5 Month Blog Break

Ok. I know it's been 5 months since I've blogged. But, since I'm not in school, the foster children are gone, and my three beach trips and one amazing Montana trip are all over, I guess I'll give it another shot. School starts in one week and my mornings will be quite lonely with my baby going to kindergarten (sniff, sniff) and Gracie starting first grade. So one of a few things will happen, I'll become one addicted blogger, have the cleanest house in the neighborhood or I might actually exercise and get in shape. I'm bettin' on the blog but anything is possible right?!!

One more month

I only have one more month of school and I'm out for the summer! I am ready to be done with this! I am looking forward to having time to take pictures again and update my blog with some fun stuff! Today we stayed for the unity dinner at church after the baptism. Our neighbor Derick was baptized today. Praise God ! We have been praying for him and his family for about 2 years. His wife and children came with him today and we were so glad to see them. Please keep this family in your prayers. God is doing big things in their lives. After church we celebrated Billy's 33rd birthday at my paren't house. I forgot my camera! (as usual) I'm hoping to buy a new one soon, (you'll have to help me shannon!) On another note, Billy and I only have 3 classes to go and we'll be done with our foster parent training. Technically we can have children placed in our home now because we've had our home study done. Initially we were only thinking of ourselves, wanting another baby and all, but as we're going through the training we've found out that the foster care system encourages the foster parents to interact and mentor the birth parent's. Needless to say Billy was excited about this! He loves sharing the Gospel with someone new. We are so blessed to be able to do this!

FIGHT GIRLS FIGHT

I don't usually encourage my girls to fight but this is fun! Billy & I bought a Wii and the girls love the boxing game. Billy and I stayed up until midnight playing Tennis. If you don't have one of these, I highly reccommend it, it is alot of fun!

And the madness begins

OK so it's here. its that time of year when we do the hurry up its the holidays dance and begin our running from place to place to place, back home, sleep, eat, work, shop, practice, place to place to place. Does this madness ever end?

So long old friend

We had to put our cat Cotton to rest today. His health declined really quickly this past week and he was really suffering today. You will be sadly missed little buddy.

Bad Hair Days

Ok so this is just a warning! For the next month or so my hair is going to look awful because I am trying to grow it out. I have had this cut for about 8 yrs and I want to grow it into a stacked bob like this, so please excuse my bad hair days

At the end of his days

I am sad this morning as I come to the realization that our 14 year old cat "Cotton" is at the end of his days.He has had a tumor on his side for a month or so and this morning he has a blown pupil and is drinking water constantly. Billy and I used to volunteer at the League for Animal Protection when we were first married 10 years ago. We had been volunteering for awhile and Billy, (not a cat person at all!) made friends with the biggest and sweetest cat in the shelter named "Cotton". We already had a kitten (our other cat Madison) at home but Cotton had such a funny personality that we decided to adopt him. He was already 3 years old when we adopted him and had been adopted and returned 4 different times. The last home he had the little boy became allergic so they locked him in a closet for several weeks before deciding to return him to the shelter. Needless to say we were his 5th and final home. He has always loved to drink out of the bathtub faucet. He has been known to ring the doorbell and one night he figured out how to turn the light on in our bedroom with his teeth. He has been quite a character in our home and our girls love him. He also loves to greet our company. He especially loves my friend Amy, he likes to eat her hair! I know this is a long blog about a cat but he has been with Billy and I since we were married and he was our first "adopted child". I don't know how much longer he will hang on but when he's gone we will dearly miss his loud meow as we get out of the car.