Awesome and Awkward Thursday

Yeah! It's that time again, I love Awesome and Awkward Thursdays!

Really only one awkward, and lots of awesome this week.

It's awkward being sick, it's a good reminder to me as a nurse how the people I take care of feel, sometimes everyday.  I know I will get well, but some of them never will.  What's awkward is that if I sit still and do nothing I feel ok, but any exertion makes me short of breath and triggers coughing fits, so people that see me tell me "you don't look sick".  I think it is supposed to be a compliment, but it is just awkward, I want to say something rude asking about when they got their astute assessment skills and the X-Ray vision to look in side my chest and see the pneumonia, but I refrain, that would just be rude. 

Now for the Awesomeness!!!!  The days are kind of out of order, but awesome nonetheless!

Seeing all my kids this weekend, at least for a minute.  We called ourselves team hope and had purple t-shirts made.  After the 5 of us running finished the rock n roll on Saturday we took a picture of our whole family in our team hope T-shirts to show support for the fight against pancreatic cancer and illustrate our hope for my dad to beat it.  Steven, being a died in the wool WSU coug refused to actually put the purple on, he did hold it up for the picture.  We later went and had dinner and finished up swimming in the pool at the Ramada where Mark and kellie were staying. 

Our roof got refinished.  Huge and awesome thanks to my kids that were able to help, especially Greg and Tyla for all their "roof time"  many they really ripped that t hing up and got down to business fixing it before others could even get here to help.  It was wonderful they were willing to do that and I am very grateful to them.

All of my kids and families got a chance to spend time with my dad this week, we had a BBQ last Sunday that was awesome.

After a rocky start due to miscommunication we had a totally awesome day with my mom Thursday (aka grandma Knight).  We kayaked, had icecream at her shop, BBQ'd and the chainsaw artist across the street did a special demonstration for us and we watched as he carved bears out of wood for the 3 oldest grandkids.  Definately the highlight of the day, then we walked on the beach collecting shells and finished off roasting huge marshmallows.  Quite an awesome day.  Thanks mom and Richard!

Friday was awesome because we took our grandsons on the Ferry for the first time ever.  They got bored kind of fast, but it was still cool.  We all picked up our packets at the fitness expo, along with a ton of healthy samples and the kids made signs supporting the runners.  Over all another awesome day.  Oh yea, we went to dinner at the spagetti factory and the kids went to see Cars II with grandpa (I was tired by then).

Last but not least I finished my BSN last Wednesday, YEAH, that was extra awesome.  Special thanks to Bob for his support on that one, love you baby!

It was so great to have everyone here even though some of the trips were quick, and some went home with a few blisters as souveniers:).  Thanks to all of you that made the effort for it to happen, Love you all!!!!





Sitting around getting well this week is probably going to lead to a pretty boring awkward and awesome Thursday next week, unless something unexpected happens.....