For Emily

Hey Em,
I was only there in Utah briefly and I haven't been able to be there for you much as a friend, but I just wanted you to know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. I wrote this for you.

It's Too Soon

It's too soon to be okay, you don't have to be that strong.
Your heart has been broken, a little piece gone,
and it won't ever be the same.
In time you will change, you'll get used to that ache,
and more often forget that it's there,
But for now its okay to let yourself feel
the full sadness and pain of your loss.

Life keeps on going, we can't make it stop,
and we can't undo the past,
But we can take our time and carefully think
how to best heal our tender hurt heart.

Our tears and our meltdowns don't show that we're weak,
or lack enough faith to press forward.
It's proof of our love and utter devotion
to family and friends in our life.

So take all the time that you possibly need,
feeling fine can wait for tomorrow.
We love you, support you, and pray for your strength
to carry your burden so heavy.

That is a picture courtesy of Ruby and this is a tag post courtesy of Brit. The lists are supposed to be of 8 things, but I am not interesting enough to complete 4 lists of 8 things so I had to modify it and there will be 4 lists of 4 things.

8 Things I did yesterday
1. Ran Errands
2. Went swimming in our backyard pool with Ruby and Jeffrey
3. Ate homemade pizza. Thanks David!
4. Watched Backyardigans like 5x.

8 Things I am looking forward to
1. My 10 year wedding anniversary in Nov.
2. Family camping
3. Lasik eye surgery
4. Touring the US in an RV - someday

8 Favorite Shows
1. Bones
2. Eli Stone
3. The Biggest Loser
4. One Life to Live - every girl has to have a good Soap

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. The Range Cafe
2. Siam Cafe
3. Dion's Pizza
4. Little Anita's (just the breakfast burritos)

8 People I tag
Uhh..... I am not completely sure 8 people read my blog.
How about Emily and Laura.

Rubys Soccer Team

This is Ruby's soccer team at the post season barbecue back in May. The girls are Robyn, Maryjane, Ruby, Haliegh, and Dana. Although we had a rough start and Ruby refused to play for the first 6 games, it has really grown of her and the last 8 games were fantastic. She is super fast and when she does pay attention and gets her feet in the game she does well. She is excited to play again in the fall.

First Fathers and Sons

Jeffrey went on his first fathers and sons last month. I was a little nervous to send my baby off, but I knew Dave would keep him safe and they would have lots of fun. They went with our friend Jake and his son Ethan and camped at Bandelier National Park. They had a fun time and Jeffrey came home mostly unscathed minus a run in with a tree.

Pinkalicous

Here are some pictures of Ruby from when we went and saw Pinkalicious the musical. Ruby loves musicals and tells me she wants to be on stage. Maybe I have a budding actress. It was really a cute little musical and Ruby wanted to meet all of the actors after the show. Its a fun mommy daughter thing and I love taking her to see local shows.

New Mexico Staycation

We went to White Sands and Carlsbad the first week of June. We went with my mother in law Pam and my sister in law Lauri and her family. We got to see a lot of New Mexico. We camped in Cloudcroft one night, it was great. Cloudcroft is beautiful. Carlsbad was pretty impressive, but Ruby was tired of looking at "rocks" after a few hours. I must admit I kind of felt the same way, or maybe I was tired from carrying Jeffrey in a backpack for 2 hours. It was a long drive, but worth it and we had a fun time.
white Sands







Cloudcroft


Carlsbad

Question

Is Taylor Swift tone deaf? And if so, how DID she become so wildly popular?