Christmas is fast approaching so it’s time to think about what to do for the family gift wise.  Quite a few options for this.  We can just get them something random or funny, or we can get them personalized gifts which might be pretty cool since it would be all about them.  Or in the past we have done just stocking stuffers to keep the costs down.

I know my wife and i usually just buy something together.  We have done this the last couple of years and seems to work out pretty well.  I think this year she wants to do something with the house.  I think it’s the perfect time to get a Wii.

Probably will not do anything with the extended family this year since we are flying up to Seattle to see my family and I think that’s the best gift ever.  Actually we haven’t been back to Seattle for Thanksgiving or Christmas the last two years.  I think the last time was 2005.  It has been way to expensive.  Like this year it was $1200 for 2 of us to fly over Christmas.  Ouch is right..!!!  Although my nice Aunt and Uncle gave us tickets for Christmas so that was our gift and we very much appreciate it.

Well the Fall season came to an end last Sunday.  We finished up with 2 wins and 10 losses and 0 Ties.  Please remember that this is our first season playing competitive and we are also playing up 1 age bracket.  So as the fall season closes, we have a 2 weekend break from games and we can now practice hard for an upcoming tournament.

When the spring season arrives (In march I believe) they will split up the one huge division we are in and we will be placed in division 2 essentially.  I believe with a couple tournaments and our continued practice that we will have a better season in the spring time than we did in the fall.

The last couple days I have had some good opportunities to shoot some clouds and attempt at the moon.  Now granted my camera sucks so the Moon shots really don’t turn out that well for close ups, but I try anyways.

The two pictures I’m going to show here were taken at highway speeds via my sunroof.  Sometimes they actually turn out pretty good.  And the moon shot was taken the same way.  Enjoy…!!!

It all started Saturday I’m certain.  We had soccer practice and I was doing some throw in drills to teach them some things and I think I did about 50 or so.  OK so nothing major but about 6 hours later my back started hurting.  uh oh!  yeah that was my response.  So Sunday morning I could barely get out of bed. It hurt so bad..  I Immediately put some heat on it for most of the morning.  I hobbled to my soccer game that afternoon (it was our last one of the season) and then back home.

Monday morning I went to the doc and they advised me I had pulled a muscle and gave me some prescriptions.  So I went all day at work without anything as I couldn’t get my prescriptions till afterwards.  But once I got home I took a muscle relaxer and a pain pill and I was out.  It was starting to feel better but tonight it’s hurting again..  One of these days I will have to learn to take it easy.

Will update my progress later on.

I’m sure she would love some company.  I usually get to see my cousins once or twice per year.  Mainly at holidays.  The last two Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays we never flew home so it’s been some time since I have seen them.

She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.  So one thing we could do is get a hotel in las vegas or we probably could just stay with her.  Although she lives out of the Vegas strip area, it would be free accommodations.  But since the holidays are coming up and we are actually going to Seattle this year, maybe we can get something planned for the spring time.  Not to mention that Leslie has only been there via the airport and never to any of the big casinos.

I guess I got passed up on the memo chain.  I really wish someone had told me sooner.  I didn’t realize that we are now skipping the Thanksgiving holiday!

I have already heard Christmas music.  Our neighborhood development decided to put up bows and wreath’s on the entrances.  TV commercials are out of control with Christmas ad’s.  I guess the memo didn’t get delivered in time.  Not to mention that some big chain stores had small Christmas sections up before Halloween.

Honestly I’m actually not ready for all the Christmas stuff floating around.  I like to see everything happen the day after Thanksgiving.  I’m just not ready to give up on Thanksgiving…!!!

We are thinking about making one of our extra bedrooms a little more livable.  That way it looks nicer and we have some better furniture in there.

One of the first things we want to accomplish is getting some paint on the walls.  White is boring after a long, long time.  Next we would probably run down to the local discount furniture store and replace what we have in the bedroom currently with some newer furniture.  Depending on what we find there, might have to build some book shelves or install some shelves on the wall.  Most likely get some type of art work or painting to put on the wall.

One of these days we will eventually get around to painting all the rooms so each one will add some flavor to the house.  And once we get the spare bedroom done, we will just need to have some people come over and stay the night.

Yesterday afternoon before we got busy doing our to-do lists, we paused for a few minutes on our back patio basking in the beautiful day.  There were only a few clouds, not too many, and the sun was a mild 79 degrees.  Truly beautiful.  As I stare into the sky thinking about how good the house looked after a marathon cleaning event, I noticed this one cloud pretty much sitting all by himself.  Since I like the sky so much I ran in and grabbed my camera.  The angle of the sun behind the cloud was just right.  Here are two shots of it:

Hopefully you all had a wonderful weekend.

p.s.  Question – Were you late for anything Sunday morning cause of the time change?