So the Thanksgiving Holiday went well. Emma and I traveled down to Pleasanton California to stay with Ingrid. We left early Thanksgiving morning around 3:30 am and arrived shortly after 1pm. The drive was nice since traffic was low and only ran into a little fog and ice but nothing too scary.

We had a nice dinner for thanksgiving with all the goodies that you would expect. Emma and I were both fighting a cold so that wasn't fun but we were both able to eat our share of yummy dinner. Some pictures of the day are here.

The next day most of use went and took in a movie "Dan in Real Life". It was a great flick and was a good day for a movie. That night Gail and Greg prepared a nice dinner for everyone and Steve and Kelly provided the drinks. Margaritas were the drink of choice for the evening. Not a good choice on my part since I rarely have anything other then beer but I had a few of them. Turns out it had a huge impact on my "senses" and I ended up taking a dive early in the evening. The pictures here and the one below give you a bit of a clue as to how the evening went. The next night was the night of Greg and Gail's ceremony. It went really well and we all had a nice time. More pictures can be found here.

Emma ended up making a wonderful feast as well as Greg and Gail providing the venison for the great meal.

Thanksgiving!

Well we are headed down to California for the Thanksgiving break. We are leaving early tomorrow morning and hopefully will get there in the afternoon. I have been sick for the past week but I am hoping that I will get better soon so I can enjoy the time off. We will see. I will take lots of pictures and update this when I get the chance again.

New Office in a week!

Well we have been busy once again working on something around the house. This time it was the office. We were planning on selling the futon to make more room to move around and to be able to have a bigger desk for both of us to work on (which I still need to design and build). We have a temporary table in place until I finish it. We bought a "Craigslist Special" chair for $25 and covered it with a slipcover from Pottery Barn by using a gift card that we had since the wedding. I refinished the floor and installed new base and crown molding and managed to complete it all in a week. It turned out pretty well except the floors are a bit too shiny. We bought a gloss and it just happened to look like glass when I was done. Oh well. I am sure it will dull up with walking on it and with the pup running back and forth on it. I could always dull it down a bit with some steel wool but we will see. Right now you can really see a difference where the old meets the new.

Here are some pictures of the floor and room before and after.