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Holiday Cheer is best served with Friends! December 5, 2010

Filed under: Christmas,Food,Friends,Happy — Kelocity @ 3:12 pm
Tags: Christmas, Dogs, Food, Friends, Happy, Yankee Swap

Last night, Erika and Timmy hosted a Holiday Party to celebrate the Holidays. They really went all out preparing the food for the party.

The highlight was her Calzones! She made the bread from scratch! Delicous!

It was such a great night. They have some great friends and we really enjoyed the conversation.

Muggles was brave all night and hung out with everyone. (Good job, Muggles!)

And little Abby made an appearance too! She was so cute!

After spending an hour trying to figure out how to work the controllers, we played a few fun games of Trivia with everyone!

Then it was time for the Yankee Swap! (Apparantly they don’t call it that out here! Maybe it’s an east coast thing?)

They were all awesome gifts! I had the second number…

And I got a sweet game of Travel Scattegories! (Thankfully no one stole from me, because I was pretty excited about this!)

It was a great night, we had so much fun! Thanks for having us over!

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It’s Snowing in Los Angeles! December 4, 2010

Filed under: Christmas,Food,Friends,Hollywood Events — Kelocity @ 8:57 am
Tags: Christmas, Food, Friends, Hollywood

Yes, indeed, it was snowing in Los Angeles tonight!

Even if it was fake snow blowing from the roof of a building, that still counts, right?

Tonight was the neighborhood Holiday Open House where all the stores and restaurants offer free samples and discounts. It’s so fun!

This year, Erika and Timmy came with us, so it was even more fun!
(Check out the “snow” in my hair!)

We pretty much went on the ‘Soup Tour’ up and down the street! We had vegetable soup, stew, tomato soup, squash soup! And lots of zucchini bread, hot cocoa and cookies in between.

As we were walking, we saw James Marsden walk by with his family!! We totally did a double take and spun around for another look. I used to love him on Second Noah! Remember that show?

And right before that, we saw George Barris! (I realize he’s not a household name, but in my house, he totally was!) He’s my dad’s car building role model!

He built so many famous cars from the movies.

Then our friend Erica came by and we chatted by the Christmas tree until after midnight! So nice to be surrounded by great friends in a great city. I love this town.

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Christmas Tree Time!! December 3, 2010

Filed under: Christmas,Family,Happy — Kelocity @ 8:47 pm
Tags: Christmas, Christmas Tree, Family, Happy

First of all, I can’t believe that it’s already December. Where did the year go! Regardless, I’m super excited, I love this time of year, especially in Los Angeles. It gets just cold enough to feel like Christmas, but still warm enough that you don’t need a coat.

This year, we went to get our tree at Home Depot (can’t beat the price and the convenience!)
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For some reason, I started to feel a little emotional buying our tree. I just feel so lucky that we are able to afford the tree we want to get. We are so fortunate that we don’t have to choose between a tree or food on the table like so many Americans. The tree is a constant reminder to us to remember what’s really important in life, I am so lucky to have Irving and two great families to celebrate the holidays with.

We brought it home and gave her a new home in the dining room.

We let it settle and open up and we watched an episode of Weeds. And then we dragged out all the ornaments!

We put up two strands of lights and watched her glow.

We were so tired at that point that we went to bed (GASP! Without putting the ornaments on!)

So today, we woke up at 5:30a and decorated her before work. Smile Much better!

We always buy a Christmas ornament from every place we travel to.
This year’s new additions:

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Dubai, UAE (It’s ‘gold’ and it’s a camel. how perfect is that?)

Cairo, Egypt (which was actually really hard to find!)

And I know this sounds really bad, but I think I got this last year for Christmas and I really really really love this ornament…. does anyone know who gave this to me? I want to write it on the box!

The rest of the house got decorated as well!

Who says Sunflowers aren’t Christmasy?

I’ll get a picture of us in front of the tree this week to post. Now it’s time to get shopping!

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Christmas Came Early! November 30, 2010

Filed under: Food,Happy — Kelocity @ 5:00 pm
Tags: Food, Happy

Wow… today UPS came not only to drop off ONE present… but TWO! We’ve been on an ordering frenzy lately! Tis the Season I guess!

The first package was our order from Omaha Steaks!

We like to order from them once a year. It’s enough meat to last us at least four months. Crazy!

Wow, that’s a lot of meat!

Somehow, we managed to fit it all inside the freezer!

All this meat is in addition to three pounds of ground beef, four chicken cutlets, frozen chicken nuggets, a rack of ribs from Costco and this six pound prime rib Irving bought from Harris Ranch! Crazy, right?

And then we got our giant box of K-Cup coffees for our Keurig!

We now have 28 flavors in our cupboards… this too should last about four months! I feel like Starbucks. Ha!

They even shipped a little present in there… Spicy Eggnog Coffee
(Irving, you can have it, that actually sounds kind of gross).

And they also included a roll of Smarties in the box (which I think might have been an accident?! Random!

And to top off all the great mail today… I got the postcard I mailed myself from Egypt!

Here’s what I wrote to us:

Hi Kelley and Irving,
Right now, you are aboard a ship that is floating down the Nile River in Egypt. You are having the time of your life and you know how lucky you are to be exploring Egypt so young. It is a tough country to visit, but definitely worth it. You rode camels, went inside the second pyramid, saw the sphinx, flew to Abu Simbel, learned hieroglyphics, rode an overnight train to Aswan and had an amazing time doing all of it. We were so nervous about traveling here, but it will be remembered as an incredible experience. Keep Traveling! The world is your oyster!

That is good advice for myself, right?

Dinner on Monday included Thanksgiving Dinner Round II!

Because once just isn’t enough. lol

PS… SO excited Christmas music is on the radio now. I’ve been listening for two weeks and I love it. The music paired with our 35* weather right now, and I’m definitely in the Christmas Spirit. We’re getting our tree this week!! Woot!