Merry Christmas from Colorado and from a land far far away!

Merry Christmas to all our blog readers from Colorado and from Logan in a land far far away from home! Oh the animals at home in Tennessee say Merry Christmas as well!

This past week has gone by rather quickly and slowly all at the same time. Days seem to pass quickly through the week but the hours in the day itself seem to drag by on occasion!

I am here in Colorado spending the week with my family and Logan's! So far I have completed 3 puzzles-2 1000 piece puzzles and 1 300 piece puzzle with my Mom and Rere. They tell me I have OCD since I can't seem to stop until I finish the puzzles! I have done some shopping, which after today I have several gift cards I can also use, so I will have to do some more shopping! I went to a work out class with Annie which killed me but I would definietly love to go back! Just goes to show how out of shape I really am! I can't wait to start school since I will get to use my student ID to get me into the gym at APSU and their free aerobics classes! Can't wait to start doing yoga again. I also had a lovely lunch with Logan's Mama and my family as well!

It has snowed a bit here in Colorado-I think about 8 inches, so its a lovely white Christmas here.

Christmas morning started off with a phone call from Logan which is a nice way to wake up! I talked to him for a few minutes and just made sure he was having as good of a Christmas as he could possibly have while being deployed and away from family! He wateched my Christmas video I sent him and they bbq'd for Christmas eve dinner. He said they tried to feed him a nice Christmas Day dinner-however the pork and stuffing he said was just ok! He received several USO boxes and some from churches in which he took the candy and tried to take a cup of noodles! He tried to hide the cup of noodles for later but someone found it before he got back to it! If I had known the food was so bad I would have sent him a box full of food for the remainder of his trip! I know he misses being able to be home with all of us in Colorado but he is there for an important job, so even though he is not here physically he is here in thought! I love you Logan, thank you for all that you do!! =)

As for the rest of the day-we have already opened all of our gifts here at my parents. We are going to be eating the traditional ham and scalloped potato dinner around 2 pm, and then I will head off to Logan's families house to visit with his parents for a while! Hopefully the rest of the family is still there also so I get to see them for a short bit!

I had back to Tennessee on Monday! I will have to grab Rusty early Tuesday morning and then its back to work! I am looking forward to getting back since that means I am one week closer to Logan getting home!

Ok off to ready!

Merry Christmas.

Love,
Nicki and Logan

Bad bad week...

Here lies my poor poor car! This was a very bad week. For those of you who don't know-I was in an accident on Thursday afternoon. I rear-ended a big ford truck. This is what happens when you run into something 3 times the size of your car and with a very large trailer hitch. The jeep had to be towed and then was taken to the Jeep dealership. They should be calling early next week with an estimate on how much it costs to fix. We will have to pay $1000 to the dealership but then our insurance will cover the rest.

My lovely friend Alena was nice enough to call Logan's work and they got a hold of him...however somewhere the part that I was mostly ok was lost in translation which ended up with having poor Logan frantic that I was not ok! This is like people's worst fear when they are gone and having something happen to their spouse! Hopefully something like this never happens again...

I had to go to the ER today, Friday. What a surprise-I can't go more than a month without putting some type of drug in my body...I have a severe case of whiplash which they tell me is just going to get worse. They said after 5-7 days they said eventually it will start feeling better-which puts us right at Christmas, what horrible timing for this!So I am on muscle relaxers and pain medicine. After tomorrow I should be able to take it more regularly. I have to work tomorrow-or more or less sit in the chair and not jerk my head around!

SO lets hope that this next week at home goes better....

I feel like the busiest person alive!

This week was insanely busy!

I worked 6 days in a row! I went the Nashville Symphony at the Schermerhorn-crazy name right? I can't exactly pronounce it! The symphony was wonderful! We had seats that looked to the back of the orchestra but were right next to the choir! There was a childrens choir, adult choir, and then the orchestra! The crazy conductor had long hair and a crazy vampire voice (Ashley is obsessed with Twilight-so she said he had a vampire voice)! I think he was German-but boy did that man enjoy his job! His hair shook with joy as he conducted the choir and orchestra! We even had group sing alongs that the entire audience would participate in. We had a great time...here are some pictures!













On Friday night I went to Logan's company Christmas party-it was held at the Convention Center in Hopkinsville, the same place where we had our formal in May. With Logan gone, I went with Alena and then met several other ladies whose husbands are also gone. The party was an ugly Christmas sweater theme! There was a contest of who had the ugliest sweater-a group of four of us went up with the group name of the Husbandless idols-pretty funny but sad in its own way! We had to tell about our sweaters in round one and then in round two we had to dance! Thank goodness we got voted out in the second round! My love called me while I was at the party! Made the night a bit better =).

Here are some pictures from last night at the party:

Today-Saturday-I worked, was left a horrible present by Rusty upstairs in the bonus room which required a carpet cleaner rental, had lunch with a friend, and began the process of painting the kitchen! I must have over worked myself today, because I got around one outlet with the paint and decided I didn't have enough patience to paint today! I am going to try to finish tomorrow!

Tomorrow, in addition to painting, I am goign to an open house at the Beach Haven Winery here in Clarksville. They have free wine tasting, free food, and vendors come from all around town to sell their items. I am going because it is free-but it should be a good time!

Well I am off to finish Julie and Julia! What a wonderful movie! I am making Logan watch this with me when he returns-I recommend everyone see this movie! Makes me want to go cook right now! Perhaps that shall be my next undertaking when Logan is gone-to learn to make fancy meals for when he returns! That way I can test them out on myself first and then if they are good I will feed them to him! I think its a wonderful plan!

