today matters

My mother-in-law just left this morning. She was visiting for a week, and it went way too fast. It was really nice to have her here. She babysat for us while we went away for the weekend to a business conference. And at our conference we got to hear John Maxwell speak. He is one of my favorite speakers ever. His teaching is so profound and yet so simple. he's a great speaker, easy to listen to, funny and comes straight from the heart. All his principles are things we all need. I'm also reading his book Today Matters and it is very convicting as well as inspiring. It asks questions like, are you living your life today, the way you want to live it tomorrow?? you can't live in past failures or successes....and you can't just keep wishing for tomorrow..you have to live today in a way that matters, in a way that makes your tomorrow the future you wish and want it to be. Make Today your masterpiece.

I want to live my life in way that reflects my values and constantly be seeking to better my life, my relationships, myself......etc...

so this weekend was amazing.

birthday party

Today we went to Kael's friend's Birthday Party.....he just turned 2. And it was so much fun. George had a sand pit and a water table...and it was beautiful here...i think i got a little sunburn on my nose. Kael pretty much sat in the sandbox for most of the day and cried when we had to leave. He was throwing sand in his hair and bringing me handfuls...it was all in his hair and diaper.:) great summer day....and we got to hang out with our new friends katie and george.

deadliest catch

Ok, i know this is weird. but lately i've been hooked on this show. and mike keeps laughing at me. See, Deadliest Catch is on the Discovery Channel and is all about King crab fisherman in Alaska, So if follows them on their boats and narrates what they are doing, how much they are catching, etc etc etc.....and for some reason i really like it. i even watched the season premiere last night. so it's that's my confession......

haircut

so i'm thinking of getting my haircut. any ideas???

Horton Hatches the Egg

i'd like to recommend a book to ya'll. it's called Horton's Hatches the Egg...by Dr Seuss (of course)

a great story of patience and faithfulness.

sick

just a little update.....me and kael have been sick. Saturday i worked from 5am - 1:30 ..a long shift anyways..and i thought that i was just feeling really rough because i was prego....and i hadn't slept lately and it was my third opening shift in a row..(which have gotten alot harder since being pregnant) anyways....i just kept feeling worse and so finally i got home around 2pm...and went straight to bed....was chilled, felt really nauseous and then the throwing up started, i had a fever...i just knew then it was more than being pregnant....i stayed in bed for hours,only getting up to puke. i think i was downstairs on the couch for one hour and then back to bed , so me and mike are laying down and i saw out right away but mike thought he should check on kael and good thing he did because there was throw up all over his bed....so mike cleaned it all up, and then changed the sheets, showered kael off, etc....and put him back in bed, went to go to bed again but thought he heard kael again, so went in there, picked up kael and kael threw up all over him......so mike basically was up all night with the little tyke......and he took care of the two of us all saturday and sunday......and kael was looking really bad on monday afternoon...he wasn't drinking anything, no pedialyte or water. so we took him to the ER, and he wasn't in serious condition but they tried to get him to take fluids and he wouldn't either so they put him on an IV and after that sent us home.....so kael is finally seeming more himself, just tonight for about an hour, he was smiling again which he hadn't done in a long time...it was so nice to see again. he basically slept on and off all day cuddled on my lap, waking up to cry, and readjust but tonight made me feel so much better to see him babbling and smiling again, and looking for his belly button. :) now he's sleeping and i'm sure he'll be alot better tomorrow. i'm feeling ok, better but not 100% yet.....
so i'm sure you really wanted to hear about all that sickness but that's what our live has been these past few days. thank God, mike didn't get sick, i don't know what we would've done without him. a wonderful husband and great dad.