I forgot the best!

Okay, so apparently I was in a bit of a rush yesterday when I posted, so here are some additional updates from our busy week!

On Thanksgiving day, I was greeted with two surprises... A belated housewarming gift from Grandma B... Can you tell what it is?

It is a little house made out of money! She even made trees and a clothesline! How creative! The other one may have to be my favorite gift in a long time... First a little background... All the Justingers (Matt's mom's family) have handmade Christmas stockings made by Grandma J. Unfortunately, her eyesight isn't terribly good anymore and when Matt asked her to make me one, she said that she didn't think she could do it. So, to our surprise, Grandma J had already made it by the time that Matt had asked! We couldn't believe that she lied! I still have to take a picture of it, but it is beautiful... I don't think that we'll hold the lie against her!

I also had the pleasure of attending my nephew's 1st birthday party on Saturday... Here's a pic of the crabby baby living it up...Then to round out the weekend, we had the Binnings over to assist in Christmas decorating. Malibu thinks that she is in heaven every year when we bring out the tree! (She loves to chew on bristly things.) The tree turned out really great with the addition of a few new ornaments! Just need to get some things for the rest of the house...

Last update... Matt doesn't exactly have the flu... He went to Walgreens to see the nurse practioner because I thought he might have strep, but it turns out that he has acute tonsilitis. He's starting steriods and something else that he couldn't remember today, so hopefully he will be feeling better soon.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...

I'm having a bit of deja vu writing the title of this blog, but oh well... So, the good news is that overall our Thanksgiving was really nice. My parents went out of town, so we spent the day with the Binnings (grandma's included). It was weird not spending the holiday with my family after 28 years of doing so... The following day I went shopping with my in-laws until I had to leave to meet the plumber (stupid leaky sink). That night we met up with Pam, Bryan, Susan, and Jen for dinner at CPK.

The bad news is that I found out that my Uncle Tom was just diagnosed with fast progressing lung cancer. He went for a PET scan on Friday and will hopefully have some positive results on Tuesday. The hope is that it is localized in the lungs so that it is more treatable.

The ugly is that Friday night Matt started coming down with the flu... He is running a fever with a sore throat and nausea. His timing couldn't have been worse because we had the grandmas over for dinner last night. So, I'm running around like a crazy person cleaning, blowing leaves, and cooking. Everything came off well, eventhough Matt wasn't feeling too social. He's at home right now trying to sleep it off...

I will try and post some of my pics tonight... Gotta run!

Wonderful Birthday Week!

I know it's been a long time since my last update, but we had a ridiculously busy week. Monday was the only day that I had time to do "life stuff." So, I spent all night doing laundry and cleaning.

Tuesday, I woke up to a single rose waiting for me in the kitchen with an awesome card from Matt. (Quite the feat, since he always forgets cards.) That night, we headed out to the county to spend my birthday with my parents and brother's family. My mom made me my favorite- meatloaf and we had a great time playing with the boys... Jackson has decided to start climbing before walking! I forgot my camera, so no pics to post... My parents bought us some fancy new bedside lamps that swing out for reading and Joe and Jenn gave me a gift card for my make up stuff.

On Wednesday, Matt took me to my favorite restaurant, Pueblo Solis, after giving me my present of fireplace tools. (We got to use them last night with our first fire in our new house!) To my surprise, Julie, Katie and Ian joined us for dinner! We had a wonderful meal (mmm, guacamole) and afterwards Katie and Ian came over for wine and brownies that Katie baked. I was also surprised with a gardening book from Julie and flowers from Katie and Ian.

Then on Thursday, we made the trek out to the county again for dinner with my in-laws and Dan. This was a double celebration since Dan left for his month-long trip to Europe yesterday. We had lasagna for dinner and birthday cake after presents (I got a new fleece, a movie gift card, and flames for my kitchenaid mixer!).

And then on Friday, we had tickets to go to the hockey game. Blues won! It was Al McInnis night since he was just inducted into the hall of fame last week. The give away was a DVD comemorating the induction and in the fan comments, Dan had his 2 minutes of fame!

Whew, I'm getting tired from just rehashing the week! I forgot my camera link at home, so I will add pictures later as well as upload the pics from Saturday night to Shutterfly.

Denver's Busy Weekend

What a wonderful weekend... It started out bright and early with a long walk to Walgreens and then to the park. Denver had a great time chasing geese and trying to drink out of the lake- although he almost fell in! After that, we began the fun task of raking leaves... Even Malibu wanted to help...

After a little break, we packed up Denver and headed out to Mike and Lynn's for a puppy play group. Ricky, Sarge, and Denver always have a great time playing and tonight was no exception. While the boys were outside, we were all cozy inside playing cards and apples to apples. We ended the night pretty late and ended up having a sleep over with Katie. Since Ian was out of town deer hunting, it worked out well for everyone. I think we all got to bed around 3:30am! It's definately safe to say that Denver is tuckered out (even without Auntie Lynn's doggie downers)...

Request...

I am working on a bit of an art project and I was hoping that you guys could email me some pictures of your weddings, child births, or any other favorite pictures of you and/or others in the group... no questions asked... Don't worry, I'm not doing anything crazy with them! Thanks!