Hello Hello

All right I got some fun pics! The past few weeks have been pretty good. Our house still hasn't sold but we have had a handful of people come through. If any of you know anyone looking to buy a house in Spokane washington send them to us. It's a cute little starter home. I am hopeing that we won't have to pay two house payments when we are in California!

So I am trying to get pics up for you all to see but I can't get it to work so we will have to try again another time.

It seems weird that we are just biding our time here until we leave. I have a few weeks left of work and although I love the people that I work and our clients I am finding it hard to stay focused. There is not much more we can do with our house aside from keep it clean and wait for it to sell. And we can't really look for housing down there until we know if our house sells, so I feel like we are at a moot point. I am enjoying spending time with our families and friends but know that I truly won't appreciate it until we are gone.

I am sad that our parents and siblings won't be around for when we receive our child(ren) although we will visit them and they will visit us. We have been so spoiled being stationed in the same city that we grew up in. But I am so excited for this new stage in our life. I think Heavenly Father has been preparing us for this.

Also we are going to need to find a new home our puppy Lola, she is adorable and beautiful but we won't be able to take 2 dogs with us, not because the military won't allow but we will not be able to afford housing that will allow two dogs. Sad huh? So also if any of you know of someone who would want a "red" (really brown) doberman pinscher who is up on her shots, micro-chipped, potty trained, and knows her basic obedience let us know!

Hope you all have a great Holiday weekend!

Amazing!

Not much to say other than it is absolutely gorgeous here in Spokane today! The weather is perfect.........sunny, green, smelling like the change of seasons, and warm! And best of all Lindsay was able to come home last night. I always get so relieved when he comes home, it's like he is my calm and sereneness. So lovely! Even everyone at work has noticed how much happier I seem today, I am so glad he is back!!!!!

Going where?

All right, so I haven't had a computer in forever and don't really have the right to post at work but I am on my lunch hour and thought I would get a quick one in while I could. Our lives have been thrown upside down with every emotion in the last month or so.

-We were officially approved for adoption with our profile going out.

-I was a great advocate for adoption and was able to change our agency policies at my work surrounding time off for those adopting. I must add I created a great argument to the Board of Directors about the importance of visits with social workers, etc. to take appropriate time off without using vacation hours! And I heard that only one person in the quorum of decision makers was opposed!

-Lindsay and I found out that we are receiving orders to move to Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California!!!!! We leave in just a couple of months..............

-Thereby we put our house on the market and are hoping that it will sell quickly and at a price where we won't end up upside down. Yikes and yet exciting all in the same sentence!

-Thus we also will no longer be approved once we get to Cali because we will need to pay some money, get new background checks done, and a new home study..................craziness..............the wait continues.

However, we will be in beautiful weather year round! We will have plenty of room for company to stay when people want to take a vacation and depending on how things go I may not have to work!!!!!!

On another note, this weekend my family and I went to coast of washington to visit with family and celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday with a party! It was so fun and nice to see people. Pics to come soon once my computer at home comes back.

Hope everyone else is doing well, I haven't even been able to check up on other people much. I have totally missed it. Enjoy this week!

Sommer

Some fun pics!

All right so this was me trying on all my winter gear for Lindsay before I went on the campout. I was totally a black marshmallow girl, and I was so hot wearing it in the house!

This is from a hike that we did on saturday....the weather was beautiful and the dogs had a good time!
This picture is my favorite! Lindsay and I have the same hiking books in different colors and not only are they comfortable but whenever I see them they make me smile because I associate them with fun and outdoors!
This is a pic of Lindsay playing with his new found hobby stuff..............Guns! Yikes, I let him get a hand gun a year ago and it's been down hill from there. He is addicted to shooting, and as in the picture here, making his own bullets. His favorite thing is to measure out the gun powder. He is so my favorite goofball.
And this was me waiting for Lindsay to get the camera situated while on our hike. I didn't know he took it, but again the hike was beautiful one day I hope to have home here in the pacific northwest with huge picture windows to look at the beauty every day. I love it!

Good night to all!

UPDATES!!!

All right so since it's been so long since I have posted I think I will do this in a list style this time. I like lists anyways, nothing feels better than knowing exactly what is there to do, and to be able to check things offf....so here goes

finishing out March....
-Lindsay went on another trip.
_I went snow camping and had an absolute blast! I stayed warm and got to ride snomobiles for the first time. I had my dear friend Beth from the ward come with me and it was so fun hanging out with her and talking. She is amazing. While we were riding snomobiles at first she was in front of me riding and she would kick up her heels over bumps and things, it was making me laugh out loud! So then when we were headed back I was in front of her and I was doing silly things also like when we were headed up a hill I leaned way back with my feet in the air kicking. It was such a riot!
-We finally got a letter in the mail stating that we are APPROVED OFFICIALLY!!!!! Our profile has been sent to all of Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon! We are so excited. Our website isn't quite up yet, but this week Linds will be out of town again (those darn rascals I would love to have him home for more than two weeks in a row) and he is taking the computer to finish up that last minute stuff.

