The Busy Season is Approaching!

November 19th was incredibly busy! I trekked out to Long Beach, about a 45-1 hour drive from us to go to my friend Jen’s Baby Shower. Her shower was completely adorable. The theme was Alice in Wonderland. The cake, macarons, party hats, tea station and food was pleasing to the palette and the eye! Can’t wait to meet the little and sure to be dapper James Finnegan Spaeth! After the shower I headed back home and changed and Jacob and I were on our way to our friend Naveen’s Bollywood Party in West Hollywood. We stayed for a few hours and caught up with some friends and saw Naveen and his family dance. Two cute small dogs were running around the throngs of people at Naveen’s apartment, sadly the next day one of them was in a car accident and died :(

After the party, Jacob and I headed to Van Nuys for my sisters birthday gathering at her house. We stayed for a short time because we were both tired, presents opened and cake served then we headed home.

On the 20th Jacob and I went to a cooking class called Hipcooks located at the LA Brewery by the 5 in downtown. We went t the Holy Mole class and learned how to make albondigas soup, chicken and mole, a take on chile relleno without the egg batter, nopalitos salad and flan. All very delisioso.

Thanksgiving has come and gone. I have been excited to host Thanksgiving this year at our home. The week started off with my left ring finger cut by the interior chrome door handle. I had just gotten to work and opened the passenger door to see if the car was in the red and I felt a pinch and then saw my finger bleeding pretty badly. I ran out of the car and ran up the hill to the student health center to find it closed for a meeting! SO I run to my building and head to the bathroom and cleaned it as best I could, wrapped a napkin around it and headed to my cubicle. I needed a band aid and my supervisor saw me and directed me to the first aid kit and helped clean up my finger. Its been a week now and I can finally se it healing!

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving was such a blur. I am so glad we were allowed to leave early that day. I picked up the chairs and linens we rented at Sir Michaels across the street from where I work. Then I went to KIA to replace the door handle and they plan to replace it with the exact same handle! Apparently I am not the only one that has been hurt by the handle. I also picked up last minute food items at Ralphs. Gael and Benicio also spent the night at our place. On Thursday I began with starting on the pumpkin cheesecake and once done with that started with the green bean casserole and then the turkey! Jacob helped with me the turkey and then put it in the oven for a few hours. My sister came at noon with the salad and mashed potatoes. Once the turkey was in, Jacob left to Redondo Beach to pick up Aunt Pat. My parents and brother came over for Thanksgiving as well. It was how most of my family gatherings go, complaints and accolades and laughs. We managed to get a few decent family pictures. Jacob and I were exhausted that night.

I dropped of Jacob at work Friday morning then went to Target and purchased the Xbox Kinect and a few games. Then I took Bailey to the vet since he had been throwing up for a few days. While at the vet a man came running in with a dog full of bled, a pit bull had bitten his dog. I asked later if that dog was ok and they said she should be. I was given pills and bland wet dog food to feed Bailey. He seems back to himself now.

On Saturday Jacob and I prepped the house for some friends that night. I prepared a few appetizers and bought some cheeses, crackers and munchies. Jacob made a tasty Christmas Rum punch. Jenn, Seth & Kadance were the first to arrive and Jenn was kind enough to help me with the goat cheese stuffed mushroom appetizer. The other appetizers served were prosciutto wrapped in breadsticks, spinach & artichoke dip with sourdough bread pieces, cheeses and crackers, bacon wrapped in small potatoes, puff ham & cheese pastries, mixed nuts, macarons and chocolate covered pretzels. We played a few rounds of Gesturers and at the end of the night only J, Angie, Ana and I remained so we all played a few Kinect games until midnight when the girls left and J and I fell asleep. Sunday was an incredibly lazy day minus the dish washing. We played the Dance Central 2 games and we tied at 2-2 and we were too tired to play anymore.