Our litle Princess

She likes to keep in touch with the Angles! She has such a sweet smile!

We love to snuggle weither it is with mommy or daddy snuggle time's the best!

Nikirhe Sofia Graham

December 04, 2009

Nikirhe Sofia Graham Born 12/04/09

Snuggling with my daddy

My first check up

Daddy feeding me at 4am in the hospital,

my first car ride, the car ride home

and Me chillin in the hospital!

Nikirhe Sofia Graham

7lbs, 2.2 oz. 20 1/2 inches long

Sleepless nights

Well I've been up for over an hour with the Walnut and she is in her swing with no sign of going to sleep thu far.

I think she is at the beginning of a growth spurt. She went from eating 4oz every 4 hours to eating 4 oz every 3 hours, then tonight after a bath she ate and slept for 5 hours, ate went right back to sleep and now she is wide awake at 3:15am!

I'm going to be a zombie later this morning. but hopefully when auntie sarah gets here i can get a few things done before Ernie gets home.

Well it has started to rain and I pray it stays above freezing as hubby is out driving in this mess. We are supposed to have snow for christmas! I sure hope so!

Walnut has decided to get fussy again so I better go tend to her.

~G~

Happy Day's!!!

So after my last post, my sister changed her mind once again! Praise Be to God for that!

On December 04, 2009 our beautiful Daughter NikiRhe Sofia Graham was born. (pronounced Niki ray) She weighed 7lbs 2.2 oz and was 20.5 in long! She has dark hair and so far has hazel eyes!
We got to bring her home from the hospital on Sunday morning and it has been such a challenging experience! I guess having one week to prepare has really kicked my butt! lol

We love her so much already. We are saddened by the fact that Holly has not got to meet her little sister yet and wish that she could come home soon to do so.

She is a great sleeper and loves to lay on her daddy's belly and sleep!

Heartbreak Again!

After asking us to adopt her baby my sister has changed her mind. Ernie and I are heart broken and grieving. We have tried for 11 years to have a baby and she has no clue what it is like to have so much love to give and have to watch everyone around you get pregnant and have babies they don't keep or want.

It's just not fair. I have turned off my ringer and don't want to talk to her or my mother.
I know I should not feel such dispare, at least she didn't wait until we had the baby in our home to change her mind.
I cannot imagine what she must feel trying to make a decision to place her baby for adoption, however she can't possible know how I feel.

A Dream Come True!

God has answered a prayer that has long been prayed by Ernie and I. We are going to be adopting a baby girl! She is going to be born Dec 4th! My sister was faced with an unplanned pregnancy. She has decided that she cannot give the baby a kind of home she thinks it needs.

She has asked us to adopt the baby and to be there to take the baby home from the hospital.
I pray that the Lord will allow everything to proceed smoothly and not have any issues.
We have NOTHING for a baby! We are going to have to do everything we can to make money.

OMG We need baby things! We need money for baby things and for baby to go to school! OMG!!

As the Holiday's approach

Sitting here tonight I am reminded all I have to be thankful for. I have an amazing husband, a good Christian family and my very best friend whom I've had for 25 years is still the best friend in the world.

I have had people come and go from my life and I have been sad or hurt or even felt nothing in some cases. In my 32 years I've had abuse, heartbreak, heartache, love, laughter, delight, joy and Jesus! Because I've had Jesus I have been able to endure the heartache, heartbreak and abuse. Because of Jesus I have been able to endure betrayal, divorce, drug use, poverty, homelessness and many other things.

If I had not grown up with loving Christian grandparents who prayed for me and with me and made sure I knew what the love of Jesus was, I don't think I would have lived to be 32. My mother worked hard and she was never afraid to let us see her cry, read her bible or pray. I always new my mom was a christian however she too stumbled in her walk like I did.
As I have gotten older I have grown to appreciate my mother much more.

I thank My Father in Heaven everyday for my loving family! For a mom who worked harder than most to provide for her 4 children. She never turned away a wayward teen and even when my friends were devious and mischevious she still gave refuge and allowed us to be teen misfits.

