Freaking Health

I really hate talking about my health...but here's a quick update.  Long story short - we've started radiation treatments for the AVM and are still working on my heart issues.  I get monitored every Friday and although there is a lot of crap to still deal with, things are getting a little better every day. I just try to enjoy every second of the good days and try to gracefully endure the bad ones.  I can't say enough how thankful I am for my awesome kids and husband and the amazing people I have in my life.  I really do have great people in my life and I would be nothing without them.  My trials are a lot easier to endure with their love and support.  So, THANK YOU to everyone in my life.  I truly love you!!!

Seriously....how sexy is this get up?!?!?  

Memorial Weekend

The Cosper's came down for Memorial weekend this year and we had a great time.  They are great in-laws and awesome grandparents to my kids.  It is always fun when we get to spend some time with them.  They wanted to go to Lagoon and I was worried it would be packed since it was a holiday, but it wasn't bad at all.  The kids loved riding rides with them and absolutely loved that they had Grandpa and Grandma all to themselves.  They get spoiled every time they see them.  

I can never let this holiday go by without reflecting on the many people in my life who are no longer with us.  They each mean a lot to me and have changed my life.  I am truly honored to have known them and to have had the chance to be in their lives.  I am blessed beyond measure and am so very thankful.  

Freedom isn't Free

Life isn't Easy

Enjoy every Moment

Hug the ones you Love

What Fun Is

For Christmas this year our family got Lagoon season passports.  My kids are both tall enough to ride most the rides now, although some are just too scary for them still.  With my health I am not able to ride the rides, but they have each other and are such good friends that I just get to watch and enjoy their happiness.  

We are going to have a lot of fun this summer...I am sure of it.  

A Date with Grandma

I have the best Grandma in the world.  I really can't say enough about her.  She is the most kind, amazing, funny, smart, loving, awesome person I know.  She is 81 and you would never know it.  I hate thinking about a time when she is not here anymore.  It will be a sad day when I can't stop by her house and have her insist on cooking me something to eat.  This particular day I was just stopping by to pick her up and take her to my cousins play at the Junior High just down the street from her house. She made me the BEST grilled tuna I have ever had.  Everything she makes is always so fabulous.  It's amazing and I have so many awesome memories with her.  I just adore her.

We went to the play and even though Cannon looks completely put out in this picture, my kids loved every second of it.  

We went back to my Grandma's house and ate Orange Dream Bars on her front porch.  It was like I was a little kid again.  It was a pretty perfect night.  

Field Tripping

Kylee's class took a field trip to the Zoo and when she brought home her permission slip she said to me "Mom, is there anyway you can come with me?  You never get to come to my school things because you always work."  It broke my heart...because it's very true.  All the other mom's come and read with the class and help out with parties and all those kinds of things, and I don't get that chance very often.  With my health I have been missing a lot of work, but there was no way I was going to miss out hanging with my favorite little girl.  

We had a lot of fun walking around the zoo.  

It was a gorgeous day.

There were enough parent chaperone's that she was the only person I had to supervise that day.  She loved that it was just the two of us.  

We kept seeing other kids from her class and they all kept asking her if she wanted to walk around the zoo with them and she kept telling them all no...that she just wanted to be with her mom.  

Until we ran into Wyatt.  Apparently Wyatt is one of Kylee's favorite people in class.  Once he asked her to hang out with him she was really excited and we suddenly had a "group" to be with.  She is a cute kid and it was a lot of fun to watch her interact with her friends.  

We had such a fun day together.  It was worth taking a vacation day from work.  I love this little girl so very very much.