Summer fun

Aunt Janelle has the best ideas! While we were in Iowa visiting she pulled out a bag of water balloons and provided us with about an hour of FUN! The kids loved throwing them and trying to get us wet. This is a perfect picture of what summer should be about!

27 Things

In honor of my 27th birthday here are 27 random things that I am enjoying right now!





1. Blogs!


2. Preston's laugh when I tickle him and the fact that he wants to be tickled!


3. living in the moment


4. Birthday cake


5. photography


6. purple


7. good books


8. joyce meyer


9. fabulous friends


10. learning new things


11. cambree's love of 'picking up' and cleaning (she didn't get this from me!)


12. dr. pepper


13. laundry that gets done while i'm away


14. warm chocolate chip cookies


15. etsy.com


16. how hard jeremy works to keep us all happy


17. hula hoops

18. this picture of Jace

19. walking hand-in-hand home from the park with my kids

20. swimming pools

21. patterned paper and all things scrapbooks

22. suprise sewing machine from Jeremy (don't laugh, it's what I wanted)

23. awesome birthday greetings via email from friends ( melissa I printed yours to read over and over)

24. sidewalk chalk

25. sharing my birthday with Jace ~ Happy Birthday Buddy!

26. getting snail mail

27. becoming the person I was created to be

Goodbye...

A few days ago I said goodbye to my Grandpa (papa) Jon Cornelius. He died of complications of colon cancer on May 19th. He was 72 years old and lived in Bowling Green Florida. Unfortunately, I don't have any recent pictures of him to post, but I will always remember him like he was before he got sick. I flew to Florida on Monday to be there to make arrangements for his funeral and to lay him to rest. Wednesday we didn't have anything funeral related, so we drove about 2 hours to Daytona beach. It was AMAZING! Jeremy is going to have to get over his dis-like of flying and the ocean, because I intend to go back, soon! It was a great day because the beach wasn't too crowded and the water was perfect! I saw a jellyfish (washed up on the beach), huge pelicans, dolphins and Jennifer found a sand dollar. It was a great way to spend the day, because it is just what Grandpa would have done if he had been there.










It is amazing what something like this will do for a person. I am sad that my grandpa is gone, but I am so relieved that he will no longer be in pain and that he has been made well again. But at the same time, I have learned a great lesson....Don't take your time with someone for granted and don't assume that you will always have more time. I kept hearing that he was doing good and that things were going well, so I thought I could keep coming up with excuses not to go down there and see him. I have two kids who I would have to make arrangements for, plane tickets are expensive, I would have to stay in a hotel....etc, etc. Amazingly, when I got the call that he was gone, I managed to take care of all those issues in a matter of about 45 minutes. My priorities changed in a hurry. So my resolution coming home from Florida is that I won't keep putting things off. Not just seeing people, but doing the things I want to do. There's no time like the present to make things happen!

What are you going to make happen today?

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These pictures are from our before naptime trip to the park yesterday. They both wanted to ride the "cycles" to the park. Preston didn't last long...as soon as I took the picture he decided he wasn't going to ride all the way to the park and walk instead. Cambree pedaled there and back all by herself. And while we were there managed to hang like a monkey! What I was trying to capture was the fact that Cambree was trying to help Preston climb up the slide by holding out her foot. This photo is still cute too though!


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