P52 Week 39 Plus 1000 Gifts....

Today, we have a Disney hangover... this is a saying my friend and I came up with after spending all day at Disneyland and then have to get up the next day and get moving.
So that is where I am coming from...

These pics were taken in two different locations... one up North and one down South.  I did not intentionally shoot with my camera this week, although, I did think of it often.  Really, I don't know why I am not shooting.

Anyway, this week was a good one but I am feeling melancholy for my hometown.  We had a difficult summer and sometimes I just want to go home and be "normal" or have my old life back.  Please, don't get me wrong, I have a really good life here or there.  Jesus has redeemed me and what else can I ask for?  I just plain hate changes.  I thought I was doing good but then with my boy leaving for college and the fact that we are super busy with school I started to get lonesome for the "good old days." Dumb huh?  I know when Denise reads this, she will smack me upside the head.  Which I probably need.

Anyway, enough of that....
I found a new blog, that I love... it is http://tarahlowry.blogspot.com She is fun and decorates super cute. Anyway, she had this post about what she learned in September and I thought it would be fun to do.  So, here it is....

What I learned in September:

Not sure I know what I am doing with my blog?? But for now, this is it...

I learned I really miss my boy.... but we have been able to see him a lot because he comes home more than we thought! Yay!

I learned that my house is really quiet when the two kids are separated for miles. : (
I don't like the quiet...

I relearned that I am a procrastinator and I am procrastinating right now! Ugh!

I learned that a true friend sticks closer than a brother.  I am blessed beyond belief with my sweet friends and NOTHING comes between us!

That is it for now...

I am still counting...

644.  Thankful for time spent with family...miss my other family bad... really bad...

645.  Thankful for my marriage... not always easy but I do love that man so much...

646.  Thankful for my friends that I can always call.. distance does not matter...

Blessings,
Kim

P52 Week 37 & 38 Plus 1000 Gifts...

Fall is finally in the air.  When I went on my morning run I had to wear my longer pants.  I am wimpy when it comes to the cold (Denise can verify that).

I thought just schooling one kiddo would slow us down a bit.  It seems that I am trying to make up for the quietness in our home by over scheduling my daughter.  Actually, we have some great opportunities in the home school world out here and I did not want to say no to them.
Trying to keep focused....

Consequently, my photography has been put on the back burner.  I am the "official" photographer for our Awana Club so these are pics from club the other night.  We had an awesome professor come in from a Christian college in our area.  He went over the book of 1 Corinthians.  It was deep and meaty for the high school students but that is what I like.  God's Word is God's Word. Watering it down is not needed. Oh and did I mention it was food night.  That is always a yummy time.

Still counting my blessings....

632. My boy home for the weekend... yay!

633. My girl Denise has a date on the calendar for A D O P T I O N!!!!

634. Cooler weather...

635. Time with my man over the weekend...

636. God's Word...

637. In depth study...

638. Great opportunities for my girlie girl...

639. Fall softball season has started...

640. Responsibility in my girl...

641. Dinner guest...

642. Great book!  Crying in my coffee every morning...

643. 5.25 miles today!  Getting back in the swing of things...

Blessings,
Kim

P52 Week 36

This is not my photo... my girlie girl set this baby up.  She has an eye if I say so myself.  So we are on week 3 of school and I think this is when life is gonna get busy for us.  My girlie girl is taking some outside classes and they start this week.  Trying to enjoy life even when it gets a little crazy!

Blessings,
Kim

P52 Week Week 35

So last weekend was my birthday.  We decided to head south to spend it with my boy.  It is just not the same unless we are all together.

We went to "Old Town" in San Diego.  We had not been there in a long time and when we were walking through I remembered a picture I had of the two of them taken about 15 years earlier.  I tried to  recreate the scene.  This is the best I came up with.  I could not remember the exact details but I remembered the two of them by this fence and old building.  The pictures are not edited because I can't get my editor to work right now.  Anyway, I thought this was fun.
Boy, do I love these two!  God is so good!

Blessings,
Kim