Oh, For Heaven's Sake

Friday, December 30, 2016

A Year of Blogging... Barely : )

My Year in Review...

In January, we started the year at our cabin...

Love it up there and love this picture of my girlie....

In February, we celebrated our 26th Wedding Anniversary and spent it in Seattle.

In March, we visited our kids in Kansas City, Kansas....

In April, we hosted a tea to support Haiti orphans...

In May, my girlie finished her junior year of high school and we visited our friends in the south...

In June, we tried to stay home for a minute... the dog loved some pool time...

In July, we visited the cabin again and celebrated the 4th with some of our grands....

In August we came home from Haiti... oh I miss those kids and hope to be able to go again next summer.

and my girlie turned 17!

In September, I turned 50 and I went to New York with some of my best friends! It was a great trip! And my husband gave me a surprise birthday party with all my friends. So fun!

In October, we celebrated one of our grandson's birthday and took my brother out to dress up!

I have the greatest friends ever!

Really, I do!

In November we went home again and celebrated with the family.

No pics yet. Still on my camera.

: )

And in December my hubs had surgery on his shoulder (rotator cuff) and we celebrated at home.

No New Years at the cabin this year. : (

It has been a good year, with growth in many different areas. I have had two surgeries. The first one was not so major but the second one was. It has been a slow healing process and I am wondering if I will ever get back to what I used to be.

My running is way down so with the new year, that will be one of my new or start again commitments.

Blessings,

Kim

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

I Am Still Here!

Somebody tell me what to do with my blog....

Hahahaha!

I haven't had a camera in awhile. I took mine into a shop in July, they had it for over a month and then I finally got it back and it lasted 3 weeks : (

I have been using my daughter Nikon. I am not used to it so I find myself using my iPhone camera way more than I should.

I am getting out of the habit of using my camera.

I feel like I need to start over.

My husband mentioned getting me a new camera so I thought we should get the same kind I had (sony Alpha series) but I am gun shy to purchase another one since this one lasted about 5 years.

There's my story...

In the last month we visited home only 3 times. Ha!

My husband had shoulder surgery last week so we are on the down low. I put it this way... we are grounded. : )

Blessings,

Kim

I will be doing my favorites of the year and some Christmas pics.

Anyone doing another 365? or a P52?

or something?

Thursday, November 10, 2016

October Fun....

I am so far behind posting on this little blog of mine.

I do enjoy posting when I get around to it.

A couple of weeks ago, we went to a pumpkin patch. I still make my kids go and we have to take pics.

They love it for the most part.

We have fun and enjoy time together. We are going in many directions so its nice to focus on one set time to do something together.

So we did.

Blessings,

Kim

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

August and September... Where Did It Go?

August and September has come and gone....

At the end of August my girlie turned 17! We had a party and did the traditional picture of her with the balloons. We have done that pose since she was a baby...

Then---my friends and I went to NYC to celebrate my 50th Birthday! We had so much fun! I love these women so much! Friends for LIFE!
We had a jam packed week and enjoyed every second....
We also headed to Hoboken, New Jersey to check out Carlos' Bakery! We ate way too much!

August and September was spent traveling, celebrating, football games, volleyball games, carpools, a couple trips to Disneyland and a few trips to the hospital with my dad.

It has been fun, trying and very busy....

God is good all the time...

Blessings,
Kim

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Haiti Trip 2016 Part 2

On the day before we left Haiti, we took some time to go to the seashore.

I love the beach and always have.

This was different of course.

This is Haiti.

Beautiful water... and beautiful people...

This sweet girl in a yellow dress wanted to help us find sea shells....

I asked her where her parents were and she told me "at home."

I hope that was the case...

A lot of children walk around by themselves...

Blessings,

Kim

Monday, August 22, 2016

Haiti Trip 2016

I have been back from Haiti for about 2 1/2 weeks....

It seems surreal.

Before I left, I felt a burden to take in every second of the trip and to take it slow in my mind because I knew everyday would fly by.

I told myself to enjoy every second, even the hard ones, and to write every night when I got back to the base.

I stumbled across this quote from Jim Elliot- "Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."

That is how I went into my trip and how I have been trying to live since I came home.

It is so easy to get so busy that you mindlessly go from one event to another. Even during a mission trip.

Our journey to Haiti was everything we wanted and more.

We enjoyed seeing some of the same kids that we connected-bonded with and some new ones that have since came to the orphanage. The numbers are over 100 now.

It was joyful but yet sorrowful.

It was beautiful but yet ugly.

It was happy but yet so sad.

It was long but yet quick.

It was exactly where I wanted to be but yet at times I needed to flee from the sadness.

The above picture is of one of the new boys. I don't know his story. So many kids and so many stories as to why and how they got there.

Blessings,

Kim