okay -- so I'm a little out of touch! Okay okay --- A LOT.
basically I've been going crazy.
pretty much.
I quit my job at the beginning on November (sooo glad!) and then after a week and a half of intense cleaning and organizing the house, Andy's folks arrived for a week and a half visit (including spending Thanksgiving day with my family). After they left, Ali and Mia had some issues catching flights back to Minnesota -- one day was delays, next night they missed the flight (long story). After that, I had to do more cleaning to try and get the house normal again -- well I started to do that anyhow...
I got sick on Friday the15th of Dec. and still have a lingering sniffle and cough. I was down and out for about 5 days and then Andy started to catch it -- he was off sick for the Thursday and Friday before Christmas.
We had a wonderful Christmas Eve at Adam & Steph's house! After church in the morning, we headed back with Adam & Steph (it was Adam's birthday) and ate some delicious chinese food and played with Adelyn (the ghetto-pony was born -- soo funny!!) and sadly had to leave at about 6:15 to go to the evening service.
Christmas day was nice -- we'd stayed up pretty late the night before talking and playing Albatross 18 (see my previous posts about being addicted to this and about how to sign up!!) and so it was the latest that I've ever slept in on Christmas day.... ever! 8:30! It was incredible.
Opened nice presents and then went over to Mom & Dad's house about 1pm for fondue and presents and mahjong. Had a wonderful time.
Then a sort of slow week, and last Friday we drove to Uniontown, PA for my cousin's wedding. The rehearsal dinner was nice -- had a nice time catching up with Aunt Anne and Uncle Dan. and then my Aunt Sandy cornered me for about 3 hours... eeeeeekh. *shiver* She was teaching me about acupressure... I don't get it. Nevermind! Interesting thing -- learned that night that my Aunts Maria and Anne both were sobbing at my wedding -- sobbing with joy... I totally didn't know! Too funny.
That night at the hotel some VERY INCONSIDERATE men were talking outside our door until about 5:30AM. I didn't call hotel front desk because I was afraid to wake Andy up and he didn't for fear of waking me up! Anyhoo -- not a lick of sleep for either of us. We went down for breakfast in the hotel restaurant and all the items on the breakfast buffet were cold.... yuck. So lost our appetites. We all (Mom, Dad, David, Andy & I) went to the graveyard and spent a minute or two visiting my Nana's gravesite. Then we grabbed lunch at Potter's -- nice bar and grill -- very smalltown feel to it.
The wedding was beautiful -- Shannon looked like a princess -- and Mike looked so handsome.
The reception was in Morgantown, WV -- only about 30 mins away -- at a very nice resort called Lakeview. The reception was fun -- we were at the Texas Ciarochis table -- had a nice time. Great bonding time with Elise and Matt & Amy and Jason. Elise and Matt's baby son Andrew is sooooo cute -- such a smily boy! We ended up leaving the reception pretty early on because we didn't sleep the night before and walked up to our room (cool idea having the guests stay where the reception is!) and fell promptly asleep around 9 and slept until about 7:30 or 8 the next morning. Only woke up a couple of times -- once by loud folks in the hall (but the sound didn't last) and one other time not sure why.
Breakfast at the resort was a gigantic buffet again but this time the food was not only hot, but delicious!! Real eggs (not powdered like at the previous hotel) and nice choices and a waffle iron! Yummm.
The drive back was nice -- on New Year's Eve -- not as rainy as I'd thought it was going to be given the forecasts! We left WV about 11:10 or 11:15, and got home about 3pm ish...
Stayed up to almost 12, didn't want to watch the "new year's rockin' eve" with Dick Clark because last year he looked so awful -- and his "co-host" was about as entertaining as a wet paper towel. So didn't want to subject myself to the misery again. Right before midnight went to bed... we're such rebels!!
So happy New Year all -- hope you all had a fun holiday and pray that God blesses you in 2007. Seek Him.
Hi!! We have been thinking about you guys and really enjoyed the visit! I couldn't find your email, but this is even better! I really need to hear more about the acupressure!! We did sob at your wedding, it was so beautiful and so great to see you guys so happy and even still 7 years later!We really liked being with you guys and hope we don't have to wait until Mikey or
Carly get married!!! Glad you had a nice trip home. I was asleep at 9 New Years Eve - we spent the night at Mark's, don't you just love him! It's always good to get home and all the furry ones are fine. Don't forget if you see anything at fossil.com let me know!! Take care and please please stay in touch! We miss and love you!
A. Anne