I love this time of year. It doesn't get any better than semester breaks, family, friends and anticipation. This year, we not only have anticipation for the joy that is Christmas, but our home as well.
This week started out on a slightly rocky note. Not big huge rocks, but pebbles. I woke up at 3 am on Monday morning sick.as.a.dog. I was totally miserable with a stomach virus turned upper respiratory infection. I stayed home from work snuggled in our bed with my pup. To top it off, when I decided to log into my work email to just give it a peek, my laptop started acting funny. By the end of the evening when Husby got home form school, it was clear my hard drive was crashing. Luckily, I am married to Mr. IT and he was able to save years worth of pictures, music and grad school for me. Major shout out to my Husby! I've been wanting to do a Thanksgiving post for a few weeks now and when I finally got the pictures off my camera, the computer spazed out. Hopefully Husby will be able to fix the hard drive this week and I'll be back up and running with a holiday post including pictures.
I felt well enough to head to work on Tuesday, still sick enough to head right to bed when I got home, but well enough to make my way into the office. I have to admit, I really am enjoying the "it looks like Christmas threw up in our office" feel of our work holiday decorations this year. Husby was a busy little bee this week, studying his butt off and acing finals. Luckily, I finished last week. I should thank my lucky stars that my little bug held off until school was complete.
By week's end we were well on our way to awesomeness. Thursday night I had an after work holiday dinner that was really nice. I really like my partner in HR crime and it was so nice to spend the evening eating yummy food and talking about things that are not HR related. :) Friday night was girls night out in D.C.. Gina, Ariel, Brittany and I have been friends since college and try to get together as much as possible. We are slightly spread out from Virgina to New York but we make it work! We toyed with the thought of inviting the husbands, but it was so nice to hit up the town girlfriend style. As of September, we are all married and this was the first GNO since! It was awesome, lots of laughs and LOTS of shaking our tail feathers.
My husby was slightly slacking in the Christmas shopping department and used the evening to head to the mall to buy some gifts. He then came home and relaxed with the dog, man style. He was finally able to enjoy the "no more studying for a month" feeling.
I came home early Saturday morning and we drove up to my hometown to hang out with our good friends Chip and Kristin. We went to Winterthur, an old DuPont mansion, for their Yuletide tour. It was really nice! Such a great way to up the holiday spirit. The mansion was decorated so beautifully for the holidays and you get a nice dose of history as well. Husby was really interested in all the "period" pieces and history involved in the tour- which is giving me a few future gift ideas! We always love seeing Chip and Kristin and it is always a good time.
After the tour, we headed to my parents house for the evening. My little brother was heading home from college and we were in the area so we made a visit out of it! Mom, Dad, hubs and I went out to grab a bite at a local brick oven pizza joint then headed home to watch old home movies. For the past five years we've been telling hubs about these movies so we broke em out. Every year, even to this day, my Dad has video tapped Christmas morning. It was nice to show hubs what I was like "growing up". We had plenty of laughs and plenty of wine. It was a really great evening spent reminising and laughing at our "familyisms".
Today we had Christmas with hub's family. We went to my Mother in laws for a nice supper and family time. It is always nice spending time with family and friends. This was a really great week to get us raring for the upcoming week of Christmas!
In other news- we received word that our home is done! We are still keeping our January 11th settlement date but it's so exciting to know that it is all done. The project manager gave me a call Friday to let me know that the sod and shrubbery were completed that day and the house is ready to go and looking great! We have so many plans for our adorable little house and we cannot wait to get in there! We already have a few get-togethers and events planned that we cannot wait to do!
Until next time!
Cheers!
Caitlin
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