Luke and I at my Mother's Day Tea Party. So sweet!

The class playing musical chairs. Luke did pretty good!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day! Soooo relaxing! I didn't want to do anything but stay at home. Juven cooked all our meals and cleaned up. We swam and laid out in the sun. I loved it!! I feel like for the past couple of months I have been going, & going, & going... So today I extened my relaxing day and after going to the gym this morning have done nothing but sit on the couch. It has been wonderful!

I am (hopefully) almost done with physical therapy. My therapist told me to try pretty much whatever I wanted at the gym within reason to see how I hold up. So far, so good.

We have 5 more weeks left until our trip to France !! : ) We are sooooo excited.

Juven has been crazy busy with work and it won't slow down anytime soon, but he loves it and is doing great things for the company!

I'm excited for Luke to be done with school for the summer. Excited to not have to be anywhere at any time. He is starting a new chapter this August with going to Elementary school! We are excited but a little sad. He is soooo ready though. He is super bright and loves to learn and read.

My grandaddy passed away Saturday morning. Even when you think you are ready it is still hard. He was 90 years old and had a great life but I am still sad. I'm so happy to have so many wonderful memories of him and will always cherish them. We will be headed to Texas for the funeral. Glad I get to see my family and friends though.

It is heating up in Arizona and though it is only April I am sporting a pretty good tan so far. Way more than I ever got last year! Yes- using sunscreen!

So I've been fighting with this damn back injury for several weeks now. I have seen a spine specialist and doing physical therapy. I was feeling soooo much better until.... at the gym warming up on the eliptical and this trainer comes over to Heather and myself and wants to know what we are doing in thirty minutes. We are doing Body Pump class we tell him. Want to do something new?? Ok... what. The gym is doing a new class put on by personal trainers. A group personal training class. Ok. no biggie. We'll try it. Hard as HELL and I have never been so close to throwing up when working out before but a great work out. Until... the next day when my back is FREAKING out! I was almost cleared and done with physical therapy. What was I thinking??? So I am now getting a little better from that - 8 days later! I get to go to the gym tomorrow for the first time since my episode but can only walk on the treadmill (can do small incline) or do eliptical. Well its a start. This has been the worst thing! You just can't escape back pain and trying to be a mom, wife and take care of yourself on top of that is very difficult. I've been tring soooo hard to get some weight off and be healthy but with this pain and not being able to go to the gym all I want is to drink and eat cookies!

Luke coloring Easter Eggs : )

Pool pics.

Luke and Juven playing "Jedi Light Sabers".

wow. so much has changed since my last post... we have decided to wait on the adoption for a couple of reasons. We had some concerns about the agency we choose and we are going on a big trip to Europe in June and we didnt want to be in the middle of paperwork and homestudies while being gone. So we are just waiting for God to tell us what to do. Also- I had gotten motivated to get back in shape for our trip and was working out quite a bit. I started have really bad back troubles and ended up at a spine specialist. I was diagnosed with spinal arthritis. I am on medication for now and doing physical therapy. I'm really depressed about it because even though I'm no spring chicken I am still relatively young. I'm gonna fight through it though and get back to the gym!
Luke is doing great!! We got him registered for Kindergarten and he is starting in August! I can't believe it!! How did that happen??? He is super excited and we LOVE his new school! He will have a couple of friends from Primrose going there with him and they will even be in his class so hopefully that will help with the transition.
That's all I got for now.

I am about to fill out the paperwork to start our homestudy! I am already a nervous wreck! Last night I found a cup of milk and leftover Ravioli and peached in the pantry!! I will be a little scatter brained through this entire process but hopefully it will be painless! Juven is in Salt Lake City today and Seattle tomorrow. He is spoiled with the warm weather here and tired of the cold! More to come!!

Luke has changed so much this last month since turning 5. It's no secret that he has slept with us since he was a baby. But- he has gotten really big and keeps us up at night and I knew it was time to work on him sleeping in his own room. So- we redid his room for him and made a big deal about him being 5 and being a big boy now & talked up how his buddies sleep in their own rooms. So we finally convinced him & have been successful with no one being tramatized! I am so proud of him!! He is also such a sponge & we really have to be careful about what we talk about in front of him and what is on the TV when he is in the room. I have always been careful of those things but now even more.

I was picking him up from school the other day and he likes to go in the infant room to see the babies and my friend Karen who is the teacher. He told Karen we were getting a baby and she asked him if he wanted a brother or sister and he replied he would be happy with whatever God gave us. So precious!

Another accomplishment for him is that he finally went to the gym kid play area! He is known to not to anywhere without me especially a place he has never been before. I have been running a lot but decided to join the gym with my friend Heather to take my workouts up a knotch. I told him he was going to get to do rock climbing and play basketball and play with Evan, Heather's youngest and he said, OK! Usually there is resistance but he did great! He ran right in with Evan and had a blast! YEAH!