Away we go.....

We leave for Hawaii tomorrow. I'm still in the craziness of getting everyone ready and packed. You know how it goes. Mom does all the work to get everyone ready to go but come tomorrow I'm on official vacation. Luke is so mad that he's not going to Kellie's house until tomorrow. He's been cracking me up all morning by saying, "Are you kidding me...Your so rude Mom!!!"

Super Hero

I have my very own super hero. I've never had one of my very own before. Luke is a awesome spiderman. I'm sure if I was in danger he would save me.

I'm not sure but I don't think spiderman uses a gun?

Grateful

My friend from Texas called today. She was telling me about a lady in my old ward died on Sunday from cancer. She was only 48 years old. She has two children ages 14(girl) and 11 (boy). As we talked about this amazing women and her strength over the past few months. I was inspired to appreciate this mortal existence. Life is so short in the scheme of things. My friend was telling me that the mother and daughter went a couple of months ago and tried on wedding dresses. They didn't buy a dress, they just went and tried them on. It sounded a little strange to me at first. Then I really started to think about it. Now that her mom is gone, she will always have memories of her and her mom trying on dresses. So when the day comes that she does get married, she can remember her mom and the time they shared together looking at dresses. I thought that was so amazing. What courage. Life is so precious. I am grateful for life experiences that help me appreciate all I have.

Hawaii

I guess dreams can come true. Branden has to travel to Hawaii for a business trip in a couple of weeks and guess who gets to tag along, ME!!! This will be our first grown up vacation. Branden has always call our family vacations, family "trips" because it's not really a vacation. We have stayed over night a couple of times in our marriage but nothing like this. We are both pretty excited. I would like to be about 40 pounds thinner and really tan but come on I live in the real world, well most of the time. I'm just going to get over it and be happy that I get to go on this amazing vaction with my husband. Thank you in advance to my mom and sisters for helping out with my kids.