Happy new year to all my readers (if there are any left since I never post :) Maybe my New Year's resolution should be to post more regularly.
This has been a busy holiday season for us this year. We had a Thanksgiving celebration at Brad and Becky Pluth's again this year with lots of family and yummy food. The weekend after Thanksgiving my parent came up to Minnesota and we celebrated at our house along with my parents and Ben. This year we opted to buy our meal pre-cooked from Byerly's since there were only 5 of us, and I am glad we did. It was really good, and we still had a ton of leftovers.
During the month of December Rob kept busy continuing to study and test for his Project Manager Professional certification as well as several Microsoft certifications. By December 23, he had passed all his exams and now has 9 certifications! We're praying this will have a noticable impact on his job search.
Will has had a rough couple of months health wise. He came down with a bad cold and double ear infection on Halloween, and ever since then has been on a cycle of sick, get antibiotics, finish antibiotics, wait 5 days, has double ear infection. The poor little guy has been on five rounds of meds since then, and we are taking him in again today. We are not sure if he is getting reocurring ear infections, or if it is the same one that just never completely goes away. The doctors have been talking about tubes, but we are still hoping to avoid that if possible.
Christmas this year ended up being a little different than we anticipated. The original plan was to spend Christmas Eve home as a family, Christmas day afternoon with the Pike clan and then drive down to my parents on the day after Christmas. The Sunday before Christmas, though, we received a phone call that my dad had had a major heart attack and was in the hospital. He had two coronary arteries that were completely blocked. He is okay now, but will have to be on a special diet. It was very scary, and Rob and I decided that it would be best to go to Iowa early. So we drove down on Thursday and stayed until Wednesday. We had a really nice time and were able to visit both of my grandmas and just hang out with the family.
We didn't do anything this year too crazy on New Year's Eve, we just went over to Steve and Sara Davis' for a movie and hang out time. Now it is back to work and our regular routines!
