Yes, Yes I'm Here!

I know, I know, its been a while. Ok. A long while since my last post. I've been trying not to spend so much time on the internet, so I haven't even been reading the blogs that I did before. Call it a New Year's Resolution.

So what's been happening here? Lets see......

We had a really nice Christmas holiday. We went down to my parents' house and didn't get to go to Christmas Eve service because it was canceled due to bad weather. Dad and I almost didn't go last minute shopping for Mom due to the yucky weather. But we managed to make it into town. A couple days after Christmas, we went up to Richard's sister's place in the Twin Cities, and spent several days there. A nice suprise for the boys was Richard's aunt Cherie was visiting from Boise, and we didn't tell the boys, so they were excited! They had another suprise when we finally got home. "Santa" left a Wii and a bunch of games. The kids could hardly contain themselves, they were so excited. The most popular game by far has been the Lego Star Wars: The Collection. It has all 6 episodes on it. I have to admit that it is rather fun.

The boys are still enjoying school. We haven't had any more snow days since the last post, which is good, because then the kids will actually get a 4 day Easter Weekend, which also doubles as their Spring Break.

My bread machine finally died, so now I'm using my Kitchen Aid stand mixer to make bread. As long as I preheat my stoneware loaf pan (pampered chef!!) in the oven before I put the bread dough in it, it rises pretty well.

Richard is keeping busy with work, although during the winter his hours are a little more normal. He's been getting home between 4:30 and 5:30 pm, which is a lot better than, "I don't know when I'll be home". We actually get to eat dinner as a family most nights.

Richard now has orders that will take him through April, 2011, so we're here till then. Yippee! We asked for our landlord's permission to paint our front room, and they said yes, so I'm hoping to get that done in the next few weeks. I had to promise that we wouldn't use pink, purple or black though. :)

Midnight is doing pretty well. She still doesn't have a lot of feeling in her back feet, she can't "tell where her feet are". That's what the vet says, anyway. But the vet was also surprised that she's still up and going. The vet didn't think she'd last this long.

Richard and I had a nice Valentine's Day. We went to a couples banquet at church. It was a lot of fun, and the food was excellent! A couple who is working on opening a real French restaurant (she's French, he's a chef) in La Crosse did the cooking, so everything was great.

Can you believe that in just over 2 weeks, Richard & I will be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary?

I think that's it in a nutshell. I'm going to try to post at least once a week from now on.