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Yep .. a house!. I need to get some pictures on here of it.

laurie and I have been working pretty feverishly to clean things and do stuff before the holiday, so that we can have family and friends help us move in on the 28th. Its crazy .. we’ll probably loose both of our minds. But its also awesome. So ok .. thats all for now. I’ll get some pictures taken sometime and post them up here.

Ok really. There were no monsters involved (or hurt even) in the making of this Sundays events. Laurie and I had a day long date on Sunday doing Christmas type stuff. It was fresh off the heels of Jason’s Christmas party on Saturday night, and a marathon shopping/Wall-mart trip around Arundel Mills. We rocked the hell out of all the things we needed to shop for. So it was great to spend Sunday doing fun stuff.

It started off seeing this thing called “The Living Christmas Tree”. The idea is pretty simple.

You get a group of musicians to do the orchestra music for Christmas music - CHECK.
You get a chorus - CHECK
You form a chorus stand that is the shape of a Christmas tree (including lights!!) where all you can see is a person’s head - CHECK
Put Chorus in the Christmas tree and sing Christmas songs - CHECK

Along with this they had little skits on side stages to bring a story together over top of it just being a chorus in a big Christmas tree singing songs. It got a little slow at times, and Laurie and I cut out a little before the end so we didn’t get killed in the traffic exiting the parking lot. Overall it was pretty fun and a cool thing to do. kudos to Laurie for finding this. (as a theme for the whole day, she was totally in control of the events)

Next we headed on to walk around the National Tree in front of the White House. Took some pictures. Helped some people take pictures, got our picture taken in front of the tree. Was a cool thing to do on a December evening. Our only hitch in the whole plan was that it looked like it was going to start raining when we were driving into DC, but by the time we parked there was nothing coming down.

Then to tie up the evening we took a walk around Old-town Alexandria to look at all the Christmas lights on the trees, and the store fronts, and finally found ourselves in Cosi drinking warm drinks and talking about furniture and painting.