It's Christmas time in the city...

At least it is in the 'burbs because we have not one but TWO Christmas parties this weekend. I'm so excited. My work party is Saturday night at Startime Entertainment in Roswell. It should be a lot of fun because this is the first time that our company has had a paid party off site in 2 1/2 years! Yay for European leaders.

Our second party is a neighborhood tacky Christmas sweater party in our cul-de-sac. It should be really fun too. I'm hoping that our camera makes it an I can post some pics.

Christmas Letter

I sent out our Christmas letter today but I think my address list in my Gmail is a little out of date. I've received some auto-replys that emails are old or not recognized. Therefore, if you didn't receive our letter, leave a comment with your email address or email me (alexis.hunter@gmail.com) and I'll send you one.

Merry Christmas!!!

The worst dental experience ever

Yesterday I went to a new dentist because I haven't been since we moved to Atlanta. I use to go every six months and need to get back on that schedule. I had an amazing dentist in Wilmington who I miss terribly, but my insurance will only allow for dentists in Georgia. Anyway, I won't give you the whole story, but I will say I was there for two hours and didn't receive a cleaning. After 18 x-rays and nearly gagging until I was sick, the hygienist came in to "measure" my teeth. After about 30 minutes, she decided I needed a special cleaning. The basic cleaning that insurance covers wouldn't suffice. She proceeded to tell me that I had all kinds of problems with my gums. I NEVER had any gum problems before this and my dentist raved about my whole mouth back in Wilmington. Anyway, after her sales pitch, I told her that I wasn't spending the money (which by the way was $170!!) I asked her to just give me a basic cleaning. She wouldn't!!!!! That's right, she said that she couldn't because that wasn't what she recommended as my "treatment plan". Grrrr....I was so upset by this point it was almost embarrassing. (OK, I was an embarrassment, but I'm never going back so I guess it doesn't matter). This dentist was Coast Dental. Run far far away if you ever have to go there. It's a chain apparently, maybe that has something to do with it. So, now I'm back to the old drawing board of finding a dentist. My insurance company sent a long list so I am going to call around and hopefully find a good one.

Nothing like dessert after a great meal...

Wes and Paul both loved the Vanilla Ice Cream. Wes loved the warm apple crescents too!

Conversations

This conversation took place last night while Wes and I were sitting on the couch, watching Heroes.

While watching the episode where the heroes lose their powers because of a solar eclipse, Alexis learns that this is how they originally gained their powers. Since Alexis only started watching the show this season, she had an important question to ask:

Alexis: Didn't this show just start a couple of years ago? How can there be two solar eclipses across the whole world within such a short time frame? I thought those things only happened like every 50 years...
Wes: (sarcastically) Every now and again on this show, they go just outside the realm of reality.

Actually, we learn a lot about Solar Eclipses here

Travels

We are leaving next Wednesday morning to go to Wilmington for Thanksgiving. I'm always excited to go back for holidays because the time always involves eating really delicious food with reckless abandonment. Here's what I've been assured is on the menu:
Oyster Roast
Stuffed Flounder with fresh crab meat picked out by Nana and DeDaddy
Crab Legs
Collards

I'm sure there will be many other delicious traditional feasts for the season. At least our families don't have the big meal on the same day so we get two straight days of a picnic table full of food. YES!

Also, I was promised the following to bring back:
Collards
Homemade Pickles
Hot Pepper Vinegar
Homemade pepper relish

'Tis the season to be Merry!! (well that's my name)

Winter is here

I haven't been blogging lately because sometimes I feel like my blogs are not worthy if not accompanied by photos. Alas...

We woke up this morning to the electricity going on and off. Finally, after about 6 attempts at coming back on, the power was out. At first, I was so happy that we had gas heat so that we wouldn't be cold...then Wes said that the heat can't work because electricity has to run the fan that runs the heat through the house...rats! Well, we do have a gas heated hot water system so I took a very warm shower and got out into a 65 degree tile bathroom floor...yikes! After I got to work, Wes called and said the power was back on, so that's good.
I can't believe how cold it is here! The high is only 44 degrees. Luckily, we have a lot of firewood at the house and should have even more this weekend because one of my co-workers is supposed to come over and help us split some...yes! I love fires when it's cold outside.

p.s. We managed to have a Holiday Party! And it's going to be awesome. We're having something even better than we did last year. Now let's see if Honeywell let's us get our incentive bonuses.