Happy Early Birthday DAD!!!!

Last week my wonderful mom helped me manage to get my boring white closet in order and organized! With the advice from my good friend Kim Herman (Rachel and Tara's mom), I added a few pieces of flare to these boring white walls! I added an "L" and a cute little decal to spruce it up! My fellow blogger friend Kelly inspired me to post some pictures of my new little project finally complete once I saw her organized pantry, hehe! Although I didn't go as far as color coordinating, I did organize by maternity, to summer, to "my goal" clothes to get back into- check it out:

Today has been okay. I tried to run "ONE" errand today and got down the street in my car and came home because I am still not feeling 100%. I decided to stay curled up in the recliner with a good movie all day. I am ready to get out again, but I am going to limit myself to 1 hour a day from the 5 hours a day I was doing before. It's time to slow her down a bit. The "nesting" stage is beginning to slow down and I need to do just that. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel better and be over this bug.

...Tomorrow is my fathers 53 Birthday. Us kids are taking him for a nice dinner at Abeulos, his choice. I want to share something very special about my father for a second. My Dad is one of my hero's. I look up to him so much and hope that we can be the parents to Avery as my parents have been to both me and my brother. My mom is of course amazing, but Dad is the "man of the house" and has always maintained that highest level or respect to my mom, us kids, and the family in general. He's always been such a Godly leader in EVERYTHING that he does. I go to him about all kinds of advice and he has helped me through getting jobs, finding my husband, dealing with friends... Dad has always encouraged me and Aaron with the Bible, our relationships, and life in general. The one thing I will always cherish about him is he says, "Take the HIGH ROAD"... we have always been encouraged to live our lives as Godly as possible but when the going gets tough in this world, take the high road. Let me tell you friends, taking the high road is something that I have always chosen to do in life even though I didn't always want to do it, and it's led me to the life I have now. Sometime you just have to turn the other cheek and do unto others as YOU would want to be treated, even though you aren't always treated the way you feel you are deserved. Without that in my life each day, I wouldn't be where I am as a woman of God. I truly feel that I am SO happy because I choose that for myself, and choose to not let people get me down. And nothing will ever still my great joy, nothing!! So thanks Dad for always placing that into our lives. I am so thankful for that each year you get older and I always remember those lessons you taught us. I can't wait for you to be Avery's "poppy"... and teach her the same goals I was taught!