One of about 6 hummingbirds that are constantly flitting around...so cute!

We just got back from a very short :-( trip to Brad's Granny and Papa's in Republic. It was a wonderful trip and super relaxing I just wish we could have stayed longer. The weather was decent and it's so quiet and pretty up there.  I got to sit and talk a lot to Granny and watch the hummingbirds flutter around the feeder and watch the squirrel taunt the cats from up in the tree.  We saw a few deer while on the porch and 2 while riding four wheelers. 

Looking north towards Canada from their front porch...the furthest mountain you see is in Canada. They are 16 miles from the Canadian border.

They really love riding the four wheelers!

I can't believe Cameron starts school in 3 weeks...OMG!  And he should be starting soccer practice in the next week or so and then with me starting orientation and 12hr training shifts (not sure how many days in a row yet but know that for training it will me noon to 12:30am shifts) it's going to be hectic for the next few weeks. But I am really excited for Cameron to start soccer and so is he.  Now I just have to stop procrastinating and go get him his gear. LOL  His Grammy Lynda took him school supply shopping so he is all set with that but we still have to go school clothes shopping which I am not looking forward to because he is very squirmy and loves to goof off in front of the mirror so getting him to go in to the dressing room and come out in a timely fashion is very hard and I usually end up getting very frustrated and so does he and it usually turns out to be a not very fun shopping experience for either one of us.  I have been trying to psych myself up for it and tell myself that he's a year older and so am I but he is still so wiggly and still gets so goofy in front of mirrors that I am still procrastinating the school clothes shopping trip but I know I have to go because he has grown out of all his clothes.  Alas I will eventually get to the store....and I am pretty sure it's gonna have to be this week because the next two weeks might be way too crazy. :-)  Although if anyone wants to take on the task of taking a vain almost 7 yr old boy clothes shopping please let me know I will gladly let you... LOL

Please pray that I find my patience somewhere between home and the store because I could really use a huge load of it when we go. :-)

9 years....WOW!!!!!!!!!

So Brad and I just celebrated our 9yr anniversary last wednesday the 21st and it was so much fun.  We had Brad's cousin Shawn come watch the boys and we went and had dinner in Leavenworth and then went and played mini golf which he beat me at.  We got some good laughs in at mini golf though.  I had a few out of bounds hits that got us laughing so hard I was almost crying. At one point I hit the ball and it flew off the course and into a bush and we couldn't find it so we are looking and laughing and there is this boy whose like maybe 12 and he's looking at us like we are crazy and he points at the ball and says "it's right here" with a tone to his voice like "duh you old fogeys".  It was really fun to say the least.  So after that we went and got ice cream and sat in the downtown park area and ate it while people watching and listening to the music they play over the speakers (it's like a radio or something) and then decided to go down to Blackbird Island (i think that's the name) anyway we had walked around 1/2 the island and was coming back the other side of it and right in the middle of the path was a deer.  It wasn't spooked by us either.  So we stop and try to decide if we should just continue walking toward it or what.  By then it walks off the path into the trees so we continue to cautiously walk toward it's direction on the path.  I stopped to take pics because it really didn't seem to care about us.  Brad was a little worried that it was gonna attack us or something which was totally cracking me up.  Anyway I took a picture of it and then there was a rustling behind it and out comes a teeny tiny baby deer no taller than maybe 2 ft tall.  Runs up to the momma deer and starts suckling.  It was so precious. I tried to get a picture but seeing as all i had was my phone I didn't exactly get a professional photo. 

She is right in the middle...the baby isn't in this picture....at least not that I know of anyway I didn't see where the baby stood up from.

All in all it was a wonderful evening and a great way to spend our anniversary.  It was nice to spend some time just the two of us and laugh and have fun together. And the boys had fun with their "Uncle Joe" aka Shawn.  It amazes me how long 9 years is and how it seems to have flown by and especially when I think about the fact that we have been together 13 1/2 years....almost 1/2 my life I have spent with Brad...WOW.  Well here's to the future and what it holds in store fore us!  TTFN

New direction

So after my last rambling about facebook I decided I needed to change things. I removed some previous posts so that hopefully people don't feel as though I am complaining.  I am going to try to keep this as only upbeat happening and keep my all other thoughts between me, Brad and God.  Maybe that's where they need to stay, sorry for burdening you all with them in the past.  You all have enough in your lives to worry about without having to worry about Brad and I so on to a new start with a better blog. :-)  We will get through all this with God's help and I know I have friends who care about me and I don't need to put my struggles out there in hopes that someone comments just so I am reminded of that.  So no more ( unless I forget and regress. lol) on to better posts and happier things.  When I get time I hope to post pics of our park outings and the sprinkler fun the boys have had.  So look forward to that. TTFN.

