Home for Christmas

Well, work is over for the rest of 2005! Yippee! We finished up about 4:00 today and I headed straight home to pack! I can't wait to head back to Texas tomorrow. For the next week and a half I am completely work free and family focused. I love this time of year, but it sure doesn't seem like Christmas unless your home! Tomorrow I head to San Antonio where we plan on attending the Spurs game! Go Ginobli (By the way, we are thinking of naming our future pup after the man)! Then we are going to spend Christmas Eve with the Poth's enjoying the ranch and all the fun that comes with it! Christmas morning we will be waking up, opening presents, visiting with the Poth's for lunch, then heading up to Dallas to see the Kilgore's! We'll hang out there until Thursday morning when we'll start our drive back across the country to SC! I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I'll be back on the blog in 2006!

Jesus is the reason for the season :o)

Rudolf gets even...

ICE STORM...

Our poor little tree, I don't think it will survive!
These are the woods behind our house, it's hard to tell, but they are covered in ICE.

So these past few days have been pretty crazy around the Carolina's! Wednesday night a huge ICE Storm hit, causing the power lines to go down! Thursday morning I got ready for work, thinking the roads are okay, so surely we'll be working. On my way in, I called just to make sure the office was going to be open, and much to my surprise they had decided to close for the day! I was so excited. Well, about 9 o'clock our internet and cable went out, so I put in a movie to watch. Well, about 1o:15 our power went out! Boo! What was I to do all day? I decided to run a few errands and finish up our last minute shopping before Lex headed out to Texas on Friday! Luckily Walmart and Kohl's were open! So that kept me busy until about 2:00, then I started to get a little bored. I had our gas log fireplace going, so I kept warm by the fire and read a magazine, until Lex got home about 4:00. It's amazing how much we get so used to having convenience! We ended up going to bed really early Thursday night, which was great for Lex because he had a long drive ahead of him on Friday! My office was back open on Friday, which I was pretty happy about, since I didn't know what I would do all day at home without power! It was a pretty slow day though, since most other businesses were closed! Lex headed out about noon towards Houston! He made it in about 2 am! Crazy boy! Saturday morning, our electricity came back on! And boy was I glad! Now I am getting our house in final order before I head out on Friday for the holidays! Moral of the story - have a generator on hand in case your power goes out!

Our New Furniture

Our new furniture arrived today! Lex hasn't seen it yet, but I love it! We searched forever to find the right suite, and we did! It's beautiful. These pictures really don't do it justice! Now we have a real bed for our guests to sleep in. So come and visit us!

Other than that, not a whole lot else has been going on with us. We are still in the process of unpacking - we're pretty good about being productive on the weekends, but during the week we tend not to do much on the house once we get home from work.

Count down to Christmas: 20 DAYS!