What I'm Looking Forward To...What I'll Miss
I'm leaving for Oregon this weekend to spend Christmas with Ryan's family. When I arrived at work this morning, I had an email from Ryan's little brother, Josh, asking, "What kind of science do you want to do when you get here?" I love it! So...here are some things I'm looking forward to with my Oregon Christmas:
- Doing science with Josh.
- Watching movies with Josh.
- Playing charades with Josh.
- Meeting my niece, Alicia McKinley Strelow, for the first time.
- Being in the great Oregon outdoors.
- Shooting clay pigeons.
- Staying in the loft in the barn. (Okay, it's actually the work shed or something like that, but it's more fun to say the loft in the barn, right?)
- Snow
- Papa Murphy's pizza. YUM!!!
- The ridiculously huge tree in the Zempel house.
- Trying to get everyone excited about LSU going to the National Championship!
- Gran's cherry pie
- Gran's pecan pie
- Gran's chocolate pie
- Dad's fried turkey. Oh yes, thank you Lord for Dad and his Fried turkey!
- Mom's mac and cheese
- ...is anyone seeing a theme here? Okay, moving away from food...
- Seeing my cute little niece Eowyn Ruth McClure
- Seeing absolutely every Mobilian I know in the Bel Air Mall on Christmas Eve
- Watching football and movies with the family.
- Watching dad fall asleep while people are unwrapping presents.
- Watching Jim take 53.2 minutes to unwrap a single present.
- Playing in the Christmas Ho-Ho Bowl (touch football) against the Mathews family. Okay, so we haven't done that in years, but it's such a wonderful memory!
posted by Heather Z @ 10:06 AM
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Since we're also doing Christmas (although technically, it will be after New Year's) in the Great Northwest, there are also a few Southern/family things I'm missing. To solve that problem, 1) I had my dad ship me a country ham. It arrives today so I can start the 12-hour soaking then many-hour boiling process. Yum! 2) Mom sent me the recipe for MomMom's plum pudding so I can make my own.
Umm--large tree IN the Zempel house?
Yeah-- the tree is over 15-feet high. Ryan tells me that one year it was a 21-footer. It's huge. They use a fishing pole to hang ornaments on it.
I am sad you won't be in Mobile but it sounds like you will have a good time in Oregon!
Alright, here's how tired I am--honestly, I didn't even think "Christmas Tree"...I was thinking live tree growing in the house. Saw that once (where else--West Virginia)
Wow, it's time for vacation...
Any chance I could get that recipe for plum pudding?
Regena--not sure if you'll see this, but e-mail me and I'll pass along the recipe.
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