The Christmas Season

Life is crazy right now.

Last weekend we went to Journey of Bethlehem Friday night and had a Christmas party Saturday night, which was awesome and we didn't go home until 2 am! The weekend before that we had a going away party for our dear friends who are moving back to PA. We will miss them alot and can't wait to go visit them (and they aren't even gone yet)!

Jeremy's working 12 hour days until the end of the year and on top of that he has two finals in 4 days and 2 huge projects to finish. I haven't seen him at all this week. We can't wait until Monday when all that is finished.

Almost have all the Christmas shopping done, had great success last weekend at the mall...for myself and others. :) I can't wait to see everyone for Christmas and those I don't get to see, we'll be thinking of you!

Our Tree

Well I guess it's officially Christmas. Here's our beautiful Christmas tree!

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in southwestern Missouri, 3 days in Springfield and a day in Joplin at my cousin's gorgeous new house. We had alot of fun playing with our nephew and even discovered a pool built in 1922 with our cousins. It was pretty cool and the food was amazing! Our nephew Caedman with Aunt Amanda!

Here's some pictures of the pool that we found in the middle of the woods.
Here's Jeremy trying out the grapevine behind cousins house. Karissa's sitting on the ground trying to recover, she just tried, lost her grip and landed hard on the big rocks cutting up her knee and getting a nice looking bruise on her hip.

the return

Okay, I know it's been a year, but I thought I'd give this another try after reading some other blogs. I've got some time at work so I figured what the heck. Speaking of work, I'm not enjoying it much these days. I don't get to be as creative as I would like and there's so much down time and not enough interaction with people. Besides the fact that one of the guys I work with, I just don't understand and my wrists hurt when I work. Oh yeah, that's a totally other thing. So I went to the doctor and he says "you don't have carpal tunnell" (which is what I was told by my family doctor). He doesn't say what I have or really anything I can do about it. He prescribes some drugs (of course), sends me to get blood work done (which I haven't heard the results from and it's been over a week), and says to come back in 4 weeks and we'll see how things are going. Well I'll tell you how they are going. No where, they still hurt and I can't really tell if the medicine did anything at all to help the pain and inflammation. So, along with my wrist problem and wanting a new job that is more exciting, my days are pretty boring. Oh yeah...and when I 'm bored, I eat, which is never good. Okay, that's enough complaining for this hour.

Basement is finally finished!

Hey guys, the basement remodel is finally finished. Here are some before and after pictures. Quite a difference huh? You'll all will have to come and see it in person if you already haven't!