600 miles too many

My sister and her family have been staying with us this week while my bro-in-law finishes up some classes that he needed near our house before heading back. This past week marks that they have spent the same amount of time in their new place as they did here.

If you asked anyone one of us during that 7 months if we enjoyed every single minute of every single day being piled in bedrooms and beds to make us all fit and our answers would all be the same. There were moments when we drove each other crazy...beyond crazy. We slammed 2 worlds together and lived 9 different lives under one roof. With 4 different jobs, 6 adults, a teen, a 10 year old, and a toddler things got a little, no a lot crazy.

If you asked anyone one of us now if we would do it all again our answer would all be the same. Yes!

No amount of laundry,

Dirty dishes,

toys,

unavailable bathroom space,

food prep and clean up,

spit up,

crumbs,

sippy cups,

pacifiers,

dirty diapers,

messes,

empty milk containers,

additional coke can boxes,

even come close to making a single one of those 600 miles that separate us from them worth. Not a single one of them!

I know that with all things there is a season and this season, all 16 days of it, will be over on Sunday. I am not looking forward to it. I don't want it to happen but it must and I must be supportive. I'm trying to have the Pollyanna disposition in this and try to play the happy game. I came up with one. Don't laugh, I'm trying people!

#1 Thankful for modern technology to be able to fly/drive from here to there in a day's time instead of going from stage coach, to horse and cart, and walking for dayS at a time, and to be able to talk anytime we want with the click of a button or the pounding of a few keys instead of writing a letter and waiting weeks for it to reach it's destination and then waiting weeks to hear back.

Ok, that's it. No more happy about it.

Sand, Sun, and Surf

What more could you ask for right?! So enjoying this week away with my family! Sad that it has to draw to a close soon but soaking it up while I can!


By the way, useless fact of the day, I stink at mini golf! haha!

a little getaway...

Forgot to mention that my family were headed out of town... now it's a tad on the side of old news! We got away Saturday for a week and have enjoyed the time as a family!



Since leaving on Saturday I have gained 2 new family members! One sister into my eternal family and a brother into my earthly family! Praising the Lord for "my" little sister's decision to say, "yes" to the Father and my big sister's decision to say, "yes" to her fiance. It's been a house of excitment!




We are thoroughly our time as a family, all 10, er...11 of us! Looking forward to getting back and squeezing the neck of my newest sister but that can wait for a while! =) For now the sun, sand, surf, and silliness are wonderful!

May we,

never, NEVER forget!

Day 7

Day 7 - Favorite movies

I've gotten asked this question a lot recently.

I'm not sure how to answer.

I enjoy movies that don't make me turn green, shift uncomfortably, cover my ears, or hide my eyes.

If I'm I am going to sit and watch a movie I want it to be worth it. I enjoy movies that have slapstick type of humor. Crazy, stupid, fun. Unfortunately along with the majority of these movies comes a great deal of crude humor or yucky jokes. I have to admit that I enjoy a little Adam Sandler from time to time.

A little.

Leagally Blond might have to rank close to the top in that category too!

Other than that I like "feel good" movies.

Facing the Giants

Fireproof

One night with the King

Remember the Titans

Blind Side

I am sure there are more but this is all I can think of for now!

Probably the top of the top would be all things Jane Austen.

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Persuasion

mine vs. mind

On Labor Day some friends and I decided to head to the mountains to a local orchard and pick peaches. This was a new experience for most, including me!


I have been apple picking in the fall nearly every year for as long as I can remember and took a group last year. This year we decided peaches would be fun! We had been planning to go since before Father's Day and this was the first day that was made available!

I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know this group of people. I enjoy the church and have for a while but often we do things outside of services and dinners it is just this group give or take a few. Most of them are around the same age and there is nothing "there" that makes things like this uncomfortable (*whispers* if you catch what I'm saying!).

After a wet day of picking peaches we headed back to the pastor's house for dinner and movies. This quickly turned into dinner and an English lesson. One of the guys asked me to help him with his English and then it morphed into a full fledged class...we will see how this goes! =)

On of the words that they had the hardest time saying is "mind." They chop the "d" off so it becomes mine. After several failed attempts from a lot of them I looked at them and asked, "your what?" Needless to say English jokes aren't really understood yet! haha!

It was a fun day all in all!

Day 6 and 8

Aaaannnnddd, we're back!

Ohmygoodnessgraciousme! How long has it been?!

Don't answer that!

I has been a back to back last few weeks and I think that with the cooler temps come calmer schedules!

So, we are back to our regularly scheduled programming!

Day 6 - something that makes you happy.
Day 8 - A place you have traveled.

To me this one took forever to decide. I wanted to find something that was a little out of the ordinary. So, Day 6 and Day 8 will be together in 1!

Feel jipped? So sorry!

So, something that makes me happy, Peru!

I don't know what it is about that place but I love it!

Maybe it's the rock hard beds.

Maybe it's the fresh air in the mountains.

Maybe it's the beyond freezing temps.

Maybe it's the cow poo everywhere.

Maybe it's the lack of cleanliness.

I really have no idea but I love it!