The Good with the Bad

It was a pretty good weekend. I had a few days off and had lunch with pretty much everyone I could think of. :) My friend Rachel and I got to hang out over the long weekend. She went to church with me Sunday night and then we watched a movie. Monday we went to the beach. The weather said thunderstorms all day but we never saw a drop of rain!
She got some pretty cool pictures. I think they've very "me". (See below)
Then came this morning. I was ready to see Camila and Emi but woke up to see that I should have left the house 15 minutes ago. That's always a great start to a morning. I was only 20 minutes late for work (but I HATE being late EVER) and they had no plans to leave the house anytime soon. Camila was a little shy today with everybody (it was kind of weird but she met a LOT of people on vacation and was just done with people I think) but we had a good day overall. She's putting longer sentences together now and starting to talk like such a big girl. It's hard to believe in 3 months she'll be 2 years old! And today, for the first time, she told me "I love you". It was soooo sweet, I almost cried!
Emi grew up so much. She's so agreeable; she laughs at just about everything you say. I had this awful headache (sinus I think; we had thunderstorms today instead of yesterday) with a shooting pain in my face. When it hit I screwed my face up and she laughed. At least, as much as she laughs. It's still this spastic "Ha!" but it counts.
And tonight I am going to bed at a decent time and setting THREE alarms instead of the two I set this morning. (Can you believe NEITHER went off????)

Me & Rachel

Yes, I am fully clothed.

So the water was all seaweed-y so we kept saying we weren't going in but every time it's warm & I start going just a little farther I end up getting soaked. Eventually I gave up and just sat down & let the waves crash over my back. :)

Rachel was thrilled when I got into her car soaked and covered in sand and seaweed. But it came back to haunt me. I stunk like seaweed the entire 2-hour ride home.