Random Juli, Vol. 1

My daughter sometimes says the most random things. I thought I would share it with you...

So, while John and I were cooking on Monday, I put Sesame Street on the big TV. When we came back, Juli had lined her dolls and stuffed animals on our couch. John asked her what their names are, and she went down the line, "This one is Brady, this one is Helen, This one is Hannah, this one is (fill in random normal names here), and this one is Vitamin, and THIS one is SELFISH!!!!

LOL!?!?!?

Blessed!

Sometimes I forget to give the credit where it's due. Sometimes in the fast pace life we live, I forget who's holding our hand and keeping us afloat. Sometimes I forget that everything that happens, good or bad, is just a little part of God's plan for us. So, praise him in your successes as well as your failures. We are Blessed!

Charbroiled

Hello again all! I'm so happy to be home! We did have alot of fun, although it was also pretty irritating at times. It was so extremely hot. The last day there was a heat advisory, and it actually was supposed to be 105 degrees. I'm not sure if it actually got all the way there, but it really felt like it! And, of course, I got sunburned- charbroiled, really. The worst part, though, was missing the kids. It was a nice break for the first day, and then I just missed them so much that I could barely stand it. So - never again. From now on, if we're going somewhere, we're taking the kids with us. Lesson learned!

Drum Roll Please!!!!

Dave and Bhakti are having a girl!!!!! John and I are so excited to have a niece on the way, and the kids are excited about the idea of a new baby cousin.

Well, we are off to King's Dominion in the morning. I'll update you probably on Monday!!

We Made It!

We're back! The trip to NC went relatively well. We didn't get to see Dave and Bhakti very much, just on the evening of the 4th, but she was looking very pregnant! They are supposed to go tomorrow for their ultrasound, so I might get to update tomorrow on the sex of the newest Paul.

On the good side, Harry and Bailey were with us the whole time! They even stayed at John's parents house. We felt so much more comfortable. And, it was just really good to see them. Hopefully, we'll see them again soon.

Katie was there the whole time too. The kids had a great time with her, and we were able to take all three to the park and to lunch on Saturday. I just miss her already.

Here's some pics from the trip!

Dad and Kids riding the carousel.

You can almost hear them say, "You can't catch us! Na na na na naaaaah!"

Katie, enjoying the carousel.

Pilot #1

Pilot #2

The kids rode the train around the park. You can see they enjoyed it!

Rest before Chaos... and the Pool Incident

I'm still recovering well from my little surgery. All in all, it was infinitely easier than my past surgeries, and my husband took care of us all so well! As a reward, he's spent most of the last several days finishing up GTA IV, and I've been told that he's nearly done (Thank You Jesus!!!!). We're all trying to rest up and rejuvenate before our lives get tumbled into chaos again. There's lots of stuff going on in the next little bit, and I hope that I'll get a chance to post some pics and let you guys know all about it. This next weekend we're going to NC to visit John's family (some of them would claim me too). I'm super excited about seeing the newlyweds (Harry and Bailey), and my Katie (John's neice), and the expectant parents (Dave and Bhakti). Things are always ... interesting... with John's parents, so hopefully that'll go well also.

The week after JP and I are going to chaperone a Youth trip to a Christian Music festival. Yikes! I'm still pretty excited though, and there's going to be some great music. The kiddies are staying with Nana for a couple of days, since we agreed that they're not quite ready for 3 days in the hot sun, probably being bored. I was really torn between leaving them and taking them.. but we committed to being chaperones, and we wouldn't be much good at that with our two little ones along. Besides, this will be our last chance to do this kind of thing, since....



... our background checks should be in near the end of July. So, here's hoping that we'll have some more kiddies by then.



I promised I'd tell you the pool story, so here goes:



One of the other Youth Leader's children had a pool birthday party last Saturday. John had a lot of work to do for our Youth Gaming night, so he won the toss, so to speak, and I had to be the one to take our kids swimming while JP worked (and took pictures) on the side. So, when it was time for me to get into the pool, I responsibly went to the ladder turned around backwards, started to go down the ladder, and fell backwards into the pool. That's just so typical. Remind me to tell you about the bumper boat story sometime. Anyway, I had a couple of nasty bruises to show for it. My surgery was the following Monday, and when I pre-registered, one of the questions that they had asked is if I had fallen in the last 30 days... to which I said ... uhm, probably!?!?. I had to go in on Monday and tell the pool story to all the nice doctors and nurses. Why me?



Anyway, JP was able to document some of our pool moments :

Here are my babies: all floatied up and ready to go!

Here they are enjoying the water. You can tell that I'm thrilled about this "I'm in the water and you're taking pictures" arrangement.

I'll post again soon (and I have been doing much better about that!).

Recovering

Hey, everybody! I just wanted to let everyone know that the biopsy came back negative for cancer, but positive for polyps, which is really not that big of a deal. I had a little outpatient surgery to get those little suckers removed on Monday, and I'm still recovering, but doing better.

Remind me to tell you guys about the pool adventure, next time.