Max!!! Fetch me my sedatives.....

For those of you out there who know me well you know that I just love the movie "The Grinch" (the Jim Carrey version.) I watch the movie at least 5 times every Christmas season because I can't get enough of it and it's one of my most favorite movies ever. It has some of the best quotes ever!!! If you have never seen it I highly recommend it and soon because Christmas is less than a week away!!!

On another good note, I am so excited that I get to go home to Utah tomorrow night. I survived the week barley with out Todd here. I have to say that the first three days were the hardest but then it got easier. I kept myself occupied with friends and projects of course. Work kept me super busy as always and I pulled some serious over time this week. Hopefully that extra money will be helpful for this holiday season. I have done some Christmas shopping out here in Ohio but will finish up when I get to Utah. I just don't have a lot of space in my luggage as it is because I am going to be gone for TWO WEEKS!!! I have never been gone that long out of town, so this will be super nice. I am so glad that my work was so willing to let me leave for that long and to still have a job when I get back. Maybe they really do like me there??? No, but work has gotten a lot better the last few weeks. I had my feelings hurt by one of the girls but we resolved it so it's not awkward anymore. We had my work Christmas party on the 13th before Todd left which was so fun. Dr. Katapadi is way good to his employees. I was happy that even though I have only worked there for 3 months they still gave me a bonus. Both Todd and I were so grateful and hope to be able to do something fun and productive with it.

Well, it's way late and I have been up scrubbing and sanitizing our entire place because it's been a mess this whole week. I didn't' have the time to clean before but now that it is I feel much better. It will be nice to come back to Ohio to a clean house and to our cat Scout.

See you all in less that 24 hours. I pray that the weather will be good for my plane ride back, it's been snowing in all sorts of states that never get snow.

Only 5 more days!!!

Here I am sitting at our condo all by myself thinking I can't wait to go back to Utah for 2 weeks to visit family and friends. Todd flew out today to Utah and it was so hard not to leave with him. We won't ever do this again that is for sure. We had bought our plane tickets in September and I thought I could handle him leaving one week earlier then me to go home. But as the weeks and days grew closer I was regretting our decision. But what is done is done and I will be home in 5 days!!!! I came home tonight after dropping Todd off at the airport and I got WAY home sick. I was looking online while listening to Christmas music and I just started crying. I don't know why girls have to have so many sporadic hormones that get the best of us some days. But after making some goodies and passing them out to people in my ward I felt much better. I am so lucky to have so many great people in my ward. I got invited to two different dinners tonight because they knew that I was alone. I am glad to know that I have friends out here even when my family is about 2,000 miles away. So to all my new and amazing friends in Ohio.......Thanks for always looking out for everyone. And to my family and friends back home in Utah.......I will see you in 5 days!!!! Love you all

Thanksgiving Weekend Fun

We had such a fun and eventful Thanksgiving weekend. Todd's little sister Jill flew out from Utah to be with us for 4 days. We got the chance to go to the Jefferson outlets which was of course FUN!! We shopped for about 4 hours and froze our butts off but we got some sweet deals. I will for sure be going back there again soon. Anyone is welcome to tag along.
Here is my sister-in-law Jill pointing to the map of where she will be serving her mission in March. She got called to the Thailand, Bangkok mission which sounds pretty sweet to us. She is nervous about learning to speak Thai but she will do great.
We went to the Columbus Zoo one afternoon and evening to see all the animals and the amazing Wildlights show. They do an amazing Christmas light show there every year and we were told it was worth going to. They were right, the lights were so amazing throughout the entire zoo.
Just a small piece of the lights we saw, sorry it's a little blury.
All us at the zoo watching one of the light shows they do with Christmas music.
Todd took us on a tour of his school since I hadn't been inside yet. I am so proud of all his hard work.
We have an amazing walking path through out our townhome area, the trees are so plush when they haven't fallen off. I will get better pictures in the spring.
I did it!! I successfully made my very first Thanksgiving dinner. It turned out so good and we ate up every bit of it. Of course not in the same day but the leftovers were gone by day two!! Todd's sister Jill was such a wonderful helper, she was a life saver. We all had just gotten back from the gym and had to shower quickly because the turkey was already cooked and we had nothing else prepared. Hence the fact that I still have wet hair and no make up on. Oh well, it was worth it!!!
Todd had to sample the turkey to make sure it was good, and it was!!
Okay so you have to give me a break, this part was rather gross to me. I had to wear latex gloves because the thought of digging for the head was not exciting to me. I was laughing so hard but I got it out and was grateful for the gloves. I am sure over the years I will get over that and just dig in without gloves but for now I was happy to have them.
Jill and I.
Todd and I on Thanksgiving day.