Bringing in 2012!!

So I totally am skipping over Christmas, because I never pulled my camera out for pictures.  But we Celebrated with Paul's Family on Christmas Eve, that is their family tradition.  Then celebrated with my family on Christmas Day.  Both were a lot of fun, and very nice hanging out with family for a few days and relaxing.  Paul got a Kindle Fire, which has been his latest joy and distraction.  Its a pretty neat thing, and when you get it you get Amazon Prime for 30 days for free...so we are going to try that out and

For New Years Eve we went to Pauls parents for the night.  Had some friends and family over and had a nice spread of food.  My parents were able to come also, so that was a lot of fun to have both families there...

Happy New Year 2012!

Mom and Dad for New Years!

Hope everyone's New Year brings them lots of new adventures!  Love you all!

Dickens Festival

During the Holidays this year, Katie's family all went down to see the Dickens Festival.  They had people dressed up from that time period and then just a lot of booths and food to go around and look at.  They had a few musical performances and acting performances, but we didn't stop to watch those for long.  It was a chilly night, so we were all bundled up, but it was a lot of fun!

We got locked up for bad behavior...

Steve and Mitzi in front of the Christmas tree...such a cute couple!

Paul and I getting our pose on!!

Mom, Dad and Kara

~Thanksgiving~

This year for Thanksgiving we got together with both families.  My side of the family was willing to change the time to earlier so that we could make it to Paul's families a little later.  Needless to say they were both filling and fun!
Since my family is a larger family..as in more people...we met at a church to celebrate.  Here are some pictures from that:

Dad was growing his mustache out for Prostate Cancer awareness.  Missed the rest of the family!

And Grandma and Grandpa Garrett...Love them tonzzz~!

Here are a few pictures from Paul's parents for Thanksgiving:

With Savannah and Laura, pre thanksgiving outfits.

Laura is all ready to eat!

Very grateful for 2 wonderful families that we get to be part of! 

Head Light Lens Cleaner

So recently Paul and I were driving around in his car in the snow and rain.  I've been saying this for awhile, but Paul needed to clean off his head light lenses so he can see at night or in bad weather when he is driving.  We went shopping around and watched a few videos to find out the best way to clean your head lights...here is what we found:

Turtle Wax Headlight lens restorer.  This is mostly everything that came in the box.  There was also a glove included and a final wipe that I didn't get in the picture.  The results were quite surprising....

This is a before picture

This is during the cleaning and scrubbing process.

Then you have to wax it and let it sit until dry.

Then you get this!!!  It looks soo much better!  So if you are looking at your head light lenses and think you might need to try this, its very inexpensive (I think we paid $8.75) and doesn't take more than an hour.  Give it a try

In Time

So this past weekend, Paul and I went and saw In Time, with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.  I enjoyed the idea of the movie and kept me entertained.  Paul noticed right away the Liberal points, wealth distribution.  Putting that aside, over all I thought the movie was pretty good.  What did you Think??

Happy Halloween!

This year for the first time in my life ( i don't know about Paul) I didn't dress up for Halloween!  I didn't even have a costume or anything picked out!  But We did go over to Paul's parents house to help hand out candy and enjoy some cinnamon rolls, home made.  Paul's parents have a tradition of handing out candy to the kids and cinnamon rolls to the adults.  It's kinda fun.  Anyway, we did get to Carve a pumpkin together this year, so here it is:

Happy Halloween!

Home Sweet Home

So after a very difficult battle with our previous landlords, we have landed a pretty sweet new apartment.  It too is another basement apartment.  My Aunt and Uncle have moved to Arizona for 2 years for work, and offered us to move into their basement.  My cousins live just above us now, and we took over the basement.  We moved in the last day of September.  This is a much more comfortable place and.... basically SPIDER FREE!
 This is what we were living with before:

YES that is a hobo spider!  Sick I know, sorry you had to see!

Here is a picture after we had moved everything out of our old apartment.  No need to see the inside, just us leaving at the door! 

And here is the entrance to our new place:

A lot nicer and more open.  less dungeon like!

We'll have to add more pictures once I take them!

Home Sweet Home