I have been avoiding a few tags, but here it goes

one...I am super excited about Christmas, the other day I went with my Young Women's group (I just got called as the Beehives advisor) to the Oakland temple to watch a concert. I had no idea that it would be a Handbell concert. They played all these songs with just bells and it was amazing.


two... When Martha and I went to school in New York City, we went to the school named York Preparatory. And when you watch ELF with Will Ferrell this Christmas season look out for your school when Will is waiting for his little brother to come out of school. That is where we graduated High School.


three...I love Bourne Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum. They are some of the best movies in my book. The day Kc and I saw Ultimatum in the theatre I said I could see that again right now. I am excited for it to come out on DVD next week.


fourth...I love opening advent calendars, it is the first thing I do almost during the month of December.

fifth...I am glad I am not having to scrap the car off and drive in the snow traffic to SLC this year, 60 degrees in December is okay with me.

sixth...I love King beds, I seem to sprawl out at night on accident, pretty much sleeping diagonal, but switching from a full bed to a king has changed my life.

seventh...I have a goal of living on any kind of island for the rest of my life. I have two already- Manhattan and Alameda.

eighth...I love bravo tv watching project runway, or top chef. I have got Kc to watch some of the shows with me and I love it.

A Great Break

Thanksgiving break was great. Kc and I got to visit all of my family, eat lots, play football and remember the life of my amazing Grandpa Eddington.

Martha at Little America loving the life size gingerbread house

Little America Buffet- so GOOD!

The Fam playing football. Our whole family divided into four teams and our team won...sorry cousins for all of my dad's comments.

My family with Arnold Frieberg, my Grandpa's friend and professional partner who convinced him to pursue painting and art rather than medicine. It was amazing to meet him and hear him talk about my Grandpa.

Martha, Mom and Me at the gravesight.

Hanging out with the Storrs and the Sorensens

In loving memory of Elmo Keith Eddington

We love Grandpa Eddington and will miss him so much.
He was the best friend, teacher, dad, husband, grandpa and artist.

Bowling Night

Before you read on we suggest you check out this amazing clip from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3N08xshxds.
I'm proud to say that Mike, Anne, Molly, and I did nothing as absurd as the folks in the video but had a lot of fun all the same. We decided to head over to the AMF bowling alley in Alameda after their league play was over to take advantage of the Saturday night deal that they had going on. We payed our fee and bowled until our arms fell off. We actually didn't bowl too many games but need to send a message to Eric and Josie....you guys better watch out! The last game of the night (when our hands were hurting, swolen, and tired) Mike bowled a 188, I bowled a 178, Anne bowled a 121 and Molly bowled a 116. We're ready to bowl for the big bucks over Christmas break. By then Mike and I just might have our own gear with higher scores to claim. It was just fun and we're definitely going to include the alley as a site of future date nights. Not much else is new. My final went very well on Wednesday and Molly has been working very hard to finish design projects here and there. We'll have more to share after this next week when we all get to enjoy a long road trip to St. George for Thanksgiving.

Third Time is a Charm

This was a picture that Molly drew for me because this weekend was the last weekend that I had to sit through my lecture and lab from 8:30am to 6pm and it feels so good to be done with. My final is on Wednesday afternoon and I'm also going to finish up my BYU Independent Study classes once and for all this week. With all the free time I'm going to have now Molly's pushing me to go get a part time job at Blockbuster or something so that we can get free movies or at 24 hour fitness so that I can get real buff...or maybe I could go down and work for Zerorez in San Jose or even sell cotton candy at the Warriors games or something. All I know is that if I had to sit through another one of Dr. Mossman's lectures I might have gone crazy and driven the Jeep right into the bay on the way home. I now know way too much about Organic Chemistry for my own good and have paid the price for not concentrating on all the mechanisms, deprotonations, and reactions the first...and second time around...and I didn't just squeek by this time...I got an A!

Field Trip for you

I woke up on Saturday at 7am while Kc was getting ready to go to OChem class and was pretty glad I could go back to sleep. But Kc threw me my cell phone and Anne had texted me to see if I wanted to go with them to Gold country. Why not? So I hopped on the BART and met up with the Packers to start driving. We drove towards Sacramento and stopped off at UCDavis, which besides having a sweet recreation building, rock climbing wall and a compost/worm exhibit was pretty dull? After driving Mike needed a bathroom break pretty bad, so we drove into a construction site and while he was using the portopotty I tried to roll him off and Anne was ready to take an embarrassing picture as he came out. Mike knowing Anne was one step ahead.

After UCDavis we drove to Sacramento to go check out the sights and meet up with John Garlock for breakfast. We ate delicious crepes and omelettes, and then drove around the city to see the capitol building and Arnold's stomping grounds.

After Sacramento, we drove to Placerville and Sutton Creek to check0out "Gold Country" which is where Gold was discovered and started the gold rush. We missed some of the tours or visitor centers because it was another 50 miles north but we did hit antique central which Anne was stoked about.

Are you kidding me?

Kc and I have been having one of those weeks where there is good news and then bad news in a continual cycle. On Tuesday I went in for a job interview at Clean Well, to be their sole Graphic Designer in house, hopefully I get a job offer. (cleanwelltoday.com) Wednesday I was about to buy a new laptop battery because my computer shuts down every 5 minutes, but I found out I am eligible for a recall battery. Both good news. Then on Thursday when Kc was driving 50 miles away to take a few tests for Independent study our car started to break down. Today we took it in to the auto shop, and they said it should be no more then $150. So we left feeling like we had dodged a bullet usually every trip to the shop costs $700 or more. But by the end of the day they called us and said they found a few more things wrong and we could pick it up at 5:30. The damage was a lot more than $150 all for a pipe and a cap. I feel like you walk in and you are in their hands- you are going to pay whatever they say- there is no negotiating because you don't speak their mechanical language.