It's the best!

I have the best life there is.

I think it's very sad that the "cool" / "popular" thing to do these days is complain. To try to convince everyone else that you have the "worst" life / luck. When did that become the thing to do? When did bragging on what an awesome husband you have become the minority rather than the majority? When did celebrating your life become so few and far between?

I want to make it proclamation loud and clear that I think I have the best life I could possibly have! No, we're not rich, yes, we've had plenty of challenges in our four years of marriage...but we are BLESSED! We have two awesome kids here with us, and two waiting for us in heaven. We have survived the death of a child (which is rare in case you don't know the statistics). We openly and honestly are still crazy about one another. We're still in love...not that that will last forever...it will come and go...and that cool thing is - is that we both know that and are okay with it. We promised to LOVE each other, and luckily we both agree that love is a choice, not a feeling. If it were a feeling we'd be in big time trouble...like now, at midnight I sit in bed next to my husband who is snoring to beat the band...do I feel like I am IN love with him at the current moment?? Uh...no...but do I love him and his snoring? Heck yeah! I love him because he is the most faithful, honest man I know. He loves me and our children more than anyone else in the world. He has made this clear to me every day since Dec. 12, 2003. I am so blessed to have him in my life. Sure, he does things on a daily basis that annoy me...that I think are selfish...but do I do the same? Sure I do! Just ask him! :0) And...when he kisses me, I know that we are still in love, that we have the same passion for each other that we did 7 years ago...actually - more.

I have the coolest 3 year old son God ever made. He is so pationate about life. Everything about life. He loves being outside in the world that God made for us to explore. He loves learning new things...numbers, letters, sports, dance, music, you name it...he's excited about it. And that makes me excited. He tells me at least once a day "You're the best Mommy"...and you know what? It makes me want to continue being the best mommy for him that I can be...day in and day out. It's the best challenge that I will ever have.

I just came back to bed from feeding my (almost) 7 month old daughter. I can't even put into words the feelings that swell up in me when I walk into her dark room, hear her sweet voice, pick her up and smell that awesome smell after a bath and lotion. I cuddle her up close to me and share a bonding moment that I am so lucky to have with her. She settles down and falls back to sleep. It's awesome in every sense of the word. Just to picture her smile makes my heart melt.

Last night we had a "Hunter night". We are going to instate these in our family once a month. When Graysen gets old enough she'll get them too. Hunter got to choose everything that we did. On his very first Hunter night he chose to eat pizza at Pizza Hut...cheese of course, and coke to drink. Then we dropped Graysen off with Gma and went to play Put Put Golf...his first time!!! He was so excited, because he loves golf! He had so much fun, he would put off and then RUN down the green to catch up with the ball before it stopped...it was a continuous hit rather than letting the ball stop...too stinkin' adorable! Often times he wanted to finish Lincoln and I's off for us after we teed off as well. Then we played the arcade games inside and he won 295 tickets! I filled up my camera with pictures of course, but don't have them on the computer yet, so I'll have to add one to this blog after I get them downloaded.

I am lucky enough to stay at home with my kids during the day...Lincoln works very hard doing a job that I'm sure he'd rather not do in order to make that happen. I am blessed to be able to teach dance - something that I am extremely passionate about - a few evenings a week..how many people get to do what they love 24 hours a day? Not many...I can tell you that. I love the fact that Lincoln is able to coach basketball - something that he is extremely passionate about - and that we get to watch him do it. We get to root him on and he makes me so very proud to see him, doing something that he loves, and being such a terrific role model for those young boys.

Basically - I'm trilled with my life. I think I post these blogs either late at night when I am able to calm down and collect my thoughts for the day, or in the morning when the day is fresh and new and everything makes sense to me. I just wish that more people lived their lives joyfully. Being happy - and giving thanks to God in everything they do.