Brushing off the dust…

Cough cough cough…

It’s time to dust off the ole blog. We’ve been super busy since Noah’s birthday. So here’s the low down on our Holiday Adventures…

Viva la Mexico!

Although Noah came down with pink eye in both eyes, an ear infection, and a cold the day BEFORE we were leaving to go to Cancun, we still made it down there. We did have a lovely time with Mom, Dad, Jaime, & Charlie and spent each day at the pool or on the beach. Noah was over the bad stuff in a few days, but still had a fever off and on until Thursday. He was surprisingly in a very good mood considering he was sick so that was good. And we couldn’t complain being that we were in 80 degree weather and MN was below zero! :D

Here are our pics from the the trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/ShawnFaith/Cancun2008#

There are over 300! Enjoy!

Snowmobiles are my friend…..

Or I should say Shawn’s friend… Shawn decided to head up north to go snowmobiling for a few days the day after we got back from Mexico. Which was good since he was on vacation the rest of the month and we had a lot of snow! Well Monday night he calls just as I was done feeding Noah. I cheerfully answer the phone and ask if he’s having fun… The response I get…. “Um, I crashed my sled into a culvert and I think I broke my arm”

WHAT?!?!?! Ok, I realize he’s ok, but it did freak me out. Jennifer calls me later to tell me the status on him from the ER. I get to hear that the nurse thought she was my husband’s girlfriend… (I’m so surprised you didn’t smack her Jenn. LOL!) But he was fine and had to have surgery scheduled for the next day up in Duluth. So the call tree began to get things in place so that I could get up there and bring him home after the surgery the next day.

And here is a picture taken of Shawn post ER trying to eat soup that Jenn’s mom made for him.

From December 2008

Thank you to the Barnes’, Fokken’s, and Strom’s for taking such good care of my hubby whilst he was up there. I REALLY appreciate your generosity and wonderful care!

Tuesday after a long day of driving, waiting, and driving some more we made it home (Thanks Dad for driving up there with me). Barb was waiting for us as she took care of Noah so that I didn’t have to drag him along on the trip. Especially after him getting shots that morning. So after profusely thanking her again for the short notice babysitting, she was off to traverse the roads home and I was off to put the broken arm boy to bed.

I do have to say that even though men can be big babies when they are sick, Shawn has been really good. Besides trying to lift too much with his hand (GRRRR…) he hasn’t been in pain since that first night. So YAY for that!

The Holidays...

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were nice. We spent Christmas Eve at home with the 3 of us. Christmas Day we opened up gifts as a family and then made our way to my Aunt Pat’s for the Arbogast Christmas. We had a lovely time there and then headed back to Mom & Dad’s for our rib roast feast! Yum! Jaime & Charlie made it up to MN this year for Christmas so that was great! Although we had just spent a week with them in Mexico it was nice to see them again for the day. We never get enough time with them, but then again they do live in TX. Mom & Jaime performed their latin dance moves that they learned at the resort. They even got Noah to join in on the fun!

(Video to be added soon… Hee hee hee)

We spent the next few days trying to relax as much as possible. The Turner Christmas was postponed to 1/2/09 since Steve came down with the stomach flu the day after Christmas. Sunday Mom & Dad brought Noah’s ATV over since Dad had gotten it put together. Now that was funny! It didn’t take long for the little man to figure out how to get it going! Pics and video are coming!

After another week of working and celebrating a friends passage to their 30’s! Welcome to the club Michael! J We got to celebrate Christmas with the Turner’s. I made what I deem to be an AWESOME dinner (sorry, had to pat my own back for that one)! Beef Tenderloin, twice baked potato casserole, veggies, rolls, etc… Well I’m only taking credit for the beef & potatoes with their appropriate sauces…. J As those were the “new” items for me to make (well not the potatoes). ANYWAYS… We had a lovely afternoon/evening with them.

The rest of the weekend including helping Val register for baby stuff. That was a fun day! And then chilling at home getting ready for heading back to the office on Monday.

And now I think I’m spent! It will not be this long before the next update! I promise!