I've been having a lot of ups and down this week. My father went into the hospital on Saturday. His kidneys had failued due to a massive infection. This is the first near death experience we've had in my neuclear family, and it was incredibly frighting. When I heard about this I immediately wanted to be with my family to help them, but my ( Read more... )

Although we had some set-backs with Thanksgiving, it ended up being an enjoyable one this year. The original plan was that everyone was going to congregate at my older brother's house in NM and meet his new girlfriend. What happened was quite a bit different.. My younger brother wasn't able to make it because he had to work Black Friday for the ( Read more... )

Lots of stuff happened over the last week ( Read more... )

I found out today that my sister's beloved family member, Tuna, who had recently been diagnosed with tumors and was receiving cemotherapy, passed away last Friday. Some people may not realize just how important pets are in our lives, however these souls depend upon us to give them love, respect, and care. In return, they provide unconditional ( Read more... )

( Our Trip to Colorado to go Skiing this last weekend )

Bear called today to tell me that he called our realtor, in addition to receiving an e-mail from the broker. Apparently our realtor showed our house this week (although we never received a message stating that she had), and the couple she showed it to were very interested in the house. They had nothing bad to say about it, indicating they liked ( Read more... )