Defending himself!

We defend ourselves all the time over lots of things but this week my dear husband defended 2+ years of sweat, tears and punishment to the dungeon office where he wrote his dissertation.  If you have been following my blog at all you knew we were heading to this important day. It was Monday and it was good!  His committee signed off on it and even gave him extra kuddos by encouraging Mark to publish it, it was that good.  I could have told them that. Bailey could have told them that. McKenna could have yelled them that.

I think Bailey said it best when I shared the news with her.  She jumped up from the table and said, "Yippee, now we get our Dad back".  We are so proud of our Doctor, Doctor Frandsen that is.  And did I mention that we can now call him a number of things, Doc, Dr., Doctor, man with PhD, the Bass Doctor, enlisted guy with the most education. EVER. ;) but the best thing we can call him now is accomplished.  We are so proud of you!

While Mark was defending himself in Texas, the girls and I have been defending ourselves against the elements of Germany.  This winter has been a Utah winter which says a lot.  On Monday I called a snow day way before the KMC decided it for sure.  They spent the better half of the morning sending out mixed signals of frustration.  We just sat back in PJ's and waited until the sun came up, then the girls conquered yet another field of snow.  Which is why my smokin' new zoom lens came in handy.  Took this shot from inside the warm house. . . from far, far away, where, did I mention, I was warm?

Today was even worse, first time ever that the road conditions were upgraded to black.  Never in my life have I experienced black ice like we saw today.  Basically everyone slid to work and school.  When we approached base we saw a gate guard fall in front of a bus and our gate guard slid to the car then grabbed my door to balance himself.  Then I get to work with an email stating Germany is experiencing a major salt shortage.  Not my idea of a good time, but we were let go a bit early and are home safe and sound for the evening.

Super sick of winter. It makes me hurt, physically and mentally.  It is beautiful, but only when I'm viewing it from inside my house with slippers on my feet and a mug of hot chocolate in my hands.  But even still, nothing can ruin the feeling of happiness being sent from Texas from my very own Dr. Frandsen.