Facebook

Ok so most of the time I read peoples facebook status' and they don't really pertain to me but today someone posted about "If I ever complain about something that I made the choice to get myself into I give you permission to shake me senseless." or something like that I don't even remember exactly what it said or who said it but it made me think.  I really hope the people who read my blog don't think that about us.  I know we have made some choices that have turned out to not be so great in the long run.  But we didn't know that at the time we made the decisions obviously.  I just really hope you gals don't feel like i am complaining.  Because I don't want to.  I am looking for encouragement and friendship.  I don't mean for it to sound like complaining if it does. And if it does I am sorry and please comment something like "Hey dumba** your complaining again." :-) or something like that. LOL  I just don't really hang out with anyone or do anything with anyone so my way of getting out of the confines of my depression sometimes is to write it on this blog and whoever reads it and comments is who I get my advice from.  So anyway now that I have left my tidbit i am going to go for now.  Hope you all are having a wonderful day and enjoying this overcast windy day (if your in wenatchee.), it's a nice break from the blazing sun i guess. :-)  Toodaloo!

Some T-Ball pics

I really like this picture but he looks older in this picture....but look at the focus. 

Man this was a good hit....cleared the dirt and a ways into the grass.  Way to go Cameron!

Where Does God Live?

I was reading a few of the books tonight that  I checked out from the library the other day.  One of the books is called "Where Does God Live?" written by Holly Bea  and Illustrated by Kim Howard.  I LOVE IT!

It is a very beautiful book and I highly recommend all my friends checking it out if you can.  (the library will eventually have it back when I return it...I really like it so i may keep it as long as I can :-)  It's about a little girl who asks a lot of questions and she asks her mom one day where God lives and her mom says that "he lives in heaven, way up in the sky."  So the little girl tries to figure out where heaven is because she has never seen it in the sky.  So she goes and asks her animal friends and each animal friend believes that because everything around them is so beautiful that God must live right there with them where they live.  So the girl ends up asking her Grandma and her Grandma tells her how God lives in everything, and everyone. 

Here's my favorite part of Grandma's answer:

"God lives in the frogs and the birds and in you.

When you're looking for God, it's easy to do.

God lives in all things that you see, hear, or touch.

God lives in all people. God's in each one of us.

And when you meet people who are loving and good,

They're letting God out, just as everyone could.

And if you meet people who seem hateful or bad,

They've forgotten God's here, and that makes God sad."

I am definitely putting this book on my Books-To-Buy list. I highly recommend it to all my mommy friends and if you read it please let me know what you think of it.  God definitely knew I needed this book right now though and I am so thankful I read it with the boys tonight.  So heart warming and filling.

Feelin Good....

Okay so first off......Baby Madison got to go home late yesterday.  So that is a huge praise!!!!

Ok so on to me....so far this week I have lost 2lbs.....I think mostly water weight since I started flushing my system with water and tea and not drinking coffee daily, but none the less I have seen a loss on the scale and am feeling good.  I went to boxercise tonight again.  I love it!  I dread going just cuz I don't have the energy but once I get there and start going I enjoy it so much and especially the feeling afterwards. 


I tried a new recipe today for lunch and it was pretty good.  It was a La Tortilla Factory Tortilla, FF Cream Cheese, Turkey lunch meat, cucumber, tomato, lettuce and onion (3pts total).  It was really good.  Next time I will probably leave out the onion because it was kinda overpowering.  Brad had turkey, lettuce, tomato and onion on a sandwich thin (2pts total) and said it was delicious.  We so far really like the sandwich thins and even if you aren't on a diet they are tasty and make great sandwiches and burgers because there isn't a ton of bun/bread that overpowers the food. 


Anyway enough babbling.  That's all I have for tonight.  Hope you all find yourselves and your families happy and healthy.