The great cheese-venture!

The Aunties went on another leg of our fantastic cheese tour of Wisconsin this weekend, hitting up three different shops and gathering a drawer-full of cheeses.

Yes, taste why we moved to Wisconsin...it has a slightly sharp flavor.

And milk, that's the other secret ingredient.

So, the first cheese shop we went to was in Arena, Wisconsin, where we found a special friend...

The "famous 7 foot mouse," who was kind enough to pose with us.

He was a nice-enough chap.

Then we wandered further west and found this quaint little shop.

The coolest thing about this place is that they buffalo cheese. Cheese, made from buffalo milk. We bought some buffalo mozzarella and it was delicious.

And onward to our last shop, this one was in Mount Horeb, the self-described troll capitol of the world.

It was a cute place...yeah, the buffalo cheese won.

Caro's New Job!

That's right, kids, Auntie Caro has a job! I started at the end of September as a temp through an agency, and they decided to keep me! My official start date was Oct 31st, quite an auspicious day.

See? I'm official!

Here is my awesome desk of wonders!

I am an Administrative Assistant for the Professional Development department of a non-profit called 4-C (Community Coordinated Childcare), which helps childcare providers and people seeking childcare. Fun stuff, huh? I mainly sign providers up for trainings (CPR, etc), put people into our databases, and process the paperwork generated by the seven other people in the department. I work from 8am to 4pm, Monday through Friday and I get paid! I'm pretty excited to have a real job that doesn't require me to live in a foreign country.

The guy from the temp agency who helped me find a job brought me a plant! For my window! I am also pretty impressed that the agency has their logo embossed into the pot.

The Table of Terror

So, our cats have a problem. Actually, we have a problem, our cats are just fine with what they're doing; jumping on our table. Now, we try to be rational about it, but there's something about little kitty paws trampling all over the place we eat that just puts us on edge. This is how we responded.



We're nice ladies, really.

If you can't see what that is, we put packing tape, sticky side up, on our table to deter them from walking on it. Hope it works!

Happy Birthday Auntie Heather!

Happy birthday to Auntie Heather! We celebrated by doing what we always do, we went to Red Lobster and ate crab legs!

And then we ate cake!

And a lava cookie thing with ice cream!

And then she opened presents! (notice Thor helping her)