Nate’s Blog

Well, my wife and son are off visiting family and so I am temporarily all alone in this cold cruel world. So when I am not at work, I have been playing a new Wii game I picked up, Super Smash Brother’s Brawl. It is a very fast, fun and addictive game, so I haven’t had as much sleep. Today at work both my co-worker (who also has had little sleep) and I were pretty “out of it.” We would both spontaneously start laughing about the stupidest things, but at least we made it through the day. Well, I think I am going to go home and take a nap, after that I may get back to the Brawl. Ah, the joy of sleep deprivation. I feel like a college student again.

Every since I was a wee lad, I remember we had a family tradition of making and decorating gingerbread houses. My mom would begin by rolling, cutting, and then baking the gingerbread (I love the smell of gingerbread). Then she would assemble the houses using hot melted sugar (If it gets on you it leaves a mark, my mom has many battle scars from sugar glue). Next we would begin throwing on frosting and candies galore. After we were finished decorating, we would then take our houses and deliver them to those in need or to family and friends who would enjoy them the most. This tradition has always been one of my favorites. This year my wife and I decided to give it a try, so we made mini-gingerbread houses. I didn’t feel like making the large real gingerbread houses, so we made mini-graham cracker houses instead (sorry mom). We had some friends over and had a fun sticky time. Ah, I love this time of year…tis’ the season. Happy Holidays!

Every year my wife and I try to carve pumpkins. This last Saturday, we went over to our friend’s house and had a fun time carving pumpkins, drinking cider through licorice straws (Red Vine), and watching Garfield’s Halloween. Here are the fruits (or squash) of our labors…

Left to Right: Jordan’s artistic interpretation of Aang from “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, Edlyn’s scary ghosts…from a pattern, Nate’s happy pumpkin, Jordan and Joe’s daughter’s marker colored pumpkin dedicated to Picasso, and Joe’s Scary 3D witch!