Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

For the first time since we've been together (15 years!)(married for 13 1/2) we spent Christmas AWAY from our family! We had an amazing deal with our timeshare and took it. 7 nights in Las Vegas, NV was where we spent our holiday! It turned out to be a really fun vacation.

We got to see a few shows, (The Magic and Tigers of Rick Thomas, and V-The Ultimate Varity Show) ate at some amazing resturants (The Grand Luxe Cafe - my favorite), got out and took a picture by the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign, spotted Elvis, bowled, saw a movie, watched the fountains of Bellagio, went to the kids science museum, and visited the Old Mormon Fort. All of this done together! It was a nice expierence to just spend time with each other and reconnect in our own family unit.

The first night we took a drive down the strip, the ooohhhhs and aaaahhhs for all the lights, and the volcano euruption were great. I had never stayed more than a night passing through, and had a great time. We even stopped in Calico (ghost town outside of Barstow) for some "old west" expierence. Terry broke the law, but Sheriff Bruce took care of him! :-) I missed being with my family (all 3 Christmas celebrations) but having just my boys and husband to bond with was worth it.

Life and Death

My grandmother - Desma I. Elkins - passed away on Wednesday the 25th of November. The day before Thanksgiving. She was a vibrant, generous, caring, funny woman whom I was so fortunate to know for so long before Alzheimer's took her away. She fought the disease with dignity, and taught her whole family so much in the duration. I am so glad to have known her, and feel blessed that she loved me. I miss you grandma.

Results & other stuff...

Yeah! Nothing major from all the tests. Everything is working like it should, with one exception - elevated colesteral. Knew that one was coming, but with TTC (trying to concieve) in the works, no meds to get it down. So - adjusting the food intake, and more exercise! Getting on the flonaise, wonderful! Only 1 major headache/migrane in 1 month! It's wonderful finally figureing out what the trigger was. :-)

I've been able to volunteer in my son's classroom this past week. It's been so nice to be in there to help out the teacher and see what Bruce has been doing. I'm able to actually see how he is working, and it's not much different than when he is at home. Ugh! Concentration is a huge problem, and we're trying to break things back down into chunks of time to help. He's getting better.

I still have no motivation to clean my house! I serriously want to hire someone to come in a do a BIG cleaning, and then I'll take care of the upkeep. Oh well, that's my life!