They missed the very first T when the copied onto the website... but oh well! ;)
http://cibolabeacon.com/articles/2010/06/24/features/doc4c23e5e6efbbb461595784.txt
Friday, June 25, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Siblings
Being an only child, I've never experienced having siblings until I met my husband who has a brother and sisters.
This weekend I think I really understood what it means to love your siblings.
We got to hang out with Ryan's brother and his fiance (who I also love to death) and then we met up with his dad and his little sisters (they just turned 12). We used to all live in the same town and we saw his siblings every week. Ryan's parents moved out of the state a couple years ago and we still see his brother (who is going to school in NM) a couple times a year, but we are having a harder time seeing his sisters because they no longer live in the same state. This weekend we got to see the girls... it had been 6 months since we've seen them last. They'd grown 3 or 4 inches each since we last saw them... amazing!
We had such a great time hanging out with them today, we went swimming at a hotel and just hung out and had fun with them. Because we have this separation with them, saying goodbye gets harder every time we see them. This time was particularly hard. The girls ball their eyes out and when they cry, I cry. I just love them soo much and hate to see them sad and I always wish we could be closer to them. I cried for about 15 minutes straight after we left them... and then I realized, THIS is what it is like to have siblings that you absolutely love and adore. This is something that I have never had before, until now. I am soo blessed that I married into this family and that I get to have, for the first time ever, siblings.
This weekend I think I really understood what it means to love your siblings.
We got to hang out with Ryan's brother and his fiance (who I also love to death) and then we met up with his dad and his little sisters (they just turned 12). We used to all live in the same town and we saw his siblings every week. Ryan's parents moved out of the state a couple years ago and we still see his brother (who is going to school in NM) a couple times a year, but we are having a harder time seeing his sisters because they no longer live in the same state. This weekend we got to see the girls... it had been 6 months since we've seen them last. They'd grown 3 or 4 inches each since we last saw them... amazing!
We had such a great time hanging out with them today, we went swimming at a hotel and just hung out and had fun with them. Because we have this separation with them, saying goodbye gets harder every time we see them. This time was particularly hard. The girls ball their eyes out and when they cry, I cry. I just love them soo much and hate to see them sad and I always wish we could be closer to them. I cried for about 15 minutes straight after we left them... and then I realized, THIS is what it is like to have siblings that you absolutely love and adore. This is something that I have never had before, until now. I am soo blessed that I married into this family and that I get to have, for the first time ever, siblings.
Friday, June 4, 2010
live everyday to the fullest
I just met a really sweet girl, who is around my age, pregnant with her 3rd child and just lost her mother a couple weeks back in a car accident. Her mom was a Dr. here in our town. I met her and had no idea who her family was, I felt soo bad when I brought them up.
It is just a reminder to me to never take a single day for granted because you never know when it might be your last.
It is just a reminder to me to never take a single day for granted because you never know when it might be your last.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Crazy/Fun Weekend
This weekend has been quite interesting and eventful!
My weekend actually started on Saturday. I got to the take the day off because it was soccer tournament weekend! I had the potential for 6 games that day, but only ended up having 4 (only). I started my Saturday off sick and I wasn't even sure I was going to make my games... but the 11 year old next door came over at 7:30 so I was ready whether I wanted to or not. I had to take her to the games because her parents were out of town. The only thing that saved me was her team, My Fashionistas games we had to forfeit because they didn't have enough players. So that was 3 less games I had to coach! However, they had won all their games throughout the week, so they still ended up getting 3rd place.
My big kids did amazing beyond words this weekend. These kids went undefeated during the regular season, but lost their very first tournament game. However, thanks to double elimination and a new drive to play, these kids won every single game since then. They played 3 games Saturday and beat the team that they had initially first lost to, however the team hadn't lost yet the tournaments, so in order to win first place we had to beat them twice. The second game against this team was my kids 3rd game of the day. They were soo tired, but they played amazing and we ended up loosing to them 7-6. Heartbreaker. But they got 2nd place!
After the tournaments we headed to Socorro. Ryan's cousin had a graduation party so we got to hang out with a bunch of Ryan's family that we hadn't seen in a really long time! Some of them we haven't seen since our wedding so it was really nice to see them. We hung out with them and my parents for the rest of the weekend. I finally started feeling better on Monday and was able to enjoy some of Socorro's fine restaurants!
The bad point of the weekend was while we were gone our puppy learned how to jump our fence. Awesome. Luckily I have the most amazing neighbors ever watching my dogs and she kept track of him and kept putting him back in our yard and before we got home she kept him in her yard for us and he got to play with her dog for a couple hours before we got home. We moved some stuff out of the way on the fence and as far as I know he hasn't tried to jump out since. But I am sure he is just happy that we are home. The funny part was he would jump the fence and then get scared and try to get back in and couldn't figure out how. He did this 3 times.
My weekend actually started on Saturday. I got to the take the day off because it was soccer tournament weekend! I had the potential for 6 games that day, but only ended up having 4 (only). I started my Saturday off sick and I wasn't even sure I was going to make my games... but the 11 year old next door came over at 7:30 so I was ready whether I wanted to or not. I had to take her to the games because her parents were out of town. The only thing that saved me was her team, My Fashionistas games we had to forfeit because they didn't have enough players. So that was 3 less games I had to coach! However, they had won all their games throughout the week, so they still ended up getting 3rd place.
My big kids did amazing beyond words this weekend. These kids went undefeated during the regular season, but lost their very first tournament game. However, thanks to double elimination and a new drive to play, these kids won every single game since then. They played 3 games Saturday and beat the team that they had initially first lost to, however the team hadn't lost yet the tournaments, so in order to win first place we had to beat them twice. The second game against this team was my kids 3rd game of the day. They were soo tired, but they played amazing and we ended up loosing to them 7-6. Heartbreaker. But they got 2nd place!
After the tournaments we headed to Socorro. Ryan's cousin had a graduation party so we got to hang out with a bunch of Ryan's family that we hadn't seen in a really long time! Some of them we haven't seen since our wedding so it was really nice to see them. We hung out with them and my parents for the rest of the weekend. I finally started feeling better on Monday and was able to enjoy some of Socorro's fine restaurants!
The bad point of the weekend was while we were gone our puppy learned how to jump our fence. Awesome. Luckily I have the most amazing neighbors ever watching my dogs and she kept track of him and kept putting him back in our yard and before we got home she kept him in her yard for us and he got to play with her dog for a couple hours before we got home. We moved some stuff out of the way on the fence and as far as I know he hasn't tried to jump out since. But I am sure he is just happy that we are home. The funny part was he would jump the fence and then get scared and try to get back in and couldn't figure out how. He did this 3 times.
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