 7 for $5. They look great hanging from our lights.

Merry Christmas to all of you. I hope your decorating is goes well.

Thanksgiving

(Isn't William so so so so cute?)

I have some catching up to do. First, over Thanksgiving we went to visit Sarah, Ben & Co. We were so happy to visit them, it's such a comfort to have good friends in the midwest. Sarah and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner and were so exhausted by the time we ate. It was so much fun. Thank you to Sarah and Ben for such a fun visit.