Kiss me I'm Irish!

Well not really but it is fun to say!
Happy St. Patricks Day!

March is National Kidney Disease Awareness Month

Today is World Kidney Day. I wasn't aware there was such a day but I guess today is the day. I did not know my kidneys were failing until I only had 75 % function left. Still enough to live on but they continued to fail. That was March 1997 and by July 1997 I was on hemodialysis. It happened very fast and I was very young, only 21. I didn't do very well on dialysis and had everything go wrong that could possibly go wrong. I spent a year in and out of the hospital living life on dialysis, 3 hours a day 3 days a week :( Although I had 3 matchs ( mom, dad, and brother) to donate I had to get well enough to go through the surgery. Luckily I was able to stick with it and on my 22nd birthday I received the gift of life from my mom. She gave me life 22 years before and again 22 years later. The BEST birthday gift I have ever received. Thanks mom! I made a very long story short and cut out all the stuff I wish I could forget, but I just felt like celebrating my tx today. I am greatful everyday for the second chance at life and today I am thinking about all the hundreds of thousands of people waiting for a second chance at life, as well as all the donors and donors' families who may have to make a very difficult decision . So if you haven't signed your donor card yet please do so, most importantly tell your family your wishes because the signature on the drivers license is not enough. As the saying goes...... "don't take your organs to Heaven, Heaven knows we need them here on earth "! I wouldn't be here today without my mom making the choice to donate.
Happy World Kidney Day!
Thanks for reading my story and say a prayer for everyone waiting for a second chance at life.

I want a vacation!

I was looking at the pictures on our computer and came upon our cruise trip from a 1 1/2 yeas ago. If we aren't going on vacation now then I will remember our great vacation then. We had such a great time, we traveled the western caribean and saw Haiti, Jamaica, Cozumel, and our favorite, Georgetown Grand Caymen. It was fun to see all the different countries. We defiantly want to go back to Grand Caymen and spend 7 days on 7 mile beach. Ahhh, sounds like heaven! This was the first time going on a cruise for both of us. We had a great time and would love to do the eastern caribean. A cruise can be very relaxing!
We always plan a vacation every year but this year we are going to try to have a baby so the vacation is on hold for now, hopefully not forever. But it may take up our vacation fund for this year but defiantly well worth it. We are going to go to disneyland in May with my parents and my brothers family, thanks to my parents. So at least we have a small get away planned, it will be fun, I love disneyland.
Sorry this post was boring but not much new in the ensworth house and I was dreaming of a sunny place and a nice tan! enjoy the pictures I know I did :)

caution.... you will want a vacation after this!

our "new friend" wants to sell us something!

I love this guy!

oh look at the tan, I hear the chair calling my name!

all dressed up for dinner

Memories......

fresh water falls in jamaica that we climbed

we met this couple from our cruise and traveled the roads of jamaica in a taxi with them,they were from holland.

the gorgeous waters of grand cayman 7 mile beach

I think it is calling my name......!

our future home on the water ways of fort lauderdale! just a dream of mine

Trip to the snow again !

Jessica going sledding!

The group hiking up the hill to sled
Mike, Matt and Jen (hidden) being pulled on their snowboards by Mikey

Matt and I

Matt, Me, Mike, Heidi, Leon, & Jen on Sunday

Mikey and Jess left on Saturday :(

Matt and I went to the snow again this past weekend. It was a lot of run. Jen and Mike hosted a "friends" weekend at their cabin. We played in the snow, ate great food, laughed, ate more great food and laughed a lot more. The conversations you get into with close friends are so random and can last into the wee hours of the night, it is great!! Thanks again Mike and Jen for such a great weekend, are you planning another "friends" weekend?

It snowed most of the day Saturday and all night. We woke up to about 2 feet of new snow! the sleds didn't work as well on the fresh powder as it did on the solid ice, but we improvised and used the snow mobile to help with the "speed " of things. It was also great to be pulled back up the hill rather then hiking back up :) All in all we had another fun time in the snow and it was great to get away from everything. Thanks Ryan for taking care of Sadie for us, we really appreciate it! We sure missed her though, she would have loved the snow!

Whats your real age?

Go to this website http://www.realage.com/homepage.aspx and see what your real age is. I did it, and lets just say my real age is older then my actual age :( But I got some good ideas as to what will help decrease my real age. I did the WHOLE thing, so make sure you continue after they give you your first real age. I saw this on a website I like for transplant receipents. It was really cool. I think it was on Oprah as well. Let me know how you did, maybe we can work on getting younger together ( Crystal I am still trying to get Matt to sign me up, he is a procrastinator sometimes). Have Fun....... :)