Heartbroken

I am completely and utterly heartbroken for a neighbor and acquaintance who lost her husband yesterday. They are actually a few years younger than I am and they have four beautiful little boys. I don't know them well, but we occasionally saw them at church and just in the everyday hustle and bustle of the neighborhood. I have to admit that I teared up when I heard. I truly can't imagine my life if my DH died. I hope and pray that I won't know until we are old, but I can't imagine. What in the world would I do. My DH is my rock, my love, my best friend. He is the best daddy in the whole wide world. I can't imagine Cecelia's life without her daddy. He is amazing. Of course, our lives and marriage isn't perfect, but who's is. It's things like this that give us all perspective. Remember to tell your loved ones each and every day how much you love them because you never know when it's the last time you talk to them. I Love You, John!!!

Babysat the cousins this weekend

This past weekend we had to watch my brother's kids while my parents were at the funeral home. Lets just say that they LOVE their cousin "Baby Celia". I can only hope that she eventually loses the baby. Seth is 6 (almost 7) and Erin is 4. Mind you, Cecelia is 20 months. She has absolutely no idea that she isn't as big as they are. They played really hard for 4 hours and then they all had a bath together. I made sure they were clean and then we closed the shower curtain. I have never seen so much water flying everywhere. You would have thought there was 10x more water than what was actually in the bathtub. When we were finally done, Seth asked if bath time was always that fun at Cecelia's house. And the answer is NO!!!! LOL!! They are a handful, but I am glad that they can still enjoy the simple act of a bath together because I know that it will end soon. I am not ready for them to grow up. I can't believe that my baby will be 2 in three months or that my nephew will be 7 this month. INSANE and slightly sad.

WW - Happy Girl

Well most of the time.

That's more like it...

Posing!!!

And there she goes again...

Just feeling so drained

For some reason I have still been so tired. I mean tired to the point of thinking I could sleep all day if I could. But then at night I can't get to sleep that easily. Anyone have any suggestions??? I would appreciate any tips or to know that this is normal after the month I just had

Kitty Cat

As most of you readers know, I had to euthanize by sweet baby boy "Little Bit" a few weeks ago. And those of you IRL friends know that I still have my sweet girl kitty "Lady Bug" in my life. She didn't get along w/ Little Bit at all. They fought from the day I brought her home, but she has still been lonely. She was so very confused at first and still seems to not be herself. When she did come out of hiding the next day, she came over to me and has been by my side since. She even tolerates our DD a little bit more, although she was beginning to come around to her even prior to Little Bit dying. Here are some pics of this absolute stunner:

Visit with Great Friends

A few weeks ago some of our friends came in for a visit. Matt & Angie moved to Thailand for him to preach at an English speaking church six years ago. Right after they moved there, a beautiful little girl became available for adoption and they jumped on it. Due to it being an international adoption done there, there were many obstacles in getting her back to the US so it took longer for them to be able to come back. Matt came to visit us a few times, but we hadn't seen Angie since 2/06, but they are the type of friends that you might not see for years and you're still able to pick right back up where you left off. It was a very brief visit, but it was awesome to see.

Finally got to post pics this morning!!! Yay!!!

Isn't she beautiful???

Matt's visit in 2009:

Matt's visit in 2011, notice a trend???? :-) Love you Matt!!!

Wordless Wednesday

My what a difference a few seconds and a paci makes!!!!