Good Morning

Well, here we are at Monday morning again!  Hope you all had a good weekend and got a chance to relax a bit.  We had a great weekend.   Friday we picked DH up after work and headed out of town.  We had a great dinner and then checked into our hotel.   We took Sadie swimming for a bit but didn't stay in too long because the water and air were both really cold.   We froze heading back to our room...decided we won't be doing that again in the morning.   Didn't sleep the best but wasn't terrible either.   We got up in the morning checked out and headed to IHOP for breakfast.  We then went to the Mall of America.  We first did a little shopping and wandering around.   Sadie was so excited to be in the "big mall".   Little did she know about the rides that were there.   We saved that for the end.....we took her over to the amusement park and her eyes got just huge as she saw the roller coaster....she started yelling....I wanna go on that roller coaster!!!   LOL   Mommy is a chicken so wouldn't go on it with her.....she says but it's ok mommy I can go by myself...I can handle it!!   LOL sooo funny....we had to take her over and show her that she wasn't big enough.  I told her she'd have to have her brother come with her sometime and take her on it with him.  She loved the rides...her favorite one was the Wonder Pets ride.  She was one happy little girl!   We had something to eat then and headed home.  Yesterday we then had a birthday party to go to so she got to play with friends.   What a great weekend.   Now it's on to the week ahead.   Today I don't have much to do other than work.  Maybe some grocery shopping but we'll see.  Wed is the day I pick my oldest up at the airport in Minneapolis.   Not sure if we're going to do anything along the way or not.  It'll be interesting having her home again. 

Well I accidently deleted my first message.  Oops.  Things are good here.  Enjoying my last day off before heading back to work tomorrow.  We  have enjoyed the time off.  Celebrated our anniversary with some errands, window shopping, christmas shopping, a nice dinner out & then some romance time.  Our gifts were robes  (2nd anniversary is cotton) so we have something nice & snuggly for when we are home being lazy.  Got some painting done at home downstais, we painted til we ran out of paint but got most of the man cave done & rearranged the furniture to better accentuate the fireplace.  Got a new puppy, he is a border collie/lab mix, only 10 weeks old and absolutely adorable.  He wears out pretty easily since he is so little, always "tuckered out" thus we named him Tucker.  Spent some time with family, friends, etc.  It has been enjoyable.  I could get used to being a housewife.  Now we are starting my week long bday celebration.  Started this past weekend with dinner at my dad's, will do lunch some with friends this week, dinner on thursday my actual bday, midnight movie with a girlfriend, and then dinner next weekend at my moms.  I love a long celebration, especially if is all about me.  Got my hair cut short this week, hoping I can get hubby to get some pictures tonight so I can show it off.  Here is my new baby.

Things are going well here, too.

Glad both of you had a nice weekend!!!!!


Woke up this morning & it was -18 below!!!!  YICK!!!  This is when my job is kind of not fun, because I am inside & outside!!!  But, I always try & thnk:  I would NEVER give this job up in the summers!!!  Just being able to be outside in the summer, makes having to be outside in the winter not so bad!!!!  Going to be cold all day & below zero again tonight, not sure if it will get above zero today, anyway!!!!  Supposed to start warming up on Wendesday.
(***Edited: To say that we are still losing daylight, until the shortest day of the year... December 21st. ~~~~  Today's sunrise is at 9:09am and sunset is at 4:13pm~~~~~  Cold & Dark!!)

Been getting plans together for Thanksgiving.... we have 2 Thanksgivings every year, one with my side of the family and one with DH's side of the family.  So, slowly, things are coming together.

Have a GREAT DAY, ladies!!!!
-Jamie