We had a very nice weekend, R and my son got to meet some of my coworkers on a Saturday gathering at a coworkers house, everyone was so impressed with my son and how smart he is it truly made me a very proud mom. We also made jalapeno popper's that were very hot for my coworkers, however they enjoyed them. Today was amazingly fun we started off as we usually do with lunch at TGI Friday's then off to the Quail Botanical Gardens. It was so amazing and there was an abundance of flowers, trees and awesome gardens to gaze at. I took about 200+ pictures, needless to say I had a great time.

Over the next week or two I'll be posting my favorites (and making my full set on Flickr public) from the gardens....it was really nice to get back behind the lens and feel creative all over again. The love affair I had with my camera previously has been renewed.

I've read some very interesting and disturbing news stories lately, this is part of the reason I try to gravitate towards things off the internet. I know that this is life and we can't live in utopia, however there just seems to be so much bad news lately. Today was a decent day at work...I stay occupied which keeps me focused. I'm looking forward to a good weekend, weather permitting I will be visiting the botanical gardens up north via a suggestion from McCabe, I am beyond thrilled to endeavor and engulf myself in floral goodness, I need this right now. I miss the photography treks R and I would go on when we first got our cameras, however in the near future we are going to rekindle some photo love with a fishing trip, camping trip and a backpacking trip. I am excited because he knows I will capture some good pictures and when I capture good pictures I'm a happy girl. I am looking for some new audio books to download if anyone has suggestions please feel free to leave a comment =)

I wonder all of the time...I'm never satisfied with anything. I stopped designing my website and dressing up others because I could never find the happy medium, however I still work with the internet as my occupation. Since turning 30 my outlook on plenty of things have changed, mostly towards life and how I choose to live it. I still have things and people lingering in my life that I wish would go away however they will not. I know I have the power to allow them to have an impact or not but my situation is different. Over the last few days I have controlled my anger much better and the person that has the most negativity on my life I have made drastic decisions about. Sometimes not engaging the enemy is best...I am a fighter by nature and make-up, however I know when to just let ignorance take it's course because in the end they will get what they have given out. The love of my life R got his promotion from SSgt to GySgt...I am extremely excited about this and he definitely deserves this. I remember last year we waited for the board to come out and the time was just not his time, however now it is and I'm glad. It was supposed to come out on the 15th however we did not find out until a few days ago...you have no idea how stressful these days have been =)

I am never sure what I will write about each day. Some people set out to try and hurt other people continually, this is sad but true. I grow each and every day because I'm in a place that I need to be. The love that I have in my life from the two people that matter most have placed me here, I can't thank them enough.  Life is good and sometimes that is good enough. 

Next week will dawn the first day of summer and as I was thinking about what my favorite past summer vacations were. I can recall one fairly vividly it was when I went to visit my cousins in Texas and I remember just having one whole week to lounge about and do absolutely nothing. Although it was very hot/humid we would spend our days at the Galleria, play board games and prepare the day's bar-b-que. I remember riding bikes to the lake feeling the sun beating endlessly on my shoulders, I could not tell you the last time I actually rode a bike...anywhere in the last 5 years but it was one of the most memorable experiences I've had. When my cousins and I would reach the lake we would try to skip the rocks across it, tiring our arms out. We would go to the top of the hill above the lake and roll down getting grass in parts we barely knew we had. I can also recall the late nights we spent hanging out in the garage and looking at the temperature gauge wondering how can it be 95 degrees at 11pm? Those days were fun...so simple yet fun. I sometimes wonder where have those experiences gone? Has that simple fun turned to boredom? At least not for me, find me a quiet simple lake and I may feel right at home...as long as my camera is with me. Ironically my dream last night was similar to that I found a lake and I was riding my bike around watching other couples and children run free, laughing and smiling...for peets sake it summer! I felt alone and afraid and biked off into the distance. This is simple for me to interpret...I need to just enjoy the things around me and stop being so critical.