Thanksgiving, Claire's Birthday and Grandpa Berg's Birthday and Legacy and Our Christmas Decorations!

Thanksgiving at the Winegars

Well we spent Thanksgiving at Carol and Jeremy's house in Provo. Before dinner we went to go see the movie Four Christmases, it was hilarious. We then went to Carol and Jeremy's to help prepare for the dinner. Carol made a fantastic feast and we all had a splendid time.

Claire's Birthday

Last Saturday we celebrated Claire's birthday at Carol and Jeremy's house. We had a breakfast feast filled with pancakes, cinnamon rolls and fruit. Many family and friends were there.


Claire's favorite wrapping job was of course mine because it had Obama stickers on the box. Hehe.

Claire also gave me an awesome gift from her wedding, her official bridesmaid theme blouse and sweater, and some sweet frequent shopper cards!




Grandpa Berg's Birthday and Legacy



The same Saturday we celebrated Grandpa Berg's 75th Birthday at Linda's house and watched a slide show of his life and accomplishments. He opened many cards and was presented with a book written by Grandma Berg of her early life and when they both met. Grandpa Berg loved it and read out loud from it.

Christmas Decorations

Paul and I just finished with our Christmas decorations and are happy with the festive look and happy with Star Trek and Star Wars ornaments on our tree!

I Was Tagged and Now You Are Too!

What is your husbands name? Paul

How long have you been married? Almost 4 Months

How long did you date? I dunno, we were engaged for 8 months. But we met 2 years before.

How old is he? 19 Woohoo!

Who eats more sweets? Paul does.

Who said I love you first? Paul.

Who is taller? Paul.

Who can sing the best? I don't know. I love signing in Rockband though.

Who is smarter? Paul in the more tech and financial side. I'm smarter with graphic design and common sense.

Who does the laundry? I do.

Who pays the bills? Paul does thankfully because I forget.

Who mows the lawn? Some guy.

Who cooks dinner? I do.

Who drives? I do. Except when I am too tired and sleep to drive.

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? I think Paul. But I think he does it just to earn points and make my arrogant self happy.

Who kissed who first? I did.

Who asked who out first? Paul did. (Bowling and also Claire's Wedding)

Who wears the pants? I wear pants. Paul wears shorts, even in the snow.

The rules for this tag: answer questions about your spouse, list names of people you are tagging in your post, then leave a comment on their blog letting them know they've been tagged. I'm tagging Claire and Carol.

I was tagged. So are you.

What is your husbands name? John

How long have you been married? Almost 4 years

How long did you date? About a 5 months.

How old is he? 25

Who eats more sweets? Me. John will eat sweets when they are there but doesn't have the same drive I do.

Who said I love you first? I think John

Who is taller? John

Who can sing the best? Maybe John. At least he is more famous for it.

Who is smarter? Me. are you reading this John?

Who does the laundry? I do.

Who pays the bills? I do.

Who mows the lawn? the Neighborhood association

Who cooks dinner? John does a lot of cooking- it is pretty even.

Who drives? When we are together I try to get John to drive.

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Neither of us are ever wrong. Nor do we ever disagree.

Who kissed who first? John kissed me.

Who asked who out first? Probably John here too.

Who wears the pants? both of us love pants. I am more uptight and picky though.

The rules for this tag: answer questions about your spouse, list names of people you are tagging in your post, then leave a comment on their blog letting them know they've been tagged. I'm tagging Claire, Carol, Carlie and Melissa

More Christmas items

I forgot something important:
Gift card to Nordstrom

And, of course, I'm registered on Sephora.

And here's something I want:
The Mark London Flip-for-It palette

And this headband from Mark

Enjoy!

My Christmas List, by Rachelle

Here is my Christmas List:
1. Barbie ornaments from Hallmark
2. Raspberry Ripple scarf found here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16138223
3. The Office DVD's, seasons 2, 3, and 4
4. Leona Lewis "Spirit" CD
5. Jennifer Hudson debut CD
6. New Kids on the Block "The Block" CD
7. Hanson's latest CD
8. Gift card to Walmart (don't judge, just buy)
9. Gift card to Target
10. Gift cards to Barbiecollector.com
11. Paypal money

I'll add more if I think of more...

I love you all and hope this finds you well.

