big, long weekend.

parties are hard work. we spent the whole day saturday on our feet getting food ready for the party. tapped the keg, mulled the cider and hand squeezed 21 tangerines for the "sangria of the winter." we ended up with a lower turnout than expected (around 25 people), but it was really, really fun and i'm glad we did it. but, we were exhausted from the whole thing....

so, i slept to 9 on sunday but robin out did me and didn't appear until 12. at one point i went up to make sure she was still breathing! we did nothing on sunday except slight cleaning...it was great. the packers did enough to hurt their draft order but it is good to see them with a 'w'.

yesterday, we both took off from work. we went to breakfast and then finished up our christmas shopping. we're about finished, i was amazed at how much we still had to do. i went out and got a great ski in, the conditions are perfect and i'm excited to hit it again tonight. the big news is that beth is back in the united states. we picked her up last night and it is really good to see her again. morten will be here tonight, and they will stay with us until thursday due to the snowstorm tomorrow (4-7"!!). finally a good snow year...