Ketchup!

See, I made the title that because I need to catch up on my blog.  Get it?  Get it?  I made a funny!  Sorry... I'm tired and fighting off a sinus cold so I'm a little punchy right now.

We enjoyed the joy that is flying through Chicago during a winter storm this weekend.  We flew into O'hare Friday and then drove down to my company's holiday party which was on Saturday.  Absolutely awful weather in Champaign, by the way.  Yay wind and heavy rain!  We don't miss Illinois weather at all.  Got to meet up with old friends still at school, and the party went great.  But we woke up Sunday to an email from American informing us that our flight was canceled and we were rebooked for Monday night.  Mind you, the email was phrased "you've been rebooked" not "we're sorry  and our flight was 7:30pm and the email was sent at 7am and the weather remained pretty clear until midafternoon.

But oh well.  Our travel agent (the company's, not my personal one.  I'm not fancy enough to have a travel agent) got us on a flight at 2:40 yesterday instead of 7:30, so we were able to get home in time to go to the hockey game.

Ok, enough babbling.  Picture time!  You can click on them to see a bigger version.

Spinach pasta dough!  It was sooo pretty.  Probably just looks weird in the photo though.

I delegated the pasta rolling and cutting to my resident Italian.

Cut pasta drying.

Here's our car at the tree farm.  All the trees were this spread out.  If you look closely, Molly is perched up on the center armrest looking at us.

A lot of the trees looked nice from a distance, but once you got closer, they were two trees growing close together. :(

Stefano, Molly, and Pepper.

Me, Molly, and our tree.

Molly wanted to help cut down the tree.

Pikes Peak!  It looked really cool through the clouds.

How much is that doggy in the window?

Stefano going up to put up Christmas lights.

Stefano on the roof-top.

Molly was apparently making sure Stefano didn't run off without her noticing.

Charlie Brown tree.

First victim of Christmas.  Molly thought it was a chew toy.  Thankfully she didn't get one of the ones with more history.