Family

For Thanksgiving, Tyler's family and my family came to Bellingham to celebrate the holiday and to meet each other. We had a great time visiting, eating, drinking, playing cards, staying up too late and waking too early.

Before our families showed up in town, Tyler and I decided to get an engagement ring for me. We went to the jewelers with my grandmother's old engagement ring, and had the stone placed in a new setting.

Now the whole week reminds of my ring — the joining of not just Tyler and I, but of both our families that have been our support systems for our entire lives. We're combining what is familiar to us, with something new.

And we couldn't be happier.

Fun in the snow

Tyler wanted to do something really fun on Tuesday. Since winter is coming early this year, he wanted to go up to Blue Lake before the snow got too deep.

We headed up with Julius and Natasha, and found snow quickly. As we were driving, the snow began to get deeper, and I thought we should turn around so neither of our vehicles got stuck. Our Pathfinder ended up getting stuck anyway, and in the process of pushing it out, a tire went flat. We managed to get down the road a little ways to change the spare. To our surprise, the spare was also flat. The boys then drove back into town to fill up the spare, while Natasha and I waited for thier return.

Thank God we had beer.

You know it's almost payday...

...when you can only pay for Bloody Marys with change you rolled the day before.

We are one class act.