Christmas!

With much help from my brother, the house is all ready for Christmas :)


The lovely tree


Entry hall table


The piano


The mantle with no flash (and a little blurry... using our little lens Sony)


The rest of the living room


The mantle area with flash, but still blurry (it was late, ok?)



Outside lights - with new LEDs


The yummy smelling wreath on the front door

Wordless Wednesday

Well, almost wordless.

Long lost brother returns today!

My amazingly talented brother is returning to the US today after a 3 year stint in Japan. We are so excited to be spending Thanksgiving with him and my parents. We are also ecstatic that he'll be staying in the Raleigh area in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Right now I'm planning on lots of story telling, Wii playing, movie watching, eating, eating and more eating.

Right now (7:30ish am) he's in flight from Toyko to Atlanta (where my parents will pick him up). Delta airlines has a cool flight tracker thingie with details. Since I'm such a nerd I wanted to share the details of his long journey.

His current flight status - (as I blog)


He's flying on a sweet Boeing 777 - 6,831 miles over 12 hours and 15 minutes. He left Toyko at 4:30pm (local time - about 2:30am EST) and will arrive in ATL around 2:45 this afternoon!

I have to wait until Wednesday night to see him - I just can't wait!!!

Snow update

Yeah, so as expected, there is no remaining snow to see. It's sunny (and COLD) outside. If you want to see more SNOW pictures check out WRAL.com's coverage. You *might* even see a familiar picture in their slideshow...

Slideshow: http://www.wral.com/weather/image_gallery/4001718/

Coverage: http://www.wral.com/weather/story/4001687/

Familiar picture? :) http://www.wral.com/golo/image/4002301/ (right now it is 49 out of 99 in the show)