Firsts

This year, Derick and I are going to have a lot of "firsts." Since we just got married in October, there have already been a few of them already like...Our first puppy together (Tucker), our first Halloween together, and now just add Thanksgiving to the list! It was fun but short-lived because he had to work Thanksgiving day and then, of course, Black Friday.

We went to my aunt Marilyn's house for Thanksgiving this year and ate some FABULOUS food! We watched Jana, Matt (her boyfriend) and a couple other cousins take turns playing Rockband. Wow, that was hilarious!

I have been in the "Christmas spirit" already, decorating the house, and went shopping a little with Jana while she was home over Thanksgiving. I have also been BAKING! YESSS! I love to do that as well! I am going to make: Toffee Bars, Sugar cut-outs, Christmas M&M cookies, Peanut Blossoms and I might try to find one or two more that I want to try this year. I have already made the M&M ones as well as the Toffee Bars today! yay!

I went to watch my cousin Nathan's Squirt Traveling Hockey Game today. He plays goalie and is so funny to watch- all of them are! I think that this is his second or third year playing hockey, but his first year as a goalie for the whole year and the first time on a traveling team. His team was playing in a Thanksgiving tournament in Champlin, so it was really nice and close. He has another game tomorrow morning that I might try and get back for. It was $6 for the whole weekend (3 games). Nate plays for the Wayzata Trojans the B2 team (I believe). I went to a couple of his games last year and they were fun to watch as well. It is amazing to watch them and how far they have come and their gameplay! They all skate so much faster than before! But, fast skating didn't equal goals and their team lost 0-6. That was kind of a bummer, but the other team had some pretty tricky shots to get in their goals.

After the game, Nate and Gail (my aunt) came over to my house to meet Tucker. Tucker LOVED Nate! It was so funny to watch them interact. I am glad that Tucker gets along so well with other people and other dogs. When we had brought him over to meet Mitzy (my sister's dog at my mom and dad's house) I was reminded of just how bad Mitzy is with other dogs. she HATES them!

Then I hung out around home, cleaned a little, made toffee bars, and called my sister to see if we were going out to run more errands, but I ended up calling my house because she was not answering. I came to find out that she already had gone without me when Gail and Nate were still at my house. Little stinker! Oh well, I do not have ANY money to spend right now anyways! I just wish that our tax rebate would be here already! the economy sucks and money is super tight. After having a wedding, house, puppy, credit cards, car payment, every payday seems less and less fun. *sigh* oh well, what can you do but make the best of what you have? Even if I do feel like a mizer at times!

I finally deleted my Myspace account. I was tired of all of the spam on there and I have had my account hacked into once already, so I figured it was time to pull the plug. That is why I use Facebook and now this blog site!

Jana is going to come back over tonight to watch Hancock. We have it from Netflix and I have been wanting to watch it forever now!

So I guess that is all for the moment. More ramblings!