Above is our front yard and below is our street!
The AFN weather squadron does not do the greatest with predicting the weather...had no idea it was even supposed to snow today!! I had a few things on my list to do...looks like they won't get done! I started baking cookies yesterday...the dough is chilling in the fridge and I need some Andes mints to bake them. So my Christmas cookies are on hold til I can make it to base to buy them. Normally I would be excited about having dough chilling in the fridge...but I don't even like this dough until it's baked...what a bummer. .
I was also planning to find the Volvo dealership today to take a look at a car Taylor and I are interested in. Well, by interested in, I mean we're hopefully going to order on Monday. We have been looking at a few cars lately and Taylor has been doing countless hours of research on cars and I think we've made a decision. We are pretty set on the Volvo XC60 it is a brand new Crossover SUV, just a little smaller than their XC90, their regular SUV. We're trying to take a look at interiors and deciding between black or beige leather and what color to do the radio/control panels...silver or dark wood. The dark wood is $300 more so we're trying to go for the silver as long as it looks decent. We are buying it through military sales, but they only have one XC60 available to test drive and look at...so I was going to try to find a Volvo dealership to see if they had other XC60s with different interiors...to see how they look. The way it works is you pretty much custom order the car, so we get to pick all the colors and things we want. So hopefully if we go through with it on Monday, then we'll have the car around March. Exciting times here!
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We also finally got a couch and tv for downstairs...next we're looking for a coffee table and hopefully an end table or two! I'm working on getting the downstairs set up...or rather...helping Taylor set it up :) He's already hung a few pictures and set up his UT helmet and sacred signed Peyton Manning picture. When he was putting them up on the shelf downstairs, I pulled a couple orange colored books to add to the shelf. He was baffled as to why I would put those books there, I said, "because they're orange and they go with the stuff up there..." he said, "but they're not UT books!?!?" So he dug through his boxes to find his UT books to go on Peyton's shelf! I was attempting to use a little technique that my mom taught me to help bookshelves not look so cluttered. She said if you arrange the books by color and put other things that are of similar color together then it looks more organized. So that's what I was trying to do :) But I guess I was disgracing Peyton...don't worry, he is now surrounded with Tennessee books. I'm not sure how much decorating advice I'll be able to give, but I did move around the furniture down there yesterday, Taylor has yet to see it...but I'm sure after reading the blog he'll be looking!
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And finally, over Christmas Taylor and I are taking our first ski trip over here. Actually this will be our first ski trip together since high school youth group! We first started "liking each other" on our ski trip to North Carolina in February of 1998! And we first started dating on our ski trip in 1999...just the other day! So this will be fun...we are going to Innsbruck, Austria from December 23rd through the 26th. It's just Taylor and I, so we're celebrating our first Christmas together on the slopes! Since we have no family here, we thought we should take a trip instead! I'll post lots of pictures and let you know how it goes! We are driving...so that in itself will be an adventure...we inevitably take a few wrong turns everytime we rely on our GPS...but hopefully the predicted 4 hour 17 minute drive proves to be true!
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Anyway, hope everyone is enjoying the last few days before Christmas...some getting snow, I've heard about on the news...blizzard coming to the East Coast, residents snowed in and haven't finished their Christmas shopping, flights might be delayed...as always, nothing but cheery Christmas news :)
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
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