I thank God for my husband, he married me knowing I had a background of sexual, emotional and physical abuse. He knew I made a mistake and married at 17 and divorced by 19. He knew I was not the best house keeper and that I hate to do laundry. We have now been married 11 years and we are stronger than ever.

What are you thankful for?

~G~

Another Month Has Passed

We still working toward getting our finances in order. Ernie has started working full time and I have been offered a job but have yet to be able to start. I will be working doing what I love and I can't wait until the time with I can get my training with Secure Horizions and AARP done and over with. I want to be able to make a good living for my family. Poor Ernie has worked so hard for the last 11 years and I want him to be able to do some thing less strenious on his body that he enjoy's. I know he would excell in an accounting setting and I am hoping that Amy still wants to open her Bakery. He would be a major assett for her if she comes up here next summer. I am hoping the money we have all been working toward for the Bakery/Cafe comes through so we can purchase Cherry St. Market. I know it would be perfect. I can feel it in my bones!

I need to do a little more research on it but I have a great feeling about it...
Once I get to working more I'm going to have to find someone who can come in and help with the house and laundry! I don't have time to do laundry... I guess I could drop it off...IDK! lol

well I guess I should get busy with some of this research!

~G~

Being back in Tulsa

We have been back now for two weeks! It is great being back here with my family. Ernie and I have been up to Bartlesville a couple of times and my grandparents are so happy to have us back. My mom came over and brought us our newest addition Shelby! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

She has been like having an infant in the house! Lots of fun though. :) Jack and Lilly are getting used to her and we are trying to finish getting settled in. We still have boxes in the kitchen , dinning room and bedroom but we will eventually get it done! lol

We are going to be attending our former church and feel that this will be best for us. The Lord is going to continue to provide all our needs!

Packing for the move

We are getting ready for our big move back to Tulsa. I am hoping that some of our lovely friends and family will want to come over on the 10th and help us unload our truck. We are going to have to find a desk, a sofa and a new recliner.

We will ultimately install a dog door and get the house looking great!

Getting ready to travel

I am home today because I was in allot of pain and just not willing to go to work. I am so ready to get to Tulsa and get back so we can move. Ernie wants me to get the beds in the spare cleaned off and I have not even started yet and I still have to get some things washed for my suitcase! lol

i'm a bit dehydrated today and have been chugging loads of water! I think i'm going to try to stick to as much water tomorrow as I can. I know that that more i drink the better i'll be.

well i better get busy on that room

post more later!

~G~

Preparing for the BIG move

We are moving home to Tulsa. Next friday I am going to drive up and get a deposit made on a house so that we have a place to live. Ernie and I have both put in for a transfer with our companies. Thankfully we both have companies with locations in Tulsa! That is totally a God thing!

We are ready to go back home to be near the family. Our friends are all excited about us coming back!
Of course our San Antonio friends are sad to see us go. This will be a bittersweet departure as leaving is a good thing but we will certainly miss this place and our church family.

On the hunt for a house....

We have been looking for a new place to live. Our complex has decided that they may offer us a ground floor apartment for a hundred dollars less that what we are paying now. It is actually a bit bigger than the one we have.

I am not so sure I would actually want to take that deal however.

I have been asked to substitute in the youth Sunday School class tomorrow On top of that I have to fix the power point so that we will have it in the morning. I am going to do some praying tonight so that I will be prepared tomorrow.

Looking forward to some family time.

Thankfull this will be a short work wee! We are going to my family reunion in Madill, Oklahoma.
I have not seen my family since moving to San Antonio in September of 2007. It has been really hard on me the last few months as I am beginning to miss my family more and more. I am terrified that something is going to happen at the last minute and I am not going to be able to go.

I have been praying every day that everything works out because I really NEED to seem my mom and grandma.

This is the longest peroid of time that I have lived away from my family. This is also the first time I have ever lived away from ALL of my family. Ernie is ready to go back to Oklahoma but I don't think I'm quite ready. We have made some great friends and all though we had friends in Oklahoma they were nothing like our friends here. If we miss a sunday at church they call to see if we are okay.

