Closing in on 6 months

It's hard to believe that two Sundays from today we'll have been married for six months. It's been wonderful!

To recap, briefly:

We bought a house.

















We adopted the sweetest cat ever from our local shelter.




















We did some home renovations.







































We had a lovely first fall, including a weekend trip up to New Hampshire.




















My parents came to visit.































James' parents came to visit.
















We're learning what it means to be home owners. (A lot of work, and a lot of money, especially if plumbers are involved.)








































(I've done lots of work around the house too, just no one's taking pictures of it! Hehe.)

I got about a foot of hair chopped off to donate to Locks for Love.




















James has been absolutely slammed in work pretty much ever since we got back from the honeymoon. He would wake up at five am, get to work, wake me up at 7 or whatever, we'd go to work. We'd come home and while I was making dinner, he'd work. We'd have dinner, watch an hour of TV on DVD or TiVo'd TV (at most), then he'd go back to work. Some nights he worked the whole night through. Thankfully that period came to a close today, so that should be the end of the all nighters - at least for now.

This weekend we had our first snowstorm! It started out as a sprinkling of rain and a few spare flakes drifting down, so I didn't think it would amount to much. We ran a bunch of errands all over Northern Mass (the nearest Crate and Barrel is a half hour away, and the nearest Trader Joe's is a half hour away, but in two different directions!), including getting Christmas gifts. The snow really started coming down, and it was so much fun to be doing all this Christmas-y shopping with the snow falling softly around us. What was a little flurry in the afternoon turned into an all-out snowstorm that night, so driving home after shopping was slow and careful.

And the next morning, our neighborhood was transformed into a winter wonderland!















Added bonus: we only got a couple of inches, so the snow cleared out of the roads pretty quickly. But it hasn't really fallen off the trees yet (at least, as of this morning), so it's extremely pretty everywhere you look!















We have two and a half more weeks of work, and then on December 23 we fly out to California to spend Christmas with the Webster clan. We're flying in to San Francisco, then driving down that night to somewhere along the coast. On Christmas eve, we'll continue driving down the coast to Arroyo Grande where his parents have a house. It's going to be so wonderful! We're both getting very excited.