Well, it finally happened! We now have Emma and Elli living with us. We went to Grand Junction this weekend and picked them up. They seem to be doing ok. They have certainly had to deal with a lot in their young lives. They are happy to be here and had their first church experience today.
We had a lot of time spent in the car the last couple of days. We left on Thursday at noon and headed to Richfield and spent the night then we got up early and headed to Grand Junction on Friday, not knowing for sure if we were going to get to bring them home with us, but the judge came through and signed the court order Friday morning. We then headed back to Richfield with the girls and our car loaded to the max. We had some family time with grandma and vicki and cath and kids and spent the night in Richfield. We got up and went to decorate the graves of Gordon (Gary's dad) and Maxine (my mom) and then we went to Michaels and Tonias and spent time with the grandkids ( I got lots of loves). Kaia was not sure about us but she warmed up to us kind of and let me hold her. Michael came home from work and barbecued us hamburgers and hot dogs and then we headed home. Four and a half hours later we finally made it back to Alamo. I am so glad to be home.
We so appreciate all of the help we are getting from the family as far as the girls are concerned. Everyone has stepped up to the plate to help make this as easy as possible for them to make the adjustment. We have the best kids in the world to be so helpful to us.
I will post pictures of them later.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Hello again
Wow, I think it has been a month since I last posted on my blog. I would like to say it was because I was so busy having so much fun tooling around the world in my private jet, but you know, that isn't true. Quite a few little changes are taking place around here.
School is almost over for the year. We only have a couple of weeks left and they are really mostly down time as far as the classroom is concerned. We have some fun days planned and field trips so the teaching is really over with now and we are just babysitting til the end of the year.
I had to take a quick little jaunt to the hospital last week. The dr. here thought I might be haveing appendicitis so he sent me over to St. George. As it turned out, it was colitis. Everything is fine now.
Gary was thinking ahead for the summer the other day and decided he couldn't get through it without his ice so since the ice machine on our fridge was not working (it leaked too much and was ruinging our floor so we had to disconnect it) he bought a new fridge and dishwasher (mine wasn't cleaning at all anymore) and with the wonderful help of Aaron (we don't know what we would do without him) he got those changed out last night. It was wonderful. Angela and I have been washing all the dishes by hand for months and already I have run 2 loads through the dishwasher and they were clean!!!
Speaking of Aaron, what a sweetie, he always steps up to help us out. He is very willing to mow the lawn, pull weeds, or do whatever else needs to be done. You can't believe how thankful we are to him for all he does for us.
All of the grandkids are great. I actually am going to be sad to not have Tyson in my class anymore. I love seeing him so much every day and he is a great kid and a wonderful, smart student. I know that in a couple of years we will get to repeat the process when Ryan is in 5th grade. I am looking forward to that because he is a math smartie. He already knows a lot of his times tables.
We finally got the phone call we have been waiting for for so long. The girls are coming!!! We have a meeting with them and their therapist on May 22 and I think we get to bring them back at that time. Yeah!! I know it is going to be a long, hard road, but I know these girls are worth it and I can't wait to get them here.
Well summer weather is finally on it's way and I love it. I love to sit out on the deck and rock little Kaden and sing to him. He is so cute but getting big fast. Also he was blessed last weekend and we had fun seeing Brock and Jaylee and Jason, and Leslie. We were really excited to have Tonia, Jercie, Blze, and Kaia here but they decided with the flu raging they better not come so that sweet little Kaia didn't get sick again. We are going to stop and see them when we go to Colorado. I have to get Blazes' birthday present ready for Jeremy and Andrea to take to St. George tomorrow when they meet up with Tonia. All of my grandkids are getting so big. I want to just hold them and squeeze them and kiss them a lot but some of them are to big to like that anymore.
Well, I better stop for now because I have to get ready to take Gary to the Dr. today. I hope everyone is doing great.
School is almost over for the year. We only have a couple of weeks left and they are really mostly down time as far as the classroom is concerned. We have some fun days planned and field trips so the teaching is really over with now and we are just babysitting til the end of the year.
I had to take a quick little jaunt to the hospital last week. The dr. here thought I might be haveing appendicitis so he sent me over to St. George. As it turned out, it was colitis. Everything is fine now.
Gary was thinking ahead for the summer the other day and decided he couldn't get through it without his ice so since the ice machine on our fridge was not working (it leaked too much and was ruinging our floor so we had to disconnect it) he bought a new fridge and dishwasher (mine wasn't cleaning at all anymore) and with the wonderful help of Aaron (we don't know what we would do without him) he got those changed out last night. It was wonderful. Angela and I have been washing all the dishes by hand for months and already I have run 2 loads through the dishwasher and they were clean!!!
Speaking of Aaron, what a sweetie, he always steps up to help us out. He is very willing to mow the lawn, pull weeds, or do whatever else needs to be done. You can't believe how thankful we are to him for all he does for us.
All of the grandkids are great. I actually am going to be sad to not have Tyson in my class anymore. I love seeing him so much every day and he is a great kid and a wonderful, smart student. I know that in a couple of years we will get to repeat the process when Ryan is in 5th grade. I am looking forward to that because he is a math smartie. He already knows a lot of his times tables.
We finally got the phone call we have been waiting for for so long. The girls are coming!!! We have a meeting with them and their therapist on May 22 and I think we get to bring them back at that time. Yeah!! I know it is going to be a long, hard road, but I know these girls are worth it and I can't wait to get them here.
Well summer weather is finally on it's way and I love it. I love to sit out on the deck and rock little Kaden and sing to him. He is so cute but getting big fast. Also he was blessed last weekend and we had fun seeing Brock and Jaylee and Jason, and Leslie. We were really excited to have Tonia, Jercie, Blze, and Kaia here but they decided with the flu raging they better not come so that sweet little Kaia didn't get sick again. We are going to stop and see them when we go to Colorado. I have to get Blazes' birthday present ready for Jeremy and Andrea to take to St. George tomorrow when they meet up with Tonia. All of my grandkids are getting so big. I want to just hold them and squeeze them and kiss them a lot but some of them are to big to like that anymore.
Well, I better stop for now because I have to get ready to take Gary to the Dr. today. I hope everyone is doing great.
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