you know you are a mom when

you only sleep for 3-4 hours because you wanted some time to yourself or because your dear child is not sleeping---thus keeping you up :).
you actually hold your hands out for your child to puke in.(experienced that on Saturday night- sigh).
you miss your kids when you go away for the weekend to get a break from them. only to miss them terribly and want to come home early.
when you can sing all the primary songs, little Einstein songs and yes even the barney songs(yuck and double ewwww).
so i guess it is official. I'm a mommy---and most of the time I'm proud of it. what does not kill you makes you stronger, right?...

wow 5 years already!??

i can hardly believe it. time goes by so quick! saturday will be our... yep five year anniversary. so much has happened and yet there are still so many memories to create. look how dark my hair was and i am much skinnier in this pic -but hey-at least im not wearing an 80's dress with puffy sleeves and a huge veil right????

labor day wake

so this weekend was wonderful! first let me start by saying this last week was unbelievably slow- so Saturday i took the day off of work ( and really should have been visiting my sister, meg in Colorado but did not know work would be slow until too late to buy tickets. SORRY MEG!) Brandon and i went to breakfast (which is one of our favorite things to do) worked out, did chores and still had half the day left. we had the yummiest burgers at cheesecake factory and walked in the rain. saw rush hour three-very funny! and ate some more. moving onto Monday.... we went to the lake. now i have been to the lake multiple times since all of my surgeries but today was THE DAY. i have been so sad thinking i would never wake board or ski again. the docs warn about doing anything too risky and lets face it....I'm a big scaredy cat and a klutz. but today it was too hot and too calm at the lake not to try it again. for the first time in about two years i wake boarded around Bartlett lake. WWWWWWWWAAAAAHHHHOOOOOOO! man was i excited. terrified, but excited. my heart was racing and the adrenaline was flowing but i went for a while and even crossed the wake. no lung collapse, no falling on my face and no fear about doing it next time. this was a big bridge for me and although we forgot the camera I'm sure you all can picture that ear to ear grin i get and the fam said i was defiantly wearing it yesterday. so all in all it was one killer weekend. what can i say... I'm easy to please :)