Pool with Paige and Tara

I love summer. I mean LOVE summer! I love heat and I mean H O T. The hotter the better!! It's awesome!! I don't care how hot it gets, it will always be better than the S word!

Today my plans changed a little as Tara and Paige came into town. Then they came to swim. I love that Tara loves swimming too. Paige is starting to love it more too. It's fun! We swam for hours. We worked on swimming and blowing bubbles and jumping in. (Paige!) ha. 

She was so much fun. 

There isn't much more fun than swimming on a hot day. I love it. It reminds me of my youth. My mom took us to the pool a lot! We had a pool at our last house in Florida too. :) Loved it! 

I'm thankful for our fun pool day today with Paige and Tara. 

Monday - Dentist

Dentist. Now I don't hate going to the dentist. I never really have hated it. I can handle the pain a drilling, but I just don't love it. My dentist is awesome. I really like his kindness and willingness to please. 

Today, I spent a lot of time in a dentist chair. 3 plus hours to be exact. My face was numb until 6pm. Couldn't even drink from a straw at 430pm. I tried and wore some diet Pepsi. Ugh. 

I am happy with the results of my teeth but I hate the pain I still feel today. I can't bite into anything. Sad. 

I'm thankful that my dentist has such modem technology that his work is precise and quick! I really am thankful for our dentist Dr. Sheets!

Lazy Sunday - Bittersweet

Today was a lazy Sunday. We swam. We  grilled out. We swam some more. I had to cancel our double header basically because kids aren't committed to summer softball.  (I'm the nicer, less intimating coach, so it's easy to bail on Coach Bassett by texting some lame excuse while posting in social media a out your lake/pool day.) Side note filled with frustration. Blah. 

However I felt like screw them. If they don't care and want to bail, I might as well enjoy my day too. So I did. I ran 3.5 miles.  We swam some more. We went to an open house. We did some shopping purchasing some items for our vacation.  We are outside at Panera. :) We hit up the electronics at Best Buy. We drove through Cascades for some ice cream.  We ended our night with a movie. 

It's a bitter sweet night. I love coaching and softball, but I'm annoyed at the lack of commitment. I have to make some changes. However, a Sunday night off was nice too. Gotta love and hate lazy Sundays. 

Josh

Today I'm thankful for Josh. He's got up early and started preparing the house to be shown today. I had committed a while ago to this softball tournament and didn't want to strand the team. Josh cleaned the floors, cleaned the AC and furnace filters, cleaned some window screens, and mowed the yard. He out the finishing touches on the house. 

I really appreciate all his hard work today!

Cleaning

I'm sucking up my blog posts! Ahhh!

Today we cleaned. We cleaned. We cleaned. A lady wanted to look at our house so we power cleaned. It we crazy. I was thankful for Josh's help though. Couldn't have done it alone. We made a lost and power through it. It was not fun, but it's done and feels good to be sitting in a clean house. :)

I'm thankful we cleaned. 

My Mom

Yesterday I received a scary phone call from my step dad Larry. It was after 8am and as soon as I saw his name across the screen, I knew it wasn't good. He told mr calmly that my mom was in the hospital. She had fallen in the night after passing out. "They think its a heart issue." She was on monitors and feeling better, but still not 100%. 

After calling my sisters, Tara and I decided to head to the hospital. We spent the day making sure my mom was alright. They ran some tests and all came back negative. That was great!

It was scary to think what we'd do without our mom. In fact, I don't even want to think about it again. 

I'm thankful for the great care my mom received at Allegiance yesterday. I'm thankful Larry was home and was able to help my mom and care for her.  I'm also thankful she was released without any major medical issues. I love my mom and don't want to think about what we'd do without her. 

Anniversary

Today Josh and I celebrated eight years together. It's been a fun and eventful eight years. We celebrated tonight by eating at Outback and going to a movie. A special thanks to Rhonda and Roger who gave us the Outback gift card for our anniversary. Also to my mom and Larry for the movie gift card (at Christmas time). We enjoyed practically free activities tonight. :) Josh is awesome. He's a great husband and all around nice guy. I'm lucky to have him as my husband. :)

However, I'd be lying if I didn't add this part to my day. Wyatt and Eastyn called me this morning. They asked me to come over and go swimming with them. For obvious reasons, I could not. Tears came to my eyes as Wyatt said, "hello Aunt Tonya!" I miss my nephews and was happy to receive a phone call from them today. 

Thanks God for an awesome husband and for the phone call from my nephews today.