Quote of the Day

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts"

A good friend of mine sent me this quote today and it really spoke to me. I am such a thinker and worry-wart; I over analyze everything and I because my mind likes to run crazy 90% of the time, I am always telling myself to think positive and remember that I can't control every aspect of my life because it ultimately is in Gods hands. So my goal is to take this quote to heart and try and live better by it.

Just so that you all know, not all craziness is genetic...my grandmother is the first person I think of when I see an inspirational quote like this. As I have watched her over the past several years struggle with various illnesses, loose a majority of her eye sight, watch her friends as they pass and I can honestly say that I have never heard her complain. I mean it, not once. If there is one thing that I hope to truly learn from her it is her ability to always look at the positive and never let a situation or circumstance get in the way of finding happiness.

Brock

Look at this guy!!! He had a great weekend; he rocked Sac State with a grand slam on Saturday and a shutout on Sunday. Since the whole UNR team was in Sac for the games this weekend his parents used our house Saturday night to host a team dinner. I have never seen so much food consumed in such a small amount of time; remember when you could eat 2 hamburgers and 2 hot dogs in one meal and not gain a pound? Anyways, Brock is a such a good guy and virtually a part of this family, in fact I think my parents may choose him over their own kids some days! I'm glad that we were able to open up our house for him and his teammates and watch him play, he has had such a great season!

On another note I had to get my house ready for the shindig on Saturday and since Jeremy is sick his dad came over and we spent the morning in the yard trimming trees and cleaning things up...it was a bit neglected. It was nice to spend some time with my father in law, he is so helpful and kind. He had a great time teasing me about my lack of knowledge when it came to all things green and growing and found total amazement in that my dad could make his living off of tree crops and I didn't know how to grow the 2 trees that are in our front yard. Don't you just need to give a tree some water and it will grow? :)

Spring Fever, Literally...

So as many of you know, I am not much of a sitter. In fact, truthfully I have decided that relaxing makes me nervous. It's a problem maybe, I'm not sure? I think that its the only way I have ever known. I am a planner, organizer and social bee; I book up our calender, not intentionally of course, I just haven't really learned the art of saying "no" to people and once I take the time to realize how busy we are it's too late. Unfortunately for Jeremy life has been just that, busy with all of my bookings. In the past month we have done dinner with friends on more than a few occasions, thrown a birthday party and had family in from out of town one weekend, gone to a concert and made a day trip to Napa for a friends birthday on another weekend, he had put together a seminar for work, we went on a 5 day vacation another long weekend, then came back from that and left for another weekend trip, all the while working our 40+ hour work weeks and gearing up for another busy summer of fundraising for Blake's Purpose. And as a result, my husband now has MONO, could there be any greater sign from the universe telling me to let the poor man rest???

The worst part of it all is that while we were doing all of this he was in the thick of the illness. It was all so hard to see at the time for me because Jeremy is not a complainer, although looking back it all makes perfect sense; he was coming home from work so tired and lethargic and he kept on telling me how worn out he was with his job and how stressful it was becoming, to the point that in my mind I was contemplating whether or not he was borderline depressed. He kept on thinking that maybe he was having adverse reactions to caffeine and I tried everything I knew how to do to perk him up, but all our attempts were unsuccessful and so when he complained to me right before our trip that his body just ached and he was getting the chills I urged him to go to the doctor. Well of course these symptoms had been going on for a while, it just finally got bad enough that he expressed his concern to me. So he went to the doctor, we left on our trip, he drank his way through Cabo and we came back to some abnormal blood work at which point they ran some more tests and determined that he had mono. And so now here we are...I am happy that I know he will be ok, but I am also at a bit of a loss and feeling bad for how busy we have been when the poor guy just needed some rest. The upside to finding this out now is that we are home for the next three weekends and with the exception of his friends wedding at the end of the month I am not committing him to a darn thing!

Mom(s)

I can't tell you how much I love these two amazing women. What would we ever do without our moms, even at 30? If I don't say it enough, I really am so lucky to have such an amazing family.

CABO!!!!

*A picture of us as we ate and drank our way through Cabo

We just got back from 5 days in Cabo!!! My mother in law has a time share down there and she asked Jeremy and I if we wanted to take it this year, and who am I to say "NO" to 80 degree weather, sandy beaches and some R&R with my husband!?! Honestly, it was so nice to get away for a few days; poor Jeremy has been slaving away at work and I know he needed a little bit of reprieve from daily life back here in Sac…and me, well I am always down for a vacation especially in Mexico where I can soak up the sun (sorry if you are reading this Sam) and eat all the Mexican food my little heart desires! We took our friends Jeremy and Linda along and it was just the vacation we were all looking for. I can’t say that we did a whole lot; it was a far cry from upside down shots at the Giggling Marlin and a night out at Squid Row, but that’s ok…I guess that means that times “they are a changin’”!