When we left Bartlesville, NO ONE called us! they all had our numbers but they were to wraped up in their own lives to be real friends. I mean I grew up learning to value your friendships and knowing that forming attachments to people is healthy and that there are some people who just don't value friendships at all.
So Thursday we are leaving for Oklahoma to spend the entire weekend with my entire family! I can't wait! :)!!!!

Drama Free Zone!

We had company for the entire week before the 4th and unfortunatly it was nothing but drama! I do not understand how people can travel to someone's home and do nothing but argue and fight while you are there and still expect their hosts to be 100% hospitable!

I mean after all if I went home to my family's house and hubby and I started to bicker and fight all the time my Grandmother would tell us that she was tired of hearing it and if that is all we could do then we would have to go home! ( NO LIE)

I put up with it for an entire week! So when we decide that bills are more important than going to SeaWorld with them for the 4th they were mad. Sunday when we got home from Church they were loading up to leave. My so called Best friend did not speak a word to me when she left, she just let her girlfriend accuse me of going through their things and being rude to her.
So I told her that if she didn't stop treating my BF like shit I was going to take her to the bus station! Grow up!
Then the 16 year old sister of my BF lied and said that I was listening at the door while they were having a discussion. first of all if I had wanted to know what was said I would have asked. Secondly, Drama and teenagers go hand in hand, and eventhough she believes her stuck up little sister over me I don't care anymore.

I guess we just weren't meant to be life long friends. After knowing each other for 14 years and her throwing the past in my face I don't even want to know her any more.

So Now my home is a Drama FREE Zone! I love the peace and quiet of my little scantuary! We come home to the dogs and no people! We will be able to have our daughter and her friend here with no crowding and my Mother -in- law can have her son to herself for a week in August before going home.

I am excited about going home to my Family reunion in August! I can't wait to see my family! I miss them all terribly.

Well it is getting late and I have rambled for long enough.

~G~

A few changes at home.....

Barb is going to be living here now and Ernie and I are going to help her heal and recover. She has lived with so much stress that is has litterally been killing her.

As her best friend I can no longer watch and allow her to continue to be in a situation that is not condusive to healing or health.

We can help her obtain disability, allow her to rest and heal, being here she can have the freedom to just lay in bed or get up and do what she can when she can.

I am just praying that she will heal and become healthy again and possibly grow into having a close personal relationship with Christ.

Feeling Violated!

So at 6:45 this morning I went down to get in my car to go to work, only to discover that my car and been broken into! Needless to say I was furious! They busted my back passenger side window out, stole my CD case, my ice chest and a few other small things but the thing that bothered me the most was they took my Bible! My Grandmother gave me the bible and Ernie gave me the cover I had it in.

I know that if someone was desperate enough to steal my bible they apparently needed it more than I did. I mean for pete's sake it had my sunday school book in it!

So I started looking around and discovered that 3 other vehicles had been broken into as well. So after calling the police and allerting my neighbors I spent the day waiting for CSI to finger print my car and getting the window fixed. I had to go to the car wash and vacuum out all the glass from my back seat. then I discovered that there was actually glass in the fron of the car.

They went through my glove compartment and my trunk ! It really is horrible!

I paid $120 to get my window fixed today!

Then Holly called me and she is sick she called me from the hospital because she was feeling really badly and they would not see her. She spent 4 1/2 hours in the ER with an IV in her arm and they kept telling her she was not acute so she had to wait. So FINALLY she MADE them remove the IV and had her roommate take her to another town. I wish she would just come home! At least here we could make sure she is okay and help her get better and she would certainly get better medical treatment!
Well I need to make Ernie's lunch for tomorrow and get to bed so I'll end for now.

~G~

Father's Day Weekend

Yesterday I wound up going to the doctor because my left ear was hurting so very badly. I had a soar throat and was running fever. So I went in and she said my left ear was extremely infected, my allergies are what was causing the soar throat.

So today we spent the day in the house. We went to the grocery store this morning early. I went to the church to do the powerpoint for the worship service after we got home.

