Stay tuned...

Joe and I just got back from Thanksgiving with Joe's family (and a little bit of my family). So just wanted to put up a quick note to tell everyone to stay tuned because pictures are coming of adorable nieces and nephews and big family pics. To tease you a little, here are a couple of just me and Joe. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Yes, It's Sad......But.....

This past weekend, Sara and I had a great time decorating our apartment for Christmas! Yes, I know its not even Thanksgiving yet, and NO we're not trying to be sacriligious or anything. We had a great time, putting up the tree and watching "Elf", which is fastly becoming one of the great Christmas movies of all time. Here are some photos of our early season foray into Holiday decolatage.

















And of course no family time is complete without a picture of me and Baxter!

God Bless America

Whew...I am so glad elections are over. I mean, I voted and performed my civic duty, but I am just glad that there are no more mud-slinging commercials, and no more mailers in my mailbox. I hope all of you voted, because it DOES make a difference. If you don't believe it just look at the Senate races.

So speaking of Patriotism...Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all our servicemen and women who have trained and volunteered to fight and protect us. That is another reason to vote, so that guys who have fought for freedom know that we appreciate it and embrace it. I love America! I know right now that is not a popular opinion, but it is just the way I feel. I am so glad we have the right to express our opinions even if we don't agree with everything we hear.

Anyway, that is my soapbox for today...thank you veterans! We can never thank you enough for your sacrifice.

It's been awhile

So, last week was our last post because our life has been insane the past week. Our dog, Baxter, has been so sick these past 2 weeks. He has been in the animal hospital a total of 4 days and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. So after almost a week and half of vomiting and dehydration and our vet basically not caring, we switched vets today and the new one (who gave personal attention) figured out what was wrong with our dog in one day. They say he has all the signs of a gastric ulcer from eating something like wood that scraped his stomach and then got infected. It's pretty crazy that after all that, it is something so simple.
It just makes me INSANE that if the old vet would have spent a little more time with Baxter he would already be better and we could have saved so much money. Once again the whole issue of personal service vs. making money comes into play. But its pretty scary that someone is that way with our puppy's health. But we absolutely LOVE our new vet. When we picked up Baxter today, they said "we'll call tomorrow to see how he is doing." PERSONAL SERVICE-YEAH! So if you are in Littleton and you need a vet go to the Chatfield Veterinary Hospital, they ROCK!
I think that is all that has been happening lately. Oh! It did snow again, A LOT. (that's what Joe wrote about.)We got about 6 inches. It was pretty sweet, but I had to drive on a little two lane road through the worst of the snowing. It was very scary. But beautiful once the sky cleared up and the roads were clear.
Only 3 more weeks till we go home for Thanksgiving. Can't wait!
Sara