Uh...oops

So about a month ago I blogged about my many attempts at knitting a scarf. Well, I got the hang of it and have been working on it ever since. Unfortunately, I think I got a wee bit carried away with it and made it too long. Here are a few pics.

Here it wrapped around my neck like 10 times.
ew p

The busyness of it all

This past week I feel as though I have been caught up in a a whirlwind of activities. And although I love being busy and having things to look forward to, I also crave quiet and solitude. As a new week begins, I am going to challenge myself to steal away some moments and reflect. Reflect on who I am and who I want to be. I am tempted to take my camera and my journal and just drive. Drive for an hour into the middle of no where and see where I end up.

This will be our sixth Christmas here in Auguston. So much has changed, and although I do not ever wish to go back to that time, I do know that life was much simpler. I used to think I knew what I wanted in life, now I am not so sure. All I know is we have to live each day as if it were our last.

Here is a pic I dug up of us at the tree farm our first year here.

As I was looking through my new year's resolutions from last year I noticed one of them was to become a better cook. Unfortunately that is one that I have not accomplished yet, sooooo last week I began thinking I should do something about it! I am thinking about taking some cooking classes, but I thought I should really just learn some basics. Elissa asked me last week why I never cook turkeys. I told her we really only have them on special occasions. Oh and also...I have never cooked a turkey. I was relaying this conversation to my mom later that day and she suggested I try it, so I can add it to my "repertoire," which I thought was kind of funny, seeing as how I don't really have a cooking repertoire. Anyway, fast forward to later that night. The opportunity came up for me to host a dinner, a tacky Christmas dinner at that, where we all get to dress up in our most uber tacky Christmas attire. So I volunteered to cook a turkey!

So it is in the oven as I type this. There are a few things I have learned so far about cooking turkeys.

1. Giblets are GROSS! Especially having to stick my hand into a birds body and pull them out! Ewwww!

2. It is important to know which way is "breast up" I apparently don't know the difference and guessed, which turned out to be the wrong way... ooops, anyway, I flipped it

3. these suckers are time consuming!

4. Since the bird is still cooking I don't have anything else to add, but I probably will. I may even snap a pic :)

Choosing a tree

Today we went to the tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree. I put together a slidewhow for fun. I haven't edited these images, but this is my fun blog where that kind of thing doesn't matter right?

Is it me?

On facebook there are tons of little quizzes, all of which I think are a big waste of time...but, I did see a friend do this one and was curious what facebook thought my personality was like. You type in your birthdate and they think they can figure you out! So here is what they said about me. Accurate?

Personality Traits
- Exuberant and cheerful.
- Deep thinker.
- Good sense of humor.
- Understanding nature.
- Faithful towards family, friends and your love.
- Easy going.
- Attractive personality.
- Generous.
- Amiable.
- Ambitious.

I snagged this off of Jason's blog. This was the group of us that did the shoot at the Powerhouse on Sunday. I think it's fairly obvious who the models were.