Employment and Thanksgiving

As we near closer to Christmas, I have realized that I haven't posted on here in over a month. Things have been busy, guys.

Last you heard, I got a job. I'm the Assistant Manager at Mitchell's on Market Street, and it's been challenging, exhausting, and fun. I am looking forward to learning more things and helping to alleviate some of the responsibilities of our general manager who is working a million hours and never gets time off.

Thanksgiving was great! My sister Melody and my almost-sister Amanda came to visit for a few days. Though I didn't get to spend too much time with them because of work, I think they had a great time.

We WERE able to have all of Thanksgiving Day together, so we skyped with our parents and we fixed up an amazing meal: turkey, cranberry chutney, stuffing, caramelized green beans, rolls, and pumpkin cookies. It was aaaaaaahmazing.

Melody in a phone booth by our place.

I always love having family around. If there's one thing you should know about my family, both my mom's side and dad's side, is that we're content just spending time together. We don't have to do anything or go anywhere, as long as we're together. I love it.

napping with her birthday present.

Mandy and the invisible piano-playing lion. 

Although, if you do anything with Melody, it's going to see movies. We saw the new Hunger Games as well (she saw it twice here). The girl loves movies.

The next week, we had a surprise blizzard. I call it a blizzard because the crazy wind was blowing the snow around so violently that everything was white. It started out very calmly and slowly. Clay and I started to freak out and take a billion pictures, texting them to family, and giggling uncontrollably. Then, about an hour later, it was snowing so hard it was blowing against the window. For someone who's spent most of her life in the South, any snow that sticks is reason to be giddy.

It was barely snowing here and we were positively freaking out. 

The progression of snow. I even leaned out the window into it and got snow all over me. This is huge, people.

The next day, we got up early to catch the train to Edinburgh with David, Jared, and Becky... our first trip outside of the St. Andrews since we moved here. We explored probably a tiny percentage of the city but we were there about 12 hours.

outside the castle

We even hiked up this giant mountain, which was a huge, beautiful mistake (still waiting on those pictures, David). Can't wait to explore the city again when my parents are in town.

I was laughing so hard at this point 1) because the boys were hiking up the steep part of the mountain and 2) because Jared was high-stepping the whole way!

the lovely view

on the way back down.

Other than that, I've been working my tail off at Mitchell's and Clay has been reading and writing and reading and reading some more. My parents made it into town today and we are going to spend some time together for Christmas. Dad finally gets to see the birthplace of golf! I am so excited for him.

I'll leave you with a funny picture:

i found an almond under the cushion of the couch and Clay was threatening to eat it.

  Carm