Ok off I go...

Love,
Nicki and Logan (from a land far away)!

Only one week until I am home. YAY!

Week In Review!

Well this week doesn't really have much to report on. It has gone by pretty fast, which I am thankful for. I would prefer to just get this week behind me and move on with the next!

This week I painted our master bedroom-we painted it to match our duvet cover that we received as a wedding gift from Logan's Mom! We are still debating if we will paint another wall in the room-but I will have to wait for Logan to see it!

Here is a picture:
As you can see its a deep blue-the paint was called sapphire black-so you get the impression that it would be too dark-but it was exactly what we were looking for!

I am thinking in a few weeks I will be tackling the wall in the kitchen which will match the living room wall, so it will be a deep red.

On Saturday night, last night-I went to the Christmas parade in Clarksville, it was the 50th parade. With that big important anniversary you would think the parade would be great-WRONG. It was a freezing 28 degrees and then to wait two hours to see a few floats and far too many beauty queens was really not worth our time! We went back to one of the girl's houses after though and had chili I made and just sat around and talked. We came up with several good fund raising ideas for next year for the FRG (family readiness group) for Logan's company! So it was a nice way to spend my Saturday night!

Today I am getting ready to clean the entire house-it is dirty since I have been putting it off all week! Rusty and I have to run up to the base to check on some Christmas presents-so that will get us out for a while! Then I have plans to wrap all the Christmas presents after that-so we have a busy day! The dog park might even be an option if Rusty and I can brave the cold!

This next week is going to be BUSY BUSY BUSY! I have more holiday stuff going on this week! On Tuesday I head up to the base to make a movie for Logan as a Christmas Present-they will send this to him and make sure he gets it before Christmas! I am taking Rusty! Then Thursday a friend and I are going to Nashville to see a holiday symphony show. Then Friday is the Logan's company Christmas party. I have several "dates" since alot of my friends husbands are also MIA-so we are all going together. This Christmas party has the theme of the ugly holiday sweater party-my sweater is awful and my turtle neck to wear under it is just as awful. I will have pictures to post after this I am sure!

Well better get going to vacuum and finishing cleaning so Rusty and I can head out to get our errands done and hopefully get back quickly to our nice warm house!

Love,
Nicki

Busy Busy Busy

This past weekend we celebrated two holidays-Thanksgiving and Christmas! We went to Thanksgiving at one of our friend's houses in Kentucky and it was very nice! Friday we put up Logan's theater and proceeded to watch movies and play video games the rest of the day! Saturday we ventured down to Nashville to visit the ICE at the Opryland hotel, then saw the decorations and lights at the hotel, then went to the Melting Pot to top off our fun day! It was delicious-we love that restaurant! However, I still like the one in Louisville better! Sunday we celebrated our Christmas, decorated cookies, and then watched of course more movies on Logan's projector! As you can see we have had a busy busy weekend-I am just going to post a few pictures-if you want to see more visit my facebook page!

Love,
Nicki and Logan

Logan's "Man Cave" is ALIVE!

Well everyone probably already knows that I gave Logan his projector and screen last night that he has been wanting for over a year! He has been talking about having a home theater in our house since before we even left Hawaii-so I am pretty impressed I put it off this long.

Let me give you some back ground of how this came about. Logan has been looking at this very expensive projector for the last year. Pretty much since we bought the washer and dryer and HHGreg, he has been looking-that was in March. Well this week I was on best buy's website and thought I would look into the projectors a bit more since this want of Logan's didn't seem to be going away! Much to my surprise it ended up being on sale! Well the Best Buy in Clarksville doesn't carry projectors, so that is how I ended up at HHGreg. I knew they carried them in the store and had the one Logan wanted. Of course I had to double check with Logan which projector it was he wanted, but I had to come up with a plan of how to get this information without blowing the surprise. My friend Holli at work was talking about buying a tv for her husband for Christmas, so I just made a huge lie up to Logan that the tv was going to be a projector and Holli didn't know anything about them so I told her I would get the info from him! Well I thought he was on to me for a little while, but then I just told him no Logan you are NOT getting a projector for Christmas because we are too poor! So I crushed his dreams and had him convinced the information was for Holli!

Well after work on Tuesday I went to the store and began to look around. 30 minutes later we were proud owners of a projector and a screen! We got a great deal-so I guess it is better than paying full price. I stashed the projector and the screen in Sadie's rooms closet since I know Logan doesn't go in that room. I then wrapped the receipt in a box and tossed in some batteries to confuse him. He is too good at guessing presents-so I went to trick him ha ha! Well we had to open them last night because we only have a few days to deal with this until his trip-so I wanted to make sure he had enough time to exchange and talk to the people about the install!

Here are some pictures of last night!

On Friday we have someone coming out to look at how much it will cost to set everything up for us-I am worried about how much this will cost! We need to test paint the room so we can also get to painting. Once we start on a project we seem to end up doing it all at once vs. waiting to do it over time...maybe we need to work on that!

More pics to come sooon....

Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.

Love,
Nicki and Logan

Our crazy amounts of presents!

This is our little tree corner-or too many presents corner! This include both sets of parents gifts, my gifts for Logan, and the babies presents! I hope that Logan can find room for my gifts under that little tree! Guess we will have to plan better next year =)

More to come in a few days...

Love,
Nicki and Logan