Just Beachy

This time last week I was enjoying the beach, enjoying the weather, enjoying my family.....just enjoying life!! We had such a great time!! We stayed at Turquoise Place and it was beautiful! Not kidding when I say that our condo was bigger than mine and David's first house! We were so blessed by a sweet precious lady that allowed us to stay there! Thank you Mrs. C. !! :)



Here's a few pics of the condo:







Master bedroom



Master bath....look at that shower! It was huge! And that tub!! Sadly I never made the time to take a bubble bath in it, but maybe next year! ;)



Guest room #1 with queen bed...Dee-deeds room.



Guest room #2 with twin beds...kids room.



I thought I had gotten a picture of our balcony but guess not, but it had a hot tub and a grill on it! I must say that I did enjoy the hot tub and the grill was nice because we grilled out steaks and shrimp one night. It was sooo yummy! :)

It was such a wonderful place to stay with lots of amenities! It had a lazy river, indoor pool with slide and two huge hot tubs, playground, workout room, sauna and steam rooms (all on the 4th floor) and it also had an awesome outside pool with zero entry on one side and waterfall thingy under a bridge that went over the outside pool. Sounds like I'm plugging a commercial for them doesn't it? We were just so excited. It's the nicest place we have ever stayed at! I surely hope we get to stay there again!

Now, the lazy river was awesome! The kids could have stayed there the entire week and been just fine! They absolutely loved it!!





One thing that I really liked was that the pools didn't have chlorine in them. It was like saline....salt water. You know how when you stay all day at the pool with chlorine in it, you feel gross? It wasn't that way at all with these pools. Your skin felt so smooth and soft! Of course if you got some of it in your mouth that was kinda gross but who goes around drinking pool water anyway? LOL!

Apparently I took over 500 photos while down at the beach...don't worry, I'm not going to post all 500 pics here. I'll have to weed through them and delete the ones that didn't turn out well, but there are some interesting ones in the bunch! Hopefully I can get those posted soon so be sure and come back to see them!! :)

I hope each of you are doing well, having a fabulous summer and paying attention to all of the blessings in your life! There are so many little ones everyday that we sometimes miss out on because of a sour attitude....me included! I pray that I continually see the blessings in my life and always be joyful no matter what the circumstance!!

Beauty

Urgent Prayer Request

I hope each of you are doing well and having a great summer. We sure are!! At this very moment I am sitting on the 14th floor of our condo watching and listening to the waves roll in. It's been beautiful here all week and I will be so sad when we have to leave tomorrow. I'll post pics and share more about our trip hopefully next week, but right now I have a request.

My best friend from high school, Stephanie, is in the hospital. She is 33 weeks pregnant and in pre-term labor. Please pray for her and her sweet little one. She needs to try and make it to 36 weeks so they have her on bed rest but she is still having consistent contractions. Please lift them up. Please pray that God will allow the contractions to stop and that the baby will stay in her womb until at least 36 weeks. Please also pray for a safe delivery for her and the baby!

Thanks for praying friends!!

:)

Summer Break...HUH?

Can you believe it is already July? Our summer break is half way over. :( It has gone by so fast but we've been having so much fun! I have really enjoyed the kids being home with me. Not to say that there hasn't been some trying times because let's face it....they are kids and they are not always going to get along or obey, but overall I've loved them being here. I have loved not having to be somewhere at a specific time or running here and there everywhere everyday. You get the picture. It's been nice!

Thankfully we live in a neighborhood that has a humongous pool so we have spent a lot of our days there. The kids are getting so brown and getting a great base tan for when we go to the beach in a few weeks. We are soo ready too!!

Speaking of getting a tan, I ran across THIS article a week or so ago and thought it was interesting. Wondering if any of you have any thoughts on it?? Let me know!!

David took a few days off and decided that we should paint the kids rooms....HAHA! For two and a half days, I was marked in Harmonious Rose and Baritone Blue. The rose turned out to be more like peptobismal pink but I love it! It's so girly and it almost glows! We still have some decorating to do in both rooms...it's coming along.





I like the color of the boys room but I wasn't so happy with the paint job because I'm a perfectionist and I felt like it could have been done better. But my sweet husband reminded me that we don't live in a perfect house or live a perfect life and our paint job doesn't have to be perfect and it doesn't mean that I'm less worthy of a person or that I can't do things "perfectly" like other people. I know I'm not perfect, far from it, but I strive to do things right because I hate doing something half way or just doing enough to get by. Things were done like that as I grew up and I hated it. I was really down on myself about this can't you tell? I'm just so thankful for him and for his encouragement! I love it when he shares his little nuggets with me! :)

We had a great 4th of July weekend and even shot off some fireworks. Pudgie didn't like them too much but that's ok. He will one day!

He tried something new the other day....freshly shucked sweet corn on the cob....seems as though he likes it!!











We've got some interesting changes coming our way in the next few weeks and even though I don't handle change very well, I'm excited to see what God will do through these new changes. We have to remember to keep our eyes on Jesus and trust His will for our lives!

Happy Father's Day

I just wanted to say Happy Father's Day to:

1)my heavenly Father, for loving me unconditionally, never leaving me and for sending His only Son to die for me. I love you Lord.

2)to David, the father of our four precious blessings. You are a good looking, hard working, fun loving and funny husband and father. We are blessed to have you in our life. How boring our lives would be if you were not in it! Thank you Lord for this man you brought into my life. I love him more than he knows!

3)to my dad, Mack. Thank you for your love. Thank you for showing us how to be positive, fight and be strong even when circumstances beyond our control invade your life. I love you dad.

4)to my brother, Steven. Even though we don't see each other very much, you are my brother and I love you. I'm so thankful for G & M. They are precious. :)

Partaay Time

We have had two baseball parties to attend and the boys had a lot of fun!

Boogie was soo happy to play "bay-ball" this year! He loved it! I wanted to make sure he didn't miss his party because I had a MAJOR MOM FAIL two weeks before the party.

Boogie's last game was on a Saturday at 12:00p....OR SO I THOUGHT. We got ready and headed up to the ball park with the whole family and bat bag and fully dressed in our mom and dad team shirts etc. Got up to the ballpark and ran into one of the ladies that helps to run the league that we have become friends with. She said "What are ya'll doing here?" and David said "M-------, has a game at 12:00p" and she looked at him funny and said "No, his game was at 9:00 this morning". I'm sorry WHAT?? I could have totally died! I felt soo horrible but I swore my calendar said 12:00p. Boogie was so sad that he missed his game. He kept saying, "When do I get to play in my bay-ball game?" I had to tell him that we missed it. We ended up staying for another teams game, but it wasn't the same. I had to fight back the tears all day knowing *I* had messed up somehow. The look in his eyes was heartbreaking. The first thing I did when we got home was check my calendar and SURE ENOUGH it said 9:00a. UGH!! MOM FAIL!!!

Boogie's team party:











Bud's team party:







Bud and his best friend, C.



This was rolling in when we were leaving the party!

Please Pray

Please pray for my friends, Scott and Celeste and their family, Joy, and their mom, Cindy as they grieve the loss of their dad/husband, Mickey. Mr. H was in good health and all of a sudden had an episode at his house during his sleep about a week ago. The Dr.'s think he had a blood clot in his brain that dissolved before the paramedics reached the hospital. Mr. H passed away last night. I cannot imagine what they are going through but please pray for peace and comfort that can only come from our Heavenly Father.

Thank you.