Happy Birthday To Me!!!

This is my post for today....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME!!!!!!

It's all about me.

Selfish I know. I'm ok with it.

Sometimes we actually learn from our mistakes.

I had an experience this week with a friend. I have known her for about a year. I thought we were good enough friends that we could talk about pretty much anything. I felt I had been pretty supportive this year and a good friend. I know sometimes I can give the "look" when I'm irritated or upset. Those of you who know me and love me throw it back at me or just ignore it. It used to be there a lot.

Well apparently I gave it too many times to this friend and she didn't like my sarcastic sense of humor. Ok that's fine. I asked her months ago if she was upset with me and she said no. So I let it go. Well I took her a gift the other day and it's been probably a couple of months since I've seen her. I sort reduced the amount I was seeing her. She quit answering my calls or texting me. And she had an emergency in her family that consumed her, which it should had.

So anyway I went over there and thought everything was fine until she asked why I didn't like her and was mean to her. What? She said I had been that way the whole time she had known me. I thought this was weird. So I talked to her and told her yes I was irritated by a couple of things but got over them and even asked her if anything was wrong. She went crazy. She started screaming at me and threw me out of her house. I have never been treated like that in my life. I know I have been the bearer of such crazy things in high school, sorry people. I do have a temper.

It seems that everywhere I have lived I have had one sort of "friendship" that ends up like this. What am I supposed to learn? Why haven't I learned it? Well as I left that house.... It took me the bike ride home to really get angry, but actually more hurt I realized that before I would have been right back in her face yelling and screaming profanities. Yes not proud of that, but my reaction would have been there. Not this time. I was calm and collected. I didn't swear at her. I talked never yelled at her. When I got home and over my anger, I realized that I have grown as a person. Sure people might not like me and think I'm a terrible person, but I have realized that I am of worth and I don't deserve to be treated that way. I'm not saying I didn't have a part in what happened, I did as I said before, but I tried calmly to talk and work it out.

For that I am happy. I'm never happy to end a friendship. I feel that I am a loyal friend but I realize too that I don't need to have such negativity in my life and am happy to move on. Sometimes relationships aren't good for us and I think I have finally learned from my mistakes to quit trying to make it work and just move on. I think we need to be kind to everyone but we don't have to be friends.

I think this was my bit of therapy for the day. I'm going to make this new week and year the best yet. I have a new outlook. After all I have less than 24 hours left in this year of my life. I'm excited to make changes to the next one.

Spontaneous Family Fun!!

I am a planner. Anyone who knows me knows I want the details. Where are we going? When are we going? How long will it take to get there? How long are we staying? These kinds of things I like to know.

My hubby Dave is not this way. He likes to just go. He's good at a moments notice. He can fit everything in a backpack. Who cares how long? Let's go!!

We have now learned to compromise a little bit. It's taken a while. He puts up with my questions and I try not to get upset about little notice. He's pretty good though, he tries to give me a couple of days.

A couple of weeks ago he asked me if I wanted to go to McCall. I said when? He said tomorrow. Ummm.....OK I guess. Well I had a hair appt. so Dave said he would take the kids up and I could come when I was done. Ok. That meant I got to drive the BMW. Nice ride.
Here is Dave and the crew on their way up to McCall. They seem to be having a great time. Wonder what movie they are watching.
We got a great price last minute on a 4 bedroom condo right in downtown. It was beautiful and perfect. We were so lucky.
We went on Bike Rides and one day went to the "other" side of Payette Lake. It was a beautiful day. About 63* and sunny. Here is Abby and Dave hanging out on a long havin' a chat.
Our bathing beauty. Sydney had so much fun and made a new little friend while we were there.
Jacob, exercising? Maybe? or just being his goofy self. Probably the last one.
Dave catching some rays. Surprisingly we all got a little bit of a sun burn. I wasn't thinking about sunscreen. It just wasn't that warm. Oh well. They weren't too bad.
Jacob building something with sticks. I think he scored.
My little sweetie. I only brought half of her swim suit, so yes she is in her underwear. Somehow I had 2 pairs of those. Go figure. She had lots of fun anyway. And thought it was pretty funny she could wear undies.
Here is Noah taking the plunge into the water. There was still some snow on the ground so you know that water is freezing. They all went in it. Good on them. I wasn't going in.
In he goes. No thanks! Even as I watched him do this I was cringing with anticipation of cold.
And he's in. He did come up. Gasping for air. It's amazing how cold just takes your breath away.
Noah crossing a log. Pretty good balance. I'm happy about that too. That water was a little questionable.

