Dear Ryan

9 years.

3,287 days

78,892 hours

3 apartments.

1 house.

1 bar exam.

3 jobs.

2 nuggets.

1 puppy.

6 cars.

9 beautiful years. You are such an amazing man, filled with selfless love to spread to those around you. You know how to work hard, and you know how to play hard. You give to others before yourself. You hand out food to the homeless, money to the less fortunate. You give your free time to those who need help. You can get anyone to have a conversation with you, all you have to do is say hello. Your voice is easy to listen to, your stories are aplenty. Your freckles will never go, and without them you'd be unrecognizable. Your smile is worth a million bucks, and your laugh has never changed. Your cooking is restaurant-worthy. Your cleaning skills are mad. You taught me that a pickle was a cucumber. Your drive to hunt is inspiring. Your thoughtful consideration of your health is admirable. Your fathering is impecable. Your ability to keep your cool in the most heated situations is unbelievable.

You, the man I am lucky enough to be married to, are a saint.

I love you.

xoxoxo

Dear God...

Thank you for this beautiful life you have given me.

Thank you for my amazing, wonderful, selfless husband.

Thank you for my amazing, wonderful, beautiful, intelligent nuggets.

Thank you for a job that not only fills my heart with complete joy and gratitute every.single.day, but also pays the bills.

Thank you for a home that, while old, is placed in a beautiful setting where I can come home and b-r-e-a-t-h-e every day.

Thank you for the health of my loved ones.

Thank you God.

Dear Life...

Dear Life,

You have kept me so busy, I haven't even updated the blog in over a month. Yikes. Normally this wouldnt' matter, but considering this blog is my children's baby book...this is problematic. :)

Anywho...let's do a little recap of what's been happening in the Nagle household.

June - I finally finished the longest trial in the history of mankind and ended up with a result that I did not want. This took some time to recover from, and I'll blame my lack of writing partly on this. In fact, I'm still in the recovery stages.  We spent Father's Day camping in our favorite North Idaho place of heaven...Big Hank.  We love this place, and love to spend our time fly-fishing, hiking, and hanging out on the river waiting for a big bull moose to walk through the campground. This place is like the North Idaho version of Hawaii...if you can't relax there, you need therapy.

We moved right into July by heading out to Flathead lake for a week to spend the 4th of July there. This place is another taste of heaven. We spent the week at the bible camp that I attended as a child. It is a place filled with happiness, love, beauty, and most importanly, God's creations. We met some wonderful people, had some amazing couples time, and played in the most beautiful lake of all time for one solid week. We were able to recreate our family after a rough few months of chaos. How blessed are we?

We spent the next few weeks celebrating birthdays galore. We started out with my birthday and spent the day at the splash park enjoying some cooling off. Next up was Uncle Mooley's birthday, celebrated with cake at Nana & Papa's. And then Daddy's birthday, with a commemorative trip to Cabela's.

Now we are in a holding pattern until we pack up and head to the Dive to see the Nagles.  The nuggets are excited to spend time with cousins and Aunties and of course, Grandma Gail!