April Vacation

As promised, the overload of pictures and what has been goin' on... I don't typically blog about "real life" as in tragedy, news ~ we never even WATCH the news and most of the time avoid the bad that happens outside my bubble but this week has been so horrific that I can't NOT.

A b0mbing at the B0ston Marath0n...an explosion in Texas... honestly... as if I wasn't praying "Jesus come quickly" with Husband's cancer diagnosis... I'm just ramped up... I'm so done...Do YOU know where you are going when you die? Have YOU accepted Christ as your PERSONAL Savior and LORD of your LIFE? What do YOU think about the end times? Be ENCOURAGED.

... back to the fluff... the stuff that has been going on... On Monday the redheads and I FINALLY connected. One of us had cancer...one of our Husbands had cancer... one of our Husbands lost their job... we've been through some pretty major life events and it was really nice to connect... even in the midst of trying to figure out what the heck happened at the marathon...

and why there were SO many women all pouring over boxes at "I shouldha bought it when I saw-ed it..." Turns out.. it was discounted Vera... and heck yah I dug through... didn't buy anything but fun looking...

On Wednesday I took the little ladies for a ride... Northern New England and we still have snow covered mountains...

and we went animal hunting with the cousins!!!!

Fun times with MY cousin and her little girls with MY little girl...

Husband has some track girls who's grandparents have race horses and happen to be related to MY cousins... I tell yah... someone is always related huh? :)

They graciously invited us to see the piglets and the race horses...

Somebody get this girl a horse...

or at the least a baby that will GROW into a horse :)

seriously I have a gorgeous cousin...

In the MEANTIME...guess who's been here doing wood with Husband ALL.WEEK.LONG? (Yeah, nice lookin' truck huh? :) Thank YOU COUNTRY DAD!!

On Thursday the boys tennis team... our school has been doing a "Coaches for Cancer" community service program and the tennis coach thought...who better to bless with our community service than a COACH WHO HAS CANCER?

now YOUR job is to find the little girl in the pink coat in the following pictures...she left the house at 8:45 on Thursday AM and other than coming in ONCE to go potty... I didn't see her again INSIDE until 5PM...

See her?

How 'bout now?

Hint...she's in the back of the little black pick-up truck but she's blocked by all the big boys :)

Think she had fun? if DIRT is any indicator she had a FAN-TAS-TIC day... I'm gonna have to have some fun things planned for next week when Daddy goes back to school... she ALREADY told me this morning... "Daddy has to go back to school on Monday... that STINKS." She has been in Husband's back pocket ALL.WEEK.LONG. Next week is gonna be rough I think :)

Speaking of rough... Little Miss B got a NASTY cold this week. Just the spring fever, boogery nose, post-nasal drip cough which has made for some ROUGH nights and whiney days...

Daddy stuck her in the basket and she was happy so we ran with it :)

I did end up taking her into the docs just to make sure it wasn't settling into her ears or anything and thank goodness it is JUST a cold. Brutal for the little one though...

therefore... brutal for Mom and Dad... never know whatcha'll need in the middle of the night... not that any of it actually WORKED to make her feel better or stop the crying... :(

Not quite the week we had anticipated but I really do feel like the Lord is teaching me all KINDS of things about releasing CONTROL... phew this is a tough lesson...