I spent the weekend with the boys. It was just me & Erica with Nathan & Spencer. Cassidy had a dance competition in St. George and Cali went to Disneyland with her ‘father’ for a week of fantasy, fun and overindulgence.
I took some pics this weekend too. Enjoy!
Nathan got a mood ring
Erica got a pedicure
She’s beautiful
I got Erica some roses
The weather was great so we went to the park
I’m so in love with this woman I can hardly stand it.
How you doin’? It’s good to be back on the blogosphere. I took a bit of a hiatus to focus on life issues. They seem to have cleared up with a little help from my friends. My house is closing Thursday and the proverbial attached strings are finally being cut.
We had an incredible Thanksgiving weekend with the kids. For the first time in a long time I was able to have them for somewhat of an extended stay. They were with us from Wednesday through Sunday and every moment was precious. Erica isn’t exactly used to a house full of chaos and exuberance but she did an amazing job of adapting and being a wonderful ’step-mom’ (in quotes because while she plays the role very well, it is titular only at this point).
We even had the neighbors over on Friday night for a couple adult beverages and a rousing game of Beyond Balderdash. I really like them. They brought their kids over and we sent them upstairs and downstairs while we socialized and the night culminated in a sleepover for the little ones. They had a blast and we all made some new and better friends out of it.
We spent a lot of our weekend putting together our new acquisitions from IKEA. Beds, tables, chairs, picture frames, clocks, lamps, rugs, bedding, light fixtures…we splurged and decorated the shit out of our new home. Cali got a new bedroom fit for a princess and Cassidy got to move to her own room in the basement. Next weekend the boys get their new bunk bed!
Now for the pictorial. We made a mess with finger paints this weekend. The kids got their creativity on and globbed gooey finger paint all over their hands, their feet and the floor. We let the art dry and framed it for them to hang in their bedrooms. They are thrilled and so are we as our home comes together.
The kids all got together for the annual October pumpkin massacre. We had such a great time! Cali had her first shot at actually doing some damage, she poked the tools into any and every pumpkin surface she could get her hands on.
Spencer and Nathan carved their very own designs this year but poor little Cassidy was sick. She made an effort but had to bow out about half way through her design because she started feeling sick so her enthusiasm was a little low this year. Get better sweetheart, we love you!
I can’t describe the gratitude I have for these sweet children in my life. They make me so happy and give me so much to live for and look forward to.
Thanks Erica for the awesome photos!
The kids got their boogie on this weekend in the front yard. What a bunch of amazing little people they are. It’s so inspiring and fulfilling to watch them have so much fun together. Of course I took some grin-grin, snap-snap while they danced.
It’s up to us whether we will be happy or not. Our surroundings, our environment, our circumstances…they are all secondary to what we feel inside.
We can choose to be happy with what we have, or not. If we don’t like what we have then we are faced with a choice. The choice is to change those things or remain with them. If we remain with them and we are unhappy then we have chosen to be unhappy.
I choose to move forward and pave my own way. I choose to set my mind on the light ahead rather than the darkness behind me. Life is a journey and should be experienced with enthusiasm and anticipation for what’s coming around the next corner. The unknown is as scary as it is envigorating so I’m going to jump in with both feet and make my mark on this world and my fingerprint is uniquely mine.
Future generations will determine what my residue has created and I anticipate the day I can look back from wherever I am and see the groove I’ve carved and the wave I’ve made and how powerful my life has been as it has intertwined with the lives of everyone else on this big blue marble.
