joy (joi)
n.
1.a. Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness.
b. The expression or manifestation of such feeling.
2. A source or an object of pleasure or satisfaction:
3. The feeling I had after being able to go to my Brothers wedding & go to Seattle to see some of my favorite people.
ex·haus·tion (g-zôschn)
n.
1. The act or an instance of exhausting.
2. The state of being exhausted; extreme fatigue:
3. The feeling I had after driving to Arizona,
spending less than 36 hours there, driving home
and then flying making a quick one day trip to Seattle.
Conclusion:
It was worth every minute of it.
So, August 15th I got a call saying that my brother Jeff was getting married on the 21st. I love it when people preface a conversation with "It's really not that big of deal", especially when it involves my family. Everything is a big deal, especially a wedding! I have seen people who have dealt with feeling like they are "no big deal" and I never want any of my family to ever feel like I think they are "no big deal". Okay, stepping off my soap box, I was able to make travel arrangements with my Jeremy to drive to Arizona Friday night after work. We were about 4 hours later on our trip than I wanted to be, but we had a good time.
We spent Saturday morning getting the "Old Chev" in working order so we could take it for a drive, and then after running out of gas, jumping it twice we made it to Feezors to catch the monster catfish. Note to self.... When you tell the 5 year old that in order to catch the big fish you have to be quite you are going to end up with this:
No one could even move without him "shusshing" us. It was cute for maybe the first 20 seconds but it got old really fast.
Of course the big fish decided to hibernate at the bottom of the lake so after about 45 min or so the boys decided that swimming was much more fun which turned into Dee becoming a human diving board. I think they all had fun though:
Saturday afternoon was the wedding. It was so very simple, but so pretty, and very moving. I am so happy that Jeff and Amy have found each other. They have both had very difficult lives but are a good support to each other. I look forward to getting to know her better and am so happy she is part of our family!
Sunday Morning Jer's& his boys were up at the crack of dawn, and we were headed for home. It was a fun little road trip with the four of them. I made it home that night in time to get my stuff packed and try and get to sleep so that I could wake up at 4 am the next morning to catch my flight to Seattle for work.
I will spare you all the details of the trip and stick to the important parts: Washington is beautiful (the weather was nice that day), Traffic from Seattle to Olympia is crazy, I loved spending time with my sweet niece Shaina Dawn, Cheesecake factory food is nothing to write home about but the cheesecake makes up for it for sure, My cousin Doug & his wife have a super cute baby and I don't travel well!
Funny story - - - My legs are too short to touch the floor in the airplanes and so my legs are usually dead by the time and killing me by the time my flight is over. I wore my tall heavy shoes on the flight and I was considering amputation at one point on the return flight.
Needles to say after that trip I was in bed for a day trying to recover but like I said it was worth every minute of it.
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P.S. Jami I don't know if you read my blog anymore but if you do I hope that you had a happy birthday. I remembered that it was your birthday as I was flying out to Seattle. I hope that you were able to make it as fun as you wanted!
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So back to the title question: What is the first adjective that you use to describe yourself?
Hope you are doing well....big changes are coming for me, stay tuned for the next post!
Please let me know if I can do anything for you!
