Ok, so it's been a while since I have posted!! Well, since early November....what can I say, too many websites to keep up with and not enough hours in the day!
2008 was a bit of a whirlwind! Big changes, Josh started a new job, Connor turned 2, I got pregnant again! So much excitement! This coming up year looks to be just as eventful with the new baby coming!
We just got back from a nice LONG drive to MN for Christmas. It was so nice to have a real white Christmas again and to see my family actually on the holiday, not before or after! It took us about 2 1/2 days to drive there, we left late Wednesday night (around 7 EST) and made it almost to Pittsburgh (only drove a few hours that night) before we stopped. The next morning, just outside of Pittsburgh, a truck kicked a rock up and chipped the windshield, right under the drivers line of vision but it didn't spider...yet. Thurs we drove straight thru to the MN side of Chicago and got caught in the snowstorms that we slamming them. We went to sleep with only a few inches of snow on the ground and woke up to about a foot! We trudged on though and Friday made it to Grand Rapids around 8:30 pm CST. Along the way, we saw 15 cars, 10 tractor trailers, and a snow plow...yes a snow plow...in the ditch!
We had a great time with my family, I got to see relatives I haven't seen in years and years and got to meet some that I hadn't met yet (cousins wives and kids!). We also got to make it down to Duluth and see Dave's new Club, which is AWESOME! If you are in Duluth, you gotta check it out, it's called Score and is on the corner of 4th & Superior (I think). It's the old Duluth Athletic Club building if that helps! We got to see Angie's new little boy Rylan, who is so absolutetly adorable that I just wanted to take him home with me! Connor and Hannah also got to play together for a little bit, which was nice!
Christmas was the usual at Betty's house and my grandparents house. I have pics to post but of course they are still on the camera, one day I will get more efficient at transferring them in a timely matter! Betty was ever so nice to Connor and got him drumsticks for Christmas...which my tupperware thanks her for! However, not to be outdone, my parents just went ahead and got him the drumset!
And now this brings me to the weather...it was cold but not as bad as I remember it being when I was a kid (we didn't have any below zero during the daytime while we were there, well, the morning but it always warmed up). I remember as a kid having highs in the -20s! Josh, however, found it very cold! It didn't seem to bother Connor too much, he was just happy to be out of the car! And speaking of car, let's go back to the windshield...yep, you guessed it, with the moisture in the air and the cold weather, we watched the crack spider right before our very eyes. Needless to say, we got a new windshield while we were in Rapids!
After a week of fun in the snow and cold, we began our adventures home on Friday. And I do mean adventure! We went down thru the Cities this time so that we could stop by to see my brother and his family. When we left there, we didn't make it too far because the fog was so bad that visibility was down to about 30 feet in the good spots. We stayed in Rochester that night. The next day we headed out with high hopes of making it at least to the PA border. The torrential downpours that we encountered the entire day pretty much squashed that plan! We pushed thru WI, IL & IN and once it started to get dark out (keep in mind, still POURING rain out) we had a little mishap with the passenger side windshield wiper. I guess all the snow and ice buildup in MN had sheared the clip to hold the wiper in place because it kept coming off and flopping and crashing on the window! We were having to stop every 5-10 miles to fix it so we finally found a Walmart and replaced the stupid thing. Then the winds started to pick up as well. We finally conceded that we weren't going to make it PA, let alone anywhere near it and checked into a hotel in Freemont, OH around 2 am. Around 5:45 am Josh woke up and realized that the hotel had lost power due to the winds! The rain had at least finally stopped (go figure now that the wipers were working the way they were supposed to!). We got back on the road again around 9:30 and decided that we were just going to push thru to get home. We finally made it home about 6:30 pm on Sunday.
We celebrated Christmas with Josh's family on New Years Eve. Connor was spoiled rotten, as were Josh and I. So far the favorite gifts from there have been Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2. Connor is so funny with Rock Band because he won't let anyone else play the drums, it's always his turn! He also likes to sing! His favorite new song is Eye of the Tiger! Too funny when he does it! I will post video of it when I get around to transferring everything off the camera!
I was back to work on Monday after having 18 days in a row off, what a reality check that was for all of us! None of us were used to getting up in the mornings anymore! Connor apparently got used to being home with me all day because he's getting a little clingy when I drop him off at daycare now. The first day he was very excited to see his friends and yesterday was ok, I'm here so I will play but I really want to stay home. Well, today, it was a fight to get him to let go of me! Hopefully he had a good day so it won't be so bad tomorrow!
Well, I think that about sums it up for now. One of my New Years Resolutions is to keep this updated a little more often! I know that when I am on maternity leave it shouldn't be a problem but when working and being full time mom at the same time...well that leaves little time for mindless typing about our lives!
I hope you all had a great holiday season and everyone is safe and warm! Best wishes to everyone going into 2009!
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