what a sweet picture

when kevin and lela attended that princess ball a few weeks ago one of the teacher's was setup making pictures. this morning i got an email with the attached picture from the event. it's such a sweet picture of her and her daddy. i would love to get it framed for her...not to mention myself as well.

live and learn - that's my motto

and yes, i paid dearly last night for it.

we took the girls to the fair in 50 something degree weather yesterday evening. we had a really good time despite me coughing my head off and still not quite at 100%. the girls were dying for me to go the fair with them. earlier in the week their daddy had taken them as a surprise and now they wanted to me to have as much fun as they did. what sweet girls!

it was fun! i realized one thing that i'm getting too old to ride rides like the "drunken barrels" you find at six flags. we all rode these strawberries which you spin around and around and then the whole entire ride spins again like those barrels. it was probably about half way through the ride, all of a sudden a wave of nausea came over me. i told the girls they had to stop spinning the strawberry and announced to them and kevin i literally thought i was about to get sick on the ride. the girls got all worried and kevin calmed them down with the fact that i had been sick for about a week and i was still trying to get better. personally, i think it was just old age.

i love watching our girls have such a good time at the fair. it brings so much joy to my life to see them laughing, smiling and screaming as they ride such rides as the wacky worm roller coaster, ferris wheel and the giant slide. ah! the longer we were there the more obvious it became to me that i wasn't the perfect of health. in fact i probably wasn't even better, yet. why? because when we got home and i finally got ready for bed, guess what? fever was back...again! like i said live and learn.





and my favorite picture of the evening....you can just see her excitement and hear her little scream, i love it!

i'm alive...barely

yes, after five days of basically lying in the bed i think i have about kick this flu stuff with the exception of a horrible cough and not much energy i'm back. i'm just now praying that no one else in the house gets it. lacey and kevin both have had a flu shot, but not poor lela. (so, i have to get on that asap.) i was planning on us going to the health department this week to get the flu mist for the h1n1 when i got sick. funny how things work, uh? depending on how i'm feeling that might be in the cards for next week.

it's so nice to be up and not feel as if my head is going to explode! kevin is such an awesome husband and dad. how god blessed me with such a wonderful man is beyond any comprehension i could ever have. he has worked from home this week, looking after me and juggling the taking of girls from school to gymnastics to choir to dance. thank you honey! i love you! you are the best!

even after 20 years

since graduating from high school a lot people never change, I've decided.

kevin's reunion was interesting to say the least. i actually had a good time even though i headed up to our room somewhere after 11:00 pm. from what i was told the party hadn't even started at that point. for me it had! i go to bed somewhere between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm on a daily basis, so 11:00 for me was extremely late.

i'm glad we went despite i only knew a handful of people. it's interesting to hear what others are doing, how they look, where they live, etc. i always find it fascinating to hear other people's stories and how they got to where they are now. you know that's what life is about...it's a journey.

i can't wait for the next reunion to see where these same people are and what they are doing next.