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!

I have been busy. Busy working, relaxing and doing a lot of professional development. I was struggling with a nasty sickness for the last 2 weeks on top of everything else. I am currently dealing with the fact that I can not have a "Halloween" party in my classroom tomorrow. We will have a "Harvest" party instead and I will give out the Halloween gift bags while they are out the door.

I understand that my school is diverse and I love that fact, but this is a wake up call about the world I have been living in for the last 32 years. I am sad, it feels like a great loss. I am trying to figure in a way to make it all inclusive, like Dia de Los Muertos and Halloween, in the future...or something. The idea is still brewing. I am suddenly paranoid about celebrating St. Patrick's Day in my classroom. Halloween and St. Patrick's Day are my favorite holidays, they are the best! No stress, only food, fun and drinks!

Topher and I decided to get real pre-made Halloween costumes this year. I will be Scooby-Doo and Topher will dress as Fred Flintstone. We are pretty excited about it, except for a fact that Topher keeps pointing out to me; I am used to a city wide Halloween party. Seattle does not get it...I hope we can find something fun to do.

In the meantime I love these people:

Yes We Carve is also pretty darn cool!

Kwik-E-Blog

Hey everybody, this blog is gonna be quick because I'm tired and also I'm distracted because my wife and I are watching Hole in the Wall right now on Fox. It's the stupidest game show I have ever seen.

We've been pretty busy lately. Work is taking up a lot of time and energy for both of us. I've been working the 4:30am breakfast shift at the Hotel a lot, which means my sleep schedule is all screwed up and I'm really sick of French Toast. And Heather is a special ed teacher. Special Ed teacher is a hard job. She works a lot too.

We have managed to get out and about a few times lately. We've been to a cool little toy store downtown a few times called Schmancy. They sell nifty toys like these awesome little Simpsons figures:
So far our collection includes Lisa and Apu, but I'm hoping to get some more. Also the store had a cool art show recently called Plush You. Heather and I attended the opening and bought some honest-to-god ART. Which was cool. I'll post a picture once the show is over and our new art graces our walls.

The other reason we like going to Schmancy is that it's pretty close to a Japanese restaurant we discovered recently. It's called Wann and its an "izakaya" style restaurant . The thing that I'm craving from Wann right now is the Takoyaki. Which is kind of like doughnuts, but with octopus in it. It's delicious. I guess it's Japanese street food. Street food is always the best.

I'll blog more later. I'm sleepy. G'night everybody!

Jibangus are some of my talented friends from Madison. This movie is one of my favorites, but check out their youtube page for more goodies. Right about now, we could all use some laughs.