Stephanie and Jason's Wedding

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Family vacation 2013

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Long time no blog :(

Well a lot has happened since I last blogged. Scott and I ran a half marathon in the Santa Monica Mountains.  It was Scott’s first half marathon and my second.  But first half since my heart condition so it was what kept me going the last two miles.  I just kept thinking, “God carry me.  He taught me how to manage my health and not my condition manage me.” It really motivated me to keep going when I wanted to rest.  Scott and I got lots of runs in ahead of time and it was a nice training regiment to have our running “dates” together.  Even though we didn’t run together during the race, it was funny at the end to see our times were less than 4 minutes apart.  I can’t say enough how proud I am of us, especially Scott this being his first. 

In big news, I am employed again!  I know!  Didn’t I just say this not too long ago?  If I didn’t mention earlier, I was laid off in January due to the O.C.C. settling with the consortium on Internal Foreclosure Lookback.  Thousands of people lost their jobs and I was one of them :(  Good news is that I went back to work April 15th at Bank of America…..again!  3rd time is a charm right?!  Well this time is permanent, thank God!.  I am an Underwriter in the Retail Fulfillment Channel.  I am very excited to be employed again although it has been an adjustment with the boys again. 

Big news is that we are headed to Florida this week for Stephanie’s wedding!!!!!  We are so excited for her and Jason and can’t wait to see everyone and celebrate.  So hopefully more blog posts to come shortly. 

Community Bible Study Children’s Ministry Spring Sing

Being unemployed for two months has been stressful.  BUT there have been some quality advantages.  I have been able to drop the boys off for school and be the first to pick them up.  I have gotten to play sports in the yard with them and enjoy the beautiful weather.  I have been blessed to be able to help in William’s classroom and go on field trips with him.  Harry and I get quality time together since he is not in full time daycare.  And Harry and I returned to Community Bible Study on Wednesdays.  I have missed these women.  They are wonderful.  These are the same rocks that prayed for me when we didn’t know what was wrong with my heart and there was so much stress and scariness in that.  They are the same women that prayed for my mom when she had colon cancer and when my dad had a massive heart attack.  And they are praying for our family now.  We don’t have any family here but we do have a great support system.  I absolutely LOVE learning about God with them and building a foundation of lifelong friendships with these beautiful women.  And best of all, there is a children’s ministry.  I love  when Harry tells me all about God.  But today was especially great.  He is coming out of his shyness in crowds.  Today was the Spring sing.  Harrison was awesome.  He sang loud and participated in the whole thing.  And if you look at all of the pictures, you will find that towards then end, he was the only child singing.  I am blessed.  And at the end, he blew me and kiss and said, “that’s my favorite song mommy!”  Like nobody else was around.  All he cared was that I was in the front row watching.  I love that little guy!

Super Cross 2013

A few weeks ago we went to SuperCross.  We weren’t going to go this year (we had always taken the boys to SuperCross or Monster Jam for their birthday) but we lucked out.  While Scott was working in San Diego at the Farmers Open, he ran into one of the guys he worked on a project for at Foremost.  Foremost sponsors Ryan Dungee.  So as it turned out that fine gentlemen called in some tickets for us for the next weekend!  The boys were super excited.  We had a blast.  The boys are way into MotorSports.  I mean, seriously, if you look at our DVR all it is is NASCAR, Motorcross, Supercross, etc. 

Harry had to have me take a picture of him by this truck since Darth Vadar was on it :)  

The boy’s joint birthday party with family friends

Harry’s 5th Birthday

We had so much cake!  Will’s actual birthday, Harry’s actual birthday, Will’s friend party, Harry’s friend party and the boy’s family friends joint party. LOL.  Harry had his very first “Friend” party.  It was a Star Wars Theme.