Kickin' off the holidays in style!

The Washington, DC, area typically doesn't get snow until January or February (if we get any at all!) so the area ws all atweeter (and not the blogging kind) when the forecasters started predicting snow for Saturday, December 5, 2009, last week. We all waited to hear if the forecast was going to suddenly change as it usually does. But much to our delight at around 1000 on Saturday morning the rain turned to snow! REAL SNOW! And lot's of it! Okay, it only go to about two inches and iced over in the night. But it snowed!!!! Before Christmas!


It was the perfect weather to attend James command holiday party at Fort Belvoir's Officer's Club. Which was in an area of Fort Belvoir I'd never been to. We were given the wrong time and arrived just after the first food rush. But our friend Marlene saved us a seat and there was food still left (unlike last year). The food was okay, but friendship nice, and the skits put on by the various parts of the command hit or miss. But the view was great!

If it wasn't snowing so hard you would be able to see the river from the horrible additional they slapped on the back of the historic Officer's Club. Good thing I was inside the horrible addiitonal, but I did see it from the rear of the building as we entered. And I commented on it, out loud.

You can see the rest of the photos from the holiday party here.

After the holiday party James and I went to the store and bought supplies to make homemade bread. We like to give homemade bread as Christmas presents to our friends and family. And I think after three years we are finally getting it!

We kneaded the dough for 30 minutes, each taking 10 minutes a piece. Might have been overkill but the results were really nice :) Almost to perfection.

All in all, Saturday was the perfect day to kick off the holiday season! Coming up this weekend? Christmas tree decorating with the boys!!!