The NEW YEAR!!!!

Okay, so we made it through the holidays! YAY!!! Now, we just need to make it through WINTER. For those of you who aren't familiar with weather-related things...it's COLD up here. The wind is crazy and puts Kirksville wind to shame - hard to believe, I know! My running outside had been very non-existant with -20 windchills! Anyway, things are going fine up here in the tundra. My job has become so much more enjoyable as I become more comforable with what I'm supposed to be doing. Jim's job has reminded us of when he first started to do appraisals....BUSY. He's having to stay some evenings and he's worked almost every weekend. Fortunately, he can take Julianne to the office with him if I can't be home. She just packs up a bunch of art stuff and he doesn't even know she's there. I think she likes going because he has all kinds of office supplies she can use - plain paper, the stapler, hole-punches, etc.

Julianne loves kindergarten, but told us yesterday that she really likes the weekends, too. She really takes after her daddy in NOT being a morning person. I am just the opposite. Soccor ended and she is now playing on a basketball team of first graders and kindergarteners. She absolutely loves it. I uploaded some videos of her game this morning. It was their first one. One of the videos is of her making a basket during a little practice time just before the game. The other is of her actually making a basket during the game. She made a total of 2 baskets during the game, the second one -however- I wasn't taping at the time. :(

I leave for Florida in a few days for my Goofy Challenge. I'll only be down there 3 days and I'm coming right back the night of the marathon. I'll be hurting, I know. But I didn't want to have to stay an extra night if I didn't have to.

Jim and I will go to Nashville for a few days at the end of January. I will be attending the SCCM conference and he will come with me for the first few days of it. He will leave, however, on Sunday and I will be staying until Wednesday. It's a critical care conference thingy. I'm pretty excited about it. After that, I will be going BACK to Florida - to Fort Lauderdale this time - to help teach a critical care ultrasound course. I'm completely thrilled to be doing this and can't wait!

We don't make it back to Missouri much at all. Jim spent the weekend down there a few weeks ago during Thanksgiving. Each trip planned seems to be ruined by freezing rain. I haven't even gone to Hannibal for Christmas! Supposed to freeze rain today again. We'll see about tomorrow.

Well, that's about all I can think to update everyone on. Just living life up here. We've settled in a lot more in the last couple of months. Most of all this many of you have already read off my facebook page. Have a good day everyone!