November, November

Hi again!  November, November, you were not supposed to be this busy, remember??  HAHA!

I am still getting ready for the Young Women in Excellence Program that my girls are doing next week.  I still need to create the programs sometime in the next week and get that together!  At least the invitations to the families went out on time and they looked AWESOME!!!!  I am also playing two piano pieces for the program which I am super excited about because the girls sound like angels when they sing! Oh, and by the way, just a side note...I have filled all of my afternoon time slots during the week with my piano students!  I now have.....41 STUDENTS!!  I can't believe the amount of scheduling and rescheduling I do during the week!  I am working with about 50 different schedules and I can't believe sometimes how I can get everyone to have their lessons each week...I still haven't had a week where every single student has come...but we are getting close!

Chris is still working, GREAT!  : )  He is still doing a lot with the boy scouts and is getting ready for a campout to go on with them during this month.  Chris has been a wonderful husband lately!  Ask him about his Christmas present...and then tell me what a wonderful wife I am!  lol!

 Chris and I are excited to have our nephew, Makai spend the night this weekend.  Makai gets to play video games with us all night long, while enjoying some favorite snack foods and delighting in our company!

We are also looking forward to having everyone come over to our house for Thanksgiving this year!  I am looking forward to receiving all kinds of praise and glory for all of the wonderful food I am going to prepare!  I took the day before Thanksgiving off from piano lessons, just so I can mentally prepare for the next day...there will be a game plan of how to cook everything and hopefully it all turns out alright!  (Hopefully everyone will be sooo impressed with my cooking for them that they decide to treat me really nice on Christmas this year...haha).

Lacey, Lacey, Lacey....she has been an expensive dog the last few days!  On Monday morning, I woke up at 5:30am to a bedroom full of dog vomit and diarrhea. My husband and in-laws had let Lacey eat a ham bone on Saturday night....and that is apparently what happens when a dog eats a ham bone!  I FREAKED OUT!  Poor Lacey...and poor me having to clean up the mess with Chris!  Lacey was rushed to the vet as soon as the office opened.  They took her and did an exam ($45), xrays to make sure the bone was not stuck in her digestive system ($155), blood work ($35), an IV ($90) and some other miscellaneous things....the grand total was $390!!!!  After all of those tests, all that they concluded was she was super dehydrated...DUH, folks, she spent the night vomitting and I did not let her have water in the morning because I was afraid they might need to do some kind of surgery on her...I could have given her water...but not $400 worth of it!  I was a little frustrated about all of the tests for a little dehydration...but AT LEAST Lacey is ok and she did not have to be put down...oh, and we had to borrow at steam cleaner to do the carpets because they were horrific...at least that was taken care of too...

So that has been our month so far.....  :)