so many things to share!

Life has been crazy lately! Every time I think we're going to have a slow down, more things pop up! This weekend was packed full of activity. On Saturday we got up & went to play disc golf with Andrew & Evelyn. I played my first ever hole. I was not awesome at it, so Addison & I went to the playground to swing. When it was time to go, Adds cried ALL THE WAY to the car and continued until we got to Chick-Fil-A (probably 20 minutes total). I've never been so happy for her to eat french fries! Later that evening we went to the Winter Festival where we saw tons of people we knew. ("Tallahassee is SUCH a small town" - just for you mom!) We, of course, went by BJ's Party House booth for face painting. Lauren painted Addy's face to look like a pink kitty and then we visited with Miss Julie. We ate some good food, and watched a little bit of the parade. Evelyn put it best when she said we only got to see the "top half of the parade". We were so far back it was hard to see much of anything. But we were very close to the announcer, Frank Ranicky, so we got to make fun of his pronunciations of words all evening. Addy got whiny & tired, so we left before the rest of the family did. :-(

Sunday was Market Days, which is always exciting. I bought several Christmas presents and saw lots of things that I loved. I bought a new beach print for our living room. It's by a photographer from Gainesville and it's a print of St. Joe's. I bought it for two reasons: 1) it's St. Joe's & (in case you didn't know) that's where Robert & I got married, and 2) the blue color of the water is absolutely mesmerizing & blends beautifully with the blues in our pillows. I later saw a piece of art that said "Art doesn't have to match your furniture". Made me think a bit, but I decided that in my house, art does have to match the furniture. Addison took a solid nap in her stroller 'cause we were there for FOUR hours shopping. My dad stuck with us the whole time...which I am very impressed with!

Monday afternoon I was supposed to go to an educational sorority (ADK) meeting with a co-worker, but I flaked out. Just really wanted to go home. Maybe another time.

Tuesday was awesome. Trevor & Jen came over with pizza. Patrick came & so did Baby Ryan, who is definitely not a baby anymore. I'm going to make a concerted effort to stop calling him "Baby" Ryan. It's just going to be a process. Anyway, Ryan joined us for his first ever game night - AND it was his first time playing Cranium. It was really fun, but quick. Trevor, Patrick & I really lucked out with the questions so we won right away. Robert, Jen & Ryan were close behind, though. We had belated birthday cupcakes for Ryan (12/4) and Patrick (12/5) and Addison sang "happy birfee" to them. It was way cute! When we were eating cupcakes & brownies, Addison sat on the new lap desk that we bought her at Market Days and it snapped. It's got one really jagged, sharp side now. Awesome. Don't know how we're going to fix it, but I'm sure Robert will come up with something.

I think this weekend will be free. At least I hope it will. I still have a LOT of shopping to do for Robert (READ: ALL of my shopping for Robert!). Also, we need to do more for our secret Santa stocking people for my family's Christmas morning. I also need to spend some time cleaning my house...ugh.

AMALY returns on Friday! WHOO HOO! And I'm 8 work days away from my Christmas break! And only (almost) 11 days until Addison turns 2 and Fenella gets married! Holy cow! Lots of fun coming our way!