It was such a great trip. We all had a fun and relaxing time. After the lake we went back to the condo and the girls had a jacuzzi tub and all was well in the world.

Thanks Davey for having these great ideas! And making it fun for our family.

Turtle Turtle

Noah has been asking us for a pet. We knew the time was going to come. Especially since our neighbors got chickens and rabbits. The kids love to go over there and play with them.

So Dave told Noah to go out in the pond behind the house and find some tadpoles and grow them into frogs. If he can do that then he would be ready for a pet.

We have a dog but Noah wants one of his own.

Noah and I were outside and I thought one of the kids left their bike helmets out by the road and I asked Noah to go get it. He starts yelling at me that it's not a helmet. By the time I get over there it's half way across the road. I sent Noah to get Dave and this is what we found...
A turtle. He seemed to be a little lost as to what direction to go. He was heading for the river but not sure what a "turtle mile" would be, it seemed pretty far. It's about a 1/2 mile for us.

So we picked him up and brought him to our yard.
Isn't he beautiful? We thought his markings were so gorgeous we had to take a picture.
Here is Noah holding his new buddy. Every time he held him the turtle would pee on him. Pretty funny.
After looking at the turtle and his already fairly large size we decided he probably had a family and should let him go in the pond behind our house.
Here is Noah releasing him. He was fun to have, but Dave and Noah are going to go look for a different pet. Maybe a lizard or a frog. If he can keep that alive....Who knows what else we might get?

Another Birthday?

Why do kids keep thinking they get to have another birthday? Don't they know that their mom's don't want them to grow up? At least in some respects. I want my kids to be able to stay home alone, but don't want them to get old enough to drive. I want them to be independent, but I still want them to listen to me.

Hmmmm...I think I'm just going to have to let them grow up. My Jacob is growing up. He is now 8 years old. I can't believe how quick these years went.
With Jacob you never know what expression you are going to get. He has the best faces and laugh and I love to see him get excited about things. He gets a sort of crazy - excited look going on. Nothing says summer fun better than a water gun that holds 6 lbs. of water.
Every year I ask my kids what kind of cake they want. Jacob wanted a Lego Ninjago cake. Well all the family was going to be here over the fourth of July for his baptism and we decided to make him the cake when everyone was here. We compromised and I made him cupcakes with little lego heads on them. They were tasty little suckers too.I hope he got his wish.... especially if his wish was 3 birthday parties. Cause that's what he got. Spoiled little guy.

You should always eat the head first. Sorry little lego guy. Again you were tasty.
Abigail is testing the cupcakes out. I don't think she could take a bigger bite. Maybe a little bigger.
I think the verdict is good. And gooey!! We ate all of those cupcakes.
It was a fun night and Jacob liked all his toys which in addition to his water gun included water bombs and legos. I guess I'll let him grow up. So long as he only does it one year at a time.

Father's Day!!!

Ahhh Father's Day!! What a great day! A day to recognize our dad's and let them know how great they are and what they mean to us.

I love my dad very much. We don't always agree on things...I think it's because we are very similar in some respects. I have learned many things from my dad... I've learned to be a hard worker...I've learned to be generous....I've learned that I want to be able to teach like him, and speak to groups like him....I've learned that deep down he is a softie and wants the best for me and my family.

I love my kids dad very much. He is the best man to be the father of my children. He is loving and kind... He is strong....He is generous....He is a hard worker....He too is a softie...He is the love of my life.

The kids decided to go ahead a do a play for Dave for Father's Day. They wrote it and practiced it and with a little help from us put on quite a show.

Here they are at the end. Scary Skeleton Hulk (Noah) - The Ninja princesses (Sydney and Abigail w/gun) and Jango Fett (Jacob). It was awesome.

Here is Abby hanging with dad showing off his presents...A new valet for his suits for his office and an automatic tie rack to keep all those pesky ties neat. I know they aren't a hot tub or anything but he has been asking for the valet for awhile and after I had ordered the tie rack asked for one so I did really good this year.