My First Turkey & Meet Diego

Our first Thanksgiving on our own. We cooked a 5.5 lb. turkey breast for both of us and it turned out perfect!! (Thanks Dad for the instructions!)


After a morning of cooking and waiting for the turkey to finish, we sat down at 1pm to turkey, gravy (made by José), mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, bread, and complete with sparkling white grape juice. Yum! We had a great day!


Meet Diego!! 100% Miniature Pinscher. We got him yesterday! Now 11 wks old, he was born a week after we moved to Ohio. He's smart and will be a lot of fun. (We're already house training like crazy and so far, we're 2 days accident free!)

Snow Season

We had the great blessing of having Rosita, José's mom, with us these last two weeks. One thing she was really hoping to see was SNOW, and LOTS of it! While we kept the heat cranked up to 75, we got all kinds of snow, little tiny ice balls, mini flakes, huge fluffy flakes, wet, dry and everything in between.
José and Rosita got to build their first snowman (José has seen snow before but not in this quantity and has been getting used to leaving with 15-20 minutes to spare so he can shovel out the driveway, sidewalk, and scrape off the car!) Since it's going to be cold, I'd rather see snow! I'm realizing that it's not smart to "run" to the mailbox, winter coat, scarf, gloves, and then flip-flops and socks. The snow is cold and deep. No quick sprints to the car either, my new wardrobe is evolving: 2 pair of boots just for being outside, as many sweaters as I can find, a new total of 5 winter coats for different occasions..........

Painting, Snow, and Goodbye to Sofía

Painting the bedroom- We LOVE the color!


Our first official snow, October 30. 2 inches in 2 hours. It melted very quickly. (Thankfully).




We said goodbye to Sofía on November 6th. She was very sick and we had to put her down. We will miss her, she was a great little dog.