Black Friday on Thursday night...

Since we've lived in the States I wanted to see how the craziness of Black Friday was...
We've been to the mall the other years, but since we weren't buying anything specific or electronics at all, we weren't surrounded by crowds in any way even at 4.30am.

This year we decided to go to the early events at Walmart, we went there on Thursday night at 8pm. Now that was closer to what I had in my mind!! still pretty civilized and organized, we live in a good size town, I should say city, but it's rather smaller than a bigger city where REAL crowds gather for Black Friday... we walked around and looked at the deals.
We thougth about buying a new laptop, but true is we don't need one right now, so we said no.

I got the last season of Grey's Anatomy, for 20 buck less than the last one... 2 memory cards for my camera, of 8 GB each one for only $4.99 each!!! deal!
And we got a big box of crayons, markers, color pencils, water colors, stamps, stencils, note pads, etc, etc... of Disney princesses... for Christmas present for our soon-to-be-Goddaughter.

No photos of that, sorry.

See you soon!
S.

Thanksgiving!

We have sooo much to give thanks for!
I feel so thankful for having a loving sweet husband that only wants to see me happy and whom treats me always like a princess. I can feel his love all the time!!
The same, I can feel the love of my parents here and I know they go with me all the time.

Having such a wonderful family and all my friends. Here and in Mexico, certainly makes me a lucky girl.

This Thanksgiving was no different and as we were thinking in all those things that make us lucky and happy, we were getting ready to go out to my friend house.
And right before leaving the house, MG checked his email (he's kind of addicted to check his email!) and there was a wonderful email that would change our lives!

MG got a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't tell you how happy and excited we were/are.
It is a blessing to know that we will have a place to go after his job here ends at the end of January, and since the new job starts in February, it's once again, perfect timing!
This job would be in the north part of Mexico, in a university, teaching and researching... nothing for now for me, but I'm sure in a little bit I'll apply to the university too and I will be a teacher as I've always dreamed !!!!

I'm a little worried about the moving, and getting rid of a lot of stuff here, decide what do we want to keep and how are we going to take it with us and stuff like that.

I'm very happy that it will be again our Country and that we'll get to go more often back home and see our families!!!

How was your Thanksgiving???
Here are some pictures of ours... Me in a dress I got as a Birthday present in October... I think is pirate-y look like!

 

MG... :o) Handsome!

 

My friend made everything from scratch... including the bread... this rolls where delicious!!!

Bread, Turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green been casserole, stuffing with mushrooms... wine, and sparkling cider.

Everything was so so so so good!!!

Also, cheesecake pumpkin pie, and apple pie dumplings that she made and lime pie that I made.

This is a photo that shows all my grey hair!! It's been there since I was like 23...

See you soon!
S.

Fun day with MG!

I went to the shop in the morning, we were thinking on closing around 3pm because of the holiday as we weren't getting much people in.
MG called a few times and said it was pretty dead around his job too... and suddenly there he was, appeared at the shop (well, actually called when he was parking) and hung out with us for a bit... and then we had a date out and went to the movies to see the new 007: Sky fall.
The movie was great, but first I was freezing and then falling asleep.

We just got home, it was great having a fun time with him in the middle of the week. Now I'm tired. It's only 8:00pm. I'll make a quick dessert to bring to our Thanksgiving tomorrow and then watch TV on the couch, I'll probably fall asleep soon.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving day!!!!
See you soon!
S.

Thanksgiving review...

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How was your Thanksgiving???

I hope you had a wonderful weekend, full of magic and nice things.

We had wonderful times... dear MG took all 4 days off work and it was a blessing.
I started crocheting a little stocking to welcome MG on Wednesday night... he loved it!!!
I saw a post on Ravelry pointing to it (post done by Lucy from Attic24)... and then follow the instructions on Le Monde de Sucrette blog (wonderful and nice colorful blog I must say!)

It was rainy outside so I didn0t have good light to take the picture... I played with my camera settings but none gave the right colors... but you can still get the idea...

We cooked a "Cranberry Ham" on Thursday morning...

... then went for lunch to a nice restaurant in campus...

...and then took the ham to a party with MG's friends... It was fun to get together and meet new people.

Thanksgiving is not something we have in Mexico, and we didn't grew up with it, but since we've lived in the US it had become MG's favorite holliday. He awaits it the whole year and he counts days to it on the last month.

Here are some reasons I'm thankful for this year:::

• I have a really wonderful and sweet husband that loves me completely and makes me feel really like the most special girl in the world.
• We are both happy and healthy and loving each other more and more.
• We both have amazing families that love and support us.
• MG has a work he loves, were he's inspired and happy.
• I have a whole bunch of incredible friends at the yarn shop. 
• I have someone to love, something to do and something to wait and wish for. 

Friday started early (6am) at the mall... where we got nice deals in some clothes for me and tennis shoes for him. Not a lot more shopping. But it was nice and fun.
Nice breakfast and then a good amount of yarn shopping in a different yarn shop, since my loved shop doesn't carry the colors I needed (more on that later).
And then all afternoon spent with my friends and MG at my usual YS. Happy times!

Saturday with friends and a college football game!!!

Sunday of relax and laziness with MG at home... I stayed all day in my pj's!! that's happyness!

How was your weekend??? What are you thankful for?
See you soon!

S.

ThanksGiving...

There is so much to give Thanks for!!!!
First thing, I'm a very happy young woman, married with a lovely and great man whom I'm totally inlove with and that loves me madly...
I have a whole bunch of loving family and friends that have my back and take care of me always...
And I'm one of those super lucky persons that have a roof over my head, a comfy and warm bed to sleep at night, nice and warm clothes to wear, food on my table, and sometimes I have a plus: spare money to buy cute things that make our lives happy and easier...

We had a nice Thanksgiving lunch with MG chemistry fellows, with a LOT of food!!! I made a Chocolate-Vanilla Marble Cake to take to the lunch.

I added a glasé made out of confectioner sugar...

It was really good, fresh, sweet and moist... mmmmm yum!

MG made a Cranberry Ham that was very good and very celebrated for everyone at the party!!

After giving thanks we had fun going shopping to the black Friday deals (this is the Friday after Thanksgiving, where stores open really early and have really good sales and discounts, specially in the first hours after their opening), so there we went at 7 am...
I needed a new coat to face the winter, and with the deals we managed to buy 2, a coat and a jacket... I'm happy, happy with them!

But what I want to show you is some decoration posters we got for my craft room!!!!

 

I'm not sure you can see the letters, it says "Embrace yor dreams, Follow your heart, Cherish your life"...
And this other one, just to add another splash of color to my walls...

Here' how they look together in one of the room corners :::

Sorry for the glare reflection... it's a sunny and light-y day today (luckily) so the sun comes in the window...
I absolutely love the way my walls are dressed now, right amount of color splash, happy, inspiring...
Great!

See you soon!
S.