Today was a quiet day for me. I was home alone all day. I took advantage and took the steps that I needed to do to restore my computer. I had to take it back to the factory settings. Therefore EVERYTHING was whipped off the computer. If you know me, my LIFE is on this little piece of "technology" (as Jimmy would call it)... well ok WAS on this computer. I took the steps to save everything on my external drive so hopefully I will be able to move what I need back over. KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED!!!

With that all said thou, tonight I am grateful for two things:

FIRST is, to have Chad home with me. Safe and sound.

Second is that hopefully now my computer will stop crashing and I won't loose my work anymore.

** NOTE: Sassy went with Chad this time, Griz went with him the trip before. I took some pictures of Sassy in the truck with him, it was so cute... I'll have to get some with Griz now too. But here ya go!! She had a blast and I was glad that he wasn't alone and had some company with him. :)

Sassy and her first trip in the "Big Truck"

Chad says she did better than Grizzy did on the truck!! :) She looks like she's in charge!!

He had to barter with her to get her to share the bed with him!! But at least she was there to help him stay warm.. :) LOVE YOU TWO!!

I'll have to share the pictures he took of her on the truck... I'll have to re-load them... :} Something to look forward to another time.

I haven't posted for two days because I was working my bum off... I didn't get home from work till 3 am each of those days. Long story very short... DEADLINES and past employee NOT doing her job. So tonight I am VERY Grateful for my bed and to already being in it!!! Night all... More to come...

Later after some ZZZZZ'S!!!!

INTERVIEW DONE!!

Finished pulling the house together... a month of not being able to be on my leg more than 15 min without being in massive pain, makes it hard to have a Clean house vs a tidy house.

Got the fensing done around the window wells in the front of the house

(waiting till spring to have the covers made).

Both the boys to their Dr appointments, Chad to his two Dr appointments, Boys off to school, got my work day done, Jimmy off to Scouts.....

THEN.... OUR RFC INTERVIEW/MEETING.

YEAH!! We can have children with us ANYTIME now... 2 days to well "when ever"

HEW... ALL IN A DAY FOR ME!! LOL

Thank you Heavenly Father, I needed that help/STRENGTH today!!!

Now I'm going to head off to a very much needed LONG, HOT, SOAK!!

and to bed before 1 am tonight, I'm exhausted but VERY HAPPY!!!

Lucky Chad... He's already been asleep for an hour!!

He's doing better now that today is over.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND CHEERS!!!

I have posted on my Facebook how I feel about this picture. This is what got me searching for a new picture to begin with: "Retro week is over! Starting now, post a picture of someone fictional that you think best represents your personality. Be creative. It will be interesting to see what/whom you choose...Copy and paste this so we can all play along."

And here are a few of my comments about the picture and myself that I posted:

*We as Women are VERY strong and should share the strength with our families and the ones we are raising!! as well as our TENDERNESS :)

*I think that this picture stands for so much.. It was a time of change, some great...some not so great for all Women. It also for me shows my determination and my attitude towards life and all that I do. I CAN DO ANYTHING THAT I PUT MY MIND TOO!! I DO HAVE THE STRENGTH TO DO IT!!

I am grateful for this Strength, the knowledge of the inner strength to do what I need to do and know what that is. To be able to reach deep down inside and do what has to be done when the time comes. To be able to pull out all the stops and accomplish what looked imposable prior. And with all that, the knowledge that ALL this is possible because of a LOVING Father in Heaven and ALL strength is possible through CHRIST!!

I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE STRENGTH CHRIST GIVES ME IN MY LIFE!!

Just a quick note....

We are on the last step (I think) before we are able to have children in our home. We meet with our RFC tomorrow and we're a little anxious about it... Lots of emotions going on here. I just pray the Lord will help us and direct us in the way we are suppose to go to help these children that need so much and have had a hard "lot" in their lives. Wish us luck and keep us in your prayers!! oh... I didn't post that we have our licence already!!! yea!!! We picked it up the beginning of January!! Now we just meet the person that we will be working with at DCSF!!! and then

LET THE ADVENTURES BEGIN!!!

Oh boy... here we go :)

Lots of unknown ahead of us!!

If your up to helping out "our" children that need to be loved and have a safe home they need you!!

http://www.utahfostercare.org/

READING TIME

Jimmy sat with me tonight and read to me, just the two of us sitting together enjoying a few minuets to ourselves. It was some much needed quality time that we haven't really spent together in a long while. He got to stay up a LITTLE late, but it was worth it and he fell to sleep really quickly tonight, which is a miracle for that kid!! :) He said that tomorrow is my turn to read to him before it's time to go home :). He did say that Cheyenne reads to him, I'm so glad!!

Thank you Cheyenne for all you do with and for the boys!!

We love you!!

This post if for Monday... My computer is really having some major "issues"...

I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR

FAMILY NIGHTS!!

That is what we call it at our house... With our family having a "mixture" of religions and the up coming addition of new members in our home I thought that is the best thing for us to call it. Anyways... I am so grateful for our Family Nights!! The boys really look forward to it and having game time together!! We added about 6 games to our mix over the past 2 months and we are enjoying having new games to play and learn. The boys wanted to do something new Monday and we had a a Hair cutting night!! The boys finally decided that they wanted their hair cut short... shorter than I wanted to, so we compromised a bit. They look so good!! They were bouncing all over the house all excited!! Jimmy did let me know that he thought it should still be shorter... He wanted it "fuzzy" meaning buzzed to a #1... I did a #3.

Here are the results of the night. We had a fun night even Chad got his done. Not sure if that counts as a family night, but we were all together visiting and enjoying our time together... so it worked for me and I was glad to get some time with the boys,

it's been a while.

