Where have all the BRAIN cells gone??????

I just wanted to jot a few thoughts down while I still have a tiny bit of memory left. I get so much on my mind and then it seems like I shut down. I need to learn to take care of one thing first and then move on to the next important matter. I have a few Rx's that I take everyday. I went to pick them up at the pharmacy and was blown away at what they said I owed. Wait a minute something is wrong. I have insurance. Well I had received a letter a month or so ago from a company that was taking over our Rx's. I didn't pay any attention at what they wanted me to do. It is a process that has to be taken care of imediatelly. Now what do I do. I think I need a personal secretary. I guess I have to slow down from my playing and take care of business. (Boo Ho)I have been having so much fun with the grandkids, that I don't have time to take care of my needs. Last week it was Idaho Falls for another tournament. WoW was it hot!! No matter if they win or loose we still have fun being together and cheering them on. I guess I still have that cheerleading blood in me because I don't want to miss a game. Sorry kids, your granny is crazy about you all....I can see improvments in some and determination in others and just plain why do I have to be hear in others. Is it a good process?? I feel that learning a skill like softball, is a great way to keep your body in shape and learn the game of playing as a team. We have a long way to go in some areas, but others are coming right along. Not that I am a pro at any of it. But I have been at the ball park a few hours in my life. A team is a group of girls or boys that want the same thing to be the best that each of them can be. It is hard when some want this and others don't. We are all at different levels and when you play with others that don't want to improve every game then it is time to move on. Parents have to look out for the best interest of there own children. I realize that it is just a game but in the big picture it is a life learning experience. Help those around you to be better, and if they don't want to be better then go to the next step that will be the best for you. We have to follow our instincts and look out for what is best for me. This life is a positive experience, and if we aren't putting positive effort in something then get moving to another adventure. Don't stay there and let others bring you down. I am not sure what I am getting at, but I feel like I need to put my feelings down so I can move on. I hope my grandkids can always learn how to be the best that they can be. They all have amazeing talents and sometimes others can see there talents better than they can see them themselves. Learn to listen to what others are saying and at least give it a try. Don't put walls up on your ability to improve. We have to be able to move forward to be the best that we can be.....So heres to the Brain cells that tell me to never give up and keep trying to be a better me.....I will do this and hope it works.........

Take me out to the BALLGAME

This past weekend we had an adventure with Janieces family. The kids had ball tournaments in Montperlier and Sada Springs so we took the trailer and parked it at Mont. then commuted to and fro to Soda. It was so much fun to watch the kids play so hard and try there best. Shelby is the oldest on her team and she tries so hard to get the girls going. She is an awesome player and quite a dare devil on stealing the bases. She slides like a pro and tries to get the girls to throw it back to the base and then she goes for the nest base. Both games on thursday she was scoring just that way. The fields were not taken very good care of and they had not even worked up the field so the gravel that was on the in field was like cement. Needless to say Shelby got some good scraps on her elbows and her knees. They won two games and they looked pretty good. Shaylie has improved so much this year. She has been trying to get the coach to let her play in field because that is more action. Well he finally gave her a chance and boy did she prove herself. She played awesome. They put her on first and I was very nervous for her but she proved to us all she can do it and she loved it. She even got a double play. Then she really smacked the ball good. Over all the girls didn't do as good as they would have liked to, but I could really see that they were proveing to themselves that they are improveing. That is what it is all about, just keep trying to get better. Mick, we only got to see him play one game and they ended up going into overtime and there team won. They are just starting and they have a lot to learn, but from the first of the year to now, I can see a whole lot of improveing. Mick is a very good player and backs things up so good. He gets to pitch and he does a great job doing that too. I hope next time I can see some more of Micks. Well that was all about the games, now about the fun we had in the trailer. We had 7 sleeping and so it was wall to wall people and we had a ball the kids played night games, and laughed and giggled a lot. I love to just watch the kids and how they are growing up. We took Isaac with us he didn't have a game and he wanted to just give his support. He went with Mick to his game and there was a compitetion on throwing the baseball. He won a new ball bag it was really cool. He has a good arm and great aim. After saturday morning both teams lost, so that put us out. We decided to go by Lava on the way home and let the kids swim. WoW you wouldn't have believed how many people were there at the pool. we went anyway and it was fun. Sometimes you just have to join right in and not worry about all the crowd. They just want to have the same fun that we do.....I really love my family and love that we can spend time together and I thank them from the bottom of my heart that they let me join in with them in having fun. Thank you Thank you for the good time!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes and I almost forgot Jim went with us. We made it sound like we really couldn't do it with out his help and it worked. It was fun to have him see the kids play and he had some good advice for them. Just play for yourself and do your best. Don't worry what the others are doing as long as you work on improveing you that is all that matters. However he got really worried about his lawn and couldn't wait to get back to it, to get it watered. He does such a good job with his grass and has a lot of pride in how it looks. I guess you can't have everything. That is what it takes to have a nice lawn is be there to water it. We had a great ballgame weekend and we are looking forward to the next one. Remember kids we are so proud of you and as long as you are trying your hardest it will be fun!!!!!!

Now for another item of news this is much more enjoyable

We are prepareing for our annual Coombs reunion and we have decided to have a Stay cation. That's right a Staycation. It is where you get together with your loved ones and play games and camp out and play in the water and visit and oh yes eat alot of food. But instead of going to far away we are camping out in Janiece and Scott's back yard. I think it going to be fun if we can get everybody to stay there instead of creeping back home for somthing. I will have to blog about it soon. So here's to STAYCATION!!!!!! hope it is fun!!!

What lesson do we need to LEARN......

I have a need to write about a family personal trial that we are going through again. So this is just for my own journaling. I hope to look back on it some day and say I know why We all had to go through that again. We have a family member that struggles with addiction. It is such a wicked disease. It is surely Satan at high speed. He gets in your head and turns the on button to full throttle. I can only tell you these things from hearing it through my listening ear. The trial started many many years ago and it has had a tight grip on him for that long. He has had much schooling on how to deal with this and many hours and months of being locked up to give him the time to think it through and still it sneaks back into his life, even when he knows how horrible it makes him feel for doing it, the power is over whelming. We can only sit back and pray for him and try to give him encouragment. We have told him he has to turn it over to the Lord and he will be the best help he could find at this point. He has totally done that this time and we have seen much humilaty in him. You can't imagine what makes a person do the things that they do. I feel that I had taught him correct principles and he knew how to pray and he had a good job. But that is never enough. This power is stronger and more powerful than any of us can fatham. He has asked for forgivness and has given us the message that he will never do this again. What would our Savior do would he keep forgiving him. I think he would and so we will again. How do you help your own when it gets so bad. I have read many books and been to classes and feel we have tried our best. We have turned it over to the Lord and feel that is the only way to get through this trial again. It is given us a new understanding and compassion to those who fall into this pit of addiction. Keeping your self positive in a place that is nothing but a dead space. I am so proud that he can keep going and we pray that he will continue to stay positive and get this behind him and be able to come back and prove to everyone including himself the great person he really is. We are all looking so forward to that day. This life is truely the test, and many of us have different tests we have to go through. What is your test? I ask myself that all the time, am I passing or failing? Do we truely know when we will have to have a trial that we need the help of our Heavenly Father to carry us when it gets so bad we can't make it without him. I feel like if it wasn't this test, it would have been another one so I am proud that we have a loving family that stands together in this trial and helps each other stay strong and keep our heads held high. We only have to please our Heavenly Father and no one else.I hope I haven't said to much about our troubles and my family is upset about me putting this on my Blog, but I really only have this to keep my records on so. Heres to A BIG TRIAL.......This Life is the TEST....