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Anybody who has ever lived with me (or near me) knows that I have the uncanny ability to make anything with wires stop working for no clear reason. And normally this wouldn’t bother me. I happened to marry someone with the much-appreciated ability to fix things with wires. But I just don’t understand how it happens! If I could understand what I was doing wrong, I’d be able to avoid it in the future. But, no such luck. I hit the ‘on’ button and BLAMO!

Today I broke the food processor. I took it out of the pantry, plugged it in and nothing happened. I took apart all the pieces, put it back together, plugged it in…still nothing happened. I eventually gave up and sliced the apples for the pie by hand. I just can’t understand how I broke it. And, what’s worse, the past few times I have broken things, it has happened in sets of 3.  Most recently, I got the xbox, my laptop, and garage door to stop working all in one day. So, now I am sitting in my living room, carefully  considering how likely I am to break the tv remote and how expensive it would be to replace if I do permanent damage (my laptop has survived this before, so I have faith that it can handle my bad luck today). For the next 24 hours I am going to try to avoid touching anything too expensive (no coffee for me!) and hopefully I won’t break anything else. Thank goodness I have such a forgiving husband

Greetings from Maryland!  We’ve been on the east coast for a few days now and have been keeping pretty busy. On Sunday, a few hours after getting of the plane, we went to cut down Christmas trees with Angie, Eric, Kira, Mary and Tim. We had a lot of fun picking them out, but decided that Anson’s allergies might not be able to handle a real tree (no matter how much he wants one). That night we had a great family dinner with the Hortons. Anson finally got to meet Daniela! Also, his mom made one of his favorite dishes, chicken/sausage/potatoes, so it was a good night

Monday, we went to Angie and Eric’s house to do a Hotovy family dinner. They grilled steak and chicken (also one of Anson’s favorites) and it was super yummy! I think Anson is getting spoiled by all of these amazing dinners. It is going to be pretty tragic when he gets back to WA…

After dinner, we played the traditional Hotovy family Christmas game. This year, the prizes were novelty t-shirts. I managed to snag one that says “More Cowbell,” which I fully intend to wear to my next bell choir rehearsal. Anson got one that says “I’m what Willis was talkin’ about.” There are a few others (such as, “I often wonder if the frisbee is getting bigger. And then it hits me.”) which I am sure all of you will see over the next few months   There were candy canes involved which allowed you to steal shirts or force trades. It’s too bad Tim wasn’t able to make it…I’m sure the game would have gotten pretty intense over a few of those shirts. Mary was too nice After that, we decorated one of Angie’s Christmas trees and then played some board games. See some pictures below:

 

My mom’s earrings were blinking Christmas lights. And Kira, cute-as-a-bug in her Christmas dress!

 

Anson and I, rockin’ our Christmas sweaters.         Angie and Eric, wonderful hosts.

Kira and Mary, opening presents. As you can see, Kira opened her gift a bit faster

 

    

Angie with her “Pregasaurus” shirt. The second picture is my dad officiating the game and Mary winning a t-shirt.

  

These are a couple of tree decoration pictures This is just the upstairs tree….

 

On Tuesday we got to spend the day with Anson’s family. We played Buzz Word in the afternoon and got to run around town a little bit during the day. For dinner, we had brisket (I think Anson will go on a hunger strike when we get back). It was delicious!  Afterwards, we opened presents (see below):

 

 

The beautifully decorated Christmas tree! And Anson’s mom, opening her birthday card. It was “edited for content.”

 

   

The Grandmas both enjoyed reading their cards

 

   

Aaron likes to have his picture taken. Really, he does. <evil laugh>

 

   

Anson’s Dad opening his present and Schrodinger wrapping himself up in the extra paper

 

It has been a busy, fun-filled trip so far! I’ll post more later this week. Though, unfortunately, probably not many more pictures. I forgot to pack the battery charger and the camera was blinking at me tonight. Fortunately, both of our dads like to take pictures, so maybe they will email me some to post <hint, hint>.