Visit with Papa and Frank

We had a great weekend in Duncan. It is always good to spend time with family. As I have mentioned many times we have a wonderful family. Each person plays a special part in our lives that makes this ride we call life so great. Jacob's Papa and his buddy Frank our two really neat men. On Saturday Austin and I rode with Jacob's mom and dad to visit these two! We had such a great time! I'm really not sure who had more fun Austin or Papa and Frank!


Papa and Ace High-fiving it!


Austin and Frank High-fiving!


The parade!


Some of the Eck Men!


Grandmommy Getting in on the fun!

I love my hubby!!!

Well if you read my last post you will recall my NEED or maybe I should say want for a vacation. Well I'd like to tell Gina thank you for the offer to come to California...so sweet of you and we will definitely need to make that trip sometime! We'd love to come and see you guys. But after a lot of sweet talking my husband and the fact that he is just really awesome he booked a cruise for us in the Fall! (I'd also like to say thank you to my wonderful mother-in-law AKA the vacation queen for helping us with the planning) I am so excited!!! Jacob and I have never been on a vacation by ourselves. We even went on our honeymoon with his family (which we had a blast)! Am I nervous about leaving ACE for a week....yes and no. Yes, I hate to be so far from him and gone from him so long but no I don't worry about him being take care of. We are so blessed to have wonderful parents who are willing to not only take care of him but spoil him rotten! He will probably have more fun then we do!
Speaking of things I am looking forward to, camp is just around the corner! I can't believe how fast it is coming. I love going to Pettijohn! I love the people, the camp, and most of all the time I get with God. I know we get time with God all the time. But I always feel like that time there really helps me to strengthen my relationship with Him.
I am so blessed to have so many wonderful things happening right now and to look forward to. God is so good and I so often fail to give Him the credit He so more than deserves.

Where is my brain....???

First of all I need to thank my momma for coming up this week and helping me!!! Mothers day is just around the corner and I am so blessed with such a wonderful mom!!! In fact I'm not only blessed with a wonderful mom, I am doubly blessed with a wonderful granny, mother-in-law, and Mimi-in-law! I love all of these women so much and they each add something special to my life. They are all great examples of a mother who should be truly honored on mothers day. There is no gift or card that is good enough for these women!
So back to where is my brain??? This is what I'm talking about I can't keep my mind focused on one thing that I need to be focused on but.....vacation! I think a lot of my problem is what has happened over the past month or so. I am so grateful to have such an amazing, understanding, loving husband and all I want to do is spend some relaxing time with him. I need to clean my house, and get ready for graduation parties, but all I seem to find myself doing is searching the Internet for a relaxing (cheap!!!) vacation.
I need to stop this! Jacob and I are so blessed and we do get so many little vacations (weekends) to ourselves thanks to our wonderful parents who are always willing to keep Ace for the weekend! But a girl can daydream about sand and salt water!

Moving on....

I feel like our lives are getting somewhat back to normal (whatever normal is). In some ways it is nice and in other ways it seems strange. I still feel like a little part of me is gone. I may always feel that way...who knows. I told Jacob yesterday that sometimes I feel like I could move back home and not miss this place (Edmond). Then we have weekends and weeks like we have had recently that make me realize how much I might not miss Edmond, but I would sure miss our friends. Just in case you didn't know we have AMAZING friends! We are blessed by friends that we can call anytime day or night. That we can laugh with and cry with. So to those of you who put up with us and hang out with us and allow us to call you our friends....Thank You!
Moving on....
Today was the first day in over a week that I felt like Austin's Mom again. My mom and my mother-in-law have taken such good care of him for the past week I have barely had to do anything. Today we went to the zoo with Jen and Ethan. We always have such a good time and it is so neat how the boys are starting to interact with each other. Today they even held hands as they walked into the petting part of the zoo. I know one day they will absolutely hate the picture that I took of them holding hands but today Jen and I just could not keep from smiling at the two of them and how cute they were! Today was somewhat of a rough day since Austin didn't really nap and he was sooo grumpy, but even with his grumpy mood it was so good to feel like his Mom again.
I feel like this post is all over the place....I guess it is mainly just what is on my mind tonight. Sorry for the randomness. I really will work on getting better at this!