The sunset from Thanksgiving Eve.

This morning my mom reminded me of the Cranberry Nut Bread that we always have back in Wisco. The recipe was online and we whipped up 2 loaves to bring to Portland with us, one for a friend. We have to wait 24 hours to partake, something that was always hard for my cousins and I growing up!

Tomorrow morning we wake up ultra early to catch the train to Portland to chill at the nines. We are going to celebrate a friend's Birthday and see the Trailblazers play the Hornets (! Chris Paul) on Friday night. We are very excited to take a vacation together, it has been awhile!

Thanksgiving was delicious and we hope everyone enjoyed it and has a great weekend!!!

This morning I am knitting beer cozies for the Ale Asylum holiday craft fair. I was enjoying the quietness of the house, but then decided to check out some happy stuff on youtube...sometimes the internet is awesome!

Topher is working "eggs" right now. For those of you who do not know, that means he left the house at 3:30 am. We had a great day yesterday. Found the perfect Christmas tree, got Christmas card supplies at Paper Zone (our first trip there) and walked along the sound in the sunshine to downtown to get dinner and hang out. Today I am going to block some of the knit Christmas presents that are done and continue knitting a sweater vest for me, very exciting, check out the knitting blog for more knitting updates. I am also trying to not work today, we have parent teacher conferences next week and early dismissal at 1:00 pm, so I should have enough time to do work at work! For once! Later we are going to make red enchiladas together for a get together tomorrow night. The holiday season is upon us! We are very excited for our upcoming trip to Portland!

wow!

words escape me. i am so happy, when i think about our country my eyes start tearing up. i had to come home right after school, because i stayed up way too late last night. topher kept telling me everything would be okay, but i was still worried until the final numbers were in. i faintly remember doing the cha cha slide (with topher!) at some point during the night...and now we will have a new president and i have hope for our future, education, our soliders, our relationship with other countries and all of our children.

all of the propositions that i voted for also passed; death with dignity, light rail expansion, preserving pike place market and preserving parks and green space. good stuff!

i am watching oprah right now, weird, i know, but she is having a post election show and it is interesting. i feel like i want to relive last night over and over and over.

oh, happy day!

and us being dog freaks, we are wondering what kind of puppy they are going to get?! topher thought a pug and i'm going for a lab or retriver.

peace be with you! this is my favorite picture from the day:

VOTE!

go obama!

hope everyone had a great halloween!