The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I am not really sure where the first two weeks of November went.  Things have been busy in the Johnson household!  Both of us have been busy with work and Chris has spent a ton of time lately in the yard cleaning up the blanket of leaves that the beautiful fall trees left.  I am not so sure he loves the trees as much as I do anymore.  He has worked hard and the yard looks great!  The only problem is that there are still four hold-out trees with all of their leaves still on them. His work will continue, but he will be rested after our upcoming trip to Hawaii.  I have been in Las Vegas and Colorado this week on work trips.  I don't know how the frequent work travellers out there do it.  I find the entire experience of travelling on work exhausting and am so happy to be home!

This is our favorite time of year and I cannot believe that it is already here.  This weekend was the official holiday kick off for us. We had a date night last night to see the Warren Miller's Wintervention, which got us in the mood for skiing. We broke out the Christmas music this morning. We made a trip to Home Depot to purchase lights for the house (we are SO excited to put some up!).  Ever since I married Chris, I wanted to get my hands on his nutcrackers, literally.  He received a unique nutcracker for Christmas every year from a good family friend and built up quite the collection.  I think that they are the coolest decoration ever.  His mom was always eager to pass them on to us, but we never had anywhere appropriate to display them.  This year they were the first decoration that I put up. I absolutely love them!  Thanks Nethercutts for giving Christopher such an awesome gift year after year that I now get to enjoy.

We even had a wonderful early Thanksgiving dinner with my mom tonight complete with turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie, among all the other yummy things.  Thanks mom for such a great dinner!  The holidays are here and they are going to be awesome!