A light at the end of the tunnel

Last year brought some hard times for my husband and I. In March we signed adoption papers for our two beautiful children to not live with us and for us to loose all legal rights of being their parents. That was the hardest thing we have EVER had to do. But we knew that we were doing a selfless thing , and that our children would be in a much better place.

In April we were told by our case manager that we would continue to have visits with our kids for another 6 months. much to our surprise on the next visit we were told that we only had one visit left and then everything would be done, and it would be up to the new parents as to when we get to see our kids.

More hard times and things happened through out the year, like not being able to see our youngest on his 4th birthday.

But then our world turned around when we met with some Elders and started talking to them about the LDS church and what it really meant to be a Mormon.

I am happy to say that on May 16th, and May 30th. Me and my husband were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.

Since then our life has changed for the better, we have had many blessings and made friends with such wonderful people.

I hope that this year brings many more blessings, and friends. And I hope that we will be bale to help those that are in need, like the many that have helped us.

What a gift

Lately I have been having really bad pains in my stomach. At first I thought It was just something I ate. But after a week of my stomach still hurting in the same spot and not being able to handle it. I had Vaughn take me to the urgent Care on Cortaro and Silverbell. to get it checked out. They did blood work and some other tests, to see if maybe I had a U.T.I. but all the tests came back normal. They explained to me that because it's a abdominal problem they are going to have to refer me to the E.R.

Long story short I went to N.W. Medical Center.They did some more tests gave me some Milk of Magnesia and some Morphine, and made me wait for an hour or so. When the doctor came back he told me all the blood work was fine and had me point to where the pain was. Then he so kindly started pushing in that area( I guess to see how funny I look when I'm in pain. he diagnosed me with an ulcer and gave me some Ranitidine and Viciden for the pain.

Wow do I know how to give myself a Christmas present or what? Maybe next year I can outdo myself, stay tuned to find out.

Pictures of Cody's Baptism

Me and my little man


Vaughn, Grammy, Cody, Alecia


Posing for a milk add



Vaughn and Cody

Had the time of my life and cried like a little baby. but I'm glad we were able to witness this. More pictures on my facebook account

Cody's baptism

I will never forget Saturday December 19th for as long as I live. Our oldest son Cody was baptized and Vaughn, Grammy, and I got to go. It was amazing to witness my little boy turning into a fine young man. His baptism was in Sahuarita were he and his brother now live with their new Mom and Dad. We were just very blessed to be a part of Cody's special day, and Cody was more than pleased to see us there. So was our little man Zachary.

Have tons of pictures to go threw and figure out which are the best to post in my next blog, but for now I am tired and need to go to bed. I will post more later with pictures of the baptism.

Here's your sign

Okay I know that I am a big girl, and that I could stand to loose a good 30-40 ounds or more.

But when I have 2 people in less than a week and a half come up to me and ask me What I'm having and when I am due. I know there's a really bad problem. Especially considering we have two girls at work that are both 5 months along with somewhat big belly's.

So I have made a promise to myself that I am going to start eating better and tryibng hard to lay off the sweets.

Wish me luck!

Proud of myself

Today is my oldest son Cody's birthday. And although it is tough to not see him on his birthday I have to say that I did pretty well today. I only cried 3 times through out my whole shift at work. Which is truly amazing.

Cody,

I really hope you are having a great day and got lots of presents. We'll see you on Saturday when you get baptized.

Love,
Mom

And the Moral of the story is...

Okay so the last couple days I have not been sleeping very well. So needless to say when I go to work I am tired and cranky. Well last night I finally got tired of being up until 3 am for the 4th day in a row, so around 2am, I took a sleeping pill that my doctor prescribed to me a while back to help me sleep .

BIG MISTAKE! By the time the pill finally kicked in I was out like a light. I ended up sleeping from around 2:30am until almost 3pm. Not good considering I was supposed to be at work at 9:30am.

I called my manager and she explained to me that this is the kind of thing that could get me fired from other jobs, but not from this one since this is a training facility to help me do better in other jobs. I explained to her that I'm very aware of that and thanked her for not terminating me.

The moral of the story this time: Never again am I taking something to help me sleep. Next time I will just have to suck it up