Happy Birthday to my Mattie!!!!

Yet another birthday with Matt being in school. I usually get to only go to the hospital and have dinner with Matt, because he has clinicals. Well this year was a little different as his birthday was on Sunday. So I went to the hospital on Saturday and had lunch with him as he was doing a 12 hour clinical rotation. We watched a movie when I got home at 9:00pm.

Before going to bed, I put out Matt's birthday present. He found it on the kitchen counter when he got up for breakfast. I gave him the Biggest Bang Theory, season 1. He also got money for scrubs from my mom and the Biggest Bang Theory, season 2 from his mom.

We ate dinner at his parents house with our sister-in-law, Amy, and our niece, Tali, and nephew, Jairus. His mom had a cake for him. We sang Happy Birthdy and I took a couple of pictures.

Happy Birthday, my Mattie, your now 29 years old!




Mattie getting ready to blow out his candles....wonder what he wished for?!?

Tali thought she would make her on little ice cream stick....well ice cream on a fork.

My favorite picture of the day....Matt holding Jairus and making him laugh. I can't wait to take a picture when Matt is a Dad playing with our child.....That is what Matt should have wished for. :-)

Bridal Pictures....Shhhh, its a secret!

Kali asked me to go to her Bridals with her. It was fun. We went to Memory Grove with my mom and the photographer. Well my mom carted the sheet, I carted the rest of the stuff and took pictures of Kali from different angles than the photographer.

Also, I asked Kali if I could post these. She said Shawn doesn't know my blog, so it didn't matter.

She is beautiful and it was fun making her laugh, so that her smile wasn't fake. Just a side note, she had to have her dress extended 7 inches cause she is so tall. She makes me feel short.

Here are some.

Mom and Kali....the last daughter to get married. Just 3 weeks left.






The photographer is on the other side of the building. Wanted to get a different angle. Sure got it with Kali poking her head around the pole.

I was trying to get Kali in the background. Didn't do the best, oh well!

Matt says Kali always pulls the pouty face, so I told her to pull the face here.

Wedding Hair...Well Bridals anyway

My youngest sister, Kali, is getting married on October 9th. I told her I would do her hair, so we did a test run a couple of weeks ago to see if she would fire me or not. Well, I didn't get fired, so I did her hair for her bridals yesterday.

What a pain, not Kali, but her hair. It is thick. I mean the thickest I have had to do before and it has layers and is shorter that usual. So here is the story in pictures:


Started with the Rooster Look....Fabulous Darling, simply Fabulous!


Then we decided to melt the plastic bag on the curling iron. Definitely not the best idea. Took some time to clean it up.


Next some loopy loops, lots of curls, and some hair jewelry. Done - Two hours. She doesn't look happy, but she actually liked her hair.

This is what happens when you take it out. Kali is kind of a tender head and her head hurt after only 4 hours, so we will be looking at the half-up and half-down option as her hair will need to stay done for over 13 hours.

Dress-up

I love to play with my nieces, Kasiah and Arlee. They love to play dress-up. I got a picture of them laying on the ground as I couldn't get Arlee to stand.

Oktober Fest ...Labor Day Fun!

On Labor Day, I went with Matt's parents, my brother in-law, Brian, and sister in-law, Amy, and my niece Tali and nephew, Jairus to Oktober Fest at Snowbird.

Let me tell you it was the most beautiful day. Blue sky and perfect temperature. Well that is until I remembered I was high in the mountains and had a part in my hair, so my scalp got really burnt. OOPS! Won't ever happen again.

There are lots of rides at Oktober Fest, food, and people. The rides are really expensive, so I mostly enjoyed the weather and watched Jairus while Amy went on the alpine slide with Tali. The wait was 45 minutes long. Then we, well my mother in-law and me, while my father in-law slept on the grass, watched Jairus and Tali while Brian and Amy waited in line to the Zipline which was 1 hour and 20 minutes long. Worse than Disneyland and Lagoon. It was a nice day out, while Matt was at home doing homework.

Check out the pictures: I was working two cameras, so some the action pictures are on my sister in-laws camera. :-)


Waiting for Tali and Amy to come down the Alpine Slide

Jairus taking a nap. After having tried to puke on me. My least favorite thing is puke, but a sleeping baby boy is precious.

Waiting for Brian and Amy to come down the Zipline. Tali was really good for the most part as she wanted to wonder around alot.

Matt's Office is complete..except for the Internet

So Matt was looking over our Blog and saw the picture I took of the computer with everything a mess. He said I should take another picture, so I did after he set up the computer and bought a flat screen monitor from KSL.com for $50.00 and a chair from Office Depot's Labor Day sale for $50.00. His parents also gave us there spare chair mat. Yeah! Now he can do his homework mostly. We are just waiting for the internet. Taking over a week for them to call to install it, but pretty soon we will have the internet too. WOW!
So it has been almost two years since Matt and I decided to try and adopt. Most people don't know what the adoption process is or how it goes, so I wanted to write about it.

HOPE - - Adoption Information

So it has been almost two years since Matt and I decided to try and adopt. Most people don't know what the adoption process is or how it goes, so I wanted to write about it.

We went to the first adoption class on Halloween 2008. That seems like so long ago. We decided to go forward and get our adoption process started. We are adopting through LDS Family Services as the Church helps with the cost of adoption and raising the money for Private Adoption is really a long journey and can be financially risky.

The process starts with paying a deposit, so the Home Study can be completed. Our case worker interviewed Matt and I together and individually. She visited our home to make sure it would be safe for a child, and we had to have referrals from friends, family, and our bishop. We also had to complete alot of questions and compile a birth parent letter, photos, interesting facts about us, just to name a few. We completed background checks, a two day adoption course (where we saw my cousins who were also adopting that we didn't know about), and even finger printing.

It takes alot to get approved as a couple for adoption, but we finally got our approval and were posted one the ItsaboutLove website with more than 900 LDS couples nation wide.

Now the wait for our Little One!.....Still waiting, hoping, and praying for our Little One and for our Birth Mom to find us.

As we wait, we still live, and laugh with each other, and plan for the future, and HOPE!!!

HOPE stands for Heaven Opens Promises Everyday! We can't wait for the day when Heaven Opens is promise to us on our very special day when we get to bring home our Little One!

New Calling....Young Women's President

Today I was sustained as the Young Women's President of my ward. A little scary as I don't know what to do, but I already know most of the Young Women as I coached them in basketball last year.

I will do a lot of reading and praying to have help along with a great group of women I will get to serve with. Don't really know any of them, but had great feelings about each one.

The Desk Hunt

K. Matt started back to school. He no longer has the basement of our house to study in, so we had to find him a desk, so he wouldn't take up the entire front room. So I went on a search for a desk. It wasn't much fun as we didn't want to spend too much, but still wanted a desk that would be long enough for Matt to use the computer and lay his 9 books on. Well after two weeks of searching KSL.com and a dozen other sites for desks, I found one at the D.I. I walked in and it was just sitting there to purchase just for me. $75.00. Yes a great desk and it met all the qualifications that I was looking for and it was only $75.00.

I even took a picture of it I was so pleased with my find.


Now I just need to find a flat screen monitor that doesn't cost $200.00, an office chair, and an internet service that isn't a fortune.

With Matt in school at Weber and getting a Bachelor in MRI and CT at the same time he spends alot of time at clinicals, work, or homework. Once in a while I get to see him other than bedtime or the occasional date. 16 months to go!!