- We got in a car accident. Was it bad? Yes. Are we ok? Thank God. Let's just say we had yet another 'scariest moment of my life' happen this year but so thankful we all walked/crawled away ok, although the Sub didn't quite drive away and has been out of commission for over a month.
- We made it to Thanksgiving on the Central Coast. After the accident, a sleepless night watching Goose sleep on my tummy and one collapse later we finally made our way up to be with both families.
- We bought a house. Yup, after getting our licenses, house hunting and much deliberation we decided to sign our lives away and purchase the house we've been renting for the past few years. The influx of new babies in the neighborhood and proximity to both freeways (our only commute saving grace if we wanted to stay in north county) were the deciding factors so we got busy on making it our own. Which leads me to. . .
- We remodeled the house. For escrow we had to get the house tented, and since I'm neurotic about chemicals we practically moved everything out anyways that we decided we might as well remodel once the tent came off. Sounds logical, right? Hmm. . .
- We were nomads. Down a house and a car we had to revise our plans of the Goose and I heading up to the central coast so we stayed with Mark's parents a few days, rented a place on the beach for a few days, back to the in-laws and a impromptu night at my parent's beach rental before we could get back and 'move in' our home. Throw in three colds but some killer weather and we made December one for the books!
- We hosted our first Christmas. With escrow closing and the house being finished just two days before Christmas, we had a tight timeline to move what was left back in and prepare for Christmas. I am so thankful my parents and sister (the Seal, from Hawaii!) were here to help us. The plus side of doing it all last minute is we got a killer deal on a 9 foot tree and were happy her soon to be cousin decided to keep on cooking so we could celebrate with the whole family at our 'new' house.
The past 4 weeks have been such a whirlwind I still don't think I've fully grasped what just went down, but I wanted to get something up since most people have felt 'out of the loop' based on our cryptic texts and have tried to track us down Carmen San Diego style to no avail. While I can tell you I'm supposedly in said loop I still have no idea what just happened, so when I do I'll make this pretty with pictures and stuff. Until then, I wanted to post and to ask for prayers and love for our little Goose who goes in for yet another surgery on Thursday, January 2 at 9am. What a way to start the year but we've got to get them in soon and they had an opening, so we're getting ready to go again. The treatment is going to be even more aggressive this time (a whole new laser) since they aren't getting the results that they expect from these treatments.
We hope everyone had a wonderful (and slightly less 'eventful') Christmas and a Happy New Year!
