I've been tagged - thank you Shelly Howe!

One of my "friends" tagged me for this fun little project. At first I thought I didn't have time for this, but I learned so much about others, I thought it was the least I could do! List 7 facts about yourself and then tag 7 people at the end of the post. Let your 7 tagged friends know by leaving them a comment on their blog!

1. I come from a family of 3 boys and 1 girl, my husband comes from a family of 3 boys and 1 girl. My husband and I have 3 boys and we think that's plenty for this nut house!

2. In 2000, I had half my thyroid removed because of a supposedly cancerous growth. The Doctor told me I would have a permanent smile on my neck for the rest of my life!

3. I love being a full-time Mom, working at Tim's architectural office, and serving as VP of the PTO at the boy's school. It keeps me out of trouble (sometimes!)

4. I love watching soccer, especially when its one of our boys. (I'm what you call a true soccer mom!) However, I love to play softball and walleyball.

5. I love the closeness and spirit of our church meeting, I hate to miss meeting. I wonder where I would be right now if we didn't have such great friends who really care?

6. When I was 16, my lung collapsed after spending a day hunting with Tim. I'll never forget the feeling of that tube being pushed thru my chest. It was supposed to be an overnight stay at the hospital, but because of a mistake, I ended up staying 5 days. (The orderly disconnected my tube when it wasn't the right time.)

7. My mother-in-law has terminal lung/bone/brain cancer. The experience has taught me so much about love, patience, and being ready. "Oh for the peace of a perfect trust."

I'll tag Sue, Holly, Deb, Stephanie, Jami, Mamie, and Jody.

Mocha - Chino

The day came, after 13 years, that our chocolate lab had to be put down. She had been in a steady decline of health the past few weeks and the vet confirmed yesterday that her kidney's had shut down. Tim bought Mocha for me while he was attending college every night, she was only 7 weeks old when we got her. Everyday until she was a year old, she went to work with me at Leggett & Platt. She was my best friend and patient companion, I told her everything, even how mad I was when she got into the trash! It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, my eye's were really green driving home from the vet from all the crying. Today is a new day and I hope to get all the dog hair vacuumed up!

And a few more!

Location - Corolla, NC
Weather - HOT
July 19 - 26, 2008

Robert, Tyler, Isaak and Lukas jumping off their cliff into the waves









Isaak out in the strong waves









Tyler









Stephanie & Lukas watching the sights!













Tyler and I hiding from the sun!








Tim and Toot coming in!








Isaak








Tyler AKA Toot!












Lukas - the toothless one!








Kalyn, Isaak, Tyler, Lukas, and Robert all digging!

pictures from the beach!

We only took 426 pictures during the week, I had just a bit of trouble deciding which ones I should post!!!

Isaak with his board









I love the expression!









Lukas riding a wave in!

















Alexis, Tyler, Ian, Kalyn, Robert Isaak and Lukas all in our hottub!

Isaak, Lukas and singing Tyler!

Protesting....

Here we are on the way home from our week at the beach and no one is happy about this trip North. We're taking a slight detour and having dinner with Mark and Summer Bolt, that will be a bright spot for us! We all had a great time together and dinner last night was totally awesome. We had steak, crab legs, and shrimp and more steak and shrimp and a few more shrimp, another crab leg tossed in. There was other things to eat on the table, but no one seemed to want much of that! Then we had a cake to celebrate Kalyn's 7th birthday.
Friday we spent most of the day on the beach, the waves were very strong and not a lot of fun to play in, but we had fun playing in the sand and sitting under the umbrella visiting. No one complained too bad of a sunburn last night so the sun screen must have worked. The boys took a trip to the 4 x 4 area and saw some wild horses. I bet they're glad I still have my 4 wheel drive vehicle! We're getting close to Summer and Mark's so I better stop. I promise to update later with pictures, between Tim and I, we took about 400 pictures so it might take a bit of my time!

Way behind

Somehow, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday came and went and I guess we did more of the same! Beach time, eat, hot tub, eat, beach, hot tub, eat ..... On Wednesday night, we went to meeting and enjoyed seeing those folks again. Thursday early morning, Ron, Stephanie, Kalyn, Robert, Ian & Alexis arrived. Thursday started out as a rainy day but as Steph and I got ready for another grocery run, the sun came out and everyone except Steph, Tyler and I headed to the beach. It was a great day together and we're excited about the sun shining this morning. We plan to do a surf and turf dinner tonight, Isaak had crab legs the other night for dinner and he thinks we should do a repeat. We plan to be at the beach from breakfast until dinner, riding the waves, digging, building sand castles, catching up on our reading, sunbathing, taking pictures, and having fun together. Until next time......

Day 3 - vacation goes on.........

Ahhh this is the life! Yesterday was an awesome beach day. After a dip in the hot tub, we headed over to the beach and the digging began! Isaak, Lukas & Tyler dug a major hole, with tunnels connecting to other rooms. I was still a little nervous of getting burnt so I stayed under the big umbrella that Tim bought most of the day. Isaak, Lukas and I spent a lot of time riding the waves on the boogie boards and all was going great until Lukas met up with a jelly fish. One probably thought a shark had approached the way he screamed. After lunch at the house, we went back to the beach and worked some more on the digging, riding the waves, and holding down the beach chair. Back to the house for dinner and everyone was kinda lazy and a little red! We've heard that Tuesday is going to be HOT! YIPEE, we're in the right place for that forecast. Tim took a lot of pictures yesterday but I haven't got them on the laptop yet.