Blackhawks, part 3

This week we headed out to the United Center for our third Hawks game of the season. Unfortunately, Rob & I are no longer witnesses to only Blackhawk wins as San Jose got the best of them. And to make things worse, even though we arrived 45 minutes early, we weren't one of the first 10,000 fans - so no Blackhawk Santa Hat for us..... However, we were plenty early to hear the National Anthem. It's an experience like nothing else - below is the video, but we're not too impressed with the quality of the iPhone...

Oh Christmas Tree!

Since last year I was not feeling Christmas spirit after my company's holiday party and we didn't decorate our silver little tree, this year we decided to go get a real one! I wasn't too keen on putting a living thing in my living room, but Rob convinced me and I do say, it does look quite nice! I hadn't had a real tree since I was probably about 8 years old. Of course there are some down sides of waiting a week before Christmas to decorate - the stores are all sold out of lights. Rob searched high and low looking for a couple of strands of white lights. He found a "double roll" of 400 lights total and thought it was way too much, but was tired of going from store to store. However, apparently he had never seen my mom decorate a Christmas Tree - you have to start at the bottom and put lights on each branch - in and out - and work your way to the top. 400 was no challenge for me! Rob thought I was crazy, but we were at my parent's house this weekend and Mom had 950 lights on her tree. I think I can beat that if we ever get a fake tree! Anyways, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the needles stay on the tree and off the floor.

Yes, I did.

I tried to help the Huskers out by dressing up Buddy & Boomer up in a little Husker gear, but unfortunately time didn't run out quickly enough... And yup, you're not seeing things, Rob really does have some extra warmth on his face. We'll see how he looks by Christmas (which is fast approaching by the way!!!)

First Real Snow!

We're supposed to get more starting tomorrow....