We've been attempting to stay cool by staying in the house.
Holly sent her daddy a message on facebook today and it was really sweet.

I am still trying to figure out what to buy him for his birthday on Thursday.

Well i'm off to bed for the night...


Happy Father's Day to All you Daddy's out there!

We've Reached A Decission!!!

After several months of prayer and waiting on God we feel led to adopt from..........CHINA!!

We are both very excited and looking forward to getting the paperwork complete and get matched with our daughter!

Please keep praying for us as the waiting intensifies!

Studying for my Exam

I have been working all week on learning all I need to know to pass my Group 1 Insurance licensing exam. I was going to study today and I'm sure I will later today.

I have a Mother, Daughter, Friend Luncheon today at church. I am taking Rachel with me I am sure we will have a good time and I do wish Holly could be here with me but I know that is not possible.


(Edit)

The Luncheon was GREAT! The food was lovely and Annetta Box the speaker ( our pastors daughter).
She was telling us about the SEGUE ministry. As I find more and more out about it I am going to share it with you all! It is an amazing ministry!

I'm Getting a Promotion!!!!

It finally happened! Our Operations manager came to me on Monday and said " congratulations, You've been chosen to become a Licensed Agent."! I was sooo excited! Not only do I get to test to become a Licensed Life and Health Insurance Agent but I get a pay raise and commission!

This is an answer to prayer! God is really taking care of us! I go Monday the 4th for the first of 3 class sessions, then as far as I know we come back to our office Thursday and test on Friday! I'm kinda nervous but I'm also very excited !

Now I'm just praying God will help speed the process of receiving all my state licenses from around the country.

blogging on through

I have yet another Chiropractor visit tomorrow. After these last two visits I will just go for maintenance of my spine and adjustments for my headaches. I know I've been glad for the pain relief that getting the adjustments has brought.

I have been blessed to participate in a Womens bible study on the book of Esther called It's Tough Being a Woman. Oh my goodness I am learning so much about myself and my relationship with Christ. I find myself praying more and striving to learn more from the Word.

Ernie and I are still planning to adopt. We have not stopped or changed our mind. We are just allowing God to reveal His will to us. We are going to have to have some new pictures made so that we have updated photos for the agency.

I am thinking of asking Ernie's cousin Sara to do our photo's but she lives so far away that I'm not sure if it will be wise to attempt asking her.

So, we are just going to keep on trucking and praying. Seeking God's guidance for each coarse in this adoption Journey.

Saturday's at home

We spent a fairly typical Saturday. I went up to the church to work on the power point for tomorrows service and Ernie hung around the house with the dogs. I was such a genius! I got the entire powerpoint done and forgot to save it when the program crashed! I was soooo annoyed!

Then I just took a deep breath and decided that God would allow me to get it done on time for His glory and he did!

To God Be The Glory

I am feeling much better! I have had a couple of visits with a really good Chiropractor and she is really helping me feel good. My back is not hurting after a long day at the office and if I can get my left foot and knee on the mend I'll be able to exercise allot more! Praise God!

We are still trusting God in Faith for our Miracle adoption! We are trusting Him for the finances to adopt and for guidance as to which country to adopt from. We are also going to put action to our Faith and start preparing the spare room for a child! :)

I have started going to a women's bible study on Monday nights. It is a study on the book of Esther: It's Hard Being a Woman.
So far it is a GREAT study and I would recomend it for any woman!

Please keep us in your prayers!

~G~

Still feeling like crap!

This is my third day home from work and I'm still in tremendous pain. I have been trying to keep from taking too many pain pills today and keep the pain managable. I really need to try to and go to work tomorrow. I am afraid that they will have to send me home but I will at least be at work.

I'm just in so much pain that i'm having trouble managing my pain. If I go for too long without taking a pain pill it takes a long time for it too dull and take effect.

On top of not feeling well at all, my daughter is asking for relationship advise. She has not been living in a Godly relationship and I have been praying that God will show her the answer to her questions. I feel like the answers that I give her are what I know is right I still advise her to seek answers from God's Word.

