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Well, I'm very behind on my blogging lately so I thought I'd get you all up to date on what's been happening. Let's start with Phil's Birthday. I took the day off work so I could spend the day with him. I woke up early, hung up balloons and other birthday stuff, made him breakfast in bed (well, he woke up while I was in the middle of cooking but.. oh well) then we relaxed a bit and then eventually got ready and went to Woodbury to meet up with his family. His sisters Rachel and Val flew in from Portland that morning to visit and go to a wedding. We met at Red Lobster and had a fabulous lunch! Then Phil and I did some shopping and then went to pick up his birthday present:



Then we got home and his sisters and mom came over for pizza and wine.

Later that week we all went to Phil's cousin Dianna's wedding. It was beautiful and it gave me plenty of ideas for our own! One really cool idea I saw was this tree painting. Everyone who came to the reception put their thumb print on it! Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the final product. But, you get the idea.









Then the next night Phil and I went over to his mom's house to have an early Thanksgiving with his family. It was delicious!



On Thanksgiving day Phil and I drove up to Brainerd to spend Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family. The drive sucks but it was so nice to see the family! Dumb me never takes any pictures so I don't have any to show you. There was a group of 36 of us - most were my grandpa's wife Barb's family. We had to leave pretty early since we have a 3 hour drive home. We got home around 10:30 and had to wake up at 3:30! Phil had to work at 4:00 and I had to go shopping! :) Black Friday was a success! There didn't seem to be too many crazy people out there. I got Loin's present done and Dexter's. :) And the rest of everything was for me. :) Come on, it is the one day of the year that I splurge!

Well, that's about it for now. I promise I'll try to blog more!

Welcome the newest member of our family! Technically we have had her for almost 2 weeks... guess I'm not very good at blogging lately. It took a week to figure out a name for this cutie pie. Phil finally decided on Asterix. :)

My birthday weekend started off on Friday at work. Lots of treats and birthday wishes. Then Saturday I woke up at 7:00 a.m.! I wasn’t very happy about that at first but then I thought that I’d be able to get a lot of stuff done around the house and then have time to take a nap! So I did. I spent the morning painting, cleaning and doing laundry. Then I took a nice nap before Phil got home. The evening started out at the Phoenix in Baldwin. Here is Phil and I and Josh and Loin right before leaving for the Phoenix.





My brother and the neighbors threw me a little birthday party. It was soo cute and nice of them to do that for me!! They even brought balloons and a cake! So Phil, Josh, Loin, Brad, Rachel and I all spent a few hours there and had a few drinks. Us girls did a shot off the ice sculpture too. I was forced to do it since it was my birthday and I was dreading it. I hate shots. But this one wasn’t bad at all! It was actually pretty good. It’s called a Chuck Norris. :) Then I spent about 10 minutes begging my brother to do one. I never got a picture of me doing it but here’s Justen.









After the Phoenix Phil, Josh, Loin and I headed to downtown Hudson for Dicks and Ellies, Ellies and Dicks (inside joke that you probably won’t get). There we met up with Dan and his cousin and then ran into Colette and Joe. We had a good time dancing the night away.





Sunday Phil and I got up and he made me eggs, bacon and toast for breakfast. Then we got ready and left for Ikea and the MOA. Phil was going to get me a new TV stand for my birthday but I couldn’t find one that I liked. So, he bought me a new purse, a necklace and a dress! After a full day of shopping we headed home to relax and then go to bed. I was pretty exhausted when we got home and I probably could have went to bed. I only got 6 hours of sleep the night before and had been drinking the night before. FYI – don’t spend all day shopping after a night of drinking. So anyways, we got home, sat on the couch and turned the TV on. Phil ran off with the dog and then came back with a Halloween costume on Vader (he was an angel). Poor little guy hated it. After a minute or so I notice something shinny around his collar. It was the ring!!!






Then Phil asked me to marry him and of course I said yes! And then I started crying. But they were happy tears! I’m so very excited to be engaged to Phil! It has been a long time coming but I couldn’t’ be happier! I can’t wait to start planning our wedding, then get married and have lots of babies! Okay – maybe only two or three babies.