Lisa and Michael

I got plenty of gifts this year like beautiful flowers, cute shoes, candles, Kohl’s cash, and sweet cards. The best gift of all is the time spent with these three! Michael and I miss having the girls around 24/7. Sounds crazy, but true. Even the iPad and Mercedes can’t make up for all the fun it is to be a mom!

It’s Shelby’s 21st birthday today, heading out to drink and gamble! (Safely, of course. Congrats for being the designated driver tonight, Lisa.)

Lucky Shelby, her birthday happens to be St. Patrick’s Day. Lucky, indeed:

The holidays may be over, and they were awesome, but we’re still busy. Grad school starts tomorrow for me, we close on our mortgage refinance Friday, and Lisa’s own classes begin next week. Whew. And here we thought we wouldn’t be busy this year since our big remodels are done!

…except it’s not. Unless you hate weeks of sunny, blue skies with temps in the upper 50s and lower 60s, and absolutely no moisture whatsoever, that is.

Quite honestly, New Mexico has the most boring weather around. It’s almost perfect. To add to my misery, it’s also one of those La Nina years, which means we’re expecting a really dry, mild winter.

Blech.

Lisa loves it, but I don’t. It would be nice to actually have some snowy weather this season, but I’m not holding my breath.

Regardless of the beautiful weather we’re seeing, however, the tree is up with presents underneath and the outside lights have been hung. Now, snow or no snow, I love that part! We made hard candy to give away this year, and you can still smell the wonderful, toxic cinnamon fumes. Definitely Christmas-y here at the house! If I had my choice, I’d have Christmas every month and keep the lights burning. But, no, we’re not that house on the block… the first week of January the outdoor lights come down and the tree gets stored away for another 10 months.

Ah, the holidays.

Very nice man, funny too. Puppy was having nothing of it, though. He was squirming to get down to keep walking around Old Town.

Re: the last post and the iMac… I knew Lisa would come around.

Here’s hoping that 2010 is just as amazing as 2009 was Lisa!

I love you so much!

Yes, once again the holidays are here! Now that the house is quiet from a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family and best friends, its nice to sit and enjoy the tree and get the rest of the Christmas cards out. It’s also a really nice feeling to know that our shopping is pretty much complete, thanks to a wonderful trip in September and other on-line shopping! I for one am ready to enjoy the rest of the holiday season relaxing and enjoying family and friends and the beautiful sights and sounds of New Mexico.

Yes, I’m still in shock! I can’t believe we went from coast to coast in two weeks. What a great time. I think Michael should plan all of the vacations from now on. He did awesome and he can keep a secret really good. We are almost done with Christmas shopping, planning our Auntie Robin Thanksgiving and also planning a wedding right now, so we really needed that vacation. Thanks so much Hubby! You did an awesome job–can’t wait till next year!

I created a Twitter account for our blog, our username is @lmza. You can see our most recent “tweets” over there in the sidebar.

I’m still not sure what to make of Twitter, it seems like a fancy way of letting the whole world see your personal text messages. On the other hand, it’ll be a really nice way to post quick Lisa and Michael updates when we’re too lazy to create a new posting or busy traveling and sightseeing to do so. It is kinda handy just texting in updates, a bit quicker than posting a blog entry via the Blackberry.

(We should be using Twitter a lot during our super secret September vacation… the vacation so secret, Lisa still hasn’t figured out where we’re going!)

There was some snow on Christmas, but we had to drive a few miles to touch it. It was another great Christmas this year, everyone had a blast and Santa was quite generous to everyone! Santa surprised me with a vintage orange Atari t-shirt and a quart of Weck’s green chile, plus some other cool stuff like a new New Mexico book to add to our growing collection, and two 12-packs of beer (yum!).

Oh, and Junior seems to be getting used to Oscar. We hope they become best friends.