[iTS ALMOST CHRiSTMAS]

I cant believe that it is almost Christmas!! It seems like it was just Christmas a few months ago. I love Christmas! I wouldn't care if I didn't get anything as long as I could get stuff for everybody else. I just like to see other people happy. I am pretty proud of myself because I am actually done with all of my Christmas shopping! I finished last Tuesday . I don't think that has ever happened before but I didn't really have a choice. I have worked everyday for the past 2 weeks and before that I have only had 1 weekend off since I started back working so I had to get it done a lot sooner this year but luckily I managed. I have to work on Christmas again this year which just totally sucks : / I have Christmas Eve off though and I am so ready for it! By the time it gets here I will have worked 14 full days straight and needless to say I am VERY ready for a day off even though it will not be a day that I get to rest. I am baking a pecan pie and a chocolate and strawberry celebration cake (if you have seen the Christmas Taste of Homes magazine it is the one on the cover) so I will be up early to get everything done in time for dinner at my Pape and Nanna's house. I love going to their house on Christmas Eve, we always have the best food and so much fun! I cant wait until Christmas gets here!! Only 4 more days!

I am FiNALLY done with school...for this semester at least : / I don't have my grades yet but I am about 98% positive that I got all A's! So I hope I did. Now at lease I have about 2 weeks off from school. I don't think that is going to be long enough at all but I guess it will have to do.

Chaz finally came home this past Friday and its a good thing that he did. He was in Philadelphia and he flew home the day before the snow storm hit there. So it was just in time or he probably wouldn't have been home for a while. So I was very glad about that!

But I guess that's about all has been going on! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

[LONG TiME NO TALK]

Wow! It has definitely been a VERY long time since I have posted on here. I would like to say that we have been very busy... but that would be a lie up until last week. So I will try to update on what all has been going on for the last month and a half.

I am now almost 3 months post op from my surgery. I am doing VERY well thank goodness. I am still going to physical therapy 2 times a week. I am not sure how much longer I will have to go but I hope it is not very much longer . I am just tired of having to go to Athens at least twice a week every week. But I am very thankful for my physical therapist, Trey, he has definitely helped me a lot. I went to see my orthopedic surgeon yesterday and he told me how he could still see the inside of my knee plain as day. He said that the other day that he was thinking about me the other day and thinking about how weird my knee was. He said that he has probably done 7,000 to 8,000 arthroscopic surgeries ( which is what I had done) and that he has NEVER seen anything like mine before. So I guess that makes me pretty special. haha. But anyway I just pray that it is fixed for good this time.

I am FiNALLY back at work! I started back last Monday. I am so glad to be back. I was getting bored sitting at home so much. But ever since I have been back I have had the worst cold ever. I just cannot seem to get rid of it. One day I will think that I am getting better but then it will be worse again the next day. But hopefully it will go away soon. I definitely think that 2 weeks is long enough for it to run its course.

I am almost done with school for this quarter. I only have 2 weeks left thank goodness! I am just ready for a break. But I really like it there so I am happy.

Chaz has been doing good too. He was sick a few weeks ago. He is the one who got me sick! How nice of him right? haha. But anyway he is back in Philadelphia now. He left on December 1 and he is supposed to be coming home on the 12th. Since I last posted he has worked in Alabama and South Georgia. I am not sure where he will be going next. He was supposed to be going to Ireland in February of March but he told me yesterday that they might get a job in northern Canada. So I guess we will just have to wait and see! But where ever he goes I am definitely going to visit.

We had a good Thanksgiving and I hope that everyone else did too. We ended up going to Florida to spend it with Chaz's family. I was very very sad that I didn't get to see my family because I have NEVER not seen them on Thanksgiving so it was pretty hard for me but we did have fun in Florida and it was good to get to see all of his family. Now I am just getting ready for Christmas to get here! I am not really anywhere near done with my shopping so since I don't have to work this weekend I am going to try to finish as much of it as I can since I don't really have a lot of time to go shopping these days.

All of the animals are doing good. Bentley is getting so big! I cant believe how big he is! Chaz thinks that we should give him some kind of medicine that will make him stay small forever. haha. But he is a good little baby. Cam is doing good too. He is still my little baby boy. Him and Bentley both sleep with me every night. Ellie, Reagan and Destiny are all doing good too. They play outside all day and have made friends with the neighbors cats. They occasionally invite them over for dinner which makes Chaz mad because he says that we are not going to feed all of the neighborhood cats. haha. When it started getting cold I bought them a bed and a kitty tower and they love both of them. I think Destiny claimed the bed because it seems like she never gets out of it. Harley and A-1 are also doing good. They are getting so big too. We have started feeding them hay in addition to their feed since all of the grass is almost dead. We also have a new addition to our family! We adopted a 10 month old yellow lab that we named Macy. She is very sweet and has lots of puppy energy. She also loves to play with Jett, my mamma's black lab. But he has gotten a little fat lately so she wears him out pretty fast. haha. But we are very glad to have her as part of our family now!

We went and cut down our Christmas tree on Sunday. It is very pretty if I do have to say so myself. We are very happy with it. Now I just have to fill up around the bottom with presents! Bentley loves the tree. I think that he thinks that it is a toy. He has already taken off a few ornaments and played with them around the house. He also has taken some of the lights off too which he got in trouble for but it didn't seem to phase him any. He only messes with it when the lights are on. I guess he thinks they are pretty and he just wants to touch them like a little kid. But he has been getting better about not messing with it. I will try to remember to take some pictures of it and post them on here. I will also put some pictures of Macy on here.

Well... I think that is pretty much everything that has been going on lately. I will not wait so long to post again! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

21 DAYS UNTiL CHRiSTMAS!!