Happy Birthday, Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom! God has blessed me with the best mom in the world. God knew everything that I would need and my mom is perfect! I missed being with her today and miss being with her most days. I'm so glad we are able to Skype each other almost every night. I love to call and talk to her about her class and ask her what she would do in her class. We can spend hours on the phone talking about each others classroom. We both enjoy scrap booking, but don't get to do much of it during the school year. This year we both received MacBook Pros and love to Skype each other one them. (We like being together and on our computers learning how to use them.)
Even though we couldn't be together for her birthday, we will be seeing each other in 13 days. We are going on a cruise over spring break together! We are counting down the days and planning our days on the ship!

Happy Birthday, Mom. Wish I could have been with you today to celebrate, but I guess we will just have to celebrate some more on the cruise! I love you!

What was I thinking. . .

My sweet sister-in-law, Katie, wrote on her blog that she was going to challenge herself to walk 280 miles before her vacation at the end of May. She chose 280 miles because that's how far the destination is from her house. So in my excitement for her, I wrote her and told her that I would "walk" with her. I should have done the math before I said I would walk with her. I have to walk 3 MILES EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 90 DAYS!!! YIKES, what was I thinking! I bought a pedometer 2 days after I committed to this journey. I am excited to say I have walked over 7 miles since last Thursday. I'm going to update my count in the top right corner of my blog. Stay posted for updates. I wish I lived closer so that I could walk with Katie and not just long distance.

Sweethearts

Today Mike and I are taking it easy because we celebrated Valentine's Day earlier this week. Mike is always pulling surprises and this Valentine's Day was no exception. We took a drive to International Mall in Tampa to look at the iphones (which I knew this is what I was getting Mike for V-Day, but he didn't know). We didn't purchase, but just looked. And what girl can pass a jewelry store, so we went to Tiffany's it just happened to be across from the Apple Store. Mike introduced himself to someone and she asked if he had picked up a package, he told her no. She said, "I'll be right back". She came back with a little blue box(we had to take pictures at home b/c I was shocked and didn't take pictures in Tiffany's)and said, "This is for you Amy". WHAT??? I opened it up and it was a beautiful pearl bracelet, she put it on my wrist and said it's all yours!! YOU MEAN I CAN LEAVE THE STORE WITH THIS ON???Mike sure did surprise me on this! We went back two days later and got Mike's iphone!What fun memories!

I'm so glad he is mine. Mike is so thoughtful, caring and helpful. He is always thinking on how he can put a smile on my face. He is caring and compassionate even when I don't know I need it. He always seems to pray with me just exactly at the right moment. I'm amazed to see how God answers our prayers. Mike has been so helpful in our marriage, he has had to take care of me on many-and I mean many-occasions due to my health. He never complains and I'm so grateful, even when I don't thank him. I'm so glad God brought Mike and I together.

I LOVE YOU, MIKE!