Ok, Ok, Here I Am

Some of you probably checked in today to see what I had to say, with it being both my mom and Brian's birthdays. I don't know if I have anything to say, so I'll just start and see where it takes me.

I took the girls and flew to Minneapolis for the weekend. It was a great time of shopping and playing and laughing, and shopping and shopping and shopping. We definitely have dropped by tonight! We flew back in this evening, so I barely made it back in town really for the birthdays. Neither of them are here to celebrate with, so...

Anyway, Brian had made me promise to take Rachel and Amberlea somewhere special this summer, since the last several summers have been taken up with cancer treatments. The girls never complained to be missing out. I just wonder how many other kids take their vacations for granted each summer. So as promised, I was gone. It wasn't planned to intentionally be over his birthday, just the best price I could get on a flight. Thanks to those of you who visited the cemetery today and/or went to the early Mass this morning for both Mom and Brian. It nearly killed me not to be here, but I kept just thinking that Brian would want me to be doing this. It mostly bothered me not to be with Tye, although he was at the farm, so it made me feel good to know he was close to Brian's parents and brother and the other Halleys.

Not that I mind not going to the cemetery...the last 2 times I was there, I just stood there and stared in amazement that two people I love so much can actually be dead at such young ages. So what I have to say about their birthdays is not much. I am forever grateful to Brian's parents for the gift of his life. And celebrating my own mom's birth is always something special. I just miss them both so much, I can't even find the words.

I'll post a few pictures of our trip.

I also am a new aunt! I didn't post it earlier because I didn't want the news to get around too fast on the blog! Baby Luke and his mommy Erin are doing great! I have been trying to get my baby fix! It is no news that Brian and I wanted another baby, and I am coming to terms with that to a certain point. It is fun to be excited about a baby in the family, and I'm not the one who has to get up in the night! Ha! Sorry Sis!