In a pile of cushions?

Its an early morning, we vary between a 6-7 am start time, but today it is definitely before 6.  I am eagerly watching my coffee drip when I hear...
Help!  HEEEELLLPPPPP!
I don't run, its early and I have learned to decipher the "i am dying cry" and the "I just want you now cry".
It was definitely the lader:)
As I came around the corner, I saw Russell buried in couch cushions.
"What is wrong" I asked Russell.
"Heeelllppp, I am stuck in the cushions!"
Head down, legs up and surrounded by cushions....
I was thinking...how did you get in there?....
but I was afraid he would say he dove in head first...
I dug him out and gave him breakfast.

It was great to laugh that early in the morning:)

A strange car in the driveway...

Curious,

 I went to look who it was...just as the doorbell rang.

I opened and a nice lady handed me these!

No way....

For me?

No way....

My extremely frugal husband sent me flowers:).

Wow.

This was truly an act of love.

And I love them...

But more...

I love him.

I won't sugar coat it, 

 we can fight with the best of them

and we have had some great highs and deep lows

 but I think now I am finally starting to understand something I have always wondered about....

when we were first married,

older married couples would say about their spouse

I love them more now then I did when we married.

I didn't think it could be true for us.

But I think I am beginning to understand.

I think it is the journey,

it sharing life, 

it is the fights you get through, 

it is the struggles you overcome, 

late night laughing about something in our day

it is not so much the flowers, but the daily little acts of love.

I think I finally get it.

If you were a squirt gun....

Quint and I were building Lego's....a fast way to make a friend with Q, and he said to me:

"Mom, if you were a squirt gun, you would be my favorite"

"I would choose you all the time, over all the other guns"

Wow....I thought.  

That is a true compliment! 

Quint Rides.....

Tonight, Quint rode a bike.  BK gave him a few points and what Quint calls "a head start" and then he was off.  It was awesome, one of those moments I hope I remember.  Especially Daddy's reaction.  Look for it on the video:)