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Ziggy came over to set up the train around our tree, but it's broken.

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Giselle channeling her inner Avril Lavigne and wearing a tie.

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Carli and I went to see Children of Eden at BYU, but first we had to get pizza and the most delicious bread sticks ever.

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I don't love winter. Since I work inside all day, the days are just short enough that I'm rarely home when there's still sun. This means I take a lot of inside pictures and I'm kind of bored of my house.

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I made cranberry cream cheese dip for my work treat. It's like Christmas on a Cracker.

The recipe is:
1 bag (12 oz.) fresh cranberries
1 cup orange juice
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp (yes, really) ginger

Place all ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer until the cranberry skins break. Take off the heat and let cool to room temperature before letting it sit in the fridge overnight. Pour over two bars (whatever they're called. I don't have the recipe card in front of me) of cream cheese and eat with crackers (Wheat Thins are awesome).

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I told MamaLynne that she needed to look at the cute pictures of Giselle on my blog, which is when we learned she doesn't know where my blog is. I watched her try to find it for five minutes and took pictures the whole time. This is her laughing and saying I need to just tell her where it is.

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Giselle is understandably into dress-ups, and MamaLynne is the only one who would play with her. I haven't been feeling well (sinus infection of DOOM is back), so I haven't been much for playing with or taking pictures. I took this while laying on the couch trying to get the energy to actually go to bed. Man, I'm so much fun.

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We went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving. My grandpa was busy taking pictures of everyone. I told him I wanted a picture of him without a camera in front of his eyes. He went lowered it like this. That's why we love grandpa, he's slightly cheeky.

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Ziggy came to have lunch with us. It was kind of like last time he came to lunch. That boy doesn't like sitting still.

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One of these days I'll, in theory, stop taking pictures at stoplights on my drive home.

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My room has been painted for over a year and I'm just now deciding what I want to hang on the walls. Quotes about pirates? Yes, please!

This should give Melanie hope that she can eventually hang things on her newly-painted walls, too.

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Giselle running off with my Phone Booth Bank. She knows perfectly well it's mine and clearly doesn't care. She's cute enough, though, that she can get away with it.

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21 Nov 2009, originally uploaded by chillylint.

Jenny and I took pictures for a friend's adoption profile, but she didn't want those posted on my blog, so I told Dave he had to be PAD-worthy. Showing off his chopstick skills. After dinner we went and saw Little Shop of Horrors at the Orem Hale Centre.