family

friends

food

fireworks

laughs

pictures

kids

tomorrow my day will be about this. i love it.

Labels: july4th

i was reading jennster's blog and came across this post. i've been doing this a lot lately on our message board BUT i have to do it here as well. i HATE that i'm not seeing my friends this summer. for 3 years straight i've spent days with jennster. for 2 summers straight i spent time with our other forum friends. and this summer???? none of us have the money to go anywhere to meet up. and it sucks. i realize that i just got back from a kick ass vacation. and don't get me wrong...i'm SO glad we went. it was awesome. but yet the fact remains...some of my closest friends are from our forum and i won't be seeing them this summer. i miss them. terribly.

















see why i miss them? *cries*

Labels: friends, pictures

Today is my first day back at work. I'm back to my routine. And honestly, as much fun as vacation was, I'm glad to be back in it. Of course I'd rather be home today but since I HAVE to work I guess being here making up all the work I missed is better than being gone having MORE pile up, right? Anyway, my week off was awesome. The trip was FANTASTIC. Panama City Beach is GORGEOUS. I've never seen a more beautiful beach in my life. Clean water. What a thought. I know that I should be glad that I still live by the beach BUT our beach is gross. And when I lived in Ohio---THAT beach was gross. THIS beach in Florida was amazing.



And Hannah LOVED it.


Even Livie did.


Apparently it was quite relaxing


Yes even I donned a bathing suit and swam in this awesome water


We had a great time.


But so when I was gone, I wondered wtf was going on with the universe that Ed McMahon died....then Farrah Fawcet...then Michael Jackson and THEN Billy Mays. Seriously, what the hell?!?! I leave for one week and so much chaos happened. Not to mention crazy work drama as well. What was it about last week??? While we were having a great time, everything else in the world went to crap.

Labels: hollywood, pictures, vacations

vacation is rocking. free wifi is rocking. while i'm gone, read jennster's blog. she's been recapping her wedding from 2 years ago. there are pictures of me. and stories from when we were all together 2 years ago. it's a good read. GO NOW!

Labels: blogging, friends

1. I hope all you dad's out there had a great father's day. i know we did!

2. tomorrow we FINALLY leave for vacation. i probably won't be blogging much or even at all. but be glad that i'm out having a great time with my family.

3. i gotta say that i'm sick of summer already. the past 2 weeks it's been 95 degrees or hotter EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. it's madness. tomorrow? 100. wednesday? 100. and i'm sure it won't be any cooler in florida.

*dies*

Labels: vacations, weather

Bet you never thought there was one huh? Well there is. It's called stressing out at work BEFORE the vacation to make sure everything is done ahead of time. And then you have the stressing out at work AFTER to catch up on all the work you missed. I love traveling. You all know this. I love vacations. Next week we're finally leaving for that florida trip I told ya'll about for Hannah's dance competition and I'm SO excited. But i'm going to be off work for 6 work days. That's A LOT of work I'll be missing. So today the stressing has started. All the work that needs to be done ahead of time is done. But I'm already dreading coming back and seeing my desk piled up...and having to catch up.

Reason number 1598 why I need to be a stay at home mom and NOT work...no make up work!

Labels: vacations

an update to this post:

crappy friend emailed me last night and pretty much told me that our friendship is over. she's too far gone....and she's not at all the person she used to be and doesn't intend to be but that she's sorry because she didn't mean to hurt me and it's not me, it's her. i don't know if she'll ever get back to that point or not. it's very sad for me though. i miss her so much. it's like losing a family member. she WAS family to me. hannah misses her and still asks about her. i feel like she died. and yet i'm so angry with her too. angry that she's not willing to change. angry that she'd rather live a destructive life than fix it and have her loved ones back in her life. i just don't understand.

Labels: friends, sadness