Before we get too far into 2010, I figured I should probably write about Christmas and New Year's. We had a wonderful Christmas and a not so good New Year's. But either way, we were together so that makes everything better. :)
First of all, let me just say I am a spoiled girl and my husband treats me VERY well. Joseph started asking me what I wanted for Christmas way back in November. He said he was too nervous to buy something for me without my approval. He knows that I will like it even if it's not what I really wanted. But at the same time, I didn't want to tell him what I wanted because I wanted to be surprised. So, my friend Brenda had the idea that I should send him an email with screen shots of different things that I wanted. I made sure to put the Love's Embrace necklace in there. I also made sure to put the advertisement for it on his desk and to mention it every time it was on tv... and tell him that's what I wanted whenever he asked. I was pretty sure he got the hint :)
I was really excited about the gifts I found for him. I gave him a telescope, an astronomy book to show where the stars are, the Simpson's Scene It game, some shirts, ties and candy. I was really happy that he liked all of his gifts :)
Joseph gave me a Christis statue and wind chime. Now don't get me wrong, I love my gifts! He did a really good job at picking these gifts out... he even did it without my help! I am just so spoiled that I was a little sad I didn't get the necklace. I even thought to myself "maybe we can use the gift cards from our parents to get it". Then I thought "no! I can't buy myself the love's embrace necklace! Someone has to give that too you."
So after all of the gifts were opened, Joseph asked "Did you get everything you wanted?" I said "Yes, Thank you baby." He said "No, I can see it on your face. What else did you want?" I said "Nothing". He said "what about this?" And then he pulled the necklace out of the basket in the tv unit. What a sweet husband I have! I love my necklace, and my statue and my wind chimes. We hung the wind chime up on our back porch. It sounds beautiful in the wind. And for now we have the statue in our bedroom because there is so much dirt that comes in from the outside since we don't have grass in the backyard yet.
I really do have the best husband in the world!
On Christmas day we went over Brenda and Orson's house. That was a lot of fun being with them.
New Year's Eve was not as fun. We decided to get Sammy neutered that day because we would have a 3 day weekend to be with him. If I had known how much pain he was going to be in, I don't know if I could have done it. Everyone told me that their dogs were just groggy and knocked out, but Sammy cried all night long. He had a difficult time walking, sitting, and laying down. It was really tough to see him like that. Luckily when we were able to give him more pain medicine, that helped him out a lot. He was so drugged up that he would fall asleep sitting up. It was funny and sad at the same time. After 2 weeks, he is doing fine. You would never even know he had surgery.
Now that it is the new year, Joseph has started working in his new position at work. He seems to like it a lot more and doesn't get as frustrated working with the staff members as he did working with students.
Other than that, things are going really well. Hope you are all doing great too!
