The Way We Think

Reasons not to get out of bed:
1. Grandpa is not doing well
2. Pop is not doing well
3. Does not feel like Christmas
4. Old phone is broken/new one does not have phone numbers
5. Call at 12:30pm saying you have to work the next day
6. Having to cancel breakfast plans the second week in a row
7. Finding out you have to work 6 days this week just like last week
8. So tired

Reasons to get out of bed:
1. Praying for a miracle for Grandpa
2. Pray that whatever is wrong with Pop can be easily fixed
3. Christmas is not about me but about worshipping the Lord
4. Having a phone in the first place
5. Getting to switch shifts to go to a wedding in January
6. Holley stills loves me (I hope)
7. Working every day means enough money to pay the bills
8. Having a precious baby as the result of being tired

Second Anniversary on the Cruise

Daves "Business Socks"

Noises in the Night

So last night I crawled into bed at 8:20 to get a good nights rest. I talked to Doug for a little while and then just as I was about to go to sleep there were loud voices outside our window and then banging on our window! Mom and Jeny got in from MD. After spending an hour visiting with them I made my second attempt to go to bed. Right as I laid my head on my pillow I heard a loud scraping/scratching sound. What in the world?!!! There is a closed up fireplace right behind our bed so naturally I assumed there were mice back there. I went into the kitchen to tell all of my woes. Jon told me he was sure that it was a chipmunk for he had seen them crawling into the chimney. Great! We banged on the walls for awhile to no avail. Resigning myself to a night full of scratchy sounds from mini claws I laid back down. Just as I did the family members that did not have to work today started a movie in the living room.... next door to my uninsulated room where the door does not close. Then, to top things off, Doug put on his headphones so that he could listen to music while he studied. Scratch scratch... music... dialogue...scratch scratch... music... dialogue.............

Pics From Cottage

King of the Hill

The other day I was driving to work. Mind you it takes me over an hour to get to work and 95% of the trip is through the country. As I was passing a very familiar pasture where there are plenty of cows I saw one cow higher than the others. As I drew nearer I saw that there was an orange hill surrounded by beautiful green grass. This was not the odd part.... there was one solitary cow at the very top of the little hill and all of the other cows were making futile attempts to reach the top. I truly believe this is why the hill has no grass... all of the hooves scraping and clawing to get to the top. Who knew that a cow could have a seniority complex!

My Three States of Illness

On Monday of last week I started to get a sore throat and a headache. That continued until Wednesday and then I felt horrible and called in sick to work. On Thursday I talked to my doctor and was diagnosed with the flu. I had trouble breathing that night while trying to sleep so I went to the ER on Friday morning where they told me that I had bronchitis! I suffered through the day feeling wretched and then ended up back in the ER all night on Friday night because I couldn't breathe again. They took a chest X-ray and said that I have pneumonia. There you go folks....

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Throw a little morning sickness on top and we are good to go!

Cottage Unworks

So.... I would put up pictures of the progress on the cottage but there hasn't been any! In fact, we are now going to tear out all of the window jacks and respace them (cut new wood, redo the studs etc.) for windows that are a different size than originally planned. This has already set us back a few weeks and will probably set us back a few more. I will give another update on the cottage when there is something to report... over and out!

My Birthday

On Saturday we went sailing for my birthday. We had so much fun!!! Everything was going really well until we decided to head back to the car. The idea was to make the boat turn 90 degrees to the left. Instead, we spun in a 360... the opposite direction! Once we were back facing our original direction we attempted the same feat as before and lo and behold... it happened again... and again and again and again and again. Summer and I were laughing but Doug definitely was not. We lowered the sails and use the microscopic engine to snail us back. Sailing... snailing... almost the same thing right?

I am the reading rainbow guy!

Summer was "nonchalantly" leaning against the rail

The snailing was about to commence!

Cottage Works

Doug and I have been working on the cottage the last few days. It is finally coming along. The first day that we worked I was just following Doug around doing absolutely nothing for about thirty minutes. He would ask me to hand him a hammer every once in a while but that was it. After I made repeated jokes about what a good assistant I was... Just call me Al... he finally told me that if I wanted something to do I could put the studs in above the headers. We had so much fun. We hope to really be done with the framing tomorrow! Next comes the roof and then siding....yay!!!

#53 The Case of the Lethargic Girl

The plot is about a girl who is tired, worn out, pooped, exhausted, all in, beat, broken-down, haggard, burned out, collapsing, dead on one's feet, sleepy, done for, done in, wasted, drained, drooping, droopy, spent, drowsy, fagged, flagging, dog tired, narcoleptic, overtaxed, consumed, overworked, petered out, played out, prostrated, run-down, fatigued, tuckered out, weary, taxed, strained, wearing out, and wilting.

Okay so maybe just tired a bit lately!

Mini Me

We are pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!

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Progress

We are so excited about the progress on the cottage! It will be completely framed in by Saturday!