Well It has been way too long... 2 months! A lot has happened in the last two months. I had a birthday, Haley and I have both been sick (a few times), Thanksgiving, Haley's (Golden) 2nd Birthday, Snonomi 2010, my sister had her gall bladder removed, and most recently my best friend's grandfather (and close family friend) passed away. Did I miss anything?
Well for my birthday, just another day... I remember it was cold, windy and rain/sleeting when I went out for lunch with Erin. But that was about it. The Saturday before my birthday, I went with Brandon, Haley, my mom & sister to The Buffalo Tap for some juicy lucys! They were yummy, but made me sick :(
Haley ended up sick the day after my birthday throwing up in the morning. I stayed home with her that day, but she ended up being ok later on in the day and ended up back at daycare the day after. I stayed home sick the Tuesday after, which happened to be election day. I had the same thing as Haley, but I was having awful pains in my side, the same place as I had pains when I had a kidney stone. I was worried I had more stones so I begged the Dr's office to fit me in that day. They did tests and the most painful pelvic exam I've ever had. The doc just decided that it was a virus that is going around (the stomach bug Haley had the week before also). By the end of that week I had a sore throat, which lead to a hurting chest, then a horrible cough and a final diagnosis of bronchitis. I ended up going to the Urgent Care where I got prescriptions for all sorts of stuff that made me all better. Of course I missed quite a bit of work in the mean time though.
Thanksgiving I was still feeling pretty crappy cause it was only three days after being on all of the prescriptions. Haley threw up in the car a block away from our destination. That was great fun. Luckily it was just a little bit, so it wasn't too bad to clean up. Haley had a lot of fun playing with her cousin, Brooke.
One short week later, Haley turned TWO! My baby girl turned 2. It is still so hard to believe how fast life goes after having a kid. Anyway, Haley got a lot of nice things for her GOLDEN Birthday. It was Sesame Street Themed and soo cute. Haley loved it :) And again, she had a lot of fun playing with her cousin, Brooke. But we were also lucky enough to have lots of kids at this birthday! Her cousin's Charlotte, Brendan and Ethan, and little buddy Cole joined us too!
The next weekend was Snownomi 2010. Haley and I stayed at Mom & Dad's for the weekend to make cookies (plus Brandon was out of town for work that weekend). My Sister had her gall bladder removed earlier in the week, so she was also spending the weekend at the folk's house. Dad went to the cabin though. We planned on making cut out cookies Saturday, but there was sooo much snow, Mom and I went out to snow-blow the driveway. It took us a few hours, and a lot of energy. I never thought that was so much work!! I was definitely glad we didn't have to shovel it though!! By the time we were done there were another couple of inches of snow on the ground already. It was crazy. We didn't end up doing the sugar cookies that day cause we were so warn out after clearing the snow. I did however whip up a quick batch of peanut butter cookies with the chocolate kisses on top.
Over the next week my best friends Grandpa and a friend of the family past away. I've known him my whole life and have called him Grandpa as far back as I can remember. He had been battling cancer and pretty ill for quite some time. He was a great man. Always smiling, always happy. I have many fond memories of him at the cabin he and Grandma had in Siren. I spent many weekends there with Erin growing up. He's in a better place now. No more pain. He is greatly missed though.
The next weekend we had a Christmas celebration with my parents & sister and one my aunt & uncle's house. We didn't know when we'd be able to do gifts with my family, so we just fit it in before we went to Patti & Mike's. My cousin Joe, his wife Lindsay, and daughter Brooke spend Christmas with her family in Canada. This year the family decided to all get together so Haley and Brooke could see each other and open gifts together. That was a good time. The girls get a long so well :)
Then it was Christmas! Christmas Eve morning I had to work for a few hours. It was said that if the guys didn't have to plow, we didn't have to come in at all. Otherwise we did. I planned on just coming in. I new we'd have to. So I got up at 6am and the phone rang at 6:13. It was Andy asking me to come in. I called 3 people to move their cars. They did. Then I waited, and at 11:15 or so Andy said I could go home. I hopped in the truck and headed home. I figured I'd be home rather quickly. It took me an HOUR. First we came to a stop for the guy driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee pulling a travel trailer who was jack-knifed half in the ditch half in the road. Then once they let us pass that (the cops had me stopped so they could try to back it up... but they never got it to move), we came to another complete stop not even a mile down the road. There had been a semi truck in the ditch when I was on my way down to work at 7:30AM. It was still there at 11:45 when I got to that traffic jam. I finally got home to a nice clean house (thanks to Brandon!) and Dirk & Mona showed up! We had some lunch, hung out for a bit and put Haley down for her nap. Dirk and Mona left soon after and I ran to Target to get Haley some tights. I've never been in a store on Christmas Eve... I thought it was going to be a mad house, but I was pleasantly surprised to not have to wait in line to make my purchase! Got back home and got ready and headed over to my parent's house for Christmas Dinner! It was DELISH! I LOVE SWEDISH MEATBALLS! After dinner we were on our way to Brandon's Uncle Mike's to hang out for a couple of hours.
We got home at 10PM and put Haley to bed. That is when I started wrapping all of Haley's gifts and we watched A Christmas Story. In bed by 12:00 and Back up again at 9AM. Got ready and went over to Grandma Myrna's. Lucky for me I had an insult free Christmas! No one asked if I was pregnant or if I was gaining weight or anything of the sort. It was nice :) Dirk and Mona came over later that night and we finally had Haley open her presents from us and Santa.
Got up Sunday morning and went over to Josh and Deann's to have Christmas with them and Dirk and Mona. Haley is so funny... She is scared of Grandpa Dirk. She did get to the point where she would goof around with him, but she still wouldn't give him a hug before we left.
Once we got home yesterday and put Haley down for her nap, Brandon left to go and plow the snow that fell over night Thursday into Friday morning. Of course this is the night Haley pukes and has a messy poopy diaper. She only puked and pooped once, but it was a mess to clean up. Then she didn't want to go to bed. She was scared she was going to throw up again. I felt bad for her but it was already 45 minutes past her bed time. She finally went to bed and I had to continue cleaning. I got a little time to mess around with my iPod (which I got for Christmas, courtesy of my parent's!). I've had it for a little over a week, and I am still trying to get things figured out.
Wow, Okay... Longest blog... ever. I will say I wrote this over two weeks... I started it before Christmas and ended it well now... after Christmas.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas!
