Best day so far this week has to be Monday.. not for how work was, but I received a teaser of a few pictures from the weekend.  I can't wait to get them on a disc to share.  

Here is my favorite (look down)

Ryan and I are looking forward to going to Medicine Hat this weekend coming up to visit his family.  I miss them very much and glad they have taken to me and Ainsley as if we were their own.. <3

Had a fantastic weekend...

  

Went and had some pictures of Ainsley, Ryan and myself done by the fabulous Krista and Mike Raeburn.

Celebrated a birthday in Monarch with my family.

Having a chill day with my sweetheart while the babe is hanging out with her grandma

Looking forward to closing out the weekend with a new episode of The Walking Dead.

Will be a busy yet enjoyable week coming up full of work, family and a work shop. Then off to Medicine Hat on Friday to see the in laws... *sigh* I sure miss them...

Without family you don't know where you come from nor are you given the tools to create one of your own.  One of my most treasured activities is spending time with my family.  I have come to the conclusion that family isn't just the ones that are genetically linked to you.. family is linked by the heart.

I don't know what I would do with out my family.. 

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.

 

-W. C. Doane

There once was a time where getting out of bed in the morning and facing the day was one of the hardest things to do. Given the mis-adventures that I have experienced within the last 5 years I would say that I had every right to feel that way.  I can't say all was bad.  There was obviously good times and some very low times.  I have been hurt in ways that I will never heal from even if I tried.  

I am slowly mending the wounds, the scars that have tormented me day in and day out.  My re occurring nightmares have subsided and now things are starting to look a lot brighter.  I can't say that my life is perfect. Yes, I still have troubles financially. Yes, I am going to have that fear of being hurt for the rest of my life. But hey, I am getting there.  

I am back in a place where I want to be.  I am surrounding myself with people and family that mean more to me than the years that have passed.  Don't dwell on the past... was something I have had to repeat to myself daily.  It is time to move on... what better way than starting a clean slate.

Thankful doesn't begin to express how I feel for Ryan, Jason, Crystal and Logan for giving me the strength to carry on even when I was in my lowest.  If it wasn't for those four "saviors"  I would probably be 6 feet under by now.

This is my journey to rebuild my life.

Come along for the ride.