“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
- Susan Polis Schutz

This is a quote that I actually took from Annes FB profile (thanks AGG) and I really like it! Especially with everything that has been going through my mind lately, it really is comforting to remember that I am the ONLY one who is in control of my life and I am the only one that can make the choices to make myself HAPPY! So far, that is what I have been doing- but can you really blame me for being so happy when I have such wonderful people in my life? I am VERY lucky. (thanks to everyone who is always there for me- you mean the world to me)

Today has been a GREAT day! Actually, its been kinda cold but I got to hang out with my little monkeys all day! We spent the majority of our time indoors but we had a lot of fun. We started out with some crafts making some scary masks: aka an elephant mask, a chicken mask and a monkey mask. Then, we proceeded to walk around camp and scare everyone that was here today. It was awesome! The kids really got into it....I even got blake to eat crasins by telling him that monkeys like them. HA. In the afternoon we made some home made play dough and played some imagination games outside. Its funny to think that you dont even need any plans or materials to have fun. All I have to do is pretend that im a guest and blakes a guide and he will sit for hrs cooking me pretend fish and guiding me around the lake. He wants nothing more than to be seen as a big boy.......hes adorable. Today, he actually took a ginormous spill off of the stool and got himself a black eye. I convinced him to tell everyone "you should see the other guy" when they ask him what happened. He is hilarious. I will hopefully post some pictures of them soon!!!!

Other than that- not much is new. today was a town run and I GOT MY ROD! wooooot. Who knew that would be so exciting! I am going to buy a reel off of Mike and hopefully I can get it all rigged up and ready to go! I cant wait to use it!

I have one request: please email me your phone numbers. I lost my sheet of paper with the numbers on it and I would like to catch up with everyone (aka: katie- i know you are off work but I don't know yr number)!

our hilariously scary masks

blake with our home made playdough

miss you all- have a great week :)