Is anyone out there in xanga land?!!! I know it has been 4ever since i have posted, & i'm trying to think of what excuse i can use this time, but what's the point? I just didn't feel like it i guess! We are having lovely fall weather, leaves are beautiful and it has been a gorgeous day!  I did my 2 miles outside instead of on the treadmill, which is refreshing. I want to get our christmas pic's done while the leaves are in full color. I decided this year i am going to get mine done early, hopefully! I hate all the last minute stuff and last year it didn't happen until after the first of the year. So i am hoping i can get our photographer lined up for this wkend. So how about it Janel, you busy?  

I am not even going to try to recap the last few months, i wouldn't know where to start. So i am just going to pick up from here. Life is good! Pete has been staying really busy these last few mths building barns and what not!  We have been so blessed, i know there are people out there that still don't have work with the economy the way it is. We are still planning on back surgery for Pete this winter, we want to wait until work slows down. Which generally, winter usually slows it down. Its hard to believe winter is not that far off. Where did our summer go?? 

    Well i'm going to sign off, i need to get supper made for my husband. He deserves a good hot supper when he gets in from his hard days work!  have a good wk!

         Isn't it crazy that another year is behind us?! Where did it go? It kind of scares me how fast time is going. I remember when i was younger people would say, that the older you get the faster time goes! I thought, whatever, but it is so true, every year it goes faster and faster! And it is scary to think "in the blink of an eye" its gone. Well, Christmas has come and gone. It was a different one for us. Christmas Eve my family went to dad's all except for Anthonys, they were in IN. We hung out there until like 1:30 playing games and talking. Christmas day everyone else was at the inlaws so it was just going to be dads and us. My aunt Barb called and invited us to their family gathering at Marvin and Laura's house. Joe and Gina were in from PA so we got to see them for a little bit there. We were not able to be there very long, since we had Pete's family gathering Christmas evening. Then my family had our Christmas on New Years day. It was a little scattered but it was good. The best part of all is that my Grandma Weaver is here, she came New Years eve and is staying for a couple of wks. I always envy people that live near there grand parents id love to live close enough to Grandma to help her out when she needed it. We are really soaking up the time we have with her. I love to just sit and talk to her and we have been playing a lot of games with her too. I am so happy for mom because she has dreamed of this for such a long time. Grandma lives in Michigan and is amish so its not that easy for her to come down here.  

       My husband had a fit i didn't send out any Christmas cards this year. Christmas snuck up on me this year, Every thing about Christmas came on me too fast this year! So i decided to do New Years cards instead. So watch your mailbox's!

      We went to the Dr on Friday about Petes back. Whether it is next wk or a couple of years from now, surgery is def in the future its just a matter of when. He has a hair line fracture in his back. There is a main bone (i don't know the technical terms for it, so i am using everyday language that we all under ) that since he had the fusion in his back is doing all the work/taking the brunt of it all and that is where there is a hairline fracture. So they'd like to take out the 11" rods and replace them with shorter ones and fuse that fracture in as well. Its a pretty extensive surgery, as well as recovery, probably will take months he said. So we are trying out a few things to try and hold it at bay as long as we can, he got us a special back brace and wants us to try Physical Therapy also. So i guess we'll see what happens.

    I don't have many pictures because for some reason the pics got erased  but i do have a couple of my husband and i ...........

      i get to enjoy this every night, him and his guitar!

  Why does the colors on my site look so different on others computers. I changed my colors to red and tan, i was over at dads and was on the computer and on theirs it looks like pink and mauve. Not pretty! On Roses that is what it looks like too! What is up with that?! Well hope everyone has a great wk!

      i know i need to update and i am going to when we get back from our Anniversary trip this wkend! i am so excited to have a little get away with my husband!  our 1st Anniversary is on Sunday so we are going to Nashville for the wkend!! i can hardly believe it been a year, and i would not trade my life for anything! i truly love this man! i promise, i will get a real update on here soon!!