The MacDonald's

I've been slacking a lot on posting lately. But I really need to get back into posting regularly again, since our family has grown and there has been so many exciting things going on lately. Izzy has been with us since July 28th, 2011

Yesterday we asked Izzy how school was.  He said he met a new friend, a girl.  He said it was really crazy though, because I kept thinking what does she do?  What does she play when she's at home, and what does she like, it was really weird to think about.  Then he said and she looks at me really weird all the time, , when we asked how does she look, he smiled real wide and started fluttering his eyelashes.  He said she kind of creeped me out.  Dad said, get use to it buddy this is how girls are :) 

Lots of more wonderful news!! January of this year, John and I were searching the adoption websites like we have done previously and we came across this picture of a cute little 8 year old boy named Istolk.  We pulled up his information and read a little more about him and said "man he's a cutie".  but didn't do much more about it.  As the days went on I found myself thinking about him more and  more. A few weeks later I pulled up his picture again and showed it to John and asked him what he thought about sending in our paperwork.  His response, to my surprise was yeah, why not, let's get some more information.  So I sent an email to the social worker, who then requested our home study.  In February our home study was submitted to Utah State Dept. of Family Services.  and a little more information was forwarded to us about Istolk (Izzy).  I also spoke a few times with the Social Worker Annie and Andrea, asking lots of questions.  As ti...

In the past as the New Year approached I would often find myself with anxiety over what the coming year would bring.  I never enjoyed being this way but it was just something that I always had to deal with right after the Christmas Holidays.  But this year was different! 2010 has definitely been an eventful year. It started off with 3 months of pain from a 7 mm kidney stone that had made my body a permanent home.  I was facing surgery or worse possible kidney damage, when finally I found a reflexologist that I spent the afternoon with, she rubbed my feet for about an hour and I was in pure heaven :)  She suggested to me to take 6 hydrangea herbs 3x a day.  I started the day before my appointment and continued for 48 hours when I finally passed this large stone.  I couldn't help but scream with victory, almost giving John a heartattack thinking that there was something severely wrong.  But when I told him the news, we all went into the family room jump...