hello, hello again

i have been asked fairly regularly why i haven't updated my blog in so long. my answer...i couldn't really think of anything interesting to say. i never wanted to be one of those people who blogged just for the sake of it. i guess i wanted it to serve a purpose, to keep friends and family in the loop of my life. and while i'm being honest, i wanted to be clever and somewhat entertaining. i'm not presuming to have met any of those goals. but, to get my roommates off my back, here's what i've been up to...

there was a question as to why i didn't have a picture of our christmas tree complete and decorated. so, here it is. while i'm not sure that this picture fully does it justice, we thought it was beautiful!

this is me, Jessica, and our friend Kym on new years eve. we went up to seattle to hang out with some friends...and some of their friends from church. it's a little weird to celebrate new years with perfect strangers. i'm not exactly sure why it's weird, but it is. i've also decided that it's kind of an over rated holiday. it's never as glamorous as they make it seem on television. i always try to think of something fun and fabulous to do, but in the end i find myself hanging out with friends, playing games, and chugging a bottle of sparkling apple cider.

don't i live a fabulous life?

now, for this next set of pictures, i would like to refer back to a previous entry where i reminded myself to vote "no" for the largest tree on the lot next year. these pictures would be exhibit A in my case against my roommates. you see...the huge tree that once fit nicely, albeit snugly, through our doorway a month earlier, seemed to have grown. i would like to stop here and thank the boy scouts who make our lives simpler by disposing of our christmas trees. their only request was simple...leave the tree by the curb and your donation on the door. at least we thought it would be simple. however, one bad case of christmas tree rigor mortis stood between us and meeting the demands of those wonderful boys. getting our tree out to the curb seemed a daunting task, cleaning up after it...even bigger.

in hindsight...maybe the trunk should have gone first.

we'll be finding pine needles for months to come...but we were successful!