It's Official

Today I am stuck in the house with my first snow day in Minnesota.  I am not really excited about it but nothing I can do.  Husband went to work this morning but is coming home early due to the weather and needing to shovel snow.  We got about 16 inches yesterday and suppose to get more today.  Of course one of my clients really wants me to see her today for 2 reasons: 1. She needs cigarettes(I could care less about this one) and 2. She needs help unloading a storage closet(judging by her home she cant have 5 items in her closet).  Regardless she will not be seeing me today.  I couldn't get out of the garage if I wanted to.  They haven't come by with the snow plow yet so I am sitting in front of the TV watching shows I usually don't get to see.  Hopefully I get to go to work tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

Heat Wave

Here in the North Pole we are currently experiencing a heat wave.  It is suppose to be in the 50's today.  Our lake pond in the back is thawing.  I know that it did not start thawing this early last year.  I am not complaning on comparing.  I have gained some weight due to these very cold temperatures so I am ready for it to warm up so we can get outdoors.  Our garage is a disaster due to everything my car tracks in so we really need to clean that.  We have some other projects that we really need to get on.  I know that it will likely snow again before spring but hopefully not too much.  We do have a chance for flurries tomorrow!

neglected!!!!

Once again this blog has become NEGLECTED. I decided to give you all an update of our NOT so exciting life. Of course we have been working and I had JL twice this week. Valentine's is tomorrow and we have already been celebrating. We kind of celebrate little holiday's for a week. We started with dinner last night at a local italian food restaurant and dessert from our favorite grocery store. We also watched The Town. It was really good,I actually stayed awake. Today we had breakfast and then went to the mall. Husband bought some Super Bowl goodies! We are only exchanging cards tomorrow so that won't be blog worthy. Then next weekend we are going to our favorite brunch place and then Valentine's 2011 will be over!!!

My parents are coming in 4 weeks and I am beyond excited!!!!! We already have some fun things planned. I am really needing some family time!!! I always have so much FUN with my husband and parents(of course we will miss the other Dykes!)

Until next time, Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Lost his Mind

Husband has officially lost his mind. Estate sales/War memorabilia has taken over his life. You all know that estate sales are a HUGE part of our lives. Well now husband has started looking on Craigslist and EBay for goodies. To many this probably sounds pretty innocent. Well last weekend I was taking a nap(due to my late night the night before) and was woken by him being on the phone and planning a meeting. Come to find out he had made plans to meet a man in a Best Buy parking lot to buy a uniform. So we buy a uniform and head on our way. Ok, this probably isn't too bad, right??? Well earlier this week I catch him taking pictures of some little metal wings he purchased a few weekends ago. I ask him what in the h**# he is doing and he states he is sending them to his friend on EBay. Then I giggle and say your friend, huh? He says yes my friend. I explain to him that he does not know this person and probably never will! Well I am talikng to my mom the other night about this problem my husband has and she brought something really important to my attention. No matter if he is a man or not he/we need to be careful when meeting these strangers. So we talked and will take the meeting part a little more serious next time. BUT the scary part is Husband really thinks of these people as his friends, bless his little heart!! Example-he called me last night on his way home excited as could be because he had talked to his "friend" and found out the date of his wings. So he has decided to sale his wings!!!! Hopefully this is just a spell he is going thru and it will end soon! Not sure I want him to make many more "friends"!!!

Another issue we always discuss is where he would have housed all of these things if we still lived in Midland. He doesn't really have an answer. Now he does have a room/office that he is able to put everything in. Many of you are probably asking if I will ever put a stop to it due to space/time. The honest answer is at this time NO. I know one reason that this has consumed his life is due to him not being able to hunt as much as he would like. I know that he truly Loves hunting but I do think he does really enjoy the "hunt" at a sale. And then about the space, I am a dreamer and I hope that our next home will be even bigger than our current one and so we should have plenty of space(even if our family grows!!!!)

Of course we have an estate sale to go to tomorrow that has war stuff.
Hopefully this weekend I can take some pictures of some goodies that we have bought. We don't have a busy weekend but will busy Sunday with the BIG game!!!!

True Friends

(If this post has tons of errors please excuse as I am posting on my phone while waiting on a client-multi tasking!!!)

So back to the post....... Some of our dearest,truest best friends have booked their tickets to come visit and we could not be any more excited. I feel so blessed that they have chosen to take their first trip post baby to come visit us. We have many friends say they are coming but none have taken the plunge BUT Ronald and Abbye!!!! They will be our first visitors non-family!!! We are going to have a blast!!! I cannot wait to show are wonderful friends everything there is to do here in MINNESOTA. Just to show how excited I am I already have 90% of the trip planned. There will be plenty of good eatin, shopping and catching up. We LOVE you guys and can't wait to see you, a little closer to time I will do a countdown post.