Finally, a new post!!

       Sorry everyone, I know that it has been forever since the last time we posted, and I guess that is my fault (Shawn).  Anyways it is now the first of December, and a lot has happened, I am going to skip all that other stuff, and focus on the more recent fun stuff, like last week, my birthday, and Thanksgiving.  My birthday was on November 26th, last Wednesday, and Laura and I got to go to my house in California.  Sounds great right?  Well, sort of.  First we had to drive to Las Vegas, and it was rainy and the roads were wet, so that wasn't all that fun.  Then we had to deal with Las Vegas traffic, which is terrible.  Once we finally got to the airport and got checked in, we found out that our plane was late, and that we were going to have to sit around for at least an hour waiting to leave.  So needless to say... (why would I say something needlessly? fill in the blanks!)  Once we got on the plane the flight was only about an hour and everything went fine from there, it was just the waiting forever to leave the airport that stunk.  

    Ok, on to Thanksgiving.   The day was great.  I got up early to go play some football while Laura stayed home with my mom and Maggie doing... something. i don't know because I was playing football, dominate!  Once I got home and showered Dad and I went out to get some food and munchies and stuff so we could eat the rest of the day, which we did.  Thanksgiving dinner was really nice, and we ate until we could barely move.  The rest of the night was really relaxing and we played cards and planned out our Black Friday attack.

    On Black Friday we did dumb things, like get up at six in the morning to go to stores packed with people and then go to other stores to try and find the things we wanted.  It was bedlam at most places, including Bass Pro Shops, which is an amazing store.  This place was redneck emporium, like Gucci for Gomer!

   Friday's dinner was pretty cool, Laura made Hot Turkey Salad, and we all ate it because it was awesome.  That night the boys, Scott, Dad, Jacob and me went into the hot tub and played some card games with our cool waterproof cards.   

   (Ok, I know this is long, Laura just called it a novel, if you think it is too long you can let me know and  I will try to keep the next one short.)

   On to Saturday.  An easy day of laying around and watching TV.  We did go do some more shopping, but only for a little bit, the we had In N' Out for lunch, which is always awesome.  the flight back to Las Vegas actually left early and we got back to Vegas on time.  Then I drove home from there and we got home at about one in the morning.

    Well, now you are all caught up, except for today's events.  Once we got to campus I started on page 2 of my 15 page paper, (content analysis about reporters and whether or not they were bias in reporting the results of the World Series in October), which was due at noon.  Unfortunately I didn't finish it at noon, I handed it in at about 4:30, oh well, my bad.  Tonight is the fun part though.  Laura and I went over to Wal-Mart and got Christmas things.  So now we have a Christmas tree and some wrapping paper for presents, I already wrapped a few, here's a pic:

The lights came with the tree, which I think is awesome, and Laura and I picked a box of ornaments each to put on it.  We got a bow to top it and we bought a special ornament to celebrate our first Christmas together, it is a wedding cake/bell that is rung by wedding bands interlocked inside it.  It's really sweet.  

   

        So that is pretty much it, except for the fact that today is an important day for Laura because now she can start getting accepted to dental schools.  So far she has been accepted to Creighton and Louisville, and she is on the non-resident waiting list for Ohio State.  so things are good, I think over the next few days she will get some letters and phone calls from Universities begging her to come to their schools.  Anyway that is it from us, we have been having a good time in Cedar, no snow yet, that's good, and we are looking forward to Christmas!!  See you later!!