This past week was wonderful. We went to Texas for Thanksgiving. It was the first time that Rick had taken time off since Christmas last year. And it was our first trip with our new kittens, Callia and Walther. Callia LOVED hanging out in the front of the truck, Walther HATED it.

Oh yeah, we got a new car! My car, the VW we called Hans, was just not working out anymore. TOO EXPENSIVE to fix and so we got a Chevy Tahoe. Yay! Something Rick can work on! It will be great driving it during the winter and it will be GREAT if/when we have kids. Everyone, including the kitties will fit perfectly in it.

Anyways, Rick's mom surprised us by coming in from Florida. So we stayed a couple more days and we hung out, got nice and fat with 2 Thanksgiving dinners.

Nothing much else has been going on. This is the longest Rick's been home and it's been the GREATEST time. We've just hung out with our friends and enjoying the great weather. Fall has been wonderful. I'm excited for the snow to come this winter!

Yesterday was my godson's 1st birthday. I had so much fun taking pictures of him throughout the afternoon. The shirt he wore was the same one his daddy wore on his first birthday so I had to get a good one for his grandmother to have. It was a lot of fun and can't believe that the year went by so quickly.

Nothing much else going on. I need to work on the house a little more, I need to paint the living room and dining room. And I've been keeping up on laundry. That's pretty awesome. Haha, it's nice to have everything clean and picked up around during the week. But hopefully I'll find a job sometime soon. Anyways, nothing much else going on. :)

MAMA AND ME!!

Ok, so I didn't stick with my resolution. Bad Angela! Well, it's been a busy year so far. Let's see... we've been working on the house. We finally got to do the floors. We sanded, stained, sealed and now our floors are gorgeous!! I'm so happy!! We had a HORRIBLE carpet that covered the hardwood floors. And now it's all gone and beautiful. So we did them because my mom was coming into town and I didn't want her to see that we hadn't done anything with the house. She loved them and we decided on her vacation to visit me, we would go shopping!!!! I took a whole week off from work. It was great! We got new blinds, new cookware, new shoes... ok, so not everything we got was for the house.... :) The weather was beautiful and we got to play outside a lot. She also enjoyed hanging out with my babies. Bella and Leo are doing GREAT since the other cats finally got out of the house. Pickles is with a new family and Monique and Tequila were left in TX. Unfortunatly, we found out Tequila died a couple weeks back. I was sad, since she was the sweeter of the 2.

ONE OF MY GORGEOUS TULIPS

We also got to play with our godson for a whole week... by ourselves. His mama was deployed and his dad had to go on a trip. So... we got to take care of them... Major props to the moms out there because I can't figure out how the hell you guys do it! It was hard and exhausting and we've decided to not have any for at LEAST 5 more years!!!! It's crazy. Yes, I know it's different when you have your own... but yeah, not us. It's totally not in the pic for us and we're happy with that decision. Mom took it somewhat well hearing that. :)

MY FLOORS

Anyways, that's about it. Just working and having fun working on the house. I will hopefully have pics up soon of the new changes and hopefully we will have lots of them.

AND OF COURSE ME AND HUBBY

Okay... so I got a haircut again... I did the every 6 weeks thing and this time I went a little shorter than the last time. I love having hair this short. I can't believe that I didn't do it sooner. Well, I did do it in college and it wasn't that great then. It was chin length and there was no motion or volume to it. So I'm happy I finally found a look that I love and I think I might just stick with it for a while...

This is after the hairstylist workered her magic and made it super cute with hairspray, blow drying in some way, and stuff.

And this is tonight... after some wine and not washing my hair for a day and a half. I'll hopefully have better pics later.

I hope that everyone got a lot of rest and a nice day for New Year's. I wanted to get the house cleaned up and I did start that project. But as I was doing laundry, my dumb washer finally did its last spin. It hasn't been working in a long time, sometimes wanting to spin and sometimes just letting everything sit in water. So Rick looked up prices at our wonderful Nebraska Furniture Mart. It's only available in the area and it's an AWESOME place. All of our furniture is from there and it's the place with the best deals. So we went and found a washer AND dryer. For an awesome deal. So here they are... Fred and Wilma!

They are living in our basement, which I'm looking forward to finally getting cleaned up and making it better looking. We want to paint the basement a brighter color and the cement with something that I can't remember right now. So yeah, I can't wait til it's gorgeous down there. :)

It's the silliest thing to get excited about but I've never had brand new washer and dryer. It's incredible to think that I am getting all these awesome appliances in MY house. They are all mine and I am looking foward to using them often...

Happy New Year everyone!!
Last night, Rick and I ended up just staying home and eating Chinese, watching Bond movies and having drinks. That was perfectly all right with me. Last year was way too crazy for me. So I was happy to stay home. Happy New Year from Rick, Angela, Bella, Leo and Pickles (not pictured or else Bella would kick her bum.)