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Brann's. This week has really drug on at a snail's pace and I feel like I have been here for a month. The kids have been great, but I am counting down the hours until I get to go home. They should be home tonight around 6pm. The kids and I are going to see Bolt this afternoon and I am hoping that they will be home shortly after the movie. We have pretty much done everything you can cram into one week during my stay. I bought a zillion of the
Foamie craft Christmas houses at Michael's and the kids and I had a Christmas village building marathon Monday-Wednesday. We now have six houses, Santa, snowmen, angels, reindeer, etc. on display. We decorated large wooden snowflake ornaments, watched ever Christmas movie out there and even went sledding yesterday in the foot of snow!
Well my stay wouldn't be complete without these few crazy things that happened this week:
-On Monday their giant back sliding door that the dog goes out came off the track and WOULD NOT CLOSE. I mean it had a 2 inch gap between the door and the wall. I was a little nervous about going to sleep that night with the door open and three kids and me sleeping in the house. So Travis came over and fixed it and spent the night.
-Tuesday, I was relieved the door was fixed. I came home from work and opened the door to let the dog out and boom, it came off the track again. I was SO pissed. I called Travis, he stopped by after work and put it back on the track and put a piece of wood in the jam and said it would be best not to open it again. So that means we've had to take the dog outside on a leash to use the bathroom in the freezing ass cold...not fun!
-Wednesday, I wake up and casually notice that the dog used the living room as a bathroom in several spots and chewed not one, but two bottoms of the kitchen bar chairs..Nice!
-Friday we were watching How the Grinch stole Christmas when I hear Elise yell, "Chloe (the dog) just scratched me." Sure enough, she has two scratches on her face. That will be a fun story to explain to the parents. Anyone else seeing a pattern here with the dog? She is a puppy, and is as cute as can be, but she has been the biggest pain in the ass this week!
Our wedding album is in for us to digitally proof before we give the okay for it to be printed. I wish that I could post the 42 pages, but they are
pdf files!:( There are few pictures that we want to move around, change to black and white, etc. But, overall we are really happy with how they designed it. I can't WAIT to get my hands on the final copy.
I am so excited for Christmas and the much needed break from school. We have a low key holiday planned. Our parents decided to combine the holidays. So Christmas Eve the Ramsey's and the Rolfe's will celebrate all together at the Rolfe's house. And then Christmas day we will split the day between the two houses. I am looking forward to our first "official" Christmas together.
How are you all celebrating?
