No Ordinary Family

So last week I went water walking 3 times and I still don't like and I am super hungry and tired afterwards which probably means I am burning some calories but it still does not make me feel better.  I still hate exercise.  So ask, just ask me if I have lost any weight...Ok I will just tell ya...NO!!!!  Yep, not an ounce but I think I have lost inches or centimeters.   Ask me where, come on you know you want to...OK I'll just tell ya...my boobs.   Amazing as it might sound but this is not the effect that I am going for.  I would rather lose the inches in my waist, thighs or better yet BUTT, but NOOOO.  Reason number 47 why I hate exercise. Oh well I will try again this week. 

I and others suggested that Precious (Jim’s new camera) needs a blog all to herself.  So Jim has created a photography blog for all of those 1000’s pictures that he takes with his Precious.   I tease him about his beloved camera but he is a pretty good photographer in my opinion and I am not biased at all.  So check it out and become a follower if you want to see the millions of photos that Jim posts.  Here are a couple that I LOVE.     see the heart? I never noticed that sunflowers have little hearts in them. The formatting of the blog needs a little work so it is a work in progress but it is worth taking a look. Mr. Awesome's Wonderful Photos   He might be a little crazy about his pictures but that is OK with me.

Guess who we met Tuesday?  Ok you probably already know due to my last post.  The Huffman's meet the Mosher's happened in Ellensburg on a Tuesday.  We had a blast, I almost chickened out since it was going to be a late night and we both had to work the next day but I am so happy that we went.  How often do we get to meet some internet friends from 2000 miles away.   We found them a wonderful Fred Meyer parking lot   campsite to camp in and hung out for a couple hours nothing but the best for our friends, lol.  Did I mention they are AWESOME? Here are some of the picture Jim took with his precious.  They did turn out good. Getting a sneak preview of Jim’s new coloring  book.   Parker was REALLY happy to see us :0) I think. Aren’t we just lovely! Dori popped up beside me to show me how to play her game. Trying to get a family picture but I think Parker melted. Jake and Parker running off some energy in the ...

That is what I feel like this morning.  I have been busy all week long with activities going on after work and I have been doing really well until this morning.  Swimming, meeting people, errands, I think it is finally catching up with me and I just want to crawl back into bed.  We met a wonderful blogger friend for the first time on Tuesday night and I really have a much better post than this in my head but it will have to wait until I am more awake.  For now I leave you with a picture. While you sit on the edge of your chair and wait for my post, stop by and check out everywhere Diana and Family have been on their  Celebrating 20 blog .

As you might remember I am feeding this pig monthly with the number of referral days, in dollars.  This month the pig had a feast!  14 dollars!! That is it’s first $10 bill.   The pig was trying to check out Jim’s new toy but apparently it was take your camera to work day, since we could not find it so the box will have to do.

I hate it!  I am not athletic at all.  I have about zero coordination and although I was in sports when I was young, I was terrible at them.  I think I sat on the bench the entire 7th grade year of volley ball.  Add all that to the fact that I have joint and nerve pain in my legs and you get a girl that does not do a lot of physical activity. But I hate the way I look right now.  I hate that I am shopping the women's section and not the misses, it needs to change.  The doctor also has told me that I need to lose some weight.  I have no weight related health problems yet but they are sure to come if I don't start doing something about it.  I take a medication that helps with the nerve pain and a side effect can be weight gain, Guess which side effect I have? It is no excuse, I have let it get out of control.  That coupled with adoption stress eating leaves has not been such a good combo....

 

I am taking a break from my depression about how crappy the Burundi adoption is going to talk about our Chinese adoption, you remember, the one we started with almost 4 years ago.  Well this month China referred 14 LIDs.  That is the most that they have done in one month since we were logged in!! Personally, I don't think this is the start of a new trend but it moves us 14 days closer and that is all that matters right now. Only 350 LIDs away from our Little Miss, it was so great marking all those days off my calendar.  But hey, if it is a new trend we could have a referral in about 2 years from now, I know, I know, keep dreaming.  I never thought a 5 year wait was something I would look forward to, but it is a lot better than an 8 year wait.  If we ever get to adopt Aiden from Burundi and the wait is still really really long (6-8 years) we will probably switch to the special needs list but for now we stay where we are and wait for governments a...

Three people that ALWAYS make me smile.  If these pictures don't make you smile I really think you should think about getting checked out by a doctor cause they are C.U.T.E. Have a wonderful Wednesday. 

I have been meaning to share this with you but I needed to do a little editing and just found the time today.  It was quite the experience about a week ago.  We got a great lesson on honey bees as a swarm of them landed in our neighbor's tree.  The Bee Keeper was nice enough to wait for me to get home from work, I was about 10 minutes away.  I never thought I would stand calmly in a swarm of bees but in the state they were in it was easy and having someone there that new what was going on helped a lot.   It was very educational.  It is also a very small world as we later learned that the Bee Keeper is our brother-in-law's cousin.   He was super nice, I kinda wished we would have know that when he was here. Today is also Independence Day.  I hope everyone is having a wonderful 4th of July.  It is really windy here so I don't think we will get to see the show that we normally do.  Oh well, Jim and I celebrating with...

but the finally looked at me at the same time. The only day it really rained was when we were packing up to leave.  YES, I did put rain coats on the dogs but I really did not want to bring home 2 soaked and dirty dogs.  A big plus, they look ADORABLE!!

Jim said he was helping me try to wind up my kite strings but I think he wanted to go for a ride.