Homecoming

No, no, no...not the dance...:) My husband is returning home today!!! Finally after a very long 27 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes...he is coming HOME. :) It may not seem that long, but trust me, it was. Throughout the last 4 weeks, I have replaced toilet seats, unclogged the shower, broken the kitchen light, fixed the screen door, broken the screen door again, picked up a million pounds of dog poop, read over 20 books, watched an entire season of Lost, completed about 25 Sudoku puzzles in 4 days, and spent every night alone. At times I cried, at times I laughed at how silly I was for crying, and even found myself watching Cops at 2am once. Now that's how I knew I was starting to go crazy. ;) Chad has endured a much more busy version of the last 4 weeks. He has been working at least 8-12 hours a day with only an occasional Sunday off of work. He has been diligently working his butt off to make sure he did what he needed to do in the short time that they had him there (I say short, because they wanted to keep him longer). He has been living out of a hotel room, eating out every day (which doesn't sound bad, until you have to do it for a month), and had to spend the month after our wedding in Miami (which is where we were supposed to go for our honeymoon) with Gary, a work friend (and that, much like the eating out, doesn't sound bad until you have to do it for a month-just teasing, Gary)!

I tell you all of that to help explain how the last month has felt for us...which was....like a lifetime! But now that he is finally returning, it feels like the time passed in an instant. I definitely wouldn't want to do this again anytime soon, though! :)

I go to pick him up mid-day today...and as evidence by the earliness of this post (I've been up since 2am)...I am SOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!! I am going to spend my morning primping and fussing with my hair and my makeup and my clothes (yes, yes, I'm suuuuuuch a girl). Then I'm going to go pick him up and enjoy a much needed weekend with my sweet, sweet husband. :) Valentine's is Sunday and we have no plans yet but to relax, cook some yummy food, and then pick up Chad's sister, Alicia, later in the day from DIA. Next week will be spent running around like mad people tying up loose ends before our wedding ceremony on Friday. My Oma and Opa will be driving here from Illinois and will arrive Sunday as well. So here's to a nice, relaxing weekend before all the craziness of next week breaks loose. BUT-the great news?? We'll be in Vegas...(Let me take a minutes to explain...plane tickets to get to Miami, where we were supposed to go for our honeymoon, were getting REALLY expensive and as Chad just spent a month there...we decided to go to Vegas instead. My parents lent us the use of their awesome time-share with Westgate Resorts, and we will be staying the awesome Flamingo Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.)...for a whole week! We plan on trying to check out some cool shows, hit up the M&M factory, and spend a week really relaxing and enjoying ourselves before getting back into work and the swing of things. :)

With all of that said, I am finishing up my last episode of Lost for the morning and then I am off and rolling! See ya'll in a few days when we resurface! :)

Love,
Alyssa and Chad