I am Back!!!!

I guess I should start off by apologizing for my lack of post, I have received a few emails and phone calls to ensure that I was ok, I am. I could tell you all the reasons why I have not written in a while, but to be honest they are just excuses, I was being selfish, not only to myself but to God. As I have stated in earlier entries, I feel that God has put things into my heart and my mind that he wants me to share with others, and by not taking the time to write I have been selfish and disobedient. I know it sounds weird, but this lil blog has been really therapeutic for me, I really enjoy writing and many times, I feel that God puts words onto the paper just for me to read, it is a lesson that he is teaching me.

With all that being said, I will give you a readers digest version on what I / we have been up to the last 2 weeks or so. I have been working a lot, at 2 different sites so my schedule has been thrown off a lil bit, but I will admit that I enjoy the breakup of routine. In addition, I have been doing some training and as we all know training takes time and one-on-one dedication. Yet the best thing that I've done is that the family and I took a trip to SF for a week.

We have said that we were going to try and go on a vacation once a year, with the kids growing so fast and involved in so many things, it is extremely hard for all of us to get away together. For those same reasons, it is so important for us to go and spend that quality time together. We all felt that last years 9 day trip to Texas and the other 7 states that we went to, was going to probably be our last big trip for a few years, we had plans to buy a house and we needed to save as much as we could, plus we figured that the girls would be working and the baby would not be that much fun having in the car for long periods of time. And to be honest all that is true, but as each passes I see the kids growing up and soon out! So family vacations are just not a possibility for much longer, so I am going to take advantage of them for as long as I can.

Yet on that same note, with buying the house and all the other good stuff that comes with buying a new house....there was just not the money to go on vacation, but as I have said before, we serve a loving God, a God that provides and last minute we were able to access some additional money that allowed us to go on vacation.

Although SF is an 8 hour drive, going there was a nice drive (I waited until 3am, so that everyone slept while I drove!!!!!) I will admit sometime I just don't think before I do things, and I planned on not getting a hotel until we got there, so that we were not limited to where we could stay, however for whatever reason, there was just no vacancy anywhere. So we got stuck staying about 20 minutes away and all of us in 1 room, not the most comfortable, but hey could have been a whole lot worse. The next 4 days we just spent time together and did touristy things, took lots of pictures and had millions of laughs....when you get teenagers to want to spend time with mom and dad....you know it was a good vacation.....!!!!!! Coming home was not as pleasant because everyone was awake, and they did not enjoy the drive as much, lets just say we have started to outgrow the expedition.

Well we are back home, safe and happy. Everyone is ready for next year, the planning has already started. I think another trip down the Mexico coast is in order. I think that we may try and bring some more family with us...but as you all know that is much harder to coordinate, and I am not always the best host, or companion...but we will see.

As I close for today, I just wanted all of you to know that I missed each of you, I missed reading your comments and I missed sharing with you. So until tomorrow....God Bless!