Birthday Bananza!

Let me just start with, my husband is awesome! All day on my birthday he spoiled me like crazy! Cooked me breakfast, refused to let me help clean up, and gave me some very cute, sweet, and needful gifts for my birthday. Then it was his turn and I hope I sufficiently spoiled him as well. I also made him breakfast and for dinner we went out to eat with a gift card that someone gave him as a gift, (which really when I think about it was more of a gift to me because I didn't have to cook!)
With our birthdays being only a day apart sometimes its a little nutso during the last week of November. But I honestly love it! Even when he teases me on my birthday that I'm technically 2 years older than him, (by number only) and calls me a cougar for marrying a younger man, I still like it. We don't mean to but we usually combine our days into two longs happy birthdays which is kind of nice. We each get spoiled a little longer.
Thanksgiving was great as well this year! I wish my parents didn't live so far away but we went to my in-laws and my grandparents came over and I think it was a really fun mellow night. We're a very laid back clan and that's how we like it.
I am a little surprised because it feels like my birthday and Thanksgiving were ages ago when really it was just a few days. Hello December! Wowsa! And then it will be a new year! It's so exciting! This December will bring a few very needed changes into our lives. I'm so excited to move, even if it is right before my finals! The new place will be wonderful and what's even better is my parents are coming up for Christmas this year! And for the first time we'll have the space for them to stay with us. Usually they stay with my gram and that's fine but sometimes it's nice to play hostess every once and a while too. I'm even more grateful that they are able to come up because my father had a bit of a health scare a little while ago and I hate not being able to do anything because I live so far away. I wish there was a happy medium. I miss my family so much and although I love my in-laws like no other it's still sad to me when those things happen and I'm way out here. I wish we all could live in the same place but that's just not going to happen. lol Oh well, hazards of being an adult I suppose.
Our final weeks of school are going to got well I think. How is it almost over? I feel like I've barely started school and already I need to be tested on everything I learned this semester. It's a bit intimidating. I will be happen for a break where I will just work and spend time doing Christmas things.
Well speaking of work, I have a paper that just refuses to write itself and so I need to get on that. Love to all!
H.

First Snow!!!

 

Today started out looking a bit gray and very wet. Rain is so fun in November right? But by this evening big fluffy white happy flakes of snow were falling everywhere! It's so pretty!
It has gotten me excited about the upcoming holidays and all the memories that we are going to make. We are finally moving into a bigger apartment in December, we are getting a kitten and our first semester of school will be over! It's a very exciting time.
We have also pressed forward some more with medical tests. It looks like it all on ol Heather here that we can't have children. It's bittersweet. It's good to know Casey is healthy and well, but also very sad to know that my body is the reason we are still a twosome. That's one of the reasons we are getting a cat. I wish we could have Jack but he's so happy where he is, and although our new landlord allows pets, he only wants indoor pets because the mess in the yard is to much of a hassle. And if one person does it, he has to allow everyone. It's very understandable. When we go to pay our rent and sign our official lease, (we signed a temporary one with our deposit this month to hold the apartment) we will also get his written permission to get a kitten.
As Casey put it, we are past the point of WANTING something to raise and nurture, we NEED it! Maybe that's sick and twisted to some, and believe me we have no intention of calling ourselves "mommy or daddy" to a cat, but there's a big void there and if we can lessen it with a family pet then we will.
I love the snow. I love watching it fall and seeing the earth coated in white. It feels so fresh and new. Rain washes things but snow coats it. I miss living in a place that got a lot of snow. But I'm sure I would find something to complain about then too. Haha
School is good still. I can't believe how fast everything is wrapping up. I just took my last chapter test on Friday for math, and soon it will be the semester final. All the rest of our days are quizzes and reviews. I have one more test in Spanish before my final, and now I'm working on my final paper for English. Fun fun fun. It's going to be a busy week this week with work and Thanksgiving but it should be fun to get away from the classrooms for a while.
This year I was going to host Thanksgiving with my grandparents but things got switched around a bit for the better. We are all going over to my in-laws house to have dinner there. It should be fun. We did that last year and it was nice.
In any case I'm excited. Oh green bean casserole how I love you!
Then after that comes our birthdays more school and December. I can't believe I'm going to be 27! That's crazy! But in a way a little exciting. I've grown up a lot in the last few years, and I'm excited to keep the trend going.
Well to all who may read this have a very Happy Thanksgiving! See you later!
H

