Weekend Update

We packed a lot into this weekend. Here's the rundown:

• Up early on Saturday morning to go to the gym. I took a kickboxing class that completely kicked my butt. There was a woman in the class who had to be at least 7 months pregnant. She utterly schooled me. It was awesome (heavy on the sarcasm). But, at least I went. Hopefully, I'll do better next time.
• Took Harper swimming after my kickboxing class. She's a fish.
• Later that day, we hung out with some friends and went to the zoo. Here's a picture of Harper and her buddy Cooper.

• At the zoo, I realized that my kid is super brave. We went to an animal show and when the trainer brought out a humongous tarantula, Harper said "Me hold it?" It was literally as big as her face.
• Went to church on Sunday morning. Music was great. Message was great. If you're in this neck of the woods, you should check it out.
• While the kiddo napped and Rob was at work, I watched the second Twilight movie. It was ok. I liked the first one better. Don't judge me.

Cell Phone Picture Friday

Harper got a belated birthday present last night (although it really wasn't belated to her because she sings Happy Birthday to herself every day even though her birthday was about 7 weeks ago...). It's an art station. She LOVES it! Here are a couple (kind of bad) cell phone pictures that I took this morning.

Friends and Funny Pictures

This is my friend Tory. She's Harper's buddy. She also took most of the next few pictures.

Tory does not have 3 legs. However, she is easily suckered into reading Harper books.

Harper has half and half hair. The front half is pin straight like mine and the back half is curly like Rob's. Genetics is a funny thing. You can really see the different types of hair in her pig tails. The hair on top is straight, while the hair on the bottom is in a ringlet.

This is my friend Katie. She's Harper's buddy too.

She has a dog named Scout. Harper likes to tell Scout what to do.

It's tough love.

Katie accidentally took this picture. She hit the button right as Harper started coughing. Actually, coughing isn't the correct term for it. Sometimes, she swallows wrong or something and makes this horrible noise like she's going to projectile hurl all over everything. It's startling the first time you hear it. After that, it's just plain funny. (Note, she was not choking or in any danger. That would not be funny.)

This kid is a nut.

And I totally love every bit of her.

On Forgiveness

On Monday, my small group talked about forgiveness. It was a great discussion. Over the next few weeks we are suppose to be working on making a list of people in our lives that we need to forgive.

This is easier said than done for me. The truth is that I can't really think of any people that I need to forgive. I don't like conflict, so when it comes up, I like to get things settled quickly and move on. I think this is good because I don't hold grudges and I don't carry around a lot of unresolved stuff.

But, I feel like I may be missing something subtle. I don't know. Maybe I should just be grateful that I don't have unforgiveness issues and move on. Here are some of the questions in my head right now. If you have any opinions, I'd be glad to hear them.

• Do you have to feel completely neutral about someone or a situation to mean that you have forgiven them (ie. if you still have hurt feelings over a situation, but have chosen to forgive the person who hurt you, have you really forgiven them?)
• If you just plain don't like someone, does that mean that you are choosing not to forgive them for something even if you can't put your finger on what that may be?

Am I over thinking this?

Wavy

Did you know that you have beautiful things like this floating around in your body? We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Easter Recap

What an awesome Easter weekend! We had so much fun hanging out together as a family and spending time with friends. After church yesterday, we went to our friends' house for lunch and an Easter egg hunt. It was great! Here are some pictures from the hunt.

I think this is my favorite one.

Poor kid ran out of room in her basket and was forced to make a pile on the ground.

I included this picture as a matter of record for Harper's future therapist. It's not unusual for this kid to have a crowd standing around her, taking pictures, and commenting on how cute she is. It's probably going to give her a complex. I'm ok with that.

Game Changer