4 weeks until Christmas

Coming back to work after a holiday is not fun. Even a somewhat stressful, not at all relaxing holiday. Sydney got sick (the vet actually said that it is probably stress from being around new people, and then he made a joke about in-laws) Friday night, but she's still not better, so we're not getting a lot of sleep. And Nick and I stayed up Thursday night to watch WKU play Gonzaga, so after Nick had to wake up at 5:00am to go hunting, I got about 4 hours of sleep. So it's been a very tiring holiday weekend.

But depsite Sydney being sick (although she only seems to get sick at night), she is acting so different. In a good way! She has calmed down so much, so she will finally just curl up with us and sleep or just hang out. We took her to his grandparents' house with all his family and she just sat there with us.

We finally got our Christmas tree up last night. Nick put our deer in the front yard and the lights up around the deck. Hopefully it will stop raining today so he can get the lights up on the front of the house. I wrapped all my presents, so I'm done shopping and wrapping. We're going to Nashville again Saturday with his parents to go to the Opryland hotel and Opry Mills, so hopefully he can finish his shopping.

Also, we booked the rest of our Hawaii vacation for next May-June! We are going to go ahead and go to 3 islands (Maui, the Big Island and Kauai) and be finished with Hawaii for a long while:-( And then we can start looking for a new house and have kids! And when our kids are grown, we can go back.