vacay & a little beach time

well, my mom, friend from nashville, and i are on vacation...a very much needed relaxation time. my cousin and her kids came down yesterday! it has been so great. we arrived friday and we are leaving in a couple of days.
one thing i am most excited about is as i sit on the porch of our condo typing away about to eat breakfast and sip some coffee, i can't help but think that right now i would be cleaning my 3rd patient of the morning at work! AHH!! and i am relaxing.
what do most people like to do on their vacation? the first thing that ever comes to mind for me is the beach. don't really care where it is located, as long as i can lay on a towel, directly on the sand, or in a fold down chair under an umbrella right by the ocean.
i have so much enjoyed this vacation---rachel and i have been adventurous and also been very lazy. yesterday we went parasailing- so much fun and scary. of the group we went with of random couples/families, i was the only person on the boat freaking out. even some little 8 year old kid was way more calm than me. when it came our turn to go, i sat down on the back of the boat with rachel and we were hooked on to the parachute, and the boat just starts going and you fly up in the air..500 ft, i just started freaking out! it was amazing though and an awesome view of the ocean and beach.
i feel like we still have so much we want to do. we have already hit up the outlet malls. we still have several restaurants we want to go to.
sharing some pics below...

training...and back to reality

it has been a while since i blogged last. and i went home this past weekend and did not take ANY pictures. i enjoyed a long and what seemed SHORT weekend. friday michael and i ate with my rents and went to see limitless. saturday was full of running errands and michael and i biked from my house to his house---which i DEFINITELY should have documented. i know we looked funny and amateurish riding down houston levee. haha. and saturday night we got to spend a little time with some friends at a yummy mex restaurant in midtown. sunday was church & ate with my rents AGAIN and watched tour de france with them...and today the birthday of our country was relaxing with food & time with michael's family and mine.
i miss being a kid. do you ever wish you could go back in time? i miss the perks of being a child and the innocence and excitement about EVERYTHING that comes with that stage of life.
i was also listening to a sermon about something (which i can't remember now the specific topic)...but the pastor mentioned having a childlike faith. when i really think about that concept, it makes me sit back and wonder what it means and that i truly desire that type of faith.
and you may be wondering about the "training" part of the title. i decided on my drive either to memphis or to nashville today that i want to train for the full marathon that is in december in memphis...crazy???
more to come later.....looking forward to TRIVIA night this week. our team won 3rd place last week and won a gift card! our team name is POP POP or MNM. we are regulars now.
happy independence day!!!