Happy Safe Holidays!

Wow, what an unexpected year of plans changing, being canceled, or being postponed. We were going to go to Gillette on Christmas Day to see Josh's brothers and their families. Of course, the weather put a stop to that right along with so many others' plans. Then we were going to go to Sidney today to my family's Christmas and delayed them until later in the week.

Josh has been out A LOT these past few days helping keep the roads cleared. -We all know that it's nearly impossible with 50 mph winds and snow falling. We were blessed though to have him home all day on Christmas Eve and his boss didn't call him into work until 2pm Christmas Day because he wanted Josh to be home for the kids to open their gifts from Santa and be able to be here for that. We were very thankful when we found out his boss had waited to call so we could finish our family time together.

I took tomorrow off from daycare in thoughts that I would get home from Sidney and get the house cleaned and the decorations and tree taken down. Well since I have had three full days of being stuck at home....(many of you can relate) I have tackled all projects to get done early. So tomorrow I am taking the kids to Walmart to use some of their Christmas money and then we are meeting up with Grandma Dana for some Chinese lunch. Yum!!! My plan today was to eat at the China House but Josh got called into work right as we showed up at my brother's house for his birthday. So we had to head straight home without our Chinese food...=(

When I was in Chadron today I bought some paint to freshen up the living room and hallway. I know a lot of people think I paint way too much but when you have a daycare, things get ruined, dirty, or broken quite often, SO I wanted to tidy things up a bit. I bought a brown that is close to a chocolate ice cream color and a tan with more of a yellow tint called Candle Wax to paint over my tan Frosted Toffee color. It really brightened things up a lot! Josh's mom helped me paint some today and I am planning on finishing the hallway tomorrow. It looks nice! It's just what I needed to get back on track for getting the basement family room painted soon.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and wish you all safe travels this week if you are heading anywhere for the New Year, and of course HAPPY 29TH BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER CRAIG!!! ♥

Complaining

I just had to get on here and voice my complaints about the weather due to hit just in time for Christmas....ggggrrrrrrr! I am very upset with Mother Nature's choice of snow and high winds for Christmas Eve. I have seen numerous posts on Facebook about people being worried if they will be able to make their travels as they had planned. We are wanting to go to Gillette on Christmas Day and then to Sidney on December 27th, both for Christmases with our families. With the 40mph gusts we are supposed to be getting, I am sure Josh will be out in the snowplow. =(
I guess I will just keep my fingers crossed and keep many people in my prayers that they have safe travels this holiday season.

Merry Christmas! ♥

Date Night

Josh and I managed to have a date night on Friday evening. My brother Craig and his wife, Tara watched Kylah and Carter while we went to the movie. (Kait stayed in Crawford to play in the band for basketball and then went to a friend's house until we got home.) Kylah and Carter had a great time. They went with Uncle Craig, Aunt Tara and their cousins Brooklynn and Jayce to the Chadron Fire Hall for supper and to visit Santa. Carter's favorite part was when two grown big guys (his words) sat on Santa's lap and almost squished Santa!

Josh and I went to see the movie The Blindside and it was excellent! I highly recommend this movie. I had heard fabulous reviews on it so it was a "must see" for us. The kids are going to see The Princess and the Frog today with their Grandma Dana so I may just see if there is another movie of my interest to watch.

This Week

I haven't posted in awhile, probably because I have been getting ready for the holidays. I don't really have much news to share. But, I do have a list of some events coming up.

Tomorrow night is the the school Christmas program. Grades Pre-12 at 7pm in the highschool auditorium.

The kids' last day of school before vacation is this Friday. They get out at 1pm and don't go back until January 4th!!

Saturday is Kaitlin's basketball game in Chadron. It's at the PAC Center this time instead of the Middle School. I don't know what time for sure....maybe...11am? I will know for sure tonight after Kait's practice.

I think that is about it. I have only one gift left to buy for Carter and we will be finished!

Hope you are all having a great week and keeping warm. Our extremely cold temperatures these past few days have been enough for me to break out the plastic and cover the windows. It's never a fun job but Josh and I can both tell there is a huge amount of heat to escaping the house now.

Basketball

Tomorrow Kaitlin has her first basketball game in Chadron at 11am. She is very excited about it and so are we to watch her. This is her first year and most of her friends' third year. Unfortunately she struggled with A LOT of homework the past couple of years and couldn't make it to the practices. So, with a fresh new start, she is ready to hit the court and have some fun!!

I have an eye appt. tomorrow before the game at 10:30am. It's my 3 month checkup for my eye surgery. I just have to go to Chadron for the follow-up appt. to see if things are still healed correctly. My eyes are so dry when I wake up in the mornings and I use eye drops quite frequently to help keep the cornea attached...I pray it stays that way!! I do notice my left eye now has perfect vision (I think) so my glasses no longer have the same prescription. So I need to get that changed too.

It has been super cold here this week! We had a couple inches of snow and it's still on the streets from Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Josh started his new job with the State on November 23, and has been called out twice at 3am to plow roads. He seems to enjoy it.