Xmas eve with the knights

We spent xmas eve with my parents at our house in Vegas. When I got home from work at 4:30 the festivities were in full swing. First we ate our traditional chinese food. Then we did our annual pajama exchange. This is a spin on one of brandon's family traditions....


Gracie opened her jammies from grandpa

Brandon opened his jammies from my mom...

I opened my jammies from brandon...

My dad opened his jammies from me....

... And then he liked them so much he started to change immediately!

Grammy opened her jammies from gracie....

Then we took our traditional family pic in front of the tree, and watched Home Alone!

Snowing in Las Vegas!!!!

It's snowing in vegas tonight... not just a little snow, it's sticking to the ground!!!! At lunch time today there were snow flurries, so when I came home Brandon drove me back to work in case it got worse... and I'm glad he did. I have never in my life seen snow like this... probably because I've lived in the bay area and vegas. Both are not places known for snow. I came home a little early to play in it because all I was doing at work was standing outside taking pictures with my co-workers anyways!

This is our street earlier in the day... very exciting!!!Snow at my work...

Back at home!

The fountain at my work

I thought the snowy palm trees were ironic...

This was on our way home from my work... we drove 10mph the whole way.

Our house.... our tree broke from the weight of the snow!!

Papa and Gracie in the snow.

Charlotte was our potty champ... She went outside. Clarice did not.

thanksgiving with the knights

Thanksgiving was just the 3 of us this year. Our move was so quick and unexpected that my parents didn't have time to make travel arrangements. We will definitely be seeing them at christmas. Our day was really nice and quiet. My new job asked me to come in for any 4 hours I wanted. Which was fine because I live literally 2 minutes from work ( if i catch the green light). I guess they needed someone from social services there in case any holiday drama popped off, which it did but I was gone by then :P

Brandon cooked dinner this year... with gracie's help of course! They made spinach & artichoke dressing which was very tasty!

Such a big girl!!!

She ate a little of everything... even the dressing with spinach in it!

Veruca hounded us for turkey as per usual.

Our tradition is after dinner we put up the tree. It's only decorated from the middle up because we have little hands that like to take the ornaments off...

Ready for bed. It was a good day spent at home with our little family!

moving day.

It's Saturday night in Sin City, well henderson, but you get my point. We are pretty much moved in... just a few more boxes in the garage and the kitchen.... and the living room. There's still a lot of work to do and I start work Monday. I had my orientation on friday and the most bizarre physical exam ever complete with paper shorts!! I'll be posting more pics and writing more when we get settled.

viva las vegas for good.... well not completely....

So I got a job offer back in Henderson. It's for a social worker at a 244 bed skilled nursing facility. I just can't pass it up, it's literally less than a mile from our house there so I kind of have that "it's meant to be" feeling about it. It's like my last job but a lot better because I won't be the only licensed social worker and I don't have to drive 80 miles one way to be there. The hours are better, 7-3:30pm. Since we still have our dawn crossing house and there's no possible way of selling it for any kind of profit right now, and the rental competition is strong we made the decision to move back. It just doesn't make any sense to pay the mortgage on a house that's just sitting empty.

With that being said, when the market turns around and we sell our house... because we are eventually going to out grow it ;)... We'll decide at that point whether we want to give it another go.

Going back to work is definitely bitter/sweet. On one hand, I love being home with Gracie on the other hand, it just seems like it's a much better fit for me to go to work. Plus my hours are a good fit for me to rush home and have time with her before bed, oh and I can come home for lunch too!

Blog Title

I changed the name of our blog from "knightly news" to "it's a knight thing" for a couple different reasons. First of all. I don't think everything we put on here could be considered news, I know I'm being way too over analytical about this but... OK. The real reason I wanted to change it is because... remember the Arsenio Hall Show in the late 80's, early 90's??? His catch phrase was, "It's a night thing." Well, in the 7th grade Brandon wore a blue hooded sweatshirt to school that said on the back "it's a knight thing". I made fun of him for that until my last name became Knight and then I started making the Knight puns, it's addicting for some reason. LOL!!

Goodbye Poison Oak!

Brandon's poison oak is finally gone! He got it from working in Orinda. Being the outdoorsy couple that we are (we've been together for almost 15 years and have never been camping together) we know nothing about poison oak, what it looked like, how to treat it. So a month later after a round of antibiotics, a couple tubes of cortaid, a bottle of calamine, and a shot of prednisone we are poison oak free.

New Blog

So my cousins in Oregon have recently inspired me to start a blog. With Gracelyn growing so quickly and changing so much everyday, I think this is a good idea to keep those who are interested updated. I've never done anything like this before aside from my Myspace page which is never updated, but I'm going to try to keep this one going.