Beautiful Minnesota

Just wanted to show off this beautiful downtown park. Twinkling white lights on every limb, a huge Christmas tree covered in blue lights...just so pretty

Today, I am crabby

So you know when one day you're crabby, and then if you don't conscientiously fix it, then the next day it's worse and worse? {okay maybe that's not the same for all of you, but I'm blaming today on that}....so the other day I was crabby {don't remember what set me off...probably forgetting to eat a meal or something, that usually does it} and then yesterday I was kinda crabby, and then today I am REALLY crabby.  Like everything is making me crabby. So just for my venting sake, I'm going to write a list of what is making me crabby today so I can hopefully let it go:

1) Phoebe's {mom's dog} incessant grunt/bark at whatever is outside...the snow? Seriously no one is out there.

2) My sister...I know I too went through the phase of EXTREME selfishness but oh my goodness I can't handle watching it! How my parents ever dealt with me and still love me is so far beyond my comprehension.

3) This keyboard....seriously, desktop computer keyboards are so much different than laptop computers and I can't type as fast and it bugs me.

4) Our dog, Thatcher, died the other night from seizures {probably eventually really from a hemorrhage or something, but he was in a seizure for an hour and a half...it was so sad}. So as I was vacuuming today I came across his bone and his ball which both made me sad so it just made me crabbier.

5) The dogs went outside and had a blast, but came back in with snowballs everywhere...I mean, everywhere. So I had to stick them in my freshly cleaned tub with hot water to melt the snowballs, and that whole dog shake thing when they're wet...fabulous

6) I haven't left the house today and I still have Christmas shopping to do

7) I'm mad at myself for being crabby....which of course, makes me crabbier

8) GLEE....seriously don't ruin one of my fav Christmas songs...Baby it's cold outside...by having two boys sing it. IT IS MEANT FOR A BOY AND GIRL!

9) I don't have a plan for San Diego...anyone who knows me knows I need plans. In 2 weeks, I don't know what is happening with my life

10) The stupid nurses wont call back to set up chemo stuff. Seriously, called and emailed like 3 times each. Such slackers.

And what JUST ticked me off....I pressed a button on this keyboard and it started typing THROUGH the words I just typed. Figured out it's the insert button? Don't know WHY it would ever be useful, it's just annoying.

So, now that that is all off my chest, I am going to try to be happier and finish out the day happy.

We're moving!

We're out in Minnesota for the whole month, and this is a time we're supposed to "catch up" on life. Just everything, you think of it, we need to catch up on it.

So for the past week, I've been way excited to finally catch up on sleep. So we did, we slept in, we went to bed early, we made lots of fires, had lots of hot chocolate....it was beautiful.

This week is week #2. Now time to catch up on life. For the past couple of days we caught up on school, bills, started making plans, set everything up so we can feel like we can go into next year totally feeling in control and like we can take it on because all of our ducks are in a row.

But I swear to you, once you feel accomplished and like you've done SO MUCH in a certain day, you feel like you've gotten everything done....the next day you wake up and realize how much you have left to do.

I keep wondering if we'll ever really get all of our ducks in a row?

So, lots of you know, but we are officially moving to San Diego in January.  We have decided to do a round of chemo with a doctor that we truly respect. He has devoted his life to melanoma and has a chemo that has really great outcomes!! We found him a while back but only decided to go to him recently.  Not that we aren't completely stoked to move to San Diego! We really cant wait for it :) even though it's for a not fun reason.

It was kind of a quick decision, but now I need to find a job and we need a place to live {anyone know of any? :)}  Chris is going to do school online {which will be great while he's going through chemo because he can do classes whenever he's feeling up to it} and I'm trying to convince him not to work during it {he needs to rest....but he, being a wonderful hubby, wont want to to unless I have a job}.

So anyway, those are my thoughts for the day...signing off

Hazel

So we're out in Minnesota right now, and before coming out I decided not to cut Hazel's hair because it's so cold out here. She's a little shaggy but Chris loves it. So anyway, I think it keeps her warmer but she can not get ENOUGH of the snow!!! She whines and whines at the door to be let out....but it's like zero degrees out here, I don't want to go outside with her! And if I'm not outside with her then she just may freeze to death and I can't have that of course.

I'll post a picture later, but it's adorable! She sinks right into the snow to where her legs are completely missing. And she has to hop through the snow bunny style....but she's fast! It's so cute!

We also found out today that I'm going to be having a new nephew soon!! Well by soon I mean May, but still I am so excited for a little Trent to be running around (for those of you who know Trent). So today was a good day :)