A nice day

As I said yesterday, we were all up by about 6am. The kids opened their stockings and then headed for the tree where to their surprise, they each found a new snowboard waiting for them from Santa. You should have seen the look on their faces, priceless. Next up was their gifts which included some socks (for snowboarding) and a new ski hat each which turned out to be one of the best gifts of the day as neither of them took them off until bedtime. Each boy also received the new Barnes and Noble Nook and boy were they surprised. The rest of the morning was spent playing with the youngest ones new Wii game and their Nooks and then we headed up to Grandma’s about 11am. Thanks to Grandma Dixie and Pa Don who sent some money to the boys to get some “apps” and books for their new Nooks. This sure came in handy as they were ordering up a storm as soon as they turned their tablets on. I received a custom new holster from the misses and some other useful items and she opened boxes filled with some new clothes from me. The highlight of her morning was a new blue dress (you might of remember me telling you about this a month or so ago) from her Mom that I picked up and wrapped for her. She had no clue she would get this and was really surprised. She liked it so much, I thought about taking credit for it. (just kidding)

We arrived at my Moms and after a half an hour or so, sat down to open presents. Now it would take far too long to list each and every gift so let’s just say everyone was spoiled beyond belief and thrilled with their gifts. The oldest received a new BMX bicycle from Grandma which was a combination Christmas Birthday gift for him and he was speechless. The youngest opened a couple of gifts he had been really wishing for as well and had them set up all over her living room as soon as he opened them. We finished up and loaded up our loot around 2:30 in the afternoon and headed home. I then went back to Grandma’s to pick up Aunt Shelly and give her a ride home while the misses and the boys grabbed some large trash bags and went back to Grandma’s to help clean up all the mess.

The rest of the day was spent lounging around the house while the boys played Wii and games on their Nooks. The also did some reading on them which is great as that’s what we hoped for.

The misses all through this had a 101 degree temperature. In her true fashion, you’d never know it as she’s not a complainer. She’s still not feeling well but is in the shower now as she works this morning at 7:15! Mojo the malamute has something wrong with him as he’s been howling every night since we got him back from the groomer Friday night. The misses touched his foot or tail or something last night that made him jump. He’s walking fine and we think it’s some skin irritation he has as he’s still itching a lot. We’ll call today and see if the groomer knows anything. The misses just came down as is not doing very well, she just said she feels 10 times worse today than yesterday!

We’re going to a party tomorrow night in Vail and Uncle T and Aunt B agreed to watch the boys. I think we’ll just drive home tomorrow night but we have to go and put in an appearance. I’ll be ok driving as I’m not drinking these days since I’m trying to get a head start on the New Year. I also leave for Italy in 12 days so that’s another motivator. My gym is closed until 6am this morning which doesn’t give me enough time to go before the misses leaves at 6:45 so I’ll be working out downstairs this morning. In fact, I need to run now so off I go.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and got everything you wanted. It’ll be 2012 before you know it, get ready for a roller coaster year. Not only do we have the 2012 Presidential election, (non stop tv ads all year, a good reason to kill your tv), the supposed 2012 Mayan Doomsday next December, the potential end of the euro along with numerous countries going bankrupt and other assorted financial calamities. And this is all the stuff we know about, who knows what’ll pop up and surprise us, like some natural disaster. Now for me, I’m trying to think of the good things that can happen as I think positive thinking is very powerful, BUT, that doesn’t mean I’m not going to be as prepared as I can, just in case!

Oh well, more on the coming year as we get closer to 2012, for now, let’s all clean up and re-coup from Christmas and enjoy the day. Personally I’m cleaning out some dresser drawers today trying to de-clutter my life a bit.

Hope you are all doing well, I think we talked to most of you yesterday but did miss Grandma Annette and Aunt Robi. The misses will be home at 3 today (unless they send her home earlier) so I’m sure she’ll call then.

Take care and God Bless,

Whoops, quick update! It’s 7:20 and they’re sending the misses home from work! I have a conference call at 9am but dressed quickly and am ready to head to the gym as soon as she pulls in. I already did some cardio downstairs but am glad to get to lift some weights! Have a great day!

7:23, Hold on, not so fast, the phone just rang and the 8:15 girl at work just called in sick so the misses is stuck there after all. Of course I’m all dressed for the gym and have the car running, oh well, I guess that 2012 roller coaster is coming early!

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