April
-I went to my endocrinologist for an appointment regarding blood work and to decide on what to do. Previously he was just kind of getting a base line of things and wanted to keep an eye on Prolactin levels to see if there was sign of the previous tumor. Good thing is......my doctor is AMAZING! If anyone needs to see an endocrinologist up here in the Pacific Northwest my doc rocks! He takes as much time as needed, will explain things, gives me handouts, always walks me up to the sign out desk and puts his hand on my back and thanks me for coming, and he always personally calls me with the blood work results. How cool is that, I am not just a client to him but his patient to take care of! So this time we think I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. It has been bypasses this long because typically women with this disease are overweight and I am lean. So I started on a diabetic medication actually that is commonly used because it can be linked to insulin resistance and diabetes runs thick in my family. I was scared to start yet another medication but thus far I don't feel bad so I think I can handle this one!
-With this new med. if things are to be handled correctly in my body there is a chance that maybe we could get pregnant! Very exciting and yet scary to me too! I have yearned for that forever and think I always will and yet at this point I am so invested in our adoption. I know we would continue with adoption but emotionally how would I handle both? I guess I will cross that bridge if I get to it and for now just relish that we have made progress with both our adoption and with my health!
- Lindsay and I started a work out program for an adventure race that we are going to do at the end of May. I am STOKED! I can hardly wait! the link to our cool race is ...... http://www.nic.edu/activities/pursuits/challengeweb/ for any of you who would like to see what its all about. (Sorry I dont know how to do the cool link thing that everybody does!)
So we have been running and this weekend we went riding.
- The weather was gorgeous this weekend, up in the 70's, which totally gets me excited for riding my bike to work. I was thinking about doing it this morning but we woke up to rain so maybe tomorrow ( or maybe I am just making an excuse).


So there you have it my life in a nutshell. I have som pics to post but need to get the memory card uploaded, so soon hopefully for you guys!

I have a confession to make

So I might have been a bad pet owner this evening, actually I really was one, a bad one. So in all of the years that we have had Boomer (3) I don't ever remember him going poop while on a walk, thus we never take baggies or anything with us because he doesn't like doing it on the go and having people watch him. So because I am used to that habit, tonight when I daringly took both of the dogs for a walk at the same time ( I know, I'm courageous) I didn't bring any with me. So we are walking along and Lola is giving me a terrible time while Boomer excitingly enough is walking very well on his leash and all of sudden instead of pulling hard to go forward, she is walking next to me and then behind me. I look back and she has been pooping as we are walking and I didn't notice. I feel bad, but not terrible because it's in the middle of the road, so while unsightly it's not in someone's yard. So I keep walking, then next thing I know we are close to grass and she finishes it off, and this time on the edge of someone's yard. I check my pockets just to make sure magically one had appeared but no. So I walk away embarrassed and knowing that I just did something a pet owner should never do. I have survived to tell you all, but I am not proud. Lesson learned.....Next time I will bring two bags! Just in case both decide to go.

And so I thought this walk would be good cause Linds left town yesterday and he is the best at exercising them and so since they lounge with me it would be nice to get some of their energy out and it's staying lighter out later......well I think I just amped up Lola!

Anyhow on another note, this weekend my friend Beth from our ward and myself are going snow camping with the Young Women from our ward. At first I was not that excited but now that she is going with me and the more I think about it I actually am really excited! I had a picture to post with me trying on a bunch of cold weather gear that I have the other night, but Lindsay took the camera with him. He was all cute, making me get everything out and trying it on before he left to make sure I had everything I need. Simply sweet!

This weekend I went to Time Out for Women and it was amazing!!!! I had a hard going at first because I walked in and about a million and a half women were pregnant or had small infants with them, but I took a couple of deep breaths and then I was good. The speakers were all amazing and Hilary Weeks and Mercy River were so awesome. Michael McLean was even there on Friday night and made a few shout outs on the adoption front with some of his song presentations! But I think the thing that hit me the most was that not only was it amazing to be with so many women of the same faith (remember I don't live in lucky Utah) but Hilary Weeks sang a song that she hasn't released yet but will be on her next album called "Just let me Cry" it talks about having a hard time and don't ask when, or why but just let me cry, it says the pain wont go away today and something about it being ok but today just let me cry. It was such a simple thing with all of the topics and speakers but so spectacular at the same time! Because that is exactly how I feel sometimes (although I am one who tends to hide away when I cry, but that is how I feel just let me be and support me through it but dont talk me out of it). It was awesome!

Let's try this again

So I am going to try to get the pics up again. As far as updates go Lindsay is super busy this week with and "exercise", basically this means that the air force is simulating a real life event and practicing what they would do in that situation. They aren't allowed to really talk about it but it keeps them at work A LOT! I remember one time when we lived on the base hearing over loud speakers all these codes being called out for a few days straight, strange, and yet I am starting to find comfort in the military lifestyle. I know that we are in for the long haul so I am starting to find the great things about it and really find support.

I recently contacted the Family Support center on the base and they sent me this huge packet on adoption support in the military. We haven't read through it completely but Lindsay was skimming through it one night and found that they may be able to help with funding and have some fact sheets about military adoption myths. It was so nice to see that. To know that some of my deep fears were myths. And hopefully our birth mom will understand that even though our family is in the military that we will still be able to keep in contact and that the military life does provide stability even though we will have to move.

I found out yesterday that I will be promoted at work to bea supervisor. I have never been one before and I am really excited and yet nervous and scared too. But it will be good, I look forward to the challenge.

Now for the pics.....

Lindsay strumming on the guitar with his sweet voice coming out! He is amazing!

Me and the doggies hanging out reading a magazine. As you can tell they cant stand not touching us.

This was us one morning in our hotel room in Vegas trying to look cool, I obviously am tired and Linds is too cool to smile. What goombahs! We were trying to take a pic since we couldn't take the camera with us.

This was by the pool at our hotel the last day of our trip. That tank behind us was a shark tank, pretty cool.....especially at night when the tank was lit but it was dark out!

This was me on the bed at the hotel that we stayed at for Valentine's Day, it was a ton of fun as I mentioned earlier and the room was safari themed, totally fun!