Our New Addition

Do you see how fabulously lovely it is? It's our new Dyson DC17 Animal...and we are in love! We've been married 19 months and this is the third vacuum we've purchased. It's ridiculous how crappy vacuums are these days. It's not like we bought the 29.99 special. We purchased 2 seemingly decent vacuums from wal-mart that went kaput very quickly. No suction. Sort of defeats the purpose of a vacuum. So we decided the next one we'd buy would be the Dyson since he says right on the commercial it was his life's mission to build a vacuum that did not lose suction. We were walking through Sears on the way to the car and on a whim I said let's follow a different path than we normally do...usually I like to walk by Land's End on our way to tools where we always park because you can ALWAYS get close to the door and no one else parks over there so our car is safe. Also parking by Sears puts you very near the food court, but no teenagers park near your vehicle like they do by the food court doors. Anyway we went past the vacuums and there it was in all it's glory on sale and we got a $100 gift card as a bonus....woo hoo!!!!!!!

And here is the latest photo of our cutie boy. He was playing on mommy's quilt with his toys. He seems to roll his way around or he pulls the blanket towards him bringing the toy with it. No attempt to crawl yet. Which really is fine because I don't want him going after the cat food or worse the litter box (yuck!) and we'll have to start closing the basement door again and the cats will be mad. They just LOVE the basement. I think because we kept it off limits until we got the floor done, about 8 months that they wanted desperately to check it out but we didn't let them. It's like a forbidden splendor to them. I guess I should get some photos of the cats.

So I'm having 11 people for Thanksgiving and I have enough silverware for 8. Any suggestions for finding cool silverware for cheap around here?