Did I mention...

That we were going camping this weekend?! No? Probably because I am not much of a camping type girl AT ALL.. so I am not really excited about it!

My dad said last week when he made his decision to come home that he wanted to go camping one night. So I decided hey what better time than now. After all he could tell me to go and get him a piece of the moon right now and I would do it.. so if camping is what he wants then camping is what he gets. I, however was thinking my aunt has a camper in a campground already set up so we could just go and stay there. Ummm nope! Dad said that was cheating.. LOL! So you guessed it.. tent camping here we come. We will be heading out tomorrow morning and will be back sometime monday evening. It is only one night so I guess I will put on my big girl panties ( as Mama M says) and get over it!  Camping trip 2010 here we come!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I will talk to you all on Monday :)




PS Did I mention that I just heard on the news... yesterday... about the couple who were attacked by bears while sleeping in their tent... ahhhhhh! OK I am ready now ;)

Ice Cream Fun...

We are going to switch gears around here today and share some smiles!

With E being sick this past week she has def. eaten her fair share of ice cream. It was about the only thing I could get her to eat for the first few days. So in the evening we would sit outside and get a breath of fresh air and enjoy some ice cream...

It was

all fun

and games

until....

she decided to share!

Scooby got all excited about a little taste of ice cream and quickly took over (not that I would have let her continue eating it after the dog anyways... )

He pretty much at the whole cone at once...

Brain freeze!! LOL

Hope everyone has a great day!! :)

Heartbroken

**warning** Whiney, complaining, upset post ahead..consider yourself warned!

As you may have read in my earlier post my dad had an important doctors appointment today (if you are new here.. my dad is battling liver cancer and has been since right before christmas of '09)

Dad had been losing alot of weight on his chemo regimen he was on. In fact he was down to 113 lbs. He had blisters and sores all over his precious little hands and feet. He was sick most of the morning time. He was just miserable.

He went to the doctor today and they told him there was nothing else they could do right now. They said his "counts?" should be going down and instead they are still rising. So basically the treatments are making him sick as a dog but yet not even touching the cancer. The doc said he refuses to run him in the ground with chemo if it is not working.

Dad is heartbroken. I am heartbroken. We all are just devestated.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew this may be coming and it was hard. Once his shaky little voice called and told me those words I lost it (luckily not on the phone with him though). He still has so much fight in him and such a will to live is what makes it so hard. He is not ready to give up, he is not ready to leave his family so why!?!? Why does it have to be like this.. I just dont undestand!

I know God is in control. I know God has a better plan. I know that his will is best. BUT what about me? What about what I want? What if I just want my daddy to be better here on earth. What if I just want him to watch Emma grow up and achieve all that life has to offer her. What if I want him here to hug me.

I dont even know where I am going with this post... so I am going to stop.. I just needed to get it out.. all of that to say.. I am just..

Heartbroken

Everything but the kitchen sink...

Sorry I was pretty much absent from bloggy land this weekend. As some of you know Emma started running a high fever on Sat. afternoon. She had chills, was very lathargic, would not eat or drink and she started to have fewer and fewer wet diapers.. that right there was enough to send me overboard. High fevers just arent my thing! Anyways.. after a long night, lots of meds, and not much luck getting her fever down I knew a doc app was in order. The doc said her throat looked "wicked" and she would say it was prob strep or mono. So she did the strep test and left. We waited but I felt sure she would come back with an antibiotic prescription and a postivie strep test.. umm.. nope! That would have been to easy. Instead the nurse comes in with a finger prick kit. Tells us the strep was negative and that they were going to test for Mono. After she pokes and prodes all over my baby girl she then says this test is not very accurate in children under 4 so even if the results come back negative with the way her throat looks and all her other symptoms "I think mono would be a safe bet in whats going on here". Well why in the H did you feel the need to stick her?! Geeze! Anywhoodles.. we have been taking care of a sicky but she is doing a little better each day and we are on the uphill! Nothing like lots of ice cream and snuggles for a few days :)

In other news my dad is having a major doc appointment this morning. I am so nervous for him and am waiting to here what they say. He is having alot of adverse reactions to his current treatment and I am just not sure where they are going to go from here. They took him off of it last week because he had dropped down to 113 lbs and was staying sick. He was having to have fluids pumped in several times a week and all kinds of stuff. Since coming off the chemo I can tell a huge diff. in him. He has a little more pep in his step and is eating better. He even went to "work" a few days last week. The man amazes me! All of that to say even though he had a good week last week I am very worried that they may have to stop his treatment for good. Just please pray.. I am not sure how to pray.. I guess just for his will to be done. Even if it is not the way I want it.. I just want him to be well!

