Ok, so this song keeps playing in my head and I can't get it out!!!!!!!!!
"We love you Conrad, Oh yes we do! We love you Conrad......" I think it is from the musical Bye Bye Birdie.

My sista is bringing me lunch today at work. I am so excited! She lost her job last Friday and may even put in a couple hours a week here at my office until she finds something, we'll see :)

Where is all this snow that we are supposed to get. I was driving into work today with absolutely no traffic, listening to the radio as it is telling me how bad the roads are, I thought maybe they were re-broadcasting a day we had a lot of snow or something, because I had NO traffic for once.

That is all for now....hope everyone has a great weekend! (my goal is to get my Christmas tree taken down finally!)

Please Read!

Hi friends. Luke's old boss from TCF and good friend Rob Larkin's wife was just diagnosed w/ cancer in early December. She just had a double mastectomy and will have to have months of chemotherapy and then radiation. I have a link to her site on Caring Bridge, her name is Amy Larkin. Please keep her and her family in your prayers! Thank you!

It has been WAY too long since I have posted.....however I am too exhausted. I think I got the flu from Jessie's baby....well that is the only person I can think of that was sick....I was puking on Saturday night and didn't get out of bed at all on Sunday. I can't believe I lasted until 3:30pm today at work..............That's all.......more to come!

You are never going to believe what happened to me this morning......Ok, well maybe Sari and Luke can believe it. But I couldn't.


Last night I pulled in my driveway and noticed I had a quarter tank of gas left. I didn't think anything of it as I live less than 2 miles from the gas station. So this morning I got in the car and started heading straight to the gas station. Well as I was pulling up by the Outlet Mall my car started slowing down...slower then slower then slower. I ended up pulling over on the side of the road just past the Outlet Mall. I didn't know what the heck to do. I figured I was probably just out of gas, but it was freezing this morning and all I could think about was that I was going to be stranded on the side of the road and have to walk my booty to the gas station...wa waaaaaa!

Thankfully an angel appeared! (ok, maybe not an angel literally!) But my neighbor Erica called me and came to my rescue. She had driven by just as I had put on my flashing lights.
Erica drove me to the gas station where I had to purchase a $6.00 gas can that fit 2 gallons of gas! (What a rip-off!) Then she drove me back to my car where I proceeded to try and take of the gas can top. Well ya know how they have the plastic tops w/ the little part that you push down so that the top can't unscrew easily.....well because it was so cold outside I couldn't get it to push down to turn the cap. So I am freaking out, having to use my keys and tear the damn thing! Finally I got it and started filling my car up.

So if it weren't for my wonderful neighbor I would have been stranded in the cold all by my lonesome trying to figure out what the heck to do!

Thanks ERICA!!! LOVE YA!!!!!!

Invisalign

If I had a scanner, I would post a picture for you of myself with braces. The reason, because today I started with Invisalign. Oh yes, here I go again, torturing myself with pain to make my teeth straight. After 4 years with braces, my ortho couldn't seem to get the pearly whites straight, or the lack of him providing a retainer could have helped the situation. Either way I am putting my mouth through excruciating pain again to straighten my teeth. My uncle took a before picture of my teeth and I am excited to see what the after result will be.

If I could write a book about life, I would write about marriage. I would write about how communication is so important between a husband and wife. Luke and I have truly had our fair share of hardships in the last couple of years. I am thankful that our relationship only seems to become stronger. The only reason I believe that our relationship has become stronger is because of our communication. It is hard to talk about when you feel sad, hurt, mad and angry....but if your spouse knows how you feel it is a lot easier for them to understand you and what you are going through. My words don't always come out spoken softly and in a nice tone....but it's better for them to come out rather than not. I don't appreciate going through the difficult times, but what can ya do, right? I am just thankful that I have an amazing husband who loves me and is there for me.

I could tell you now about each frustration that we have had since June 12, 2004, but why bother. I can't dwell on the past and the unfortunate things we have had to go through. All I can do is pray that life gets better and that Luke and I go to each other for strength, but most of all to God. We were at church on Saturday night before our night out with my parents....the message was on Romans chapter 3. Romans is a difficult book to understand, but it is amazing how we see over and over in the Bible God's faithfulness to us. He will not leave us or forsake us. I am reminded again and again that we have a truly loving God.

It is funny, because lately I have been missing Luke during the day while I am at work. I can't wait to get home and be with him, make dinner for him and just be together. I feel like we are at a place in our relationship that we haven't been in a long time. We are really enjoying each other and finding joy in our marriage. It's a wonderful feeling. Now this doesn't mean that life is perfect with my hubby, of course we still argue, but all in all there is an understanding lately that no matter what, life will be ok.

Ok, sorry for my strange rambling about marriage.......but that is just how I feel.

The picture above is from the weekend. We went with my parents, Sari and Ryan to Kinkaid's in St. Paul for dinner and then a limo picked us up and took us around St. Paul to look at Christmas lights. We had a wonderful time! Here are a few pics :)

We are told that God won't give us more than we can handle. Where is the box to check that I have had enough and I probably can't handle anything else?

So funny! You've gotta see this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweUjzhUwNw&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=63801202

Tag, You're it!

The task is to take the sixth folder on your comp and pull up the sixth pic and describe it. Then, tag four others.

This picture was taken June 2007 at Albertville Friendly Days. We had a blast that night, and everyone was friendly :)

I Tag: Natalie, Steph, Chris and Bethany

TGIF

You know how you come up with a list in your head of exactly what you would love for Christmas, but all of it put together is just WAY TOO expensive and you probably won't even get 1 item. Well here is that list for me.

1. Tall Uggs (Women's Classic Tall - Color Chocolate - Price $160
2. The Cricut - Price $299

OK, so my list is shorter than I thought. But I guess that is good right!? Then I am not being greedy? :)

Last night Sari came with me to Jazzercise. It was a lot of fun, and of course a great workout. We went home and Luke had made dinner so we ate and then looked at all the Jewelry that had come in from my party.

So everyone who bought, your orders are in. I will come around this weekend and drop stuff off.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!