Thanksgiving Break

For Thanksgiving we went to Sacramento to visit family and friends. We spent the first half of the day and ate the big meal with our friends Josh and Chandra and their family. The second half and dessert was with Chris' sister Ashley and Travis and their families. It was a great day at both houses and too many funny instances to re-tell. We are so grateful for their generosity and having us share the Holiday with them. We forgot to take pictures at Josh's but did get a picture with Ashley and Travis.

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Me, Chris, Ashley, and Travis

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The next day we got our Christmas tree and all the decorating materials. It was so fun watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music as we decorated our first Christmas tree. I love this time of year!

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Our 1st Christmas Tree.

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For awhile we were going on Sunday walks consistently but haven't the past few weeks due to the early evening. Today we went on a walk at the same park we always go to. The last time we went the fall colors were so vibrant and I remember thinking to myself I should have brought the camera. The path we walk at the park is so peaceful and this time I took some pictures.

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I love bridges...

.and tree lined walking paths.

.This reminded me of some painting. Not sure which one though.

. I love the colors of the season and tall trees.

Wicked!!!

Wicked was fun and entertaining! I'm so glad we finally got to see it. We were starting to think it's an elusive show we were never going to be able to see. Last night was our final attempt and it was successful.

We had tickets to see it in AZ but moved a week before the showing so we sold them. Turns out the show is playing in San Fran. So we bought tickets to go for my birthday in September. We decided to drive into the city cause we wanted to eat out and stop by a maternity store. Bad idea, cause traffic was horrible and it took us like 3 hours to get into the city. As we were crossing the bridge into the city, I looked down at the tickets and realized they were for the night before. I told Chris and we just looked at each other in total disbelief. How could we have not even looked at the tickets before now?

Since we were already in the city by this time, we decided just to go to the theater and talk to a manager and see if they would help us. We explained our sad story to the ticket booth guy and he said we would have to write a letter and the manager would call us in a week. Well, we didn't know if they would even read our letter but wrote one anyways and hoped we would get to see the show. It took about 3 or 4 weeks but finally Bob, from the Orpheum Theater called and said we could choose between a few dates. We marked our calendars again and started another countdown. This time, we decided to ride BART (pictured below) and not deal with the ridiculously annoying traffic.

I've ridden on BART before but many years ago and Chris has never experienced it so we were a little uneasy about the ride, especially at night. We got to the station and had a little trouble parking. Chris started to worry we were going to miss the show again. We grabbed some info guides and also asked the BART lady where we needed to get off and about how long it would take to get to our stop. It was a relief to get on and just sit 'til we got into the city. The BART is a very interesting spot to people watch by the way.

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We got off, walked upstairs and we were right in front of the theater. There were no problems with the tickets and we even got better seats then what we had originally purchased. Nice eh?

Both of us really enjoyed the show and were really impressed that the theater was so nice about giving us another chance to see the show. We will be sending them a thank you note:)

Nightmare...and Pumpkins

Nightmare Before Christmas is one of Chris' favorite movies and this is our second annual pumpkin carving and watching the movie for Halloween. I've never been into the whole claymation movie thing but this is the second time I've seen the movie and it's growing on me. Especially the soundtrack.

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Chris starting off the Pumpkin carving.

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Me cleaning out my pumpkin. Sometimes I don't get grossed out by the guts of a pumpkin but this year I did.

Still carving...

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and done.

We had some complications, of course, with my pumpkin, but you can't even tell can you? Chris is great at solving problems:)