on the 6th day of christmas...

We went to a fantastic dinner with Great Pumpkin and Dana at Tony di Napoli's... We we were already full off of linguine and seafood, sausage and peppers, and chicken francese when someone who worked at Tony's had learned of Dana's affiliation with hungrygirl.com sent out tiramisu, cheesecake and a fruity thing. Delicious. Every. single. bit.

GP and Dana gave us the snake and grillz...


Once home, we opened various packages that came in the mail from Nikki, and Doug's present for Beka that came late.


As we opened these things, we listened to Doug's gift from Beka that came late... the vinyl of Weezer's latest red album. (And it is actually red!)



Here's the assortment of things our lovely friends and families got for us... photos of both of us are brought to you by the infrared remote to Beka's new camera.



Beka's mom got us the gator shirts, socks, and pens.

Nikki got Beka the gator apron and gator necklace.

Beka's Mom also got us the Thornhill University shirts (and so we had to act like a college brochure).

And Doug got Beka a silkscreening kit.

We had some fun with the remote... This photo is a recreation of this HIMYM moment.












We tried to get the cats in the winter holiday spirit with a santa beard and penguin costume, but they weren't too thrilled with it...


Thank you everyone!!

christmas afternoon

On Christmas Eve, there were 3 services at Beka's church. Doug made it for the last two, but neither of us had eaten dinner...

When we left about 11:30, we hopped in our zipcar and traveled around Queens trying to look for anything that would satiate our hunger. After being told at KFC that they only had chicken (really), we finally found a Subway in a different gas station that was still open. It was the best sandwich of our lives.

When we finally got back about 1:00 am, we slept in a bit before returning to church for the Christmas Day service. After returning the car we came home with no intent to leave again. We opened some presents, ordered chinese food (classic), and were quickly dozing on the couch by late afternoon.


The kitties got a ball that rolled on its own from Beka's parents -- the cats were less than excited.



We got more gator things and some interesting shirts from Beka's mom...





And Doug got a watch from Beka.

merry christmas

holiday market

One of our favorite things to do when it is after Thanksgiving and before Christmas is go to the Union Square Holiday Market.

We only bought mini cupcakes though.

package day

We got three exciting boxes... Florida oranges from Patty, a birthday gift for Doug from Nate and Laura, and gator things from Rose.

If it wasn't obvious, Doug was ecstatic about his lighter and case with a picture from Anclote. The oranges got used in Doug's newest brew. And the gator things are great prep for January 8th...

a bigger christmas tree than ours

Beka went to go see the tree in rockefeller center.

we're not dead, just really busy

We've been gone for a while.

Many of you have asked if our blog was broken. Some of you asked where we went.

This fall, Doug started school at Columbia and Beka started a new job. We have stayed incredibly busy and thus have had less time for cooking, but have managed to squeeze in various fall and cold weather favorites and even a holiday meal.

We've had some friends come to visit — Nate and Laura came during a tropical storm that we made the best of and the last weekend for Coney Island. Min and Nicole (and baby bump, a.k.a. owlgator) came up for a weekend. Becky, Pep, and Audrey came for a quick visit. Monique and Rose came up for a cold weekend. And the Weinrichs (all of them!) made it to the city for a windy and cold day earlier this week.

If this wasn't excitement enough, we've been trying to keep up with the Gators football season. We've been anticipating the National Championship all season long. (Especially after getting a new TV that is worth watching football on.)

In between all this, We've eaten curried goat with state representatives, played in a huge toy store, one of us turned 30, we got ready for Xmas, let the cats be cats, and got a new camera.

Updates on the rest of Christmas soon...

new camera

Beka decided to use her XMas money towards upgrading her camera.
She's now the proud owner of a Nikon D40 SLR camera.
As we learn to use it, hopefully the blog will be seeing some more action...



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mo and ro sho...

Monique and Rose came to visit.
It was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.






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doug had a birthday!

Beka got Doug a record player... (all should be happy she got him something that means easy gift ideas for all friends and family... now he's building his record collection...)












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