Just Me!!

I don't have a lot happening this week since it is filled with 12 hours working at the hospital. I have managed to enjoy some free moments in between to think, relax, and even a quick dinner date with my man at a local taco bus (seriously was a bus). The food was yumm and I believe Mark said he was going to go there everyday for the street tacos. My backyard is a growing disaster. Tomatoes are coming out my ears and falling in the ground before I have a chance to save them. The rest of my garden needs tended too...maybe Friday I will find some time. Mark is wrapping up school at the end of this weekend and then will only have UMA for a month. I am so happy for him! I will try to abstain from making a honey do list so he can get reorganized, relax, and get ready for fall. Today I'm taking Charlie for some school supplies, running errands, changing the oven element, taking Val to drop off a application, and finding time to relax.  Things that have worked with Mark this past week:...

I've always wanted to stop at one of these community gardens...but was afraid that I would be yelled at for being in the garden. It turns out that I didn't get yelled out for being in the garden, but welcomed! I was told to enjoy and look around all I want. I talked to one of the garden plot owners for about 15 minutes on the process of community gardening. It fascinates me, plus I love seeing the garden as a whole. I love the weeds, dead vegetables, the growth of new ones, the colors and intensity of each color in the veggies, and then the amazing flowers (they love being together, veg-flowers that is) that live and breathe the same air. So peaceful! The cute garden benches, the plot signs, and Proctors' garden library inspires me. My heart is screaming "I want to belong. I want to have a little plot that others can admire." For me, it isn't about getting fruits or vegetables from a garden, it's about watching something grow!   what are these flowers?

north Bend, Wa. ramada Inn On the log ride together  Hurry up mom and dad From the parachute ride Up on the parachute ride! Charlie prayed "oh Jesus please don't let me die." Two seconds later she said, "I love this ride!" Blood Moon Nick Nortons' Magic Show Breakfast Burritos  Playing in the tent..no! Windmills or Aliens? Silverwood   this year was different than last time. We had more time with Kat and Jer, no little kids, and not enough time together because of conflicts in both families schedule. We did get to enjoy time with them on Friday at Silverwoood and then after the guys got back from golfing on Saturday. We left earlier than planned on Saturday because I just wasn't feeling like camping another night in a place that was so dusty and dirty and I worried that Val wouldn't get home in Time on Sunday for her FOB concert. It felt right. I packed us up Saturday morning after spending a good part of the morning discussing the meaning of  Life  ...