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!!!

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/

Well since May I've taken over 600 pictures... have you seen any of them??? NOPE... I've been a real SLACKER I guess!! I haven't meant to but it is what it is. So I'll do some catch up posts here over the next little while. Some of them will be really old, but after the cold weather today maybe it will be nice to see some warm stuff :)

So here is what Chad and I worked on in May... Our garden. We cleared out the whole back corner of the back yard and then put up a fence. I can't find the pictures of that right now?? We planted 40 different kinds of fruits and veggies. We were so happy with what we had accomplished.

We tried to router till all that grass up after trying to take it out by hand but neither one worked. So we rented this tiller... It worked like a dream!!! Like taking a warm knife through butter :)

The only draw back to this was that now Chad is convinced that we now need to acquire one!!! I'm thinking that when we get out of this mess we've been in he'll be pushing for one!! lol

It looked Awesome and we put a ton of hours into it, the heartache was that the gate did not work at keeping the dogs out of it. They decided that they also loved all the work we did to make them a "play area". I think all the manurer we put in did it in for us. We did everything including putting our dog run back up to keep them out. Ultimately they won and destroyed our work.

Just wait till next year!!

They will HATE life if they even step one single paw in there!! lol

No really we think we have it figured out for next year. I did read that dogs are really hard to keep out of gardens. I read a post that had hundreds of people that were struggling with it. Didn't help that all three of them were ALL young puppies this spring...

NEXT YEAR!!! IT'S ALL OURS!!

We're already planning it :)

It started out on Saturday morning 5-24-08 at 7:30am. Chad helped on our Ward clean-up day and then a service project. They went and cleaned up green and household waist.

Chad and Abe loading up the truck.

Out to go get some more.

How many men does it take to mow a lawn? lol

Getting the job done!!

Chad was finishing up at the dumpster and was going to go see them pull a tree stump out with a large wrecking tow truck (for Semi Trackers). When he took his eyes off for just a minuet and hit one of the neighbors van. He felt so bad and I was really discouraged at another miss hap in our string of them lately.When we got done with helping her and all that is involved with that I turned to Chad and said very passionately,

"I NEED A PEPSI".

So off we went to get my Pepsi and 8 1/2 hrs later we got home. Yes that is right an all day Pepsi.

What did we do well that is a good story, and here it is:

Well we started out getting the Pepsi and then just started driving and talking we didn't stop till 8:30p.m. when we got home. We ended up, starting at the Timpanogos Temple for a while, and watched all the Brides there. Including seeing our Bishops family show up for their daughters weeding. Ops there we are sitting in our "grubbys" just talking about our lives and getting away from the craziness of it all. So we decided to go and then went to see Grandma's house in Springville. Neither of us have been there since we helped clean the last of her things out of the house (I think about 2 years now). It has been hard for both of us to go back. It was good to go, see, and talk about good times and memories we shared.

Then we decided to go up Hobble Creek canyon, have lunch on top, and come back down. Well when we got to the top we were slipping and sliding around (it was raining, hailing, and snowing on us too) so we decided to just keep going and go down off the other side. While we were headed out of Diamond Fork Canyon we ran upon two dogs that looked liked they had run away from there owners. Well after 3 hrs of trying to find there owners we got them home. We had them in the back of the truck, still with the lawn mower in it, after all we were only going for that Pepsi...LOL...

Here are Rugger and Ziggy back home.

RUGER

ZIGGY

That was Saturday. On Sunday we had just eaten lunch when we heard someone at the door. I opened it an it was my uncle and aunt Dave and Marleen from Roosevelt, UT. We were sitting and visiting and found out that they had just bought a new mattress and box springs. They were going to come back down on Monday and take it back home. So we offered to get it and take it back with them now. So we got in the truck and did just that. When we got to there house we sat and visited a bit and got home at 1 a.m. (Chad had to be at work at 6:30 this morning). We both felt so good being able to help someone (FAMILY) that had done so much to help us, we didn't even mind a little lack of sleep.

Marleen and Tammy visiting
We were having a good time just catching up
Look Chad got a bug in the bag of the mattress!!

SHAME ON HIM!! :)

Chad's "I TOLD YOU SO"...

HAPPY DANCE!!

Ok this was a hard on for me to swallow. I gave him a hard time about driving so slow and Dave had just told him how fast he was REALLY going. Chad was right the truck isn't calibrated, and it is going 5-10 miles/hr faster than the gage says it is. I admitted I was wrong and he was right!! That doesn't happen very offten you know...LOL

All in all, it was a great weekend... those unplanned "road trips" gave us great ALONE time and we were able to talk and just enjoy our time together as husband and wife. It is a weekend we are going to remember for a long time to come. We were able to make some great future plans and set some goals for ourselves. One of those rare oppertunities that you take (or are forced to take) time for yourselves that change your life and the direction that it is taking. I'm greatful for the oppertuntity that was given to us.