1st wedding picture on the wall!

Well we have only been married for 17 months and we finally got our 1st wedding picture framed and up on our wall! I am very excited. My mom came over this afternoon and helped me put it up and it looks great! We did a 16x20 canvas print (40% off canvas prints right now at www.winkflash.com) and I got an amazing deal on a nice sturdy frame at Michaels ($50 frame for $15!). I am so excited! And we got our photo book that I made (also from winkflash, those are 60% off right now...) in the mail today and it looks awesome! When my mom left my house this afternoon I made the comment that it was just like Shem and I were newly weds again since we are just getting our wedding pictures ordered! My goal is to have them all ordered, framed and up on the walls before the end of the year.

I cannot believe that it is already October. Time is just flying by so fast. It seems like it was just the other day when we were planning for our big trip to California and now it has been 4 months since we were there. I decorated for Halloween the other day and before you know it, we'll be decorating for Christmas! I do love Christmas but I hate winter. I am not looking forward to the cold and the snow and the bad roads. Luckily Shem and I drive in together so I won't have to drive too much on them.

Shem is extremely busy with school and work these days. The closer we get to his graduation the harder his classes get. Luckily he will be done and graduating in May 2012! So just a few more semesters. He is really excited about the possibility of his horse having a colt here in about 11 months. We took her to a "friend" about a month ago to try to bred her and Shem went and picked her up last week. We figure we won't be able to tell if she is pregnant until Christmas, hopefully. If by spring time we can tell that she is not pregnant we will take her back out to the stallion and try again. I guess it is hard for horses to get pregnant in the winter months. Don't ask me, I am not an animal person! I am just trying to survive work. Every day I have the battle of not wanting to go but at the end of every week they give me a paycheck and so I have a hard time justifying not going but I still try to! But the good news is that I have not gotten sick yet this fall! Last fall/winter I was getting a sinus infection every other month and was miserable. I deal with a lot of dust and paper particles and with my sensitive sinuses it isn't a very good combination. I started wearing a mask (like what doctors/nurses wear) and that has helped a lot! But this past August I noticed something strange going on with my throat. It felt like there was something stuck in there, like a pill or something. So it never went away and last month we went to an Ear Nose and Throat doctor and it appears that I do have something in my throat. I apparently produce a lot of snot and it is constantly dripping down my throat and has not made a nice "scab" kind of thing down there. So he put me on 2 different types of nasal sprays plus I have to do a sinus rinse every day. The doctor told me it would take about a month before I would feel better and I am starting to not feel my "scab" so much whenever I swallow. Hopefully it will all be gone soon and I can cut back to only 1 nasal spray and the sinus rinse! Crazy huh?! I had never even hear of such a thing. But we got the nice doctor bill for that outpatient surgery. He had to stick a scope down through my nose and into my throat so he could check things out. Now that was a weird experience!