2010 February

Hello 8-Ball, you are constantly in my way.

February 23, 2010 | Author Heather

It seems as though I am constantly behind on catching up with my blog here. You know I have had a dream for years, off and on. It is me running either toward or away from something and I am TOOOO SLOW and I can never catch up or get away from whatever it is. I am sure there is some weird psychological reason behind that dream or some issue with me because I have that dream. Maybe now it is just my blog manifesting into that dream. Probably.

Well, we went to Orlando for a week back In Jan/Feb. It was fun and we really enjoyed it! It was great to see Payne able to be calm on the plane. And by calm I mean he slept. He LOVED the house and it was perfect. Enough space to let him get away from all the commotion but yet we were all together. Of course the heated pool and jacuzzi in the backyard helped tremendously as well! We had even days and there wasn’t one day where he had a meltdown! Success!!! We had upgraded our passes this year to include the water parks and DisneyQuest. This was wonderful this trip because it rained for 1/2 a day for two days and we were able to escape the wetness to be inside Disney Quest and still have a blast! It was so fun to play all the virtual games along with some good old classics. It was well worth the money! And when we go back we will be able to go to the water parks as well as much as we want. Yay us! A very successful trip and everyone loved it! =)

A week later I went to Red Mountain with 3 friends. I have to say this was an amazingly fun and tiring trip! LOL We hiked and biked just about every day. We took exercise classes as well as cooking classes. And then in the evening we had a spa treatment…every. single. day. Getting pampered like that was heaven after all the fun and activity during the day. I learned a lot. We made a lot of FUN memories. Lasting memories. This is the third time I have traveled with Pam and Debbie…the fourth with Kim and I thoroughly enjoy spending time with them. They are easy-going. None of us are high-maintenance, nor are we hyper-sensitive about who is spending time with whom. We had a conversation about how nice it was that we all could hang out together or not and no one got offended or neurotic about it. It is just relaxing to be with people who aren’t pretentious, who include whomever and want everyone to have fun. They aren’t worried about what they do or don’t get to do or who it is we are doing it with. But we also make sure everyone knows what is going on so that no one feels excluded or left out. There were some things we definitely did together and we all made sure we could all do them together. It was just refreshing and endearing to have the courtesy of everyone wanting to be together no matter what and then taking the schedule from there. We may not be blood related but it was like hanging out with good friends who are just like sisters. We even decided that we needed to write a book about our escapades because when we get together, there is NEVER a dull moment!

I got back on Saturday. Just in time for another lovely snow storm. And by lovely, I mean hellishly cold, windy and snowy. LOL It has taken a few days but I am finally caught up! My house isn’t….but I am. LOL Graigg and the kids were SO sweet! I could tell they really missed me, as I did them. While it was nice to get away and recharge and spend time with good friends I always come back completely refreshed and ready for all the challenges we have been facing. Graigg was a doll and had a romantic evening set up for us when I walked in the door. It was hard to be away from each other. It is funny, how we hate being apart. After about a day we both start getting antsy and feel like we can’t think straight. He was great with the kids though and they had fun with the joy of having dad around and not having to really do any hard work. HAHA!

Well, I best be getting back to the grind. But because I love my music and because it is my two FAVORITE things…Disney and Michael Buble! PERFECT! LOL