GOP Republican Debate

On Thursday night, Chris and I watched the Republican Debate! It was so fascinating! It was more entertaining than a comedy show. A lot of the candidates were absolutely cornered by some of the almost accusing questions. I thought a lot of them handled it well, except for Rick Perry. He was applauded less and less as the night went on, and at the end he was getting booed. I thought that Rick Santorum is too young in politics to know what he is doing. He seemed way less educated than the rest of the candidates. Newt Gingrich has a really messy personal life. He left his first two wives after they were diagnosed with serious illnesses. My favorites so far are Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and Mitt Romney. I am going to study out their issues in depth a little better. I found Herman Cain very refreshing. He is a guy that started at the bottom and worked hard to get his way to the top. His wife has no desire to be in the limelight either. He is very genuine. I like also really liked Mitt Romney. When the debate was over, I was sad. It went by too quick.

A whole bunch of exciting things all at once!!!

First on the agenda, we are closing on our house tomorrow. Hurray! It has been a bittersweet experience. Annoying at times, disappointing, but all ended up well at the end. We will finally be homeowners, and one more step towards building our family. Another step for us is getting sealed on the 13th. We are extremely excited to be able to be sealed together. Chris has wanted to wait to do sealings at the temple until we have gone through our own first, and I am excited to see him go through that experience. Another step to building our little family, is that I am finally going to start doing a round of fertility drugs and see what that will do for us. Everyone knows we cannot have children naturally, so we are taking a different approach. I am scared, nervous, etc.... for the whole experience. So many what ifs...... but we are excited to take the challenge. I am overwhelmed with excitement for so many new things in life. Things are going well for us, and we feel very blessed.

Hawaii

I posted all of my pictures on picasa since there were too many to post. I only posted very few on facebook. The link is www.picasaweb.google.com/karleebateman to see my pictures. There are some videos too. It was a great and well needed trip. The pictures tell the story.

New add to our family: Piggy, the bunny

I don't know how it happened, since it happened so quickly, but we ended up with a new little bunny. Not a pet I ever thought I would ever own, and not something I ever really wanted. Our neighbor that also has PTSD talks about his bunny all the time, and how it is therapeutic. He showed up with bunny babies today, and Chris instantly took to the one we now own. The guy was giving them away. We gave it back, saying we will talk about it. Well, I knew that Chris had his heart set on it. He wanted a dog, I wanted a cat. I guess it's meeting in the middle. It is low maintenance, doesn't make noise, poos and pees in the same exact spot, easy to train, and will be therapeutic to Chris. We bought a little starter kit with a cage, food, bedding, dish, toys and water bottle. We named her Piggy because Chris always says she looks like a piggy bank with the stripe on her back. She has a little stripe of black down the back of her.
Chris and I are ready to take care of a little animal.

Piggy the baby bunny

Chris excited and ready to go pick up the bunny

Stripe down the back

Today; the cold, Tomorrow; PARADISE!!!

Chris and I are totally excited for tomorrow. We are going to Kauai from the 2nd - 14th. We will be home early on the 14th. We never went on a honeymoon, so we call it our official honeymoon. Well, that, and I have always wanted to go there, because it's Hawaii! We are really excited. Packing has not been that fun, but we are stoked. I will have a huge post and tons of pictures when I get home. Hopefully I get home with a tan, because Chris and I went tanning a few times, so we will have a base tan, and not get very burnt. Chris tanned right up, and I have stayed as white as a ghost.