Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you are all having a great holiday.
Here's a pic I took from my front door of some lucky ones who avoided the oven this Thanksgiving.

Conny had her baby!

Love your blog, especially all the pics of Ephraim and Salome. They are so adorable! It looks like you are doing a lot of work of your house. I wish I could see it. We'd like to do more but the buying of the house has sucked all our money out of our accounts so if we can't just paint it we aren't doing it until the spring.

My mom and her two sisters from Japan were just out here for about two weeks. It was so much fun to show them around the city and this area. I miss having them around. It was nice to have family back in my life. I hadn't seen my aunts in over seven years and my mom for over a year and a half. I miss you all too! I love life out here but it would be nice to have a little Colorado in it.

My life is back to boring right now. I work and then come home from work to get right back on the computer to submit my resume to whatever new positions have popped up on the publishing job boards.

No work on wedding plans. I've actually been trying to stress B out about planning so he will agree to elope. The only reason I've agreed to a wedding is because it would be my only chance to get all of you, my family, etc. to a party. B's mom wants this to be a sacrament for him but since I am an unbaptized heathen and refuse to convert, this is a bit of a problem. He is in charge of finding out if there's any way a priest will marry us in a church without me agreeing to anything or lying to a man of the cloth. Once we figure that out we can concentrate on how to pull together a wedding that is going to be a minimum of 200 people (damn huge Irish catholic family) on our budget of $0.00. I am waiting to win the lotto or find out that his mom or my parents have been holding out on us and are in fact secretly fabulously wealthy