Ricardo & Kylie

Merry Christmas! We hope everyone has had a great holiday season. We're very sad to see it quickly ending. In fact, we were just talking about how long we could leave our Christmas decorations up and not be judged. Our house just looks so much better with our tree and all of our decorations! One Christmas we had such a great tree that it stayed fresh until the end of January and we totally kept it that whole time. I think it was still good going into February, but by then we had come to terms with the fact that Christmas was over. We'll see what happens this year. :) We planned a day right before Christmas to head to downtown Philly and see all of the Christmas stuff. We started the day off at Macy's and saw the famous Wanamaker organ- it has the most pipes of any organ in the whole world and for some reason they decided to put it in a department store. It's actually not that big size-wise, but it has its claim to fame anyway. Here we are in front of it: T...

The month of December has been crazy so far, but also lots of fun! We have had a great time decorating for Christmas and participating in all kinds of festivities. We have also been busy juggling work and school! Ricardo officially finished his semester on Friday and he is excited for a little break. Since I live in the real world, I don't get a Christmas break, but I do have quite a few days off due to my erratic work schedule, so we have some fun things planned for those days! On December 5th was Ricardo's 26th birthday. He is officially closer to 30 than 20 now, which I will be gloating about until I hit that mark next August. He had school that day, but I was off of work so I was able to cook all day and make him all of his favorite things. We had crepes with nutella for breakfast and for dinner we had delicious  spinach artichoke pasta  and carrot cake, one of the few desserts he actually likes. Otherwise, his birthday was pretty low-key. We opened gifts, talked to fami...

Happy almost Thanksgiving! Since my last post, we have been enjoying our first northeastern fall! It has been beautiful, although the temperature is not quite as warm as we'd like! I guess that's the price you pay for leaves changing colors.  Ricardo has been enjoying his first semester of school and we're excited that it has gone by so fast! In other news, I finally got to start working a few weeks ago! I am really enjoying my job and I love my coworkers. I work literally a mile away from Ricardo's school and we are so grateful that I was able to find such an amazing job. It has been such a blessing already. The weekend before Halloween we headed to Maryland to visit my sister and family. We had a great time hanging out with them! We spent a few hours on Saturday morning watching the kids play soccer and later that night we had a BBQ/bonfire/pumpkin carving party at my sister's in-law's house. It's so fun to see our nieces and live so close to my sister...