Christmas 2008

Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving in Yuma

This year, JC and I spent Thanksgiving in Yuma, Arizona with the Sandberg family! I had been looking forward to our visit having heard so much about Yuma over the past eight years. Most of JC's stories about Yuma are about how much trouble he and his best friend, Jon, would get themselves into. But I had also been hearing about a place called Chile Pepper, one of JC's favorite restaurants. If you know me, you know that I love food so Chile Pepper was high on my list. Now, I grew up in New England, so my idea of what constitutes Mexican food is a little different from my husband's who grew up about 15 miles from the border. I really don't make the distinction between Tex-Mex and Mexican, much to JC's chagrin. Let me tell you though, there is a difference, and that difference is called LARD. Yep, pig fat. At Chile Pepper they put pig fat in EVERYTHING, refried beans, tortillas, EVERYTHING. As we were driving to Chile Pepper, I asked JC what his favorite thing on the menu was, he answered a bean, rice and cheese burrito. That sounded good, I thought, does it come with any vegetables on it, like tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, I asked? He laughed at me. No vegetables at Chile Pepper!

I only took a few pictures at Thanksgiving, unfortunately. They are all of JC and our nieces and nephews building a fort. Rule #1 for fort building, everyone must wear a hat. As you can see in the picture below, JC is wearing a special hat ... Alexis' tutu. Rule #2, no tooting.

Headline: Married Folks Become Uninteresting

JC and I have been terrible about posting on the blog lately. I'm gearing up to send our our Christmas cards and our blog web address is on the back of them so I thought I had better get some interesting stuff up here. Unfortunately, since we got married, we've become terribly uninteresting. We now spend our weekends doing stuff like picking out paint colors and raking leaves in our front yard!

Our move to the country has been a bit of a tough transition for JC. And if you saw his "Bachelor Pad" before we got married, you'd probably understand why. It was mouse free, bug free, raccoon free and didn't have a leaking roof. There is a bright side to all of this though, packing a pistol in public is perfectly legal in Virginia and JC is ready to protect the homestead.

And that has the potential to make our lives way more interesting!