My Christmas List

1. Blender

2. Gift Card to purchase more Rockband songs

3. Washer and or dryer

4. Tupperware

5. Working Car

6. Picture frame collage

7. Backdrop for picture taking and those cool photo lights

8. A new job

9. Gift card to any bookstore (Borders, Deseret, Barnes & Nobe)

10. A Dwight Shrute Bobblehead from The Office

11. Gift Card to any restaurant or grocery store

12. Indoor grill/griddle

13. Gap 100 % Wool Tweed Jacket Brown Size 10 http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=15207&pid=498585&scid=498585012

14. Anything cool decoration that looks like a Schnauzer

15. Iron

16. Mixers

Mom Christmas List

I hope everyone knows without a list on this site will get no presents from me. I talked to mom on the phone and got her list.

1. Mamma Mia DVD
2. Ipod- except she doesn't know how to set it up.
3. Clearplay DVD player
4. "House"- the TV show
5. "Numbers"- DVD
6. Tractor Ornament from Hallmark
7. Bodyshop Grapeseed Extract lotion for face
8. Socks for wider feet- from Nordstrom
9. Chanel face lotion
10. Jasmine body wash from the Body Shop
11. Sheepskin Costco rug
12. Gift cards- here are some restaurants I like- PF Changs
    
13. India Palace
14. Bombay House
15. Subway
16. Einsteins Bagels
17. Haircut coupons
18. Pedicure Coupons
19. Dental Work
20. Oil Change Coupons
21. Glue dots for Scrapbooking
22. Glow in the Dark Halloween shower curtain and hooks from Kohls
23. Bath Matt- white
    

Janae Christmas List- full of ridiculous and wonderful items.

1. Keds shoes from Zappos

2. Corel photo software

3. Earrings

4. Watch- lois hill

5. Black high heels

6. Rocket dog shoes

7. Tennis lessons

8. New purse- colorful and medium sized like the kate spade blue patent leather purse

9. Wallet

10. Stationery

11. Amy butler fabric

12. Bacon Press

13. Decorative plates for the wall- blue ones or all white or blue with design (can have green or yellow etc)

14. Armoire

15. White decorative bed pillow

16. Game: Agricola

17. Game: Settlers of Catan fancy wooden one

18. Game: Settlers Cities and Knights

19. Game: Settlers of Catan- all expansions

20. Game: Die Macher

21. Game: Shogun

22. Hoody Zippy BYU sweatshirt

23. Drexel sweatshirt

24. Stuff to do screen printing and a book

25. Copper pots

26. Birthday calendar

27. Demotivators

28. Fancy colorful scarf

29. Subaru Tribeca

30. Quilt class

31. Serger

32. Pfaff machine that does fancy embroidery

33. Subscription to self magazine or national geographic

34. Quickbooks

35. Green nike tennis outfit

36. Pottery barn gift card

Halloween decorations on Clearance from the Pottery Barn- or the beaded skully chargers from Target

Claire's Birthday List

Claire has asked me to post her Birthday list. I would love it if everyone could post a list of things they would like- the idea is that there are different price ranges and general ideas about stuff you would like for Christmas or your birthday.

My kick-A birthday/Christmas list

1. white hotel collection towels (bath and hand sized towels); I
particularly like the ones at Macy's
2. exercise shoes (size 8 to 8 1/2)
3. exercise clothes (size small or extra-small
4. rolling pin
5. cutting boards (small to medium sized, dishwasher safe)
6. container store storage boxes (sized small to medium to large); I
really like their clear bins, and their fancy fabric storage boxes (in
baroque)
7. fancy shampoo and conditioner
8. candles
9. drawer organizers
10. magazine files (probably need about 6 matching ones in neutral colors)
11. anything that saves me money, i.e. used DVDs/new DVDs for dates;
laundry detergent; dishwasher detergent; Costco items
12. ankle socks from costco--really thin and low and white
13. earrings/jewelry
14. new handbags
15. casual shoes
16. fancy pictures from Paul's wedding (of the lovely bride and groom;
family and of Steve and me)
17. something fun you have around the house; I like a lot of things.

Money Mondays Sunday Edition

I've never really done Money Mondays so here goes......
Other than a new job there are some things that I want just as much.