I do believe in devine healing and I pray that the Lord will deliver me from this pain!

~G~

Home Sick

I've been home for the past two days sick as a dog with a very severe kindey infection. I'm in loads of pain and I've not been able to do more than drink and go pee! LOL

The pain medicine they gave me at the ER late Sunday, early Monday makes me sleep.
Thankfully we have an amazing friend and neighbor who has been a huge blessing to me! She came up and picked up around the house and she even walked the dogs and did the laundry! I can't thank her enough!!

I am praying that i'll be feeling good enough to go to work tomorrow as I really need to be there. We need that income.

We are praying for God's guidance in our adoption. We are hoping to be able to adopt internationally. We trust that God has our baby picke out for us and He will not only provide the agency, but the funds and protect and prepare us and our child(ren).

Boring Saturday

The first part of the day working on some powerpoint slides for church. Then we had lunch, well sort of. We kept Bella today and I don't really feel all that great. I really want to just keep being lazy tonight.
We are sitting here watching Twilight... I loved the books so I'm afraid I will hate the movie but ya never know! lol

So far I'm not gonna complain. I'll let you know what I think later!

Movie Remakes

Why in the world can't Hollywood just leave our famous 80's movies alone?!!
This angers me! I just heard today that they are planning to remake Footloose! :( For pete's sake people! NO ONE can plan Ren like Kevin Bacon! The faster you learn this Hollywood the better!

This generation has their films, leave ours alone! I mean you've already decided to remake Star Trek, and remake some great Horror classics. PS... the remake were not always better than the originals!

I will give Hollywood this tho... The War of the Worlds was better the 2nd time around. There are too many to even begin to name and I have to leave for work but Hollywood needs to come up with something original instead of giving us remakes aka. regenerated movies.

*Steps off soap box*
LOL

So there is my rant about Movie remakes ya'll! Don't forget to check out my Advocare site!
~G~

Advocare in April!

You've heard the old saying April Showers Bring May Flowers? Well I doubt much of that will be happening here in South Texas this April! lol

What is happening though is great! I have decided that Advocare in April is going to be what I focus on! Weight loss! I need to loose a significant amount of weight and I think if I put everything I was spending on Mocha's and take out on my Advocare program I'll be droping the pounds before summer!
I also have a goal to increase my energy levels so starting tomorrow morning I'm getting back to my MNS weightloss program....

If you are wondering just what Advocare and MNS are I can help you out!
First of all Advocare is an amazing company that is helping thousands of people improve their health and wellbeing! They have nutritional products for Weight loss, building energy and focus, athelets and much more! Check out the website! It's great!

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Well I've got to get up early in the morning so I'm off to bed. Check out this site it just might change your life this April!

Remember Try Advocare this April!

~G~

We Visited a New Church!

We went to Medical Center Baptist Church this morning. it was actually a real nice litle chruch.
They have services for Chinese, Spanish and Korean speaking people and are working on a Tiwanese services.
We really liked it! We will be going back! They are very diverse and we both like that allot. We have decided to pray and see if this is where God wants us to Serve at. It will be a great blessing to serve in a church that is doing something.

We are also hoping to find someone to help keep house. I am so busy with work and such that I don't' seen to have time to get things done. I think we are going to pay a friend to clean the common areas of the house.

A Bit About Work...

Yesterday was a rough day at work. I was in the position of being the stand in team lead. There has been some real drama. The women in my team have a real tendancy to bad mouth me. I guess it is because I have kind of been singled out to be "2nd in command" if you will. I mean I am only doing my job yet they are finding ways to make my life hell when it comes to work.

I has sent out a text asking family and friends to pray for me because my day was going very bad, while I was on my lunch break. When I came back from my lunch the woman that has been giving me an extremely hard time was in the hallway surrounded by paramedics!

