Brunch

For Christmas, one of my grandmothers always sends Seth and I a Brunch on her! Today is the day to enjoy our brunch on her! Seth and I used to be pretty regular about our weekend brunches, but lately we've been more regular about eating crepes at the little crepe and coffee place down the street.
So excited for the last brunch of 2011!

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Saturday morning

I've spent the whole week not feeling well, and even took off one day (when I should have taken 3). And I'm still not feeling well. So here I am, Saturday morning, drinking warmed milk with honey, cinamon, ground clove, and ground ginger. It's a nice replacement for the 8 mugs of chamomile I drank yesterday. (I'm also thinking it's a great replacement for coffee...)

Our First Live Christmas Tree

Seth and I have never had a live Christmas tree before. We actually haven't often had a Christmas tree at all... Maybe our senior year of college? I'm not HUGE on Christmas. Personally, I feel the holiday is a consumer trap... I always feel guilty when people give me gifts, because most likely, they aren't getting one. Picking out gifts for others is a quite stressful thing for me to do (First it's: What to get people - I should know, they are family, right!?! Next is when to get it? How to get it mailed (considering my work hours)? How to get it mailed on time?... etc. etc. It's stressing me just thinking about it!) The positive thing that comes from the holiday is the family time (minus the fact that Seth and I don't actually travel home for the holiday... but in the past, that has been the up point of the holiday).

Seth and I have been talking about the holiday and how we'll celebrate it when we have children... Right now, we have opposing opinions about it, but since we don't currently have kids, I guess we have time to come to a compromise.

Anyway, as we were walking through the neighborhood yesterday, Seth mentioned wanting to get a tree, but bahumbug me said no! (That would be the point in which he started calling me Ebenezer.) Last night, when we had our friends over to celebrate Seth's 30th, he was graced with a gift of a Christmas tree from our dear friends, Scott & Sarafina. He's so lucky! And what a gift to hit the nail on the head for Seth! I do have to say it smells amazing, and as I was telling a co-working, the lights on the tree do give the room a relaxing glow that I've always loved!

And just a note, I'm not completely bahumbug, I've decorated the tree with a few homemade ornaments. I need to find the rest of my ornaments (ones my grandma made me) to hang on the tree too.

Seth's 30th

Seth celebrated his 30th birthday earlier this week! Last night we had a little get-together with friends and family, which included homemade pizzas, the game LIEbrary, a slide show of photos of Seth from his birth to now ;), and 80s music in honor of the decade Seth was born in!


The above photos is a pano photo shot by one of our friends of the banner I hung for him. I like the banner so much I want to leave it up :) ... Maybe I'll make a new banner to hang when we take his birthday one down.

Below is the cookie cake I made for Seth - I'm surprised it turned out, considering how impatient I can get when baking desserts!