Finals almost Final

Brian has his last final tomorrow and I am so looking forward to having my husband back! He's done such a great job balancing school and family, but this week has been tough. He's been studying all day and night taking 2 tests a day. Ashley and I miss him! He has three weeks off though, which will be really nice. We'll get some good Daddy/Husband time in. He deserves a long break, he's worked really hard and done very well with his classes. We're going to spend the first week here at home just the three of us. We'll do our Christmas shopping and take Ashley to see Santa. Then we leave for Pendleton to see Brian's parents for a few days, then to Portland to see my family and also spend some time at the beach house. We'll be in Portland for Christmas. Pacific City got hit with a huge storm this past weekend and had power out for at least three days. In fact our property manager had to call us from Lincoln City because they didn't have phone or cell service and she wanted to tell us that our house didn't have any damage. The only thing was that our hot tub cover blew off and our house was covered in sand. They had winds up to 125+ miles an hour. We thought last year was bad, but this was worse. There are ocean front houses that just got buried under sand. We'll spend some time there cleaning the gutters and sweeping the walkway and driveway because I'm sure there is a ton of sand still to clean up.