Update...

In case any of you were wondering............ my 2nd garden flag, that replaced the super cute one I believe was stolen, is still on our garden flag holder. In my mind PROVING my theory the original was stolen.......

My profound thought of the year....

So as I was writing the post below about the books I have been reading, when a very interesting thought had entered my mind and unfortunately for you, I have decided to share...........

When I initially wanted to join the book club, I can recall Dave made the observation "you don't read books"
and I remember I used to love reading books until one day I stopped.

I stopped reading, because I thought loser FAT GIRLS were the only ones to read.

I never joined the high school softball team because there were girls on the team that intimidated me.

I stopped hang out with my girlfriends, because I thought it was cooler to be seen with a boy.

I started to care WAY to much of what people thought of me, or at the very least what I thought they thought of me.

But now as an old lady of the ripe ol' age of 31 ;) (going on 32 any one wanting to send gifts)

I am starting to have the courage to be myself, even if I am still figuring out exactly who that is.

I am reading all the time now, and I have joined my work's softball team. I liked hiking and being outdoors. I now longer hide in Jeans in 100 degree weather, to ashamed to be a FAT GIRL in a pair of shorts or heaven forbid a BATHING SUIT!!!!
I no longer refuse to have my picture taken , because even though I still working on slimming down, I want to enjoy who I am now because it is shaping who I will be tomorrow.

More Books

My Sister's Keeper was recommended to my by Linda. I meet her through book club and very thankful for her, because she is always making sure I know I belong. On to the book: I could not keep this book down, I loved reading it. It truly sucked me in and I didn't want to leave the world of the book. In fact, the book was so good, even though I checked it out of the library, I am buying a copy to send to my sister to read, then my mother plans on reading it. It is currently being filmed to be a movie released in 2009.





The Glass Castle was recommended to my by Kelly, whom I met at book club. Very, very good book. It makes all my melodrama of how bad I thought me childhood was, to shame. I also learned that although you may want so hard for someone to be how you expect them to be, you eventually have to love them for who they ARE!

Finally, some of you loyal readers of this blog may recall that this book is our Book Club selection for July. I really liked it. I will do my best to try and not spoil it but others in our group said they had a real hard time getting through the beginning of it. I think it wasn't so hard for me because I don't have children and I can see how being a mother changes your perspective of this book. We will be discussing this book on Thursday, which is late for our meeting for the month, to try and accommodate many people's vacations. I am excited because it will be a pool party this time and I can try and perfect my cooking skills by trying a new recipe for an appetizer to bring.

P.S. They are making this into a movie to be released in 2009

5th of July

Dave and I woke up to a dreary rainy day on Saturday, but that didn't deter him from wanting to check out some hiking trails.
I tried to get the delay on my camera to work so I could have a pic of us before we started, but the battery was low so I wanted to save it for cooler pictures later.

We hiked the first trail in about 45 minutes to see the first waterfall of the day. It was a good hike and we had fun and a good work out.

When we got back down to the bottom, Dave wanted to go on another trail to see another waterfall. My feet were already hurting but I wanted to see the waterfall, because it was said to be much taller and wider than this one.

That trail was HORRIBLE, it just kept going straight up. I thought I was going to DIE!!!!! Dave was very encouraging and kept inspiring me to keep going. Even when the clouds opened up and there was a down pour we trekked on.

When we finally got the the waterfall it was amazing, I wanted to take a picture but Dave was afraid with all the rain, the camera would be ruined. So I guess if you are ever in town we could go see it together ;)

The Plauge

Our house is being invaded by toads.......... So far I have seen 1 adult, don't know if it is the Mom or the Dad and 3 baby toads and they all hang out on our back patio. I can't tell if Jake wants to eat them or play with them.