Matthew Perryman Jones

If you don't know the music of Matthew Perryman Jones you are missing out.  Here is one of his many awesome songs.  I especially love the last verse.

Josh Garrels

I can't get enough of this song- AWESOME!!

Improvements to Our Hacienda

 Matt and I have wanted Mexican saltillo tile for as long as I can remember and we are finally having it installed in our Tucson Hacienda.  Here are some pictures of the project so far.  It is not yet finished but we can already tell how beautiful it will be when it is done.  Our tile installer and favorite handyman, Tavo, is doing a superb job and even adding to the Mexican-ness of it all by etching Mexican pictures into some of the tiles.  I will add more pictures once it is done.  I can't wait to see it and one day, Lord willing, live in this Hacienda!

Christmas

This was the first actual Christmas that Matt and I have ever spent with my family.  We headed up to my Mom's on Christmas Eve after I got out of work and stayed over for two nights.  Christmas day was spent lounging, feasting, laughing, playing games, and singing Christmas hymns. 

Jax's first Christmas

Libs loved her Tangled backpack

Levi loved his Star Wars sticker book

Jax in his new monster hat, covered in Lib's groovy girl dolls

Grandpa Joe loved his treat basket

My Mom's delicious Christmas spread

Our Christmas wines

Singing Christmas hymns together

Mad Skillz!

Matt built us this beautiful wine rack, and just in time for Christmas.  This husband of mine has mad skillz! Our new favorite place to sit will now be in the basement facing this beauty!  Thanks, honey!

Ron Paul, the Military & Foreign Policy

Ron Paul is the only candidate to vote for. His foreign policy throws many people off... until they actually give it some thought and then realize they have been feeding on the war propaganda of Washington.  Our first clue is to see who our men and women in uniform are are supporting.

One other thing to take note of- when a candidate is ferociously hated by all the corrupt politicians and the corrupt mass media (who do not report with journalistic integrity but rather are all about pushing their agenda - yes I am talking about FOX, CNN and the rest) this should also clue you in on who to vote for!

Winter Has Arrived

We had the first real snow of the season yesterday.  I had been telling Matt that we probably wouldn't have snow until December but he didn't believe me.  I am glad it held off this long and hopefully we won't get dumped on this year the way Minnesota did last year.  We found out today that snow blowing isn't as fun or as easy as it looks.  Some of this might have to do with our particular snow blower which we bought used off of craig's list.  The other part of it is that we don't know anything about snow blowing and are finding out as we go things like wet snow clogs up the blower and you have to go super slow in the lowest gear.  Who knew? The worst part of it all is that we have many, many feet of sidewalk we are responsible for which might as well be an ice skating rink.  Luckily our nice neighbor from across the street came over to tell us where we can get a free salt and sand.