Trips!

Tom and I talked about and decided we didn't want to do Christmas presents this year. Christmas is a couple weeks before our anniversary so we decided to do a trip instead. After pretty much discussing the pros and cons of every city in the US we decided to go to Disney World in January over MLK weekend. We are so excited! I have not been in years and Tom has never been.  We had hotel points and flight vouchers so it's working out well. We have traveled to a lot of cities together but we have never flown together. I'm so looking forward to getting on a flight together and going home together.

Speaking of trips we leave for Phoenix one week from today! Tom and Mione are going to pick me up from work and we are going straight from here. Its a 15 hour drive so we are breaking the trip up into 2 days. I'm excited to finally meet his family and see where he grew up. Not to mention meet his friends. So much to look forward to :)

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up yet but we are going to try to be in Denver over Saint Patrick's Day weekend. I miss it like crazy and would love to see as many friends as possible.

Ok---lots to do. Talk to you soon.

Snow Days *

Dallas got a pretty bad snow storm of Thursday night. Tom had to stay in a hotel that night to work on Friday but I had a snow day Friday. I spent the day cleaning a bit and watching TV. The entire city was pretty much shut down. Fortunately, Tom was able to make it home safely. We spent the rest of the weekend at home watching moves and making food.  THEN UTD cancelled closed school today as well because the ice has not been melting fast enough.

It took me moving to Texas to get a 4 day weekend due to snow days :)

Shock is gone

I have been thinking a lot about death...I'd assume that is due to Uncle Dennis.

I found out my uncle died a month ago yesterday. I found myself in a state of shock until this week. Unfortunately the comfort that comes with shock is gone. I can no longer deny that he passed away and I'm having a hard time accepting it. My grandfather died in April of 2009. He was 86 years old and had been sick for a long time. He was in a lot of pain and death seemed right. He got to live a long happy life and we were all as prepared as one can possibly be to say goodbye. When he did pass it hurt but I found peace in knowing it was his time. I'm having a difficult time finding that peace with my uncle. He was a healthy 61 year old and we had no warning. My family was completely unprepared to deal with his passing and so I'm here struggling to come to terms with it.   I always talk about my mom and her 4 brothers and sister. It's always been the 6 of them. Now I need to come to terms with only having 5 of them. It's a tough pill to swallow.

I know time will help but I death is never something one gets over.

December!

November was a pleasant surprise. 

December is busy but I have been really needing that. 

Here's to the last month of what has been a pretty fantastic year.

 Let's wrap it up with a trip to Phoenix.