Alright lets leave that alone for a bit before I write a six page post or something

Also my bday is a week from tomorrow!! woot woot! I am so excited. My sweet mom and wonderful grandmother have decided to treat me like a princess for a day. Mom took me shopping and bought me some new clothes and my grandmother has arranged for me to have a salon day on my actual bday!!! I have never been pampered like this before.. I dont even know what to think about it. I get a thirty min. massage. mani/pedi, lunch, color and cut for my hair.. well hello heaven on earth! I can not even wait to enjoy a day of relaxation.

Well I think you are all caught up on what has been going on around here.. sorry this post had a little bit of everything in it but I just needed a little catch up post!

Have a great day!! Will be back this afternoon hopefully with some Ice Cream pics....

Macro Friday

It is a two post kind of morning. If you would like to check out my 5QF post you can do that here! I am also going to join in with Laura from Blogging From Bolivia for a pic. blog hop called Macro Friday!

This is from our recent vacation to the beach.. I thought this was just a neat shot.. colorful and well.. beachy ;)

Happy Friday Everyone!!

5QF!!

Boy! I am so glad I am home to hop on the 5QF train with the wonderful Mama M! I have missed all of you 5QF'ers for the past two weeks!

So with out further ado... lets get down to some questions.

1. What were your school colors?
Black and Silver.

2. What's the best compliment you ever received?
Hmmm... well one time I was at a bar.. and this guy said "Has anyone ever told you that you have  bedroom eyes?" Took it as a compliment about my eyes but quickly scurried off to find my girlfriends... Hubster and I still joke about that to this day. (and no D wasnt the one using the cheesy bedroom eyes pick up line ;)

3. Do you buy cheap or expensive toilet paper?
I guess expensive.. I am a Charmin girl! Sorry but no matter how broke I may be at some points I am not wiping my hiney with cardboard. Just ain't gonna happen.

4. Have you ever had a surprise party thrown for you? Or have you had one for someone else?
I did... my 16th birthday was a surprise party. I remember being so shocked and excited because I had always wanted a surprise party. It was a blast!!

Now if I was really cool I could pull a pic up from my party.. but I digress..not that cool ;)

5. What is one material possession that you "can't live without"?
This is a tough one.. I am going to go for my camera or my computer? Can I have both.. please? I just went almost two weeks with out my computer and that was terrible! I could not imagine having to give up my bloggy buddies. BUT I also need my camera.. you see.. it kind of completes me ;)
 
 
Sorry this is kind of short and sweet but this girl has some shopping to do today! I have three baby showers and two birthdays all with in the next five weeks! AHHHH!! Going to try and knock it all out at once. My poor wallet will be screaming for mercy by the time this is over. Oh yea.. and one of those B-days happens to be my little E! I can't believe my little coppertone model is almost 2 *sniff sniff*

Last But Not Least....

My final post of vacation pics! Hope I have not bored you all to death with picture over load but some of these were just too cute to pass up ;)

We had wonderful weather the most of the time we were gone. Lots of sunshine and a great breeze. We did however have one stormy day and we took full advantage of a nearby aquarium to occupy our time.

They had alot of neat things and a cool touch tank (that E would have nothing to do with!) I think my fav. was riding through the aquarium. It was like a tunnel with the aquarium all around you and you just rode through it.. so cool!

Here are a few shots from our little day trip!

Yes Derek had the aquarium and cut off the side over there.. but ya know.. we all can't be photographers ;)

Loved this little stingray.. he was soo cool (aquarium is not a great pic place.. just saying ;)

Jellly Fish

part of the ride through area

Well that concludes the family part of our trip... I did have a girls weekend part at the end. But I might spare myself the embarassment of those photos!

