Away we go!

This is either a pronouncement of Midwestern travel, or an invitation
to sack our house. You decide!

Blocksma Christmas Card 2009

Hi Friends. This year we decided to eschew the traditional Christmas card mailing for the electronic proliferation of our annual conglomeration of adventure photos from the past year.

I'll let the photos do most of the talking, but it has been a very good year for us: with our time visiting Pops in the spring, our vacation to Cali to see good friends and food in the summer, the time we got to have Jo in our house and my move back into the academic world this Fall. We'll be embarking on the Christmas journey a week from tomorrow, and will be sure to record some dispatches from the great white Midwest when we get there.

Til then, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

(Oh, and head over here to watch the video in a larger high quality. well worth it.)

Music for your ears

Hey kids, stop what you're doing and go over HERE.

That is a link to the Everyday Joe's site, where there is a zip file full of tasty tunes for your earholes, made entirely of groups that we've enjoyed as guests at our little shop through the year. The entire compilation is quite fantastic, and you will be a better person for downloading and listening. That is all. (Go!)

The Belated Turkey Day Post

Wait, it's December? When did that happen? Hm.

We had a very merry thanksgiving this year, but it was also very bittersweet. Our brother Matt (H) made his first trip ever to the mountains a few days before thanksgiving day. It was really great to show him our town, our house, some of our favorite views and making him sleep on the floor once my mom came out as well to join us. It was a nice full table, including our friends Becky and Jevon who came up from Denver to join us just like last year. Liz once again did a marvelous job with the bird, and there was nary a complaint on the day. Though the Lions could have played better.


Once we had completely gorged ourselves at dinner on thursday, and watching JoAnna and Liz beat everyone at Catan, we drove up to Rocky Mountain for a nice snowy hike up to some of the lakes from the Bear Lake trailhead.


The week itself went quite quickly, and at the end of it they all packed back into Jo's car and drove back across the country for JoAnna to start the second trimester of her senior year back at TK. We really loved having her here, and the house already feels much quieter, slightly emptier, certainly filled less with shoes.


But soon enough we'll be doing the midwestern drive ourself for Christmas in two weeks, so we'll be reunited with the whole fam-damily soon. Until then, I'll be living under this pile of books over here before my finals next week. (Guh)

(Pictures over on the Flickr)

A day in the life....

Yes, not going to work in the early morning dark is nice.



On the flip side, every one of those books is for a single paper due on monday. Guh. Pick your poison.