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Camping!

I was able to sneak off for the first time this year with the family and we got to spend four days out camping, hiking, fishing and eating WAY too many calories.  Seriously, why do S'Mores have to be SOO darn addicting?  Actually my weakness is just the roasted marshmellows but a little chocolate and graham never hurt anyone, lol.  Okay okay it hurt my diet a bit but who cares, I was on vacation!!!

I am proud to announce that I weathered my first storm in a tent.  It was scary and I was not happy with my husband for making me sit in a tent as the wind blew 60 MPH and the hail and rain came upon us like there was no tomorrow BUT our nifty new tent didn't let us down.  It stay in place and never let in a drop of rain.  We would have been in perfect shape had my husband and I not left the playpen for Princess P out on the "Porch" of our tent.  As we argued over whose fault it was that the tent was getting soaked my ever so clever 9 year old calmly asks .. "well is someone going to GET the playpen"? ... at that we laughed and go the playpen inside and began to have a pillow fight to keep our minds off the ever growing storm. 

When hiking you should not let the 9 year old take lead.  We started off on our first hike of the trip which was supposed to be a simple .4 mile trail.  All was going well  . . we get  to the half way point and thought this was a good start to the day ... then as we continued hiking  and awhile later we realized we weren't in Kansas any more ... somehow we managed to cross over to the 2.0 mile trail so we ended up hiking for over TWO HOURS and over TWO MILES.  PHEW.  It was good for Princess P, she likes sleeping in her little backpack thing I wear with her so she got a GREAT morning nap that day but HOLY MOLY were we beat.   I have to give it to my three year old thought, he hiked over half of it before giving in and asking daddy to carry him on his shoulders.  lol.   Oh well, I needed the excercise given the amount of marshmellows I would be consuming later that night so it worked out.  Our 9 year old was just glad we didn't die out in the dessert, HA HA.  He kept asking me if I knew where we were and Hubby and I LAUGHED because I'm lucky if I know where I am six miles away from my driveway, no less another city in the middle of a dessert!!!

Here are photos from the great adventure! 

I need to be better about this ... I mean I can't possibly expect my husband to be as perfect as me!  LOL  My mom forwarded this to me in an email and for some reason it struck a chord in me tonight so I thought I'd pass it along.  I was going to post pictures of my camping trip but its taking them FOREVER to download so that will have to be moved to tomorrow's To Do's.  Enjoy:

When I was a little girl, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then.  And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his toast, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school.  I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that toast and eat every bite!

 

When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the toast.  And I'll never forget what he said: “Baby, I love burned toast.”

 

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his toast burned.  He wrapped me in his arms and said, “Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired.  And besides a little burnt toast never hurt anyone!”

 

You know, life is full of imperfect things......and imperfect people.  I'm not the best housekeeper or cook.  What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other's faults and choosing to celebrate each other's differences - is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.

I can't believe I have let so many months come and go without kiddo updates.  UGH!

I would love to say that both kiddo updates would be in the paragraphs below; however, I am currently sweating my butt off because well us New Mexicans aren't used to humidity and we have had plenty of it and my computer is in the room with ZERO air conditioning soooo here is a quick post with a little slide show with pictures from earlier this week.

Love you all!

Embracing Imperfection

I need to be better about this ... I mean I can't possibly expect my husband to be as perfect as me!  LOL  My mom forwarded this to me in an email and for some reason it struck a chord in me tonight so I thought I'd pass it along.  I was going to post pictures of my camping trip but its taking them FOREVER to download so that will have to be moved to tomorrow's To Do's.  Enjoy:

When I was a little girl, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then.  And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his toast, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school.  I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that toast and eat every bite!

 

When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the toast.  And I'll never forget what he said: “Baby, I love burned toast.”

 

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his toast burned.  He wrapped me in his arms and said, “Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired.  And besides a little burnt toast never hurt anyone!”

 

You know, life is full of imperfect things......and imperfect people.  I'm not the best housekeeper or cook.  What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other's faults and choosing to celebrate each other's differences - is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.

Good Intention; Bad Execution

I can't believe I have let so many months come and go without kiddo updates.  UGH!

I would love to say that both kiddo updates would be in the paragraphs below; however, I am currently sweating my butt off because well us New Mexicans aren't used to humidity and we have had plenty of it and my computer is in the room with ZERO air conditioning soooo here is a quick post with a little slide show with pictures from earlier this week.

Love you all!