things that make me smile + dad update

snuggling pups.

sunflower seed and dried cranberry salads/tomatoes from moms garden.
indiana cornfields/a good friends baby bump

teacups.



update on dad:

dad will have surgery, and then a few rounds of radiation therapy.

we are so very thankful that the doctors found this early and he has a low chance of this ever reoccuring!!

i cannot tell you how happy i am!!!

weekend + the one word you never want to hear.

friday night: colts pre-season game

i love how into the game david gets.

check out all the people who came to the game! i love our stadium

saturday: nothing + mexican take out + gymnastics on tv :)

peyton likes to watch gymnastics too ;)

sunday: bbq with the family

my amazing burger, beans, taters, and corn
san pellegrino. looooove.
virgil's root beer. i love bottled root beer

oh august. you have officially kicked our ass.
in fact, just when i didn't think you could get any worse. you did.
on sunday i had to hear that one word no one ever wants to hear.
cancer.
my dad has cancer.
luckily they caught it very very very early.
so early in fact, they don't think chemotherapy will be necessary.
just surgery. he will find out for sure on friday.
so if you could please keep my family in your thoughts, it would be greatly appreciated.
my dad is the greatest person in the world. and i know he will get through this.

when it rains...

...it pours.

and it has poured all this month in our household.

first, our a/c went out...again...
but you already knew that. $$$

then our refrigerator decided to quit.
so we had to get a new one. $$$

then my trail blazer decided it wanted to stall every time i stopped.
so that had to be fixed. $$$

we can't seem to catch a break this month.

and normally my head hits the pillow and i'm out like a light...
well, that didn't happen last night.
the last time i looked at my phone it was 4:15am...and my alarm goes off at 5am.
so i got roughly 45 min. of sleep
and have a loooooooooooong 12 hrs ahead of me.

i'm exhausted.

however,
peyton got a bath...
and his face pretty much sums up how we felt this weekend!

on a side note...

please keep the indiana state fair and sugarland fans in your thoughts.
as i'm sure most of you have heard, 5 people were killed (and over 40 injured) this weekend during the concert at the fairgrounds, after part of the stage collapsed. 
it is a tragedy and i am completely saddened that this has happened.
i am so proud of my state people who worked together to help all the victims involved.

life...

this week i thought.

a lot.

about where life has taken me.

about my decisions.

and happiness.

i am happy.

david is happy.

peyton is happy.

that is really all that matters.

i don't care that i don't have a thousand friends.

i don't care that i don't go out every weekend.

david and i are settled.

we are comfortable in our own skin.

we don't have to talk.

we don't have to pretend.

we enjoy us.

and i love that.