Friday, February 29, 2008

Beach Day



Today was fairly quiet. I'm doing this soup diet right now, but today on it I got some ground beef. The dogs are breathing a sigh of relief because the little one was looking pretty good on a stake right about now. Last night, Bella escaped from the back yard (mainly because her humans left the gate open). I was walking up and down the street waking up all the neighbors calling her name. We finally found her one street over. It is a very busy street and I have been scolding her all day long. Against my better judgement, we went to the beach today. This was Bella's first of many experiences there and I'm not exactly sure if she liked it. Leah likes anything that gets her a ride in the car. I've attached some pics of the day. Pictures are something that I have not taken since Dave died. We both enjoyed taking them so much. This gives me the excuse I need to start doing that again. What good are pictures if you can't share them, right. Well, I'm going for a dip in the hot tub. We got one this week :) You know it dropped below 75 this week and was too cool for us. What else can you do?

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Life, love, loss, and life continues...

I'm new at this so here goes. Well, my life changed forever on 8 November 2007. My love, my husband, died in a tragic helicopter crash in San Lucia di Piave, Italy. He is the love of my life and with him I felt so complete. Through, the past few months the Lord has taught me many lessons. Some involve forgiveness, some involve knowing the blessings in your life even through hardship. The most important is that even though I feel so lost at times that He is in control and is watching out for us even through the incidents that create so much pain. Since his death, I have reconnected with many friends that I have not seen or talked to in years. This I believe is the Lord's way of saying that no matter what the differences you have had in the past there are somethings in life that are more important! Also through this tragedy I have seen that I'm so blessed! Blessed because I know my love is in Heaven. Blessed because I know what the true meaning of family is. The last statement I have been pondering for many days now. I have a wonderful, wonderful family, immediate family, extended family, God's family, army family,dog family :), and friends. I know all of you are part of the reason that I get up every morning. I'm not saying that it is always easy. But you keep me going.....BLESSINGS YOU ALL ARE IN MY LIFE! Well, now as my life continues on without my love, I would like to share with my family just how I'm doing. Hopefully, this will help you as much as I hope it will help me.