Washer / Dryer So I don't have to do my laundry at other people's places. $169.99



A Blender $39.99


And a George Foreman Grill $79.99

Decapitation

At my work I am the one who gets up at the crack of dawn to go and open the store. One morning I walked in to work and everything seems as normal as can be, the store lights are off except for the back "break room" The one place that there's light, I walk in to put my stuff away, then out of the corner of my eye I see what appeared to be a person, headless, lying on the floor. I almost threw my bowl of oatmeal because I was so freaked out. What it actually was, a ranpak stuffed doll, with one arm. Night crew was bored and made it and used spare uniforms to give it the look of a person and left it lying around. All I could think about the entire day were episodes of Law & Order, or CSI stories I've read. I was totally jumpy the rest of the day.

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That's the Magic

So this whole time I thought it was amazing how people were able to make changes on the blog, I had no idea how to do it. Today I signed into my gmail account before getting on the Sharp Kids blog, and with Claire's tech support over the phone discovered I could post. I feel very silly for not figuring it out faster.

Happy Birthday Rachelle!

To my sister:

Happy Birthday Rachelle!

I don't think that anybody who meets Rachelle ever forgets her. I even heard about about you, Rachelle, at the Minert family reunion from Steve's relatives. I'm finally getting used to people asking me all about you.

How would I describe my sister to those who don't know her? Rachelle is such a character. Rachelle has a huge personality; she can make anyone laugh. And she can be devious! Remember when you convinced us to run away from home, and all I brought was a cloth carrot for sustenance? You were our fearless leader, until we got to the end of our street and ran back home; I think I was also crying . . . Remember when you helped me sneak out of the house with some friends to "fork" a friend's lawn? Our friend thought the forks were so funny (as we hoped), and I never got in trouble for this from our parents so it was an all-around success!Remember when you used photography tricks to create a double image of Paul, and then convinced Paul (when he was very young and impressionable) that he had a twin that our parents got rid of for misbehavior. Poor Paul. Wait, poor me. Remember when you told me I should eat all of your peas because it would make me smarter and I did. Shame on you, picking on a little kid! In kindergarten, I wrote in an "All About Me" book that my favorite food was liver so you were probably helping me out with the peas. Fortunately, my palate has expanded and is much improved.

I can't believe your look of glee as you pushed Heather out of the bouquet competition. It's one of my favorite wedding pictures. I love it, and it makes me laugh every single time. I'm glad you came to my wedding.

Here's a story you'll appreciate. Dad and I were talking about ages for renting cars without paying the additional young driver charge. Dad asked me if I was 24. Of course, I'm not 24 so I had to explain how old you, Janae and I were. Oh yeah, he said, where has the time gone? He couldn't believe how fast we've all grown up. It's true. Time goes by quickly. I remember when you helped me style my bangs (curled in front, wall of bangs curled backwards and styled to cascade--classy!), and that you let me borrow your crimping iron. As the first born, you've always been at the forefront and done most everything first. I wanted to work at the Gap just like you did! As the first born, you've been subjected to our parents' first experiments in parenting. Sorry, they may have been more laid back with us younger kids.

I happen to think you've turned out quite well.

Domain Names - Per Request

In computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is managed according to some common property of the members or within a common administrative boundary. In particular, the term is used to describe the regions of administrative authority within the Domain name system used for the Internet (cf. DNS zone).

Domain names are used in a variety of contexts for identification, reference, and access to Internet resources. They can appear as components of Web sites' Uniform Resource Locators (URL, 'Web-address'), e.g. www.wikipedia.org, electronic mail (e-mail) addresses after the customary '@' separator from the user's name, or as any other part of a syntax that describes an access method to a device or service in an IP network.

Domain names are created out of a naming space and methodology that was first defined by Paul Mockapetris in IETF publication RFC 882 and RFC 883 (1983) and used in the first expansion of the ARPANET, a predecessor of today's Internet. The model prescribed a tree-like structure of named nodes starting from an unnamed root node (cf. DNS root zone) that was only designated by a full stop (period, dot, "."). The complete domain name of each node is the string of names of nodes leading to the root node, each separated by a dot. The sequence is written from left to right with increasing order of scope, e.g., node-d.node-c.node-b.node-a. When the full name path of a node is specified, the domain name is said to be fully-qualified (cf. Fully qualified domain name). This condition is often, particularly in the technical aspects of DNS), indicated explicitly by appending a dot at the end of the name (to indicate the root domain).

Essentially your domain name is your sites URL or name, the domain name for the site you are on is www.blogger.com. Another fine example is www.google.com.

A Sharp Kid is Married

Congrats Paul and Melissa!