Vacation and Catch Up!

Well this may be a long post. So go grab a cup of coffee, a donut and sit back, relax and enjoy our Blog!

Well last week we headed out Aberdeen SD. We arrived on Thursday when it was -40. Yes that is not a typo. We were glad to have finely arrived after a long night in the ariport. Shall I elaborate? Good glad you would like to hear.

So we landed in MPLS and all was good. WE had checked into hotels before we left and I was CONFIDENT that I could find a REASONABLE hotel for us to spend the night. But a bazillion phone calls later there was no such luck. The average room would be $120 and for 5 hours I was JUST NOT GOING to spend that!! So off to pick up our bag, have the US AIR folks lock them up and hunker down in the airport. We foudn our place to sleep and we settled in. Well a young man, who shall remain nameless, decided that he was ready to explore and be UP!! While the rest of us wanted to get at least a few hours of shut eye. Well FINELY at 3 am that little stinker fell asleep. So mama got some shut eye then too.

We then woke up with the kinks in our necks and headed off to collect our bags and check into our flight to Aberdeen. All looked well and we should be on the plane no probelm. We ended up arriving at about 10:45 to the above -40 degrees. So we gather our bags and load up the van and head out.

Friday I spent part of my day buying supplies for the big PARTY!! Jackson you know was turning 2. I picked up everything I needed and we headed back to nan's. But wait. Another funny story. Would you like me to elbaorate? Good I am so glad!!

So checking out in Wal-Mart and I get RAMMED by somthing. I see out of the corner of my eye that is was a DORA 4 wheeler. You know one of those cars the kids drive. I am thinking to myself, who is NOT watching there kid! My goodness can't they see I have a cart full of STUFF!!! Well the boy who was ridining, again shall remain nameless along with his father. Purely to protect them. He had gotten on this DORA thing and had a foot on the gas and one leg in the air as if he just wanted to sit on it. But ub known to him the side he placed his foot was the GAS so he ran into his mama!! NOTE TO SELF: Don't EVER buy one of those.

So Saturday was the big party day. My family had arrived the night before and I was anxious to get over there and say hi. So Jamie, Jack and I bundled up and went over to the super 8 to see them. We ate some waffles and headed out. By the afternoon I had picked up the balloons and headed to the hotel.

We got all set up and we were ready for our guests to arrive! Jackson cake was SO TOTALLY AWESOME!!! It was a nemo cake that my sister Chris made. She TOTALLY out did herself and it was the best stinkin cake EVER!!! I have like a bazillion pictures and those will just have to be posted later. So we swam and opened up presents and really just had a good time hanging out with family. Poor Jackson was exhausted.

Sunday we said goodbye to my family and simply hung out. The rest of our trip was just relaxing, sleeping in and EATING WAY TOOOO MUCH!!! I did enjoy one night out with my sister in law Shanda and we had a great time. $20 can buy you A LOT of Limo and cokes. I got hit on my some dude in his hunting gear and one other strange dude. Made for a good laugh for us.

But we have now returned to the wonderful warm AZ weather. I will take this over the -25 we left on Tuesday. So it was back to work for me..

Speaking of work. I only have 60 more days left after today. (this does include the weekends folks) so I am anxious to be done and close this work chapter of my life. Its been one rollercoaster ride but I have met some WONDERFUL people along the way. I have been looking for a new job, but nothing that fits me has popped up. But I KNOW that HE has it allplanned out for me. So I shall not worry about it. My path has already been decided. So I will see what happens.

I willpost pictures of the party as soon as I dump my cards from the camera. I hope everyone is well. I am not quite sure if anyone even reads this, but I certainly enjoy writing it.

PS: Please lift up my friend Sharon. She is recovering from an illness and could use your prayers.

Rest in his Hands,
Jenny