I am thankful for animals in sweaters

My husband is moving into my apartment this week, so don't be surprised when you see us on one of the hoarder tv shows. No, it's not really that bad, silly (except for the bedroom) and we get a bonus piece of living room furniture. Not for the humans, though.
Instead of cleaning or sorting I thought it would be more fun to tell y'all about our Thanksgiving.

As you can imagine, it was Starktacular! I didn't take any pictures on actual Thanksgiving Day, as I was using both hands to stuff my face with delicious food. Eat, watch football, repeat. Since there was so much football to pretend to watch I got a lot of knitting done. In fact, I finished the other cupcake mitten! Check it out:
Very exciting. Maybe it will be cold again soon. It was super cold for the holiday and of course I forgot to bring a coat. Luckily my new MIL had a spare sweater and for some reason I did bring a hat.

What I did take pictures of was a fantastic art installation at the University of North Texas campus. You can read about it here, or here, and you can see my pics on the flickr. We wandered around for a bit before we found it but it was sooooo worth it. (Depending on who you ask) It was adorable.

Saturday we went for our traditional Thanksgiving (or any other time I'm in Denton) Pedis. Now I have sparkly pink toes.

Saturday night we were going to go to a rock and roll show, but it was cold outside and it was $12, so we stayed in and watched the director's cut of JFK. Mistake! It was brutal. Avoid!!

Maury's ready to give us the shocking results, must be time to leave for work.

Later!

Edited to add even more thanks to Frances

We have a new follower!! It's none other than my BFF!! She also mentioned to me that she likes the picture of John. I agree. It's perhaps my favorite pic of him ever. It's from the State Fair, and I love it because he looks like he canned all those fruits and veggies and man is he proud! I also love it because his hair is at what I call "circle of hair" level and it reminds me of this guy:

I am thankful for...

My little baby. Of course, part of me wishes she would have stayed about this age:
But I'm thankful that she has grown into this lovely young woman. (yep, that's the same octopus at the Seattle Aquarium)
Then there's this guy. He's adorable, patient, sweet, smart, fun and I love him so much that I often want to crush his head (in a good way). Maybe I should marry him. Oh yeah...

My brother and sister. They are super cool. I'm lucky we still get along well enough to get together and play Barbies every now and again.

My "most badass friends in the entire world" y'all!! There's my BFF (best friend Frances), the person who, for better or worse, knows me better than anyone. If you don't know her you should. She rules.
My ladies: Adriane and Rachel, aka "the good time girls". I love them more each time I am with them.
My mommy!! She is the best mommy ever. I'm so so thankful that she was able to be with us for our wedding. Otherwise we would have had ice cream cake from the DQ. She's had a rough year but look how beautiful and happy she is now!
My new in-laws. They are cute and smart and interesting and they have wholeheartedly welcomed K. and me into their family.
My FBF (furriest best friend), the amazing Lee Chat. I also have the urge to crush his head. He is always willing to snuggle and he never disappoints.
Oh, and Hubert Cumberdale is pretty great too. He takes care of Lee while I'm away. Thanks Hube!
Finally, a thankful shout-out to my out of state friends who I do not have pictures of: Ms. H and Mr. S.B. in WA. I love y'all-get your behinds down to TX pronto!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!

Hello from Mrs. Stark

Ok, ok. There's mold growing on the poor forgotten wedding sausage in the back of the fridge, so I guess it's time to write a little note about the wedding. That's right y'all, I'm a married lady. Well, married at least. I even have a new social security card. It's legal and everything.

I have to say if you weren't there, you kind of missed the best wedding of all time. Sorry. Luckily there are a ton of pictures, which I have collected on the flickr, and put on the Walgreens photo site-in case you need a coffee mug of me with my visible bra faux pas! Yes, a typical girl might be horrified at the v.b. but then again a typical girl would have purchased a new bra to wear with her wedding dress. Oops.

Aside from that, everything was fantastic. Very (very) simple, small, and easy. I was reminded (again) that I have the most badass friends in the entire world. Without Adriane, Rachel, and my dear BFF (best friend Frances) we could never have pulled it off. And our families are the best. They were at the ready for anything we needed. Plus they are all happy about us getting married! Bonus!

The ceremony was perfect. (Oh yeah, I wrote it) The cake was delicious (Sit down. I baked it myself!!-Mom did the decorating) The weather cooperated, the band was great. It seems like everyone had fun. I think-to borrow a phrase from my new Stark family-we chalk it up as a win!

The honeymoon? Again-sorry to be gushing like a silly girl,but-perfect. It was all the things we love in one extravaganza week. Driving, hiking, going to nerdy historical sites, being at the coast, finding random crazy little bars in tiny towns, eating fancy food, festing, dancing...we even camped in our new tent. I know! I camped! I've never camped as an adult, unless you count sleeping in a van as camping. It was super fun and I got to sleep in my new orange hat.

The only downside to the honeymoon was that in all my excitement about "the thing" I did a very poor job of packing. No knitting. So sad. We were in the car for literally days. I could have made a whole new wardrobe. Speaking of wardrobe I also forgot to pack enough shirts, which is why in the pictures I'm mostly wearing a Hondo High School t-shirt I got at the HEB in Hondo. Go Owls!!

All right. Enough bragging about how awesome my wedding was. But it was. I am so lucky and thankful. Yikes! I still have to send out thank you cards.

So what else has been going on? Life continues pretty much as usual. We've done some more festing and hiking-I put even more pictures of trees on the flickr. It's funny, I used to make fun of my mom for taking pictures of trees and stuff, but now I think I'm even worse. I could wallpaper my whole apartment with pictures of trees. Trees might (almost) have eclipsed the cats in number of photos. Maybe.

On the knitting front, I went to two knerdy events this past week: a Ravelry event at The Knitting Nest, and Knit Night. Once again, I've made the internal declaration that I am going to knit stuff for people for Christmas, but we'll see. Perhaps I should start making this declaration in August. We have a drive to Denton coming up for Thanksgiving, hopefully I won't be too distracted to pack some knitting for that.

What's that noise? Oh, it's my stomach. Guess I should have breakfast since it's 11. It's freezing ("freezing" in Texan = 60 degrees) so I think I'll make some oatmeal.

Maybe Mrs. Stark will blog more often. You can only hope.