Darth Vader

After completing a sleep study a couple of weeks ago, Jesse was diagnosed with a mild case of sleep apnea. As a result, I now have to sleep with Darth Vader in my bed!

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The home health guy came yesterday to drop off the machine and do a quick demonstration of how it works. For the most part it is pretty quiet, but if he stops breathing deep enough, the pressure goes up and it makes a Darth Vader noise. I guess this is a pretty common problems for CFers (and many other people), but I am not very happy about adding another machine to our family. We hope this will help with the really bad headaches he has been having and leave him feeling more rested. He wrote about more specifics on the new machine on his blog.

Project Mode

After a day of nothing but eating and relaxing, we (or maybe just I) was in project mode yesterday. We finished up a couple projects off of my to-do list. Of course it took longer than I thought it would, but if felt good to get something accomplished.

Yesterday we finally chose and printed out pictures for the empty picture frames that have been hanging in the stairway for months now. It took a while to go through and find pictures for all the spaces, but it looks so much better now!

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With the purchase of the new TV, we had some adjustments to do to our entertainment center. Our old TV was too deep for the back of the entertainment center to fit on, so it’s just been open to the wall until now. It was such a pain to get that pulled out to get behind there and get everything plugged in properly. But since it was pulled out I cleaned the dust off it really good and it looks great to have it put together like it was intended to be!

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Then we headed back over to my parents’ house to eat leftovers and play some more Wii games. Today we are just taking it much easier. Neither of us is feeling very well. We are doing nothing but watching football and movies. Hopefully a more restful day will get us feeling back to normal.

Movie time

Thankful

We enjoyed a great Thanksgiving day with friends and family.  It was quiet and relaxing and we had a great time together.  We went over to my parents’ house.  I love eating holiday meals there because they make all the food the best.  They think I’m just saying that so I don’t have to make it, but it’s true!

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They have making turkey dinner down to a science.  Mom had a couple of the dishes prepared the day before, so that they only had to be baked when the turkey came out.  The turkey was already in the oven when we got there.  There was only potatoes, veggies, and gravy left to be made.

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While the last of the food preparations were being done, we had a Skype call with my sister, Ashley.  She’s in California for school and was not able to make it home for Thanksgiving.  So we walked the laptop around the house so she could see video of everything that was going on.  Mom and Dad even gave her a virtual video hug.

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We were blessed to have our friends Kyle and Gigi over for dinner.  They are such a sweet and fun couple.  Then the Ernst family joined us after dinner for dessert and games.  They are so much fun and full of energy.  The girls did better drawings than the adults and were so cute trying to get us to guess their words.

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