A poem sent by a friend (Turkey) to warm my heart!

I received the poem below in an email from my friend, Turkey.

Turkey - Thank you for sending this poem. It made me cry and when I need comfort, I go back and read it. Especially lately, lots of babies are on their way to wonderful mothers that we know. But as the poem says, Matt's and mine, will be delivered through a special carrier of our very own.


It's called "Just the Same" by Diana Lynn Lacey

Sometimes---
God sends rain straight from the sky to nourish the young flower and it grows.

Sometimes---
God sends rain from the sky to the mountaintops, then over hills and through valleys until it reaches the flower and it grows, just the same.

Sometimes---
God sends a child straight from His realm into a mother's arms and love grows.

Sometimes---
God sends a child from heaven to another's arms, then over hills and through valleys until he reaches the arms of his mother and love grows, just the same.



***Our dear precious little one that we don't know yet, we think of you often, pray for you often, and we wait for the day you will be in our arms and we will call you OUR own!***

A little Tatter Baby of our own!

Easter fun with the Elswoods

We spent the Saturday before Easter with our best friends the Elswoods. David and Kristen with our adopt-a-kids, Gracie, Katie, and Parker.

Matt went up early on Saturday to build a suprise for the girls. A house for the sand box. This house has a door bell and a window that slides. The girls had no idea about the house. Matt and I gave them some bubbles and we asked if they wanted to go outside and blow them. So outside we went and they didn't even notice the house for a little bit as they were so intent on getting the bubbles open.

Well Katie finally noticed the house. Here are some of the fun surprise:

After the fun with the new house, we ate dinner, and then colored Easter Eggs. Matt and David help Gracie and Katie color the eggs, while I got to write on the eggs before we colored them. Here is our fun!

 I wrote all of our names on the eggs. Some turned out better than others. Matt and I got our pictures taken with our adopt-a-girls. Thanks David and Kristen for letting us be part of the family. We love you and the girls, and Parker (who was in bed), so much! You are our family!

 Matt and I posed for a couple of pictures with our Eggs. Thanks David for taking our Photos!

To document the occasion on me spelling Kristin's name wrong. I do have an excuse though, a lousy one, but I have an excuse. I wasn't feeling the best and I work with a Kristen at work and always have to change her spelling because I spell it Kristin's way. So David took the opportunity to document my mistake. I get a reminder every couple of years how to spell Kristin's name correctly. Love you KristIn. :-)

Proud to be an American!

I took this picture some time ago on my cell phone. It captured a beautiful sunset and our American Flags blowing in the breeze. I am so thankful for the country we have to live in and for the people who fight for our freedom.

Recently one of my closest and long time friends, Brian, came back from fighting oversees. I am glad he is back safe. Thank you to all that serve for our Country!

Memories from the weekend with Arlee

We got to watch Arlee while my sister, Chelsey and her husband Hans, went to Louisanna.

I have been reminded again that kids are a serious hazard to your sleep schedule.

1st night - She woke up at 8:00am
2nd night - She woke up at 6:30am
3rd night - She woke up at 3:30am, 4:30am and stayed awake until 6:30am. We finally fell asleep in my bed and Chelsey showed up at 7:30am to get her.

LOUSY Sleep schedule.

Other fun memories-
  Potty Training.

• Keep her on schedule...every three hours we visit the bathroom...not much fun especially if SHE doesn't think she needs to go.
• Bridding can work, but doesn't work all the time
• Diapers overnight are a must

Arlee says the cuttest things:

• Whoopsie
• I got it
• Love you (at 4:30am when she won't go to sleep)
• Quotes from her favorite movies
• I especially like watching Tarzan with her
• She would dance to the music
• Sing the songs and even beat her chest like Tarzan
• Church
• Trying to get her ready and go to church was an adventure. She DIDN'T want to go!
• During Young Women's, she sat on my lap the whole time
• During Sunday School, she fell asleep on my shoulder and stayed asleep through sacrament.
• When we got home, she put on my shoes, walked down the stairs with my help, and for 5 minutes walked around the house saying, "Go to church" and "Bye, go to chuch"

I love Arlee and being able to watch her. It was fun pretending to be a mom for that weekend!



Drapes...we made some

So after we moved into our new place...we found that our bedroom was too light at night and we were having trouble sleeping, so we bought some drapes. Well they only come in certain lengths and the ones I bought needed to be hemmed about 30 inches, so I came up with the bright idea to use the extra material and make drapes for the small bedroom upstairs.

I wanted it to be dark enough for Arlee to sleep and when we have a baby for the baby to sleep too.

Well I asked my mother-in-law for help.

We went and bought some extra fabric, pieced the drapes together, and we finished. My mother-in-law sewed, I helped pin and did the ironing.

Here are pictures from our adventure and the drapes don't look that bad either.

 

Young Women....diamonds in the rough

As I have posted before, I am the Young Women's President in my ward.

Well the weekend before conference I had that opportunity to take 5 Young Women down to the conference center to listen to the General Young Women Broadcast. It was uplifting, spiritual, and a reminder to me.

The Young Women in our world today face so many challenges that have changed, since I was in Young Women's. I am thankful for the opportunity I have to be around beautiful daughters of Heavenly Father and the lessons I learn from them and the ones I get to help them learn.

They are amazing and I hope if I have daughters they can be spiritual giants like some of these girls are.

Thankful for their example and the love they show for me!

New place...Finally Getting Clean

It has been 4 weeks since we moved today. It has been interesting getting everything put together. We finally put our clean clothes away and got the bedroom all set up on Thursday night. Why did this take 4 weeks? All I can say is Matt has been crazy with school and I have been crazy with work and Young Women's. So why did we finally get this done, well we get to watch Arlee for another weekend. We haven't watched her since Thanksgiving. I have been nervous about it, because she is in the process of being potty trained and I don't have any experience with this let alone wanting "accidents" to happen. Not my cup of tea.

Well I got off work last night and went to pick her up at my mom's house. She was wearing this:

Absolutely adorable. I finally got her to take it off while we were eating dinner.

Mind you when we left my mom's house she cried for 10 minutes for her mom and dad. She finally settled down 5 houses away from my house. Yeah.

It was interesting putting her to bed and cute at the same time.

I got woken up this morning by Matt and Arlee saying "Wake up Abbie" and "Its snowing outside". Adorable. Well when Matt laid her down with me, he so casually mentioned that she needed a diaper change to. Well he was right, she was poopy! What a fun mess.

Bath time, breakfast, don't forget to ask if she has to go the bathroom every 3 hours, play time, and currently nap time. Check back the next time I post. I will let you know how it is going or went.

All I can say is I want the pleasure of having my own and getting to hear all the cute, fun, silly, and off the wall things they have to say.

My favorite so far is "Whooopsie"!

Till next time