And here's to 2009!

We spent New Year's Eve with friends at Bryan and Sarah Gallo's house in Twinsburg. Our typical group of friends (minus the typical few that don't come to many events) all got together and talked and played Wii and acted stupid (most of us without any alcohol). Adam brought some bright green absinthe to the party for the gentlemen to drink, it looked like the Ecto-cooler Kool-Aid drinks, haha. It was nice to have the First of January off, because we both worked a full day on the 31st, and both had a full day of work on Friday 1/2. We went to my parent's house to prime their basement walls. Yep, ladies and gentlemen, the basement is nearly finished... It was an early night though as we both had to work the next day.
Friday we got a call saying our baby furniture was in (not the crib, but the dresser) so we went to pick that up, and put it together, only to find out it was already one giant piece in a box! Great news for those people who hate putting things together, bad news for poor Adam who took it upon himself to wrap a rope around the HUGE box and then around his waist and heave the entire thing up our stairs with no help from me (although I tried to push the box when he wasn't looking). I told him to wait until someone can help him, but he insisted (another reason I love him so much, he knew that inside, I really wanted to see what it looked like). It's so awesome! I love the way it looks, I am very happy with our choice of baby furniture, and it is VERY solid, and will last for our next child, and then as a full size bed later.
The weekend was also really nice. Adam started putting up the ceiling frame with Grandpa, dad and Uncle Kyle, (while I relaxed) and then the two of us went to Jeff and Julie's (classmates of mine from grad school) to have our puppies play together... well, their "puppy" is over 55 lbs now, so Ballpark would taunt, and then run like hell and hide behind someone's legs or on their laps. It was funny for a while, but it's really hard to play Mario Kart with a 7lb Doxie trying to climb up your body to hide behind your neck with a 55lb Golden Retriever "Josie" trying to follow suit. It was fun, but a little stressful at times trying to keep the two dogs apart so they can each rest (and not fear for their life at times).
The best part of the weekend was Sunday. We did nothing. I slept a lot (I've been really tired lately), read a book about getting out of debt, and then logged onto every site I know that we have student loans and car loans with to find out what the real damage is. Funny thing is, the book tells us that we're in some terrible position with our debt, but really, it's all student loans (and it's only getting worse as we speak). Adam played video games the entire day while I read and Ballpark slept the entire day away. I think the play date with Josie yesterday exhausted him. One of his favorite places to sleep is between Adam's legs resting his head on the bottom of Adam's foot. See left picture. He doesn't mind until Ballpark starts to lick, and then it tickles *grin*. So far, 2009 has been a pretty good year, of course, it's only 1/4, but with roughly "79 days" until the baby is born, it can only be a good year =)

Pictures to come soon.
29 weeks 3 days