Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Well, we've had a couple of snow days here so I finally had some time to write!

Christmas was great. We got to go home for a whole week! Tyler makes his own schedule for work but I was nervous about asking my boss for a whole week off when I had only been there for a few months. He was ok with it though! We were running around non-stop the entire time we were home. We went shopping A LOT, went to Atlanta for a day, wrapped presents and spent time with family! It was a lot of fun. On Christmas Eve, the entire Kluttz/diPretoro group + Aunt Karen and Ramiah, went to Church Service at Forest Hill. After that we all went back to Dad's and had dinner together. It was delicious and a lot of fun! On Christmas morning, we opened presents with the Kluttz's first then we went over for the diPretoro Christmas. After that, we headed up to Salisbury to see more of Tyler's family. It was a lot of fun but a lot to pack into one day. We've decided that we'll probably start going up to Salisbury on Christmas Eve instead. It went by way too fast and we were kind of sad to have to go back to our real lives in Louisville when our vacation was over.

Charlie and Peter had a great time while we were home. There were four dogs at Dad's: Misty, Guapo, Charlie and Peter. Guapo and Peter played non-stop the whole week! That was nice for Charlie to get a little break from Peter's constant chomping. They always get spoiled when they go to 'grandpa's.' Charlie goes right back into his old habits of making Dad get up 1,000 times per day to let him outside, only to bark as soon as the door shuts because he wants to come back in! And Peter learned how to jump on couches which is okay on some but not okay at home since we only have one couch. He's working on that :)

Well, it's 2009 now and although our Economy is not doing so hot, I feel like it's going to bring many good things! It feels like Tyler is getting very close to getting a contract with the WWE. It would be so exciting and so much fun to move to Florida! Last year, when we thought we'd be moving there, it was because we heard about the new wrestling school down there and we thought we'd just move to Tampa and that Tyler would start over at a different school. Then we decided, it would be better to just wait until he got a contract to move since the other way, there wouldn't be any guarantees. We like it out here in Louisville, but we both think that Tampa would be a lot of fun. It would be nice to be able to go to the beach at any time. Tyler's never known what it's like to live so close to the beach and I miss that.

This year will also bring Peter's first birthday! He'll be one on April 23rd...very exciting! And then on June 10th is our two year anniversary and then Charlie will be four on October 15th. We're looking forward to warmer weather too. I love winter but it seems like whatever season we're in, I'm always ready for the next one. And ever since it's been cold here, I've wanted snow so bad and we hadn't had any...until now!

We had a winter storm that started with snow on Monday night, then turned to freezing rain all day Tuesday and then turned back to snow Wednesday morning. Since it snowed on top of the ice, it made it a lot more fun and we took the doggies outside to play. They had a blast. Peter ate as much snow as he could and Charlie likes to stick his nose in it and then run around in circles as fast as he can. They played a lot together and wore themselves out. The weather has kept me from going to work for two days now which has been fun because it's always nice to get days off when you're not expecting it! And I got some extra cleaning done which I usually don't get to on the weekends.

Well, that's all for now. Hopefully in 2009, I'll be better at posting blogs more often! We hope everyone is doing well!