You won't believe this one!

Hi all! Well my good news will come first in this post, I am sitting here typing on my NEW computer which was a anniversary/Christmas gift from Nate that I got to pick out myself (those are sometimes the best kind of gift -- just what I want). The other bit was the extra day we had added onto our Christmas vacation with today's snow day.

That would be great except that today is Nate's and my 10th anniversary. Not so fun when your hubby was out all last night, most of the morning and is now out plowing too. Wow, 10 years, like I told him this morning it has flown by and yet it seems that we've been a part of each other's lives for so long that I can't remember what life was like before him. Nate doesn't ever read this or I'd give him a better shout out than that.

Now for the part you won't believe...ever have days when you can't believe the human race? We had one of those on Wednesday. We were out finishing up some Christmas shopping. The Santa presents this year are bikes for the girls. We found Shelby's at Toys R Us -- a hot pink Barbie one right up her alley and Sarah has been telling anyone who will listen that she wants a YELLOW bike for Christmas. Well, Toys R Us didn't have any in her size so we called around from the truck and learned that Wal-Mart had one. We went in for about 15 minutes, decided that the Tonka bike wasn't yellow enough, and went out to the truck, pick up the girls from my mom and went home.

After we put the girls to bed we went out to get our purchases, but there was no longer a bike in the back of the truck. That's right, someone stole our daughter's Christmas present! I have never been so disappointed and sad in my whole life about the world we live in. I mean, really, you stole a child's bike a week before Christmas? Come on! Mind you, this bike was in the back of Nate's chip truck which is enclosed, tall , and the bike was hidden behind a pile of wood chips and a garbage can.

We will buy her another bike for Christmas, but what if we couldn't afford to? Could someone really sleep at night thinking they stole someone's Christmas gift and a child no less? So, it seems that we are going tomorrow to try again. And we found a yellow one for Sarah, but it is a little different. Check this out. It doesn't have pedals which is good because it will probably be a good year before she can pedal. She will run to make it go. I've heard they're great for developing those motor skills and balance and that it is easier to transition to regular bikes without training wheels after riding this. I think it will be great, but Nate isn't so convinced yet.

That's my terrible Christmas story and I hope it's my last.

If I don't post again before, have a Merry Christmas!