Poor Moose

Well Moose finally lost his nuts last week. A little over a week short of turning 1 too, which we did feel bad about. It's not a very nice birthday present to lose your goods. You can see how he felt about it.



His birthday is tomorrow though so I'm going to make him a carrot cake with peanut butter yogurt icing to get back into his good graces.



Bella thought it was hysterical we think, and seemed to enjoy his pain. What a good big sister she is.



So damn smug.





Happy 1st Birthday Moose! We'll try to make your day tomorrow extra special so you forget that you have no balls anymore.

A good thanksgiving

Such a delicious meal was had this evening, with a movie between dinner and dessert, and now I am full and happy. We were waiting all day to taste the pumpkin pie and chocolate cream tart.





We also had a great dinner at my mom's place last night.







Yum!

Tord at the Daly City Target

I keep surprisingly seeing the Tord paper garland, window decals and other decorations at the Target in Daly City if anyone is in this area and wanted to find some of these things. Each time I check I am amazed that they still have the stuff in stock since everyone in b-land is reporting that it's been sold out for weeks. If anyone is really desperate let me know and I'll see if I can get more when I'm there again this weekend.

six pictures from lake tahoe

We had the best time in Tahoe this weekend. Apparently getting away for even just a single night was just what we needed. There was no snow yet, but we enjoyed our luxurious suite at the Marriott Grand Residences (great rate because the weekend before Thanksgiving is a really slow one - the town was almost empty), the gorgeous lake, and of course the casinos (well, we liked the new MontBleu).







Casino carpet is really something. Even in MontBleu where the decor was modern and fairly tasteful they had this carpet! But the poker room was good to Greg and the video poker at the bar next to the poker room was very good to me so we will forgive the carpet choice.

Neither Greg or I ski but we talked about trying either snowboarding or snowmobiling when we take our next Tahoe trip, which we'd like to do soon since we had such a good time. If I did ski though I would want these pretty skis.

fall catch-up

Thought I'd better do another fall post quick since I've officially got the holiday bug after buying my first Christmas decorations of the year (the Tord Boontje stuff at Target of course, I couldn't resist).

• I helped my mom make 44 centerpieces for a fall themed fundraiser her work held.
• We saw Farmer Mike's amazing pumpkin carving skills again this year at the Half Moon Bay pumpkin festival.
• Apple tart with oatmeal topping for Greg (which he didn't fully appreciate as he apparently likes his apple tarts sans oatmeal).
• I've been doing lots of cooking as I always am - tonight's dinner was citrus marinated chicken and fontina and mascarpone baked pasta, both from Cooking Light, and both delish (hopefully CL will fix the links).
  

Sorry for the longish absences between posts. My good camera has been sent out for repairs and I finally got it back 6 weeks later and they forgot to include the battery! Craft-wise besides the centerpieces I've been working on paperbag journals (as inspired by RockPaperScissors) for a few holiday gifts and I love them so far which is a surprise because I'm not usually so good with paper stuff. I'll share my progress soon. And also pictures from wine country this weekend, it almost felt like being back on the east coast with all the colored leaves up in Sonoma county.

Also in line with the start of holiday gift making (only how many weeks left?) I'm playing around with this tool which turns your photos into those calendar pages you can fit into a jewel case. Link, along with other great ideas for turning your photos into gifts, from Heather.

Greg and I are off to Tahoe this weekend for his very first visit ever which is crazy since we've been out here over 5 years now; then Moose finally gets neutered right before Thanksgiving (if he gains back the weight he lost this past week from puking ten thousand times all over every surface in our house); and then between Christmas and New Years we've decided to go to Florida since we aren't going over Thanksgiving (where we will do what we do on every FL trip - hang with Greg's mom, see his little bro, get tattooed and chill with our good friends, and see some hockey).

As far as I'm concerned, I might as well welcome in 2007 right now and just be done with it!

halloween was fun