Baseball and Wave pool

B made the All-Star team and at practice last week the coach asked G to take the place of a player that hadn't showed up for practice. Since I keep them most of the week I opted for a photo shoot. Unfortunately, their team lost in their first tournament but my guys hit great and I was a beaming aunt!

Yesterday we make the journey to Saltville to hang out with Jess at the wave pool. The boys had a great time and rode the waves all day long except for a much anticipated lunch from Chick-fil-a!

Beach Bound

This time next week I will be soaking up the South Carolina sunshine with E and Ash. I am so excited! I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to go anywhere because of school. I'm looking forward to sun and fun with friends!

Monday, Monday

So I officially love Monday! Summer will be the only time I ever say that! Tomorrow I start my adventures in babysitting with my nephews. I plan a lot of pool time. Speaking of pool time, today it was finally pretty. No need to continue working on building an ark!

Summer break week one.

So this week (minus Monday) was my first week out of school. I have spent a few days cleaning the house. I always start this in full force, cleaning everything and then I slowly dwindle down to hit and miss because who is going to notice anyway.
I have a cleaning method of clean for a bit, stop, watch TV play on the interwebs and then clean some more. Rinse and repeat.

I have learned a few things during my first week off and here they are in no particular order:

• It rains a lot when I don't have to work.
  
• Kathie Lee drinks all the time on air. It cracks me up.
• Bonnie Hunt is probably the coolest talk show lady there is.
• The Jonas Brothers on the Today Show is hard to walk away from.
• My dog is the laziest dog ever.
• Having dirty hair for a few days is ok (as long as you do not go into public!)
• Billy Bob Thorton is in a band. WOAH!
  

I have also spent the week procrastinating (yes, me) and I must now cram for a mid-term I have tomorrow. Summer School Stinks!

I just dream of sunshine and time at the pool. Hopefully that will be on the agenda next week.

As life spins you 'round.

Time has left me for the most part. I get up, go to work, go to class (or 2nd job) and then come home to sleep. This is my life at this point. I'm getting exhausted! I hope that summer will help level me out a little and give me a rest. But who knows. I have decided to keep my nephews again this summer and I'm actually excited to have some more "Adventures in Babysitting" moments with them! The boys have their to-do list sketched out.

If it doesn't kill you...

I'm so not a person to take days off.  This past school year I have taken a lot of days off (mostly for a funeral and my outpatient surgery).

Tomorrow I am taking a day off to write a proposal for Grad school.  This semester has been so tough.  With added personal issues I have just wanted to crawl in a hole and call it quits.  I'm not looking forward to this 30 page paper I'm going to have to tackle and stop procrastinating about. Hopefully I will not turn out a terrible product!!!

April showers

The past month has been a very crazy time.  From getting the happiest news of my life to spending a week waiting for what ended up being the saddest news of my life.

It has been a roller coaster of emotions since March 20th and a "ride" that ended up with me encountering my first hospital visit for out patient surgery. 

The major lesson I learned would be that of faith.  Putting my faith in God's hands and giving him full control has been the only thing that has kept me somewhat sane during this time. The best thing from this ordeal would be discovering what wonderful people I have in my life.  Through it all Justin was my rock, my strength, my hope.  I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful man in my life. He was so strong throughout it all and let me cry, scream, and just be sad without saying anything just showing me love and support.   I had many messages, phone calls and well wishes from those that I love.  I even had the offer from a friend's mom  that she would drop everything and come up and take care of me while mom and dad were out of town.  That showed me how much I matter.  That same friend was in daily contact with me through it all and I hope she knows how blessed I am to have her in my life.  

Tomorrow is my post-op appointment.  I don't foresee that it will be a big deal.  Just an in and out kinda of visit.