Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Snow!




I finally have the pictures from when we were in Utah. There was so much snow that Jack nor I could walk in it. It came up to my knees and Jack was covered. So here are photos of him attempting to play in the snow. He enjoyed filling the bucket and trying to make a snow castle!

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Peace

The service for Pop was today and I have to say there is a lot more peace in my life now. It has been a rather empty month for me with no one to fret over, now that I have had my chance to say goodbye I finally have a quiet within me that is pleasant. It has been a long couple of months and I am so blessed to have had all the moments of joy that came from all the struggle. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love never fails.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Howdy!

Jack and "little baby natalie"
Jack enjoying the "Cars" movie, again (10x that week alone!)
Mama E loving a little princess...
Well, it has been a busy couple of weeks. I am finally feeling like I have my feet under me again. Okay, sorta.

Jack and I blew out of town the end of January, to visit a brand new baby Natalie. Oh and my friends Kim and Shaun (her parents). She was six weeks old and amazing!!!!!!! She is gorgeous! Kim and Shaun do good work I tell you what;) It was great! There was apparently two feet of snow the four days we were there. The airport closed right after we landed so I was happy. We spent the week hanging out w/ "little baby Natalie" as Jack has now named her. There was shopping, playing in the snow and more shopping. We took Jack to Cabella's (the sporting goods store for the rest of the non-hunting/fishing group). They had an aquarium and every animal on the planet is stuffed and on display there. I mean it, polar bears, turkeys, porcupines...all of it!
It was so wonderful to see them and enjoy a little baby again...oh here are a few pics...I will add more once I find the camera...go figure.

RJ is having a ton of fun w/ his friends right now. Hard to believe how fast he is growing up. Had to have a birds and bees talk w/ him when I got back from UT. The joys of having kids six years apart are that I am handling potty training and puberty at the same time. Nothing like being lulled into a false sense of security w/ the potty training. The whole been there-done that- only to be blind sided by RJ growing up too. He is totally into legos still so I feel pretty safe that the interest was fleeting (yes it is what I tell myself so that I can sleep at night...I know, I cross my fingers too;)

Phillip and I are ready for a break so we are looking at what we can do w/ kids that is away from the house and hopefully in the sun. We'll see if there is anywhere else on the planet to go w/ kids besides Disney. Who knows, there is a lot of other land out there in the world, but we are not to sure it supports those of the under 5' crowd.

Love and hugs!