Past weekend

Matt and I had a nice anniversary dinner at the local fancy restaurant....a town of 10,000 people, not many choices. I must say Richards is VERY good! They have their own chef and they change their menu frequently! Yum. Because I spent most of the night before in the emergency room...turns out I had kidney stones...I was very tired, so dinner was about all I could manage, but I guess this is part of the "in sickness and in health" part of marriage. I was just glad that it did not turn out to be appendicitis like they first thought when I came in, that would have meant a surgery on our 10 year! My kidneys are feeling better finally, although I have noticed I am not yet "up to snuff."

On Saturday and Sunday we had some snowy and blowy weather! Matt did venture down to Mankato to pick up a snowblower, however, as we shoveled about three times on Friday, and two already Saturday morning before he went to 'Kato. The boys and I worked on some Christmas presents. Sunday was cold as well, and after church we made Christmas treats and Gavin had a Christmas play at 6 PM. He was a cute little Shepard in a production called "All I Want is Jesus!" I will try and add pictures next week.

Monday we cleaned and ran some errands, and Matt and I had the opportunity to play with thew New Ulm Choirs. It was fun, and the boys did a good job behaving while both mommy and daddy had to be on stage. I think Santa threats work well at this time of year! :)

Today we had lunch with our friend T., opened family gifts and packed up for a venture North. Tomorrow we look forward to our trek to see family and hope weather is not too hard on us.

I am going to try and avoid the computer for the next few days, so I will catch up with you all after Christmas!