When I got back in the office I found out that she had started having a heart attack! I never prayed for anything bad to happen to her and I'm sure I had nothing to do with that. However I did pray that the Lord would watch over her and if it were his will she would be healed or at least be okay.
Today was better but I've been so tired.. I wound up falling asleep earlier and now I'm up too late. I still have to make myself get up in the morning so that I can shower, eat and pack my lunch for work. And as much as I would LOVE to miss a day I can't.

We have this new attendance policy and if we are out of Paid Time Off and Unpaid Time Off and we miss a day we get wrote up unless it is one of the pre determined excused absences.

Okay well I'm going to stop boring you with work and head off to bed.

~G~

I got my favorite movie from Amazon today!

Howard The Duck!!!
I was soooo excited to find the DVD release of Howard The Duck on Amazon. This movie originally came out in 1986 and I loved it then and I love it now! It has great actors, Tim Robins, Lea Thompson and many more!

This was a great to help bring my mood back up today. I was very aggitated today and didn't have the best day at work. There is too much drama at work for me. Some of the other women on my team are very two faced and try to make it look as though they like me and then they talk crap about me behind my back. I am soooo sick of that kind of crap! I want to tell them to grow the hell up!

I am so ready to find something else but I know that I need to stay where I am so that we can keep things going in the right direction. I need to be on this job for as long as possible since we are trying to build our credit back up.
Well It is getting late and I need to make Ernie some lunch and get to bed. I'm gonna have trouble getting up in the morning if I don't get to bed soon.

~G~

San Antonio Rampage

Last night we went to our first Hockey game together! Can you beleive it?! We've been married over 10 years and have lived in a city with a Hockey for over half that time and we are just now going to a game! LOL

Ernie and I went with our friends Rachel and Noe. We really did have a great time. We had dinner first at Applebee's and then off to the game. The AT&T Center is a really cool place.
They have Hooters, Wataburger, Pizza Hut, CiCi's Pizza, and Champs Grill. They probably have other places that I didn't even get to see. It was rather cool!

We got to see a good fight on the ice and eventhough our team lost it was alot of fun. We are going to go back sometime soon I hope! I really love going.
Things are going good here at home.
We are still waiting on more information on the adoption aspect of things here in Texas. I am actually having doubts about weither or not I want to . I have really begun to enjoy life the way it is.
Just because most of the married couples our age have children doesn't mean we have to. I think a large part of my "need" to have children was to be able to fit in with my peers. We have met some great couples that are childless weither by choice or not but still, we are loving being able to travel and do things together!
We are hoping to get to do some traveling with our friends we went with last night.
Well I need to see about getting Ernie some dinner so he can go to bed. So i'll blog more later.

~G~

Mama Mia!!

I am sooo loving this movie and the entire soundtrack! I mean I love ABBA anyway but OMG!
I have watched the movie like 5 times since we bought it and I can't get the song out of my head!
I have all the songs in my Mp3 player and I listen to them all the time! I even like the actor versions... I mean nothing beats Abba originals but Pierce Brosnan does a damn good job!

Of course I love movies that others don't soooo....
Well I had a long day and now the kitchen is clean and the house is quiet so I think i'm going to head off to bed...

~G~

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Now playing: Mama Mia! Soundtrack - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
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Now playing: Mama Mia Soundtrack - Honey Honey
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Now playing: Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep - When All Is Said And Done
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Now playing: Mamma Mia Soundtrack - Dancing Queen
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100% Texan

I was born here in Texas in 1977. Ernie likes to tease me and say that I've not been an offical Texan because I have always had an Oklahoma drivers license and tags on my car.
Well today I went to get my tags and drivers license changed over to Texas. So I am now offiically, 100% Texan! LOL

One of the things I find a little annoying about the system here in Texas is that you have to wait 2 to 4 weeks to get your actual drivers license in the mail. You get a temporary one at the DPS(department of public safety), which is just a paper card.

