Life has been crazy in our house between winter storms the past 3 weeks in a row, planning our honeymoon/vactation, Emmet being sick, and everyday life.
Winter storms: The past three weeks our area of Minnesota has been hit hard with snow, blowing snow, and ice. Interstate 90 was shut down twice due to the storms and school was canceled three or four different days. Hans has had more than his fair share of difficult driving these past few weeks and is ready for winter to come to an end. Emmet on the other hand absolutely loves the snow whether it is blowing, drifting, or falling down he loves it. He attacks it, he eats it, he jumps, digs, and best of all plows through it like a trooper! Nothing phases that dog!
Honeymoon/Vacation: So you read correctly, for those of you that did not know we are leaving for the Eastern Caribbean on March 6th! We are both very excited and can hardly wait to be on the plane headed for Miami, Fl. We are going to be traveling on Carnival Liberty to the Bahama's (Half-Moon Cay), St. Thomas Virgin Island, Puerto Rico, and Grand Turk! We have a couple days at sea in there too so plenty of time to let loose and be crazy, but to also relax and have a great time! We have excursions planned at each port of call which include snorkeling and the Bahama's, snorkeling and a sunset/champagne sail in St. Thomas, Zip-Lining through the rain forest in Puerto Rico, and Clear water kayaking in the Grand Turks. If anyone has a minute to say a prayer for us and that we are able to make all of our flights with no bad weather and a safe and happy trip that would be great!
Emmet: Well, poor Emmet had the unfortunate happen: he got WORMS. He was quite sick for a few days, pooping everywhere, stinking up the house.....and finally I figured that I would rather spend the money to have his stool tested than to have a dead dog. So I took in a bag full of it and sure enough he had enough worms that the vet said if we had not caught it he could have been dead in a months time or less. So we had to "de-worm" him. He took his butterscotch flavored medicine like a trooper and is now feeling better. I think he may still have a few as "it" still stinks, so we are going to de-worm him with another week long round of de-wormer. Stress tends to exacerbate Worms, and since we will be leaving him at doggy day-care in Iowa while on vacation we don't want him to get sick due to stress and end up at a vet hospital because the worms are not all the way gone so we are going to play it safe. Speaking of doggy day care, he is going to a place in Des-Moines that provides daily day-care and boarding at nights. They also have web-cams so we can log onto the internet and see how he is doing while we are gone which is reassuring. The most difficult part will be waking up in the morning without him and going to bed without him. He is a HUGE part of our daily routines and although it will be nice (but sad) to have a break from the same old routine it is going to be difficult. Obviously Emmet has no idea that we are leaving him but I am sure he will miss us. I am clearly more upset about it than he is and I am sure he will be fine, as they have reassured me over and over that he will get great care! I am going to upload new pictures of Emmet at the end of the blog! He got a bath today which he absolutely loves. As he has gotten older he is learning what water is and that they are best friends. He loves to put his head under the water and blow bubbles and look for his toys, dump water on the floor and both of us, shake and get the entire bathroom soaking wet. Today we had about 1/4 inch of standing water on the bathroom floor, the walls all 4 of them were soaked from ceiling to floor...it was insane but lots of fun!
Valentines Day was great! Our first Valentines Day as a married couple and and Hans did a great job surprising me and showing me love and support. I have been wanting to set up a scrapbook table in the spare bedroom upstairs and he not only found what I was looking for, but went above and beyond and got me something even bigger and better. He got me a solid wood dining room table and bench set. It is a "Farm house" style table with 2 benches. So now during the holidays we can have both our families over and have plenty of seating for every one which will be great! As soon as we have everything put together we will post pictures!
Hope everyone has a great week! Stay warm!
Hans, Liz, and Emmet!