Tomorrow we will get back to normal with some regular bloggy stuff.. like 5QF Mama M style, and Macro Friday! See ya then :)

Like A Sister

When we decided to take a family vacation I immediatly thought of how fun it would be to take my little sister with us. We are 11 years apart and I just feel like she is one of my own (except I get to send her back home ;) Her and Emma have a very special relationship. They love like sisters, play like sisters, cuddle like sisters and of course sometimes fight like sisters.

While we were on vacation I took advantage of the time to try and capture some of their time together so they will both have these memories to look back on.

Love this one!

My two favorite girls!! Such sweet sweet girlies (well most of the time anyways ;)

We had a blast and we are so glad she got to be a part of our "little" family for a week!

Love you Aunt Lerner (her name is Lauren but for some reason E has been calling her learner!?)

Sand and Sunshine...

The past week and half has been full of nothing but sunshine, cool ocean waves, and lots of sand. So much sand that I mean I will be ok if I never see a grain of sand again (ok well not never.. but ya know at least until next year ;)

This was the shell"iest" beach ever... I was cringing like an old lady and she would just run across like it was nothing!

Yes Derek had the camera.. and cut my head off ;) No my baby girls arms are not ripped out of socket from "jumping" the waves!

This is her baywatch shot.. LOL the wind blowing in her peach fuzz and posing in her bikini

My little seagull chasing kiddo. She would throw a goldfish for them to eat and then chase them off... animal cruelty? Possibly.. but at least she was feeding them ;)

Water baby!

Each day when we would go back towards the condo after a full day of sun we would rinse off up at the condo. Well since wild thing liked to lay in the sand/water and get gobs and gobs of sand in her suit we would wash her off before we went in (yes there is privacy down there!) I decided I could not resist from taking this shot...to cute I thought....

Future Coppertone model ;)

If you missed my post earlier today on the "view" from the deck you can check it out here. I have a few more post on vaca pics then I will get back to regular blogging! Promise :)

Vacation Rocks!

As most of you know we headed out a little over a week ago for an awesome family vacation. The vacation itself was a surprise! Since I have recently started staying at home with E and quite a bit has changed around our house financially we had no idea we would even sneak away for a weekend get away much less a week at the beach. My cuz has a house down at Ocean Isle Beach and she was so sweet and offered for us to go down there and hang out for a week while it was empty!!! Sooo.. we packed up and headed out. Left all the bills and worries behind!

It was soooo amazing. Just sittin  on the back porch overlooking the water way was enough to make you just sink into this peaceful little heaven.

loved these little birds (not sure what kind they were...) but everytime the tide would go out and the water way would dry up.. these birds would come walking through looking for food. They were soo neat. If I had a zoom lense this should would have even been better.. hint hint Derek!

The sunsets were just amazing there... it literally set like right over our deck..Awesome!

Even little E enjoyed watching

We sat out there every morning and had breakfast, then in the evening and watched the sunset after dinner. Wonderful!

Hope you enjoyed some of our views.. now the views are a mountain of laundry, and a dirty house.. but somehow that view is just as amazing ;)

Off to get to work on my house and spend time with my little family.. more vaca trips tonight!! (some sunshine and bikini time.. dont worry.. not me in a bikini LOL )

HOME!

Hey Everyone!!

Oh My Goodness... I have missed you all sooo much! Going 11 days with out internet is never...never ever.. going to happen again. I mean I feel like I left a bunch of girl friends back home when I left :)

All of that said we had an absolute blast! I will be working hard tonight and tomorrow to try and get all my pics done and show ya what we were up too. (may be like a 3 part post or something.. just sayin' )

So no gooey fun details tonight.. lots of blog reading to catch up on.. but hopefully will get some pics up tomorow!

Hope everyone is doing great! Talk to yall soon :)

Pardon the Interuption

Hey Everyone!!!

I just wanted to let you all know that we are beach bound.. for 12 days! (well only 7 for Derek and E.. the last few days are a girl trip!)  I was all excited packing and doing my thing and then it hit me. Surely this place has wifi right!?!? WRONG!

I will have no wifi access in the condo... I will be missing you all very much! However I will be looking for wifi hotspots and try to quickly check in every few days or so!!

So please pardon the interuption while we go soak up some of this....

pics from our vaca last year this time.. same place as this year!

view from the balcony..looks over the inlet

See you soon!!!!