Eric and his "baby"....

Gobble Gobble Gobble!!

Food filled Thanksgiving... We had our Thanksgiving dinner pretty late though. Bad planning on our part on the cooking time... Ate a lot and slept like babies afterwards.... There's seriously something in Turkey that puts you to sleep.

Here are a couple of pics of us. Eric loved the turkey and called it a baby... He was mostly in charge of cooking the beast. And it turned out pretty good actually.

But seriously, we now have turkey turkey and some more turkey left over!! Its gonna be turkey stew, turkey curry, turkey tacos etc for us for atleast a week if not more!!!

Hope everybody else had a nice Thanksgiving :)
Wish we had family here for Thanksgiving. Oh well....

Welcome to North Carolina...

After our long long long drive here we are entering North Carolina, new home, and stopping at the welcome center there.

Though the drive was pretty uneventful, we had our happening moments.
Moment 1 - Our first stop was in Champaign, IL. The next morning, we left Champaign and drove about an hour and a half and Eric calls and says - "We have to turn back right now!" I say, "Why? What happened?" and he replies "I left my ring at the inn. We have to go get it..." It was pretty funny for me actually. Poor guy was so sorry.... Ha ha.....

Moment 2 - Our second night stop was at Dayton, OH. Surprisingly, there wasn't a single inn in the whole of Dayton that had a room available. So, we drove another 100 miles (seemed like it to me) when I was soooo tired to the next town to find an inn.

Moment 3 - The drives through Virginia into North Carolina was breath takingly BEAUTIFUL! The fall colors and mountains were amazing. The roads were all winding and full of ups and downs, very exciting.... BEAUTIFUL!!!! (Had to say that again....)

Update on my date of leaving Des Moines

Well, a slight change in plans, I'm probably going to be leaving Des Moines a little earlier. Want to spend more time with Eric than here by myself. So, its probably going to be as early as October 31st....

Eric - The model

Eric had a formal engagement at work and had to get all dressed up. He took some snaps and sent them to me. They're so cute, I have to post them here...

Pasty White Eric :-)

I like this pic from New Years 2008. Eric thinks he looks Pasty white. But I guess he's going to have that complaint for the rest of his life if he wants to keep me with him!! :-)))

Tentative dates

As many of you know, conversations are in progress with family right now. Its all going slow and steady. But here are some tentative dates -
Hoping to have Eric come over to Des Moines early October.
I plan to leave Des Moines on Friday November 21st. (in 10 weeks!!!)

Will keep you posted on confirmed dates and any changes...