Verity White Elephant Christmas Party

What a fun time.....Todd and Shannon had a great party this past Saturday. Great food, fun game (Doug and I tied with Harry for a three way win), surprised even us with what we know about Christmas. Of course we couldn't have gotten all the reindeer names without Amber, plus a few other questions. The white elephant exchange was a blast with me taking the best gift from Todd and then Shannon's Uncle taking it from me...darn. I still ended up with a beautiful three wick candle and Todd with a Rubik's Cube (snicker snicker, sorry Todd) Doug got a nice bottle of wine. Adam got glasses and a bottle of Bailey's Mint that I'm sure he will keep until his 21st birthday or regift it. And yes I still believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. The food was wonderful and everyone ate to their fill. Doug and I were worried when we went to Weight Watchers this morning but were able to show a small loss.
Packed and ready to leave for Washington on Wednesday. Doug's cousin Allen and wife Diane are here and will drive us to Tampa to catch our flight. Todd was going to drive us but is having a minor (we hope) procedure on his back that morning and we don't want him driving that far to mess anything up. We hope this will help and he won't have to have an operation, would like to see him be able to walk without pain.

Home2 Remodel

It's been awhile since my last post and no excuse except we have been busy. First was the cleaning and getting home2 ready for some easy living, which we are still waiting to do. After all the dust was removed we decided that tiling the front room/kitchen, hall, guest bath and utility room would be our next project. Spent a few weeks looking at tile colors, sizes and talking with the "experts" at Home Depot and Lowe's before deciding on a medium sand color and mosaic center piece for the front entry way. The guest bath and utility will be our learning experience since the only floors we've ever tiled were two bathrooms in San Diego and Bryan's bathroom in Renton. Have taken out the washer/dryer and guest toilet and put down the backer board, we laid down a pattern in the bath and Doug has been tweaking it for a couple days. Today is the day we will lay the mud and set the tiles, we're excited to get our first room finished.

We understand that Doug has a cousin in the area and a couple more on their way, we are excited to have some company. Lots to do see and do here and around Sarasota so hope to have a lot of company plus it will give us a reason to put our tiling tools away and take a break so remember we have an exta bedroom and the door is never locked.