Winter Chill

Have you ever had one of those weeks where everything seems to go wrong? Well that's how it's been for us this week! Sunday we woke up to a wonderful 2inches of snow. It seemed like the week was going to start off great but then later on that afternoon I got a phone call from my best friend's husband letting me know that she was in the hospital for kidney stones. Thankfully she is doing better but another one of our really good friends sister is not. She left to go to Atlanta because her sister had a stage 5 brain aneurysm and is still in a medical induced coma. So please keep her in your prayers!

Monday morning we woke up to more snow and I had to go take Baxter to the vet. because he was in so much pain. Back in May he was diagnosed with Intervertebral Disc Disorder and he hasn't had a major episode of it since then. When I took him in the vet. suggested that he would be a good candidate for laser disc ablation surgery at OSU. The surgery is extremely expensive but they have a 97% recovery rate. After a lot of research and debate we have decided that when Chris gets his bonus Baxter will get his surgery.

After we came home from the vet I noticed that the garage door was still up. When I tried to close it the door made a horrible grinding sound and the cable came loose. Chris tried to close it but it came off the tracks so we decided to leave it open. Tuesday morning we woke up to a frozen pipe since the garage door was left open. Thankfully Chris got it fixed and the garage door man repaired the door without having it get a new one!

Today we woke up to more frozen stuff on the ground and thankfully my place of work decided to close today. I plan on spending the rest of the day indoors since it is so cold outside right now. Tomorrow we are only suppose to have a high of 5 and wind chills as low as -20. I'm really wishing that I lived somewhere off the beach right now. We'll be spending the rest of the day drinking plenty of hot chocolate and getting caught up on reading. Stay warm everyone!

Ringing in 2010

We spent our New Year's Eve this year at Willy D's Dueling Piano Bar with a group of our friends. We've all gone there two years ago for New Year's Eve and had so much fun that we thought that we would do it again this year. Although this year Mayline was invited to come on stage and do the hand motions for Joy to the World. At first she didn't want to go and she actually refused to tell the guy her name, so he just referred to her as Peaches. One of the guys that we went with has the full video of the performance so when he emails it to me I will post the full video. But for now the little video and pictures that Chris took will have to do.


I hope that everyone is still sticking to their New Years resolutions. The only New Years resolution that we made was to get out of debt. Last year Chris and I took Financial Peace University with our church. We learned so much about debt and managing our money. If you're interested in taking this class our church is offering it again here in a couple of weeks. Just leave me a comment if you're interested and I can get you the info. It's a great class and it will change the way you look at money and your finances!

It's gone to the Dogs

It's our first post of the new year and I thought I'd post some pictures of the dogs Christmas. We've been so busy the last couple of weeks that I am having to play catch up on a lot of stuff. We actually got to have a white Christmas this year, unfortunately since we had to travel that afternoon we didn't get to go outside in play in the snow. Hopefully we'll get some more snow soon so we can build a snowman!


We did get to take a few pictures of our snow covered yard before we left.

Don't feel sorry for my dogs my parent's dogs got in on the action this Christmas as well.

Christmas Card 2009

Tonight by sister came over and took our Christmas card picture for this year. If you don't get one in person or through e-mail here is the photo that we used. We don't print many of them off and we don't send them out anymore so if you want one print it off yourself!!

Happy Holidays from Chris, Mel, Baxter & Morgan

Christmas with the Bosch's

After a full day of decorating both inside and outside we are finally finished decorating for Christmas. I really can't say that though because we're always adding more ornaments or little decorations, but for the most part we are done. We are also almost done shopping for Christmas as well. We just have one more person to buy for and she just wants sugar free candy! Here are some pictures of some of our decorations. Chris already has grand plans for next years outside decor.

Happy Advent

Today is the first day of Advent and in honor of that I thought that I would show you all the Christmas tree that we put up in the dining room. This year we are going to have two Christmas trees. The one in the living room will be the one that has all of the pretty ornaments and the one in the dining room will have all of the whimsical ones. We were going to put up the living room tree today put we weren't motivated to do it. I'll post pictures of the pretty tree when it goes up.

I hate fluffing the tree so I made my sister help this year!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a great Thanksgiving and we are so blessed to have all of our families over to our house for Thanksgiving dinner. I know that it can be very hard to get everyone together for holidays but we are so lucky that we get to see everyone during Thanksgiving. Enjoy the leftovers everyone!