Our Past Week

Our ceiling is now completed!! They were here today painting and I'm so glad it is all done, but boy, if I knew the mess it was going to make I would have not had them do this, or else I wish we would have waited until spring! Wednesday and Thursday night we stayed at Mom and Dad VV's house and then Friday night we spent the night in the Dells. TJ and Shawna invited us to go snowboarding on Saturday at Christmas Mt. They have a timeshare there so it was nice to stay right at the Mt. and just wake up and go! We had such a good time! Gavin stayed with Grammy and Papa on Friday night and we picked him up on Saturday when we got back. We had this snowboarding trip planned out way before we knew they were going to re-do our ceiling but the timing worked out very nicely!

Saturday night when we got into the condo David and I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned! It is literally never ending with drywall dust!! It gets worse, just when we thought we had a hold on all this dust they come in to paint today and they lay down all of the dirty drywall tarps that they used last week, so all the dust is in the air again and David and I spent a good part of our evening cleaning it all up again! I'm sure I will be cleaning drywall dust everyday for the next month!

This evening David and I made one of our favorite dishes...Rigatoni D, from Maggianos. I have been looking for this recipe for the longest time and finally found it! It turned out pretty good, tasted alot like it, but nothing it as good as the real thing!

Im hoping this week goes by very fast. It is going to be so cold out. So I got all of our errands done today so we do not have to go out at all during the day! Poor David is going to be working outside, I keep telling him that it is not safe, but he keeps assuring me that he will stay warm...which I have no idea how with -40 wind chills. Oh well. Im sure he is used to it! Stay warm and have a good week!

I dislike drywall!

So we had someone come in today to look at our ceiling and try to fix it .(they are re-doing all the roof's in this area and we have had some cracks and sagging in our ceiling for awhile so we decided while they were doing that to just come and look at our place) Well turns out that they need to tear down the entire living room ceiling and redo everything...ugh...what a pain in my rear! So..we are now trying to pack everything up and get it all out of here! We will be homeless for about a week, hopefully less! Thank goodness Mom and Dad VV are close enough that we can stay there!
More Later!

First '09 blog!

I still can't believe is it 2009! It is going to take me a long time to get the hang of writing it on checks and other stuff. I still find myself writing '07! We had a very nice New Years. It was very chilly outside, but we still had a ton of fun! Here are a few pictures from out New Years Eve. So this past weekend we did a whole lot of NOTHING! Mainly consisted of taking down Christmas decor, and cleaning. Friday we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner and to watch some of the Wisconsin Hockey Game. On Saturday Mom and Dad VV stopped by for a little while. They wanted to see Gavin's train set that they got him for Christmas all set up in his bedroom. Gavin was all about showing them all of his new stuff!
Well...it is very late and we have to get Gavin over to Shawna's at 7:30 in the morning tomorrow because David and I have an errand to run, bright and early, and then we have people coming over at 10:00am to do drywall...ugh, tomorrow is not going to be a fun day!

Happy New Year's Eve to All!

Happy New Year's Eve to all!

2008 has been a year filled with many memories, mostly all good :);

-David and I got Married in April and took our honeymoon in Punta Cana!

-My Grandma had multiple myeloma and is now CANCER FREE!

-We have made some truly wonderful, lifelong friends!

-Gavin turned 2!

-Most of all, we are all healthy!!!

Hears to another wonderful year in 2009!

I can't wait to see what '09 has in store for our family! We already have dates on the calendar for '09. 2008 was a very busy year to us, so hopefully '09 will be a little less hectic for our Family!

Today I will be driving to meet my Parents who are going to be watching Gavin overnight tonight! David and I will be ringing in the new year with great friends! We will be going to Cascade Mt., we are looking very forward to this! We did the same thing last year for New Years and had a BLAST! They have fireworks as well, so it should be a good time.

We hope everyone has a safe and happy New Years Eve!

Our Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas Holiday!

Christmas Eve

We got to Neenah around 11:30am. I helped my mom get everything ready for our Family Christmas and we just hung out for a couple hours. At around 2:30pm Matt and Ashley got there and we started our Family Christmas. At around 3:00pm we heard a knock at the door and it was Santa! He came to drop of special presents for everyone! A dear family friend wanted to dress up as santa and come see Gavin. It was really neat to see the look on Gavin's face and it was a much better experience then what we had at the Mall when we went to see santa! So after santa left we finished our family Christmas then went to my Aunt and Uncles for the Hackstock Family Christmas! It was alot of fun and it was really nice to relax and see everyone that we haven't seen in awhile! We also did a gift steal and I walked away with a really nice Tommy Hilfiger Purse, I just LOVE it!Christmas Day

We got up early and drove back to Madison so we could see what Santa brought Gavin! He walked inside and saw lots of presents with his name on it :) We then headed over to Mom and Dad VV's for the day to have our Family Christmas with them and Chris, Kristin and the kids! It was a very nice and relaxing day!

I hope you enjoyed looking at a few of the pictures from our Christmas!