My Wonderful Husband

So yesterday morning I woke up feeling like I got hit by a truck. Not so fun. So on his way home from work Daniel stopped at Pilgrims and got me:

Umcka ColdCare (in cherry rather than the yucky flavor we had at home)
Throat Lozenges
A new flavor of my favorite tea
My favorite apple cider that is only available a couple of months a year
A bunch of wonderfully smelly soaps

I cried. Fortunately I think he was able to interpret that as "thank you for being so wonderful and thoughtful and bringing all these great things home for me."

Today he woke up sick, so I guess now I'll have to share. Well, maybe not my soaps, those are just for me =)

Let It Shine

I'm sorry for the poor quality, but I had to compress it quite a bit =) MZ has spent the morning reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas and listening to his music. It was so cute I had to record it! Although he sings so quietly, you may need to turn up your speakers.

Wordless Wednesday

Our Pathetic Tree

See? Told you it was pathetic.



We bought it the first Christmas we were married. It was cheap and it was small enough to fit into our little living room. Now it has to sit on a coffee table to even be noticed in our new dining room that is about the size of our old living room.



Fortunately the kids don't care.



Well, MZ might. Granted, his shirt has a better Christmas tree on it...



See this?



It used to be in this. For the time being it's just extra sparkle. I'm avoiding having to clean it up.



K-Lou was the mastermind behind the tree's final look.



And she's quite proud of herself.





MZ managed to get in on some of the action as well.



We tried to get some cute, happy pictures of the kids in front of the tree. This was the best we managed though. Fortunately it makes me laugh.

And as I've been looking through pictures to use in my digital scrapbooking stuff, I've noticed that Daniel and I seem to be nonexistent. So, to prove that we were actually there and participated in the tree decorating I give you these:



Daniel's shoulder.



My Arm.

An Update

We now have fully working plumbing in both the kitchen and the bathroom! Our downstairs bathroom sink had stopped working a while ago, and before it got fixed, the kitchen sink died too! Turns out there is a pipe that is slightly exposed to the outside (a chunk of the wood had fallen out), plus it was leaking right at the same spot! Needless to say, the single digit temperatures did not go over well. It froze and cracked, somehow sending water back up and out of our sink and dishwasher and onto our floor. Now it is all fixed and working better than it ever has! We no longer have a garbage disposal though, which is fine because I didn't use it often anyway. It was apparently installed wrong originally and would cost a bunch to fix so the landlords decided to just take it out. So, there's our update. Oh, and the toilet flushes instantly now rather than having to hold down the handle for five minutes. Now the only thing left to do is three days worth of dishes. Oh fun.