Like bandits!

Winter and Jason came last week and spent TWO nights with us! We had a ball AND a blast- did some wine tasting, toured Elk Grove ("on your right you'll see a housing development and a strip mall, and on your left is a strip mall and a housing development. Next we'll show you the newest strip mall and housing development, followed by the contructions sites for 3 more strip malls and a half- finished housing development!!") and generally made merriness.

We had super Christmases, spending The Eve w/the Redding clan and The Day at Big Red's house in Lodi. We had chicken and dumplings and played Phase 10 whilst all the teeny-bopping cousins swapped covers for their new iPod Nanos. Oh, to be 11 years old again....all our gifts rawked- i got spiffy new clothes and shoes, books, art supplies, seasons 1-4 of The Office (BBC) AND A SEWING MACHINE! Josh got a peacoat and some new shirts (thank Jebus), a laser level, poker chips, AND A VIDEO iPOD! We are mucho excited to play with our new toys. i told Josh he needed to build a 2nd bedroom onto our apt so i could have a sewing room, but i don't think our lease works like that. Plus the whole being on the 2nd floor thing would make it a bit tricky.

We both have this week off work, so it's fun to sleep in and hang out all day together. Winter and J are coming back through on Thursday, then we're going back up to Redding for some more partying and to celebrate Jesse's birthday, since we were crunched for time on our last visit.

Today we had lunch with Robyn, Gary and Kallie since it's Robyn's 49th birthday again. We got her a gift card to J. Jill, which hopefully means a Markle family trip to the Roseville Galleria in the near future.

Now for the long, long stretch of Nothing until we can't stand it anymore and drive ourselves to SD for sanity's sake. Thankfully we'll both be fairly busy at work so it should go not-too-slow. The sewing machine will help! Scrunchies and placemats for EVERYONE!