Third Annual Disneyland Trip

Last Saturday hubby and I took our annual trip to Disneyland. Every year MIL gives us tickets (she gets free tickets since retired from there).

I then get to go and spend the day being a kid...this year was no different.

We hit the things we always do...Space Mountain, Haunted Mansion, Thunder Mountain, Matterhorn, The Enchanted Tiki Room. We even took in a couple of the shows. They have this thing where they teach kids to be a Jedi, pretty cool. There was also this hillbilly band/comedic act. We even rode the Mark Twain Steamboat for the first time!

This year I joined the ranks and got one of those badge necklace things for the pin trading (I couldn't help it, they're so cool!)

Then I spent time getting the Christmas candy together and wrapping presents. Why does stuff like that take so much time!?!

It's such a different experience when you have a whole room you can spread out in and don't have to clean up right after!!!

The Christmas Tree

We put up the first Christmas Tree in our house!

This tree is awesome...we bought it in 2004 for $20 at Big Lots. It even sheds, that's how awesome it is.

We considered getting a real tree this year for our first year in our new house, but we can't let go of the last piece of our poor rental lives...it's almost like the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree...it even leans from the weight of the ornaments and lights!

Here's hubby bending the limbs around trying to make it look fuller.
Me in my lovely work from home attire (yes, that's my CWU sweatshirt from college)

We pulled out all of our ornaments and decorated and lit it up. The only thing we didn't have was eggnog.

The Housewarming...

On Saturday we had our first party, a combo housewarming and my 30th birthday. Of course we got so excited neither of us took pictures.

We had 20 people in the house and it felt more like 5 - 10. I can't remember the last time I went to a house party and didn't feel totally cramped. If anything we picked a good party house!!!


And yes, I'm now 30 years old, yuckity yuck!

Introducing the Great Room

And it is done! I cannot tell you the joy we feel. We've been able to clear out the sunken room as well and get that set up. If you can't remember the before, go back to the Jamestown Court post from September (http://muscolinofam.blogspot.com/2008/09/jamestown-court.html)...all the before pics are there...
Every morning is full of excitement and wonder when we wake up to our new house.
There's still so much more work, but we're ready to take it on now that we've accomplished our first room...here we come yard!

The housewarming party is on November 15th, if you're in the area feel free to stop by...it's a combo housewarming and Dirty Thirty for me...I'm planning on wearing all black.

It's good to see Little Mookie enjoys the new set up just as much as we do!!!
Can I just tell you how comfortable the bay window seat is?

Ceiling Fan...

So the only thing that was holding up the Great room was the ceiling fan...what a pain for hubby! There's not crawl space access above the great room addition so he had to cut a hole in the ceiling to mount the bracket since the big beam was taken down and we couldn't hang the ceiling fan from that as it was originally.


Then he had to patch the hole which involved joint compound and spackling.


Then it had to be re-painted.


Then he could finally hang the fan.



We bought one of those remote controls so you can control it wirelessly and don't have to use those awful pull chains (I really don't like them!).


During the process we realized the receiver is quite large and has to be stored up in the ceiling...hubby had to cut back some of his beautiful patching job to mount it. He now has to spackle it back up. Luckily, he didn't have to cut much back.


Didn't he do a good job?

First Fire...

We cranked up the wood burning stove and then learned the flue was broken, the arm has come off...the smoke wasn't too bad, but no fires for us this winter until we get it fixed.

*sigh* and it gets so much colder in the new house than in Point Loma...we're talking 50's!

Election Day!

OK, I screwed up. I'm an absentee voter and I never changed my address with Voter Registration so I never got my ballot. It's probably the single most important election of our lives and I won't get to vote...


Whoever now lives in good ole' Poe Street #3 probably voted for me...jerk.


Hubby never changed his and he's just going to the old polling place...lucky.


It's POURING down rain on Election Day in San Diego, I can't help but wonder if that's an omen?