Picture Taking Fool

By now if those who may read my blog might be thinking "sheesh! enough with the crazy pictures already!!!" but I don't have a lot going on in my life to blog about and I'm trying to practice so the result is a crazy bombardment of pictures on here. Hope nobody minds. :0)
So this is our buddy boy Jack! Wow he's grown so much! He was playing in the leaves with me and I was able to grab the camera to take a few pictures. For some reason he's very camera shy. He likes to turn his head a lot so I gotta say these pictures weren't easy to get! lol I love this boy so much. I'm sad he's no longer our dog but he's in such a happy home with the other puppies that my in-laws have, so I'm happy for him.

 

 

 

L is for the way you "Look" at me...

I've been trying to play around with pictures more and more and although I know it's not original I've been wanting to try to do this for a while. Casey has great hands so he was my hand model. We used a light-board at work and then I just played around with my photo editing stuff. I really like how it turned out. Like I said, I know it's not original, you can find images like this all over the internet but I just wanted to try it. It was a lot of fun. :0)

 

My Sepia Love Affair

I used to be all about the black and white pictures but I gotta say I LOVE sepia nowadays! I hope my sister in law Shan doesn't mind that I'm posting 4 of my favorite pictures from out little photo shoot the other day. I just wanted to show off my beautiful nieces and my amazing extended family! Shan you just have to wonderful of a family to not show off. There were more to choose from but like I said these were my fav and I hope I don't get into to much trouble. lol If so I guess I can always take them off later right?

 

 

 

 

Tucker Pictures

My sister in law let me practice a few pictures on her beautiful boy Tucker. These were done really quickly because it was almost time for him to eat and he was really squirmy. Hahaha. Love my nephew of so much!

 

 

 

 

el 9 de noviembre

Wow just like all the other months November is just a flying by! But I'm excited. This year I'm hosting Thanksgiving with my grandfolks and then I can celebrate with my wonderful hubby our birthdays! November is a crazy busy month for everyone in the Blamires world. Birthdays galore! School! Thanksgiving! And work is insane because of the holiday orders! And of course WE are gearing up for Christmas. Our tradition is not to do anything Christmasy until after our birthdays but sometimes it's hard not to want to jump the gun. Yesterday I went over to my sis in laws how and my niece had been watching Frosty the Snowman and I was like, OHHHHH I need to bust out my holiday movies! I can totally justify Frosty...he's not Christmas, he's winterish....There's some gray area there right? hahaha
School has been going really well for both Casey and myself. I only hate one class and I'd say that's not to bad. Soon it will be over with and I can walk away forever thank goodness! Casey is such a sponge when it comes to school. I don't know how he can so easily keep track of all those facts and figures but he's loving it and I'm so proud of him.
The colors here in the valley have been gorgeous too! It makes me want to get out my camera and go nuts. I'm taking a few family pictures for loved ones today and I'm a bit nervous because I want them to turn out really nice but I'm also very excited. For one, it's flattering when people ask you to do that, and two I enjoy it so much. I would like to get some new pictures of Casey and I someday. It seems that all our pictures together are a few years old. We said we would do pictures in the spring but I wish it was now. The fall is a favorite time of year for both of us. Maybe we'll postpone real family portraits until next fall. But we should at least try to take some new ones soon! It's getting sad. Not sure what we'll end up doing.
I've decided to cut back on my Christmas cards big time this year so there's no reason to immediately take pictures. Last year I went nuts and lets just say in the end it wasn't really worth it. Most people don't correspond that way anymore I guess. So just dear family and friends. It gets to expensive otherwise.
Well I suppose. Housework is calling, so's a paper, and an agenda for a meeting tonight.
H.