Coming soon...

We're spending Christmas Vacation with family and friends in Utah. And we're having a wonderful time! I'll have something new to post soon!

Not being able to smell really...STINKS!!!

Just a quick post to let you all know that I have a new found appreciation for our sense of smell. For the last three days I have been unable to smell, at all. I have this yucky sinus cold so my nose isn't working. Pretty much it's horrible. And because I can't smell, I can't taste. How can you enjoy food if you can't taste? I've been drinking a lot of V8's and eating things that I don't usually but should. I guess its an easy way to diet but I love food too much. It's just no fun at all. And poor little Abbi sat in a dirty diaper too long because I couldn't smell it! Now she has gnarly little bum rash. Boy, do I feel like a good mom. I never realized how much I count on my sense of smell. Do I smell OK? How about these dishes, are they clean, do they smell clean? How about this blanket that Abbi's been sleeping with, does it need to be washed, how does it smell? How about my toast burning in the toaster, can't tell cause I can't smell! I guess what I'm trying to say is I am very grateful for a working nose and I will be even more grateful when mine starts working again!

Ok, I'm done.

Chicago...Chicago

Our Thanksgiving trip to Chicago was a blast! Mostly because we were able to spend time with our family (seriously I was so content just to hang out with everyone and Livi and Abbi had cousins to play with!!!) But we also got to do some pretty cool things while we were there too. We went to this awesome little town called Woodstock. This is where the movie Groundhog Day was filmed. It was so cool and very quaint. We also ventured into downtown one night to see the musical WICKED. IT-WAS-AMAZING!!! Seriously, I was in heaven. Jessica had already seen it so she, very graciously, volunteered to watch the childrens. So, a night out on the town, without my children, with DuVall, (and Dru and Linda/Grannie), to see WICKED, a play I have been dying to see for almost two years....pretty much I was a happy girl.
So thank you to Dru and Jess for such a fabulous vacation and Thanksgiving meal. We were so glad we could be there with you and your kids and Grannie!!!
Here are some pictures from the trip. The one of the Wicked Stage was all I could take before some old, wrinkly, usher told me to put my camera away or else she would take it.