End of January

Hi All-

I can't believe it's already the end of January and you know we have been busy our Christmas tree is still up. LOL

So anyway the last couple of weeks have been stressful to say the least. Brad had found out after a lot of back and forth that he his contract will end on January 30. He's been in a mad scramble to find a job, I suppose the upcoming prospects of the wedding and having kids soon adds some intensity as well. He has had some good leads with some different recruiting companies, so all we can do is cross our fingers and hope for something good to happen.

Brad on Sunday got real sick with some sort of viral infection, he got real dehydrated and was running to the bathroom every 10-15 minutes. We decided to take him to North Memorial and try that hospital out, since we have had awful stories of Methodist Hospital.
This time around we were in and out of the hospital in about 5 hours. I think that's a record for Brad. He stayed home from work for a couple of days, I got a mild case of whatever he had and ended up staying home for one day. I can tell you I've been wanting a day off of work, but not that kind of day off. :-)

In other news, I am in training! Yes you heard right, I am training for the Tactical Strength Challenge in April. What that consists of is deadlifting, pullups and the kettlebell snatches. Now I can tell you I won't be doing any pullups. I wasn't able to do them as a kid there is no way I will be able to do them now. I've been training in kettlebells since August, so about 6 months or so I'm up to 3 days a week. My kettlebell instructor Fawn has been very happy with my progress she even made a video of me overhead pressing a 20kg bell, which I think is 44lbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4QA_mr2Rp4
Brad is excited that I am doing the TSC as it's called, he will be doing it too. Mostly for the deadlifting. More to come on that subject....

My niece Kamryn celebrated her 1st birthday this weekend. She's starting to get the whole walking thing. Yeah for Kamryn!!!

Grounds hog's day is around the corner I'm hoping that the Groundhog doesn't see his shadow and we get an early spring. I don't know about everyone else, but I am done with winter and want it to be spring.

Have a good week!!
~Amy

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a great New Year, we have been pretty busy since the year started. On Christmas Eve went to Jeff Dunham at the Target Center. We had floor seats and we were in the 10th row, it was pretty cool to be that close. We got to see all of our favorites, Achmed the Dead Terroist, Walter and Peanut. If you don't know who Jeff Dunham is be sure to check him out on youtube, he is awesome. Then after the show we went and rung in the New Year with some friends of ours.

Then on another night we had dinner with Brad's parents, Grandma and Aunt from Canada. His Aunt wanted to hear about all the wedding plans. It was nice to be able to sit and get to know her we only get to see her once a year.

Today I had a fun girls day, I met Brad's sister's family at the dress shop because his nieces are my Jr. Bridesmaids so we got their dresses fitted and ordered. Then later on that morning the rest of my bridesmaids and flower girl came in. It was fun to have everyone together!!


This is my niece and sister in law at the dress shop. That's the dress Lea had picked out, the middle ribbon will be a hot pink color. She put on the dress and said "I look like a Princess."

I got my Save the Date Magnets the other day, this was the 2nd printing of them. They turned out better the 2nd time around. Now I get the fun job of finalizing the guest list and getting them sent out.

Have a great week!!

~Amy