This past weekend was Valentine's day and Friday night, Ernie took my and our friends Rachel and Noe out to Salt Grass and then to watch Ink Heart at the movies. We has a great time and loved spending time with our friends. They have been taking us out and "treating" us to dinner on several occasions. So this time was on us and we went someplace nice! Saturday, Rachel and I took Bella, and went shopping for some clothes. I needed some clothes for work and a pair of shoes. So I got what I needed and love my new outfits that I bought.
I did pull a real blonde moment however. When I bought my shoes, I didn't check them before i left. So when I got home i realized that I have a size 9 1/2 right shoe and a size 7 1/2 right shoe!!!! LOL
So yeah! I wound up with two right shoes and two different sizes!!!

So today after I go get my new glasses and the rest of my contacts today I'm going to go exchange my shoes! ..

well I better get going so i can get to my appointment on time.

~G~

Our new addition

We have added another little member to our growing family! She is the most adorable little girl!
Jill (aka Jillybean) is about 1 and a perfect companion for Jack!
Jill LOVES Ernie and weather or not he wants to admit it he is rather fond of her.
He said the only way she could stay is if my sister adopts her and takes care of her but he likes the fact that she is a snuggle bug.

In other news we got some pictures of our 16 year old niece Beathany.
She is a beautiful young woman and I hope she comes to visit us this summer. I think she would have a blast!
I've been working on laundry and trying to the house in order and today my sister helped out tremendously by cleaning the living room and kitchen and cooking dinner.
Tomorrow I need to work on getting the rest of the laundry done and cleaning the dinning room table off. I ran a quick errand this evening and walked the dogs so now it is about time to turn in.
I will have to post about the house we found and are going to save for the down payment to buy!

God Bless!
~G~

Hot Wings!!!

Okay... so I love hot wings. I like trying them from all kinds of different places and there are places i have to eat when i travel because they have great hot wings.

Well today I made some really good "hot wings". I acutally used breaded white meat chicken nuggets and "Louisanna" Hot Wing Sauce! It is GREAT! you can control how hot your chicken is by following the simple instructions on the bottle. I found this great sauce next to the original Louisanna hot sauce.

So if you are ever in the mood to make some homestyle hot wings pick some up and give it a try!

~G~

Open Your Heart, Open Your Home to a Child

I am really anxious about getting to go to the information meeting for the Foster/Adoptive program! I am ready to start the entire process! I don't know how long it will take but I am trying to remind myself not to get too impatient because it took awhile in Oklahoma.

I need to find some families here in Texas that we can talk to about Fostering. I will be adding more Foster/Adoption resources and information to our blog again. I love sharing our experience as we go through this process.

~G~

Back on the Wagon.....

The adoption wagon that is!!! I am happy to announce that we are beginning the foster/adoption now in Texas! We have been here a year now and we an begin taking steps to become Foster/Adoptive parents!

Your prayers and thoughts are much appreciated!

~G~

And So It Begins...l

Welcome to the era of Obama! It is very exciting to be alive in this amazing time to be getting to see the first African American President. I pray that President Obama will help foster change in our country for the better!

Now that we have been in Texas for over a year I have started getting information about adopting here. We are going to do the Foster/Adopt option so that we will be able to have a toddler. I am so ready to grow our family! I miss being a mommy on a daily basis. I mean I know I'll always be a mother but I miss having someone at home to care for every day.

Well It's 2009!

Here we are 13 days into the new year and I am STILL a slacker! LOL
Right after getting back to work last week I was put on a new project along with 9 other people and we have been training for that.

I am feeling much better and once I am able to sleep again I'll be all the happier for it.
For those of you that have been keeping track I had a very trying 2007. 2008 was better since moving to San Antonio and working on my marriage. 2009 is going to be Brilliant! I can't wait to see what comes to fruition this year.

I have friends coming from Australia to live here in SA. and we have been making plans for that. Ernie and I have been making plans for our vacation time this year and are hoping to get to see all our family. I miss my Grandmother and my mom. I have not gotten to see them since I left Oklahoma in 2007.
We are praying that Holly will get to come home soon for a visit. I miss my daughter as well! I was so used to her being at home that it is still an adjustment to be an empty nester at 31!

Maybe we will go ahead and adopt again... I would love to do that!

Well it is almost time for me to go to work so i'll stop rambling now.
I will blog more soon!

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