They wanted to see who cut more off... it was like a competition

Left was Chris's, Right was Jimmy's

I think he's happy, what do you think? :)

I Don't know about you, but you can't beat that smile!! That is one happy 5 year old!! He was running around laughing and dancing!!

He was SO HAPPY to have his hair cut!! LOL LOL ... I was totally laughing at/with him!!! :)

Successful FAMILY NIGHT!!

Today we studied the Creation in Sunday School...

and heard talks about Jehovah of The Old Testament...

I am SO GRATEFUL for both!!

Without the Creation we would not be here, we would not have the chance to be families, to learn and grow, to gain our bodies and experience the miracle of this life. How grateful I am for the knowledge and understanding of just how miraculous the Creation is and what this means to me and to ALL of God's Children. Our teacher made some great comparisons and I really liked this one...

"For God to explain the Creation to us is the same as explaining how a plane flies to a 5 year old, how do you do it so that they understand and it doesn't just pass them by with NO understanding." (of course paraphrased) Hence forth the explanation in the Bible of the Creation, is as if God explaining something to us that we just CAN'T grasp and yet helping us to understand it in the SIMPLEST of terms.

I really liked thinking of it this way and knowing I don't have to understand how it all happened, but just trust my LOVING God and know that he is in control of this GRAND plan of his and that Christ has followed it with the DEEPEST of DEVOTIONS and has paved the path for Me and You.

JEHOVAH

I have to admit that I learned something new today that me a member my whole life with a strong testimony should have known. Jehovah in the Old Testament IS CHRIST. I guess I may have known, just never gave it great thought to realize it. Another thought our teacher shared with us from a talk (I believe) was... The Old Testament is the Testament of Jehovah (Jesus Christ of the Spirit), the New Testament is the Testament of Jesus Christ and his mission of the Flesh, and the Book of Mormon and D&C another Testament of Jesus Christ. All four Standard Works being Testament of Him.

How GRATEFUL I am for all The Savior has done and will do for me and all of us. I am grateful for this knowledge and for the love I have and feel from God and His Son and that I have for them.

This Gratitude fills my heart, body, and Soul. I pray that I will always be true to this knowledge, and what the responsibility each of us has being a Child of God and all that in tells.

MOTHER NATURE!!

I am grateful to live were we get to experience 5 seasons!!

I know that many don't care for the snow but for me I love it...

This was last night while we were being pounded...

After just an hour of snowing!!

We need the moisture and it is so beautiful...

I love watching it fall and how quiet, calm, and light it is

outside while/after the snow fall.

Ok so after a day or two and it's all dirty not so much,

but this is a gratitude post not negative.. :)

Sassy was not happy with me that I wouldn't let her go BACK outside to play in the snow!! She was playing snowball fights with the neighbors...

She CRACKED me up!! LOL

The dogs stayed outside...

well I went to bed at 1:30 am and they still wouldn't come in.

I'll tell you what though they slept till about 1 this afternoon!! LOL LOL

They are so fun!! and they were VERY GRATEFUL for the snow!!

I'm grateful for LAUGHTER

You can have a long and exhausting day and yet when you've been able to laugh through it all and have fun with your loved ones, pets, and friends, it just puts it all into perspective!!

If you know me you know that I love to laugh!!

It is the MUSIC to my SOUL!! :)

I had a day FULL of laughter and I find myself tired but SMILING from ear to ear!!

My favorite scripture is:

"Adam fell that Men might be; and Men are, that they might have JOY"

I TRULY BELIEVE THIS AND TRY TO ALWAYS REMEMBER AND LIVE BY IT!!

I finally got the Christmas Tree down...

I know it's January 21st, but I've been hurt since the middle of December and haven't been able to do as much as I would like to and normally do around the house...

I am grateful that my knee has held out for two days so that I could get some

Very Much NEEDED things done in our home.

I am grateful for friends that allow you call them and set an "appointment" to come over just so you can "VENT" before you explode, and then rejoice with you when you feel better at the end of a much needed vent... it didn't even take very long... :)

I HAVE GREAT FRIENDS AND I LOVE YOU ALL

AND AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL!!

Well tonight I'm going to keep it short and sweet...

I am grateful that the Lord granted me the strength and stamina to make it through the day!

It was a really long day and I needed his strength to physically make it through it, and that is just what he did for me!!!

Thank you Heavenly Father!! :)

Ok so about an hour ago I was thinking about my day trying to decide what I was most grateful for. I was going through my wallet looking for receipts and found a FULL CAFE' RIO card. So since I'm home alone tonight I went and got a FREE DINNER. It's my fist Cafe' Rio salad in 6 months (to the best of my memory).

So I'm VERY GRATEFUL for my FREE SALAD!!!

YUM-O :)

(Thanks Rachael Ray... I love that word/phrase)

I am so grateful for my family!! Each and every one of them. Each one means the world to me and are the center of my world. Each one is unique and has a unique and special place in my heart and in my life. Even thou we may have some bumps in road we always find our way back to each other! and I'm grateful that we have each other!!

In the end FAMILY is all you have and WHO you are and WHAT your made of!!

THANK YOU FAMILY FOR ALL THAT YOU GIVE ME

EACH AND EVERY DAY!!

GRATITUDE

I know that my posts have been "wordy" lately, but I guess that is how I've been feeling lately. Like I need to get the words out of my mind and into the written word. I was thinking today that I could use my blog to post the things that I am grateful for. There is so much that I am grateful for that I need to thank the Lord and our Savior for all that they have given me. I have tried MANY times to start a gratitude diary and have never been able to follow through. So maybe I can do a QUICK post of 365 things that I am grateful for!! I thought this was a good way for me to think of other things than missing the boys...

#1: I am grateful that my Hubby was here with me today taking care of me, He has done a great job and has really shown me how much he cares about me. :)

THANKS BABE!!