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Tonight is my sister-in-law's work christmas party so I am watching the children so she and my brother can attend without taking all of the little ones along.  I have two 7 year olds, a 3 year old and a 2 year old.  They are so much fun.  The two girls (7 year olds) are watching a movie so they are pretty easy to watch and the 2 and 3 year old are pretty happy with balloons.  Don't you just love this time of year when there are so many christmas parties and things to do around town.  I love the Christmas season.  :)

Don't you just love Christmas shopping?  I really like to go out and look at all the fun Christmas stuff and see what's new out there, but when it comes time to actually have to go buy presents it is not so much fun.  I have a hard time to decide what I want to buy so I get discouraged and decide I will shop on another day.  I love to look at all of the Christmas lights and the decorations and all of the fun toys that are in the stores.  It is such a fun time of year :)  Hope you are enjoying shopping and seeing all of the fun new things in your area.

While I was down in Nampa, Nate and I decided to put up the christmas lights at his apartment.  It wasn't overly cold since it was the week before Thanksgiving so Nate pulled out all of his christmas lights that he had used in the past to see if they still worked or if we needed to buy new lights.  Since most of them worked we got started putting them up.  Here is Nathan putting the lights up around the window :) This is the railing of his balcony... The side view of the railing... This was a lot of fun to do and we got all of the lights up the week before the weather started getting really cold outside.

Wow, I have been so lax in posting on here.  Well, this past week I went to Boise to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert.  It was so much fun.  I had never been to one of their concerts before, but my boyfriend had been to one in the past and thought it was a lot of fun.  The orchestra mainly plays christmas songs and the concert is all based on a story line that is narrated throughout the night.  They have an awesome light show going on during the concert.  It was an awesome concert to go to.  If you ever get a chance, check them out :)  Here are a few pictures of the concert.

After searching for quite awhile I have finally found the perfect tote bag.  I wanted a small tote that I could take as a carry-on if I fly or that would be an easy bag to take if I was going out of town for just a weekend and did not need to pack for a week (which I am really good at doing even when not necessary).  So I started a search and went the rounds of all the stores in town to see if I could find something that I liked that was a good size.  I wanted a tote that was on wheels and had a handle so I didn't have to carry it all the time, but one that was smaller than my suitcase that I normally take when I go out of town.  So finally after going the rounds of all the stores several times, I have finally found the tote that is just right for me.  It has a handle, is not very large (but large enough to take everything that I will need) and it has wheels.  I am also pretty sure that I will be able to take it as a carry-on when I fly to Boise in a couple...

I had so much fun in Nampa this past weekend.  I drove down Friday after work and hung out with Nathan that night and then Saturday we drove into Boise and went to breakfast at Goldy's (a little breakfast place that everyone loves down there).  While we waited for our table (about 30 minutes) we decided to walk around the Farmer's Market that was going on over on the next block.  After having fun at the Farmer's Market and then having some delicious breakfast, Nathan took me to the Idaho Botanical Gardens.  It was such a neat place.  It will be beautiful in the Spring and Summer when all of the flowers are blooming, but it had several flowers still blooming and the autumn colors were beautiful.  Since it is getting close to Halloween, the Botanical Gardens were having a Scarecrow Stroll.  Several different people had made Scarecrows and you could walk around the gardens and vote on your favorite top three choices.  The scarecrows were all ...

The weekend has finally arrived.  I am heading down to Nampa as soon as I leave work this afternoon.  The weather forecast states it is supposed to rain this weekend, but I am really hoping that it will just be cloudy with no rain until I am back home safe again at the end of the weekend.  It has been a fun adventure trying to decide what clothes to pack to take on my trip.  Especially since my boyfriend doesn't want to tell me exactly what we are planning on doing.  So some clothes packed for outside, some for going out to dinner and some just because it is supposed to be cold.  Does anyone else ever have the issue of trying to decide whether to pack for cold weather or warm weather; nice clothes or just cute clothes?  I always end up packing for a week when I am really only going for two days so I am trying to learn to only pack for two days with maybe a couple extra outfits instead of a week's worth of outfits for two days.  Well, back to work ...

I started a quest to find the perfect tote bag for when I go on weekend trips.  I have a nice suitcase that is good for long trips but I decided that I really didn't need to pack enough stuff for a week when I am only going on a trip for two days.  So I decided to go to the store and see what was out there.  I needed to go to Wal-mart anyway so I thought I would see what king of luggage and totes that they had, Wal-mart had nice suitcases that were the same size or larger than the one I had or they had open tote bags that you can buy in the purse aisle.  I am wanting a bag that has wheels, but is about the size of a duffell bag.  I then went to Ross and found a nize bag that had the features I was wanting, but I wanted to check a few more stores before buying something to see what options I had.  So the next day I went to a few more stores with the same results that Wal-Mart had, either the bags were too large or open without wheels.  So I head back to...

This was a challenge trying to get this blog set up, but I wanted to start a blog about my long-distance dating journey.  My boyfriend lives about six hours from where I live so it has been an interesting challenge trying to figure out the logistics of when we can see each other since our work schedules are completely opposite.  We met about eight years ago when he lived in the same town that I live in.  We attended the same church at the time and that is how we met.  After dating on and off for a few years he accepted a position in a new store that was opening with his company and decided to move away.  We remained friends and talked on the phone occasionally but decided that dating just wasn't going to work at that time.  After a few years, we decided to try the dating thing again and now it has been about three months and we see each other about every two weeks or so and talk on the phone to each other just about every night.  Well that is enough hi...