Lagoon makes me smile!

What is it about Lagoon that just makes most everyone smile? A few weeks ago we had maybe the BEST day at Lagoon ever and my friend, (Thanks, Johanna!) just inspired me to finally get this post up about it. We met my family there minus Gary and Kate's family, who were in Disneyland and Scott and Lydia, who had to work. We had a fabulous day! The weather was absolutely PERFECT! Not too cold, not too hot. We had great company and great food! What more could we ask for? The favorite ride of the day was Odessy. Even Grandpa loved it! I think the funniest thing I have seen in a long time was when my sister and her husband were on it and he didn't know that you could control the up and down movement. Right when they would get to the water spouts she would lower or higher it so that he would get soaked EVERY time! It was HILAROUS!!! I thought my dad was going to fall off the bench laughing so hard. It was a great day had by ALL! Thanks, Dad and Shawna! They are the best!

Project Life!

I've been meaning to blog about this for a long time but never make it a priority, I guess. This is a scrapbook project that I have been working on this year. Let me explain a bit about it but just keep reading before you freak out at the first... I take one picture every day of the year and journal the little card every day. Now at first I was like, "yeah right, a picture every single day, I can't do that." but 7 months into it I can tell you that I LOVE IT!!!! I got the idea from my favorite scrapbook Hero, Goddess, Idol, Becky Higgins. Can I just tell you that I love her? I have not ever met her in person, much to my disapointment, but I could tell you just about anything you would like to know about her life from the past say 10 or 12 years that I have been following her. It's kind of a creepy, stalking, obsessive relationship I have secretly with her. I have always said that if I could ever meet her then I may as well go ahead and die because that's all I need to complete my life. Okay that may be a little over board but I would truely be complete if I could just spend an afternoon with her. I have even talked about moving to Arizona to maybe run into her say at the grocery store or something! This woman is AWESOME! She is near perfect in my eyes that's for sure! Anyway back to Project Life.... well, what else do I tell you about it? You buy it through Amazon and contect through my website to hers, on the right. I don't think I can do Project Life justice so just go to her website and check it out. It has changed my life. I don't feel so overwhelmed in the scrapbook department anymore because it's just one picture, one little journal card a day. It has become my Sunday afternoon project to work on it. I even bore my testimony in church about this wonderful project. I have loved looking back over the year so far to remember the little things that I never scrapped about before. Some days I don't have anything big to write about but that's what I love about it, you get all the details, the real stuff life's about with this little beauty. No I am not getting paid for advertising from Becky Higgins but I really should be, I've told LOTS of people about it. I will be posting more pictures from it throughout the year that you can be sure!

Ouch!

OUCHIE!!! NO I didn't paint Maddie's skin with pink paint. That is a really, really, really bad sunburn! She went to the pool with some sweet friends and I think she learned her lesson the hard way about sunscreen and going out for the first time of the summer. Normally that wouldn't have happened to a dark, easy-to-tan girl like Maddie but she hadn't been out at all until this day, mostly because Nathan has been so sick. The sunburn is all better and she is getting her regular "summer tan" color this week since Nathan's on the up and up that's for sure! It gave her something to get attention about while Nathan was getting all the attention from everyone from his surgery (see post below.) That is a hard thing to give up when there are only two children in a family--that attention thing! Love you, Maddie Girl!

More tonsil pics

Bye, bye tonsils!

Well, we've made it through Nathan's tonsilectomy! I didn't really know what to expect but it wasn't THAT bad. I can say that now that we are finished with all the healing and out of the recovery mode. There were a few days that I wasn't too sure what I was going to do. He would NOT eat or drink ANYTHING! I tried almost everything I could get my hands on. Nothing. I actually ended up taking him over to my dad's. Thank heavens he believes in my dad's famous saying.... "everything always tastes better at Grandma's." Shawna got him to eat and drink more than I had all week--in one sitting! Thank heavens because I was on my way to the ER. I don't have an exact amount from a scale but I swear he lost about 10-12 pounds! To most of us that isn't that big of a deal but he's a pretty skinny kid anyway. He is making up for lost time and is now eating every 2 hours at least! It's like he's a baby again! :) He was such a trooper and didn't really ever complain except when it came time for pain medicine. (That stuff is NASTY by the way!) He would get all geared up to take the lortab by getting his favorite "medicine taking drink" AKA Kool aid Squeeze it punch. It was pretty cute because it didn't matter what time of day or night it was, when he finally would ask for pain meds because he just couldn't stand it any more he would go running to the storage room for the squeeze it! I just love that boy and all his little quirks, you could say he has a little OCD, and I don't have any idea where he got something like that~! :) Love you, Nathan, buddy! Way to be tough!