On Dec. 5th, I became closer to 30 than to 20 :p Happy 26th to me!  I celebrated by pretty much doing nothing.  I took the day off of work and hung out around the house.  I'm pretty sure I never got out of my PJs either.  I must admit, I felt a little guilty taking a day off of work and doing nothing, but it was most enjoyable.

Lynell and John stopped by to give me a gift - a pretty sweater and some cakebites (yum!).  After Matt got home, we watched ourselves some Star Trek Deep Space 9 (cuz we're nerds).  Since it was also Monday, Matt wanted to watch Funday Monday, so I hung out in the office with him and colored. (Thanks Big O Tires for sending out a coloring page with the ads! haha)  Afteward, we read .... well, I read some Christmas stories to Matt.  It was fun and very relaxing :)

Yes, I know Christmas is almost here, but one day at work (shh...I was really working.... maybe...) I clicked on this link.  It's the First Presidency message, and it fits perfectly with my theme from November.  It was a nice culmination of what I had learned over Thankful November.  President Eyring starts off by teaching it is a commandment to be thankful.  I love that.  It can be hard, but it must be really important if we are actually commanded to be thankful, right?  With following commandments comes blessings, like being happy :)  Also, we get filled with the love of Christ and are better in tune with the Spirit.  We want to help others be lifted up.  The hard things are easier to bear.  You really should all go read it.  It's really good (naturally... I mean, the First Presidency doesn't put out anything sub-standard, do they?).  I need to work on staying thankful, I think.  Wait, no, I know I need to.  *Sigh* Okay - time to maybe start keeping a gratitude journal, eh?

So, being broke and not having a lot of gifts to worry about, I did snag a few ads from my grandma's house on Thanksgiving.  Fortunately for me, they weren't crazy Black Friday things.  One was even specifically a Saturday thing.  So on Friday, Matt and I hung out at home, and probably watched a lot of Star Trek on Netflix (yeah, we're nerds like that :)).  Although, I did log in from home and work for a couple of hours.  I'm glad I have the option to work from home for days like that.

Finally, Saturday afternoon (we were so lazy :)), we headed out to go shopping.  We took care of a few gifts, and even went to Petco for our kids' gifts.  Yay for sales!  Roberts was also having a sale on yarn, so I got some standard colors (not as many as I'd like considering they were pretty well cleaned out), and a cute purple that I have an idea for... if I can remember yet again how to crochet....and then learn something besides single and double stitching.... like following a pattern! ha!  I have about a month for my plan though, so it's all good.

Sunday, we headed north to Pleasant Grove where Matt's cousin was reporting on his mission.  It was kind of fun because they had two returned missionaries speaking.  Austin did an amazing job, and totally made me cry lol.  Matt's family ducked out at the end to head up to Plain City to hear Jackie report on her mission.  We, however, decided to go to Sharon's for bread and muffins.  Mmm - so good!  Again, we had an enjoyable time visiting with family and playing with Nicole's babies - Ruby (chinchilla) and Lily (pug).

Mostly, for the extended weekend off of work, I enjoyed spending time with Matt.  It was very nice to have a few days of nothing to do but hang out with each other and our animals.

For Thanksgiving this year, we went to my Grandma Wilson's house. We had fun adventures of searching for silverware, and Koreen spilling the drink on the floor and Elisabeth's feet - tee hee. When we did eventually get to eat, we enjoyed tasty food and catching up with family.

I promise I haven't fallen off the Thankfulness Bandwagon - it's just I was busy enjoying my time and less concerned with blogging about it.  Hopefully in the next few days I'll get a real post up and fill you in :)

Until then, I hope you all had a marvelous Thanksgiving and are enjoying the Christmas spirit - I know I am!

Today, I'm thankful for fingernails.  Actually, my thumbnails to be more precise.  They are such awesome little built-in tools!  I decided to have an orange today.  Usually I make Matt peel for me, but I decided to be a big girl and do it myself.  My thumbnail made an awesome little knife to dig into the skin.  They were also useful for prying the skin off of the tasty fruit inside.  Once all of the peel was off, my nails also did a wonderful job scoring the sections of orange so I could actually open it up and divide it into segments.  Yay for tasty oranges - and for my built-in tools :)

Yeah, I know I didn't post yesterday.  That's okay because I'm posting now! :)

Yesterday, because of the workload with the holiday, I ended up working 2 to 10 instead of my usual 1 to 9.  I used (most of) my time wisely.  I was so productive yesterday morning!  After taking care of the animals, I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher - it was a necessity since Matt actually cooked dinner last night :)

Then, I worked on sorting and putting away the kids books that are still strewn about the office floor.  Thanks to my husband, a dog, and a cat, the piles they were in were much less pile-y, so I had to go through everything again.  I'm still not done, but you can navigate around the pils again.

I may not always (like rarely) use my time wisely, but I did enjoy the extra hour to really make some headway on the book situation.

Also, because I went to work later, I got to hang out with Matt, who only worked for a few hours because of the holiday.  It was nice.  We walked Mocha together before I left for work :)