The other day Rich, Maddie and myself were sitting on the couch hanging out, when Maddie started to tell us she wanted to go to the fuccc...... the fucccc...... the squirell fucccc...... UMMM what Madison?? I want to go to the Squirell Fuctory.... Factory I asked... Yes!! I want to go to the squirell factory!! OK Rich and I are shocked and laughing so hard. Why do you want to go to the squirell factory? Because they are funny and they make things and Jrula (made up name we thought) goes there. Ok so we thought she had come up with this clever little story about squirells and a factory and we continue ?ing her when Kaden comes down and saves the day by letting us know its from the movie Charley and the Chocolate Factory! How funny is that...... So I ask.. Do you know what your children are watching?? LOL I nearly pee'd in my pants from laughing!
So I had one of my pregnant adoption dreams.... So I went to visit Tami in the hospital because she just had her baby when I realize I am also wearing a hostpital gown and I cant figure out why then I remember O I have a baby but I have no idea where she is.... So I am freaking out, at that point I had to wake myself up because I couldnt handle it anymore. Am I the only one that has these crazy dreams during adoption? I have been a little emotional today and I think it stems from this dream. So comments?? I would love to hear about other dreams.
One thing I miss a ton about living in Utah is how close we lived to the mountains. I remember taking Sunday drives up to the mountains all the time. We dont get up to the mountains here to often because they arent 10 minutes away. But when we make the effort to get out there we are always so glad we did. Because today was General Conference we decided to go take a nice Sunday drive. We drove up through Allens Park and really enjoyed all the fall colors that were changing. It was nice and brisk just the way I like it! I love putting on a sweat shirt and jeans!! Anyways here are some pictures of our trip.
This was our first stop, a very old church building it is really pretty and by a nasty little pond.
The kids on a HUGE rock and Madison was all to eager to pose while big brother kept her safe
POSERS! No more words neccessary
Lost Rich's face SORRY! But more Posing
My little thinker (ya right)
More thinking (isnt he handsome)
OK then I decided Rich and I should get a pic together and here is how it went down with Kaden in control....
OK great one more ok.......
Why a picture of our legs???
Because we decided to tease Kaden with a smooch and he closed his eyes! LOL He was saying ewww my eyes
And finally we end with a gorgeous background and a grumpy Madison! Sorry that was a long one but I had to share!
So good news Kadens football team finally won a game! They have won one other game but have lost 4 and it is painful so very painful. Of course Rich and I both missed this great game because we had adoption (parenting) classes. (I will talk about that more later). Any ways we just knew this would be the game they won and we just knew that Kaden would end up getting a touch down.......... and he did. We got a Text from a friend letting us know that he had just got a touch down and we were in the middle of watching of very old somewhat pointless movie and I just about broke down and cried. I felt horrible missing a game and even worse missing his TD. He was a good sport about it and he hasnt made us feel guilty about it yet. We are so proud of him and we are so thankful to the friends who have been helping us out while we have been running around to adoption things. So GOOD JOB Kaden (Kracken... his football nickname) we love you so much! I got a bit of an insight of how hard it is going to be while we travel to get our baby girl so far away and for such a long time and let me tell you I am quite sure I will be a hot mess.. this is going to be the best but hardest thing Ive ever done.
So I always wake up in the morning with a list of things I plan on accomplishing......... ya I never make it through that list. I hate Mondays I HATE them and let me tell you why. LAUNDRY.. I do 1 load of laundry everyday but over the weekend I dont do any so on Mondays I have a huge amount of laundry to do. I know Im not alone in this I have a friend that doesnt do laundry all week until Monday... I wish I could do that but I would run out of towels and I just dont know where I would put all the dirty stuff. So here comes Monday YAA Monday kids go to school (which means no chance of accidently sleeping in) Monday means cleaning up the house after having the kids and Rich home on Sunday (gets very messy) Monday means Bathrooms because I clean bathrooms on Mondays. Mondays also mean sweeping and mopping if I get to it, I try to ignore the floor but after scraping the bottoms of my feet after the 10th time I realize ok it needs to be done (if Im way tired I will put on slippers so I can ignore it for a LONG time!)
So Mondays right am I alone in this. Should I be doing things different?? I know I sound like Im totally complaining... I am LOL BUT it really isnt all that bad but tackling this at the end of the day is not fun.
So I still have 3 loads to go and the pile is already to my chin! YIKES!! And yes it all is very wrinkled but I told Rich before I married him I dont iron!! HAHAHA
Happy Birthday Hon! It is Rich's birthday and I hope it was a good one! Hes getting up there in age......... just kidding, I will always love that you are older than me!! For his Birthday we went to Red Robin after Kadens football game and then to a movie. We saw Game Plan with "The Rock" and it was actually really cute, I was surprised that I liked it. During the previews I saw 2 movies that I thought looked really good. One is called Marcian Child, a movie about a little boy in Im guessing Foster Care and a man that wants to adopt him.... it looked very emotional and good. Then a very cute movie I think called Enchanted or something like that, about a Princess that falls into a hole which takes her to the real world and then other characters follow her here. Madison was so excited!!
Anyways during all of that (the movie) we sat in the 3rd row down, we usually sit at the very top but there were already people there so fine! Well a grown man ended up sitting right behind me and he kicked my chair the WHOLE movie like constant tapping I had to keep looking back to get him to stop, then he would grab the back of my chair when he was leaning forward........ UMMM hello there is a unwritten rule that says no touching someone elses chair especially if you are an adult!! Well then about 30 minutes before the movie is over there is a lot of noise and a splashing noise coming from the top row, sounded like a drink spilling and so the kids behind us start taking off.... ends up someone PUKED!! EWWWW right! Then I started to smell it and realize what had happened and I knew I would have to leave cuz I am a dry heever with smells but thankfully the staff brought some cleaning supplies and started cleaning so I could smell the cleaner! I thought I was going to loose it if you know what I mean.
So moral of the story theaters SUCK! Home is better OOO + the kid sitting next to me appearently had gas for the first 30 minutes. So unless the movie is super good and I just have to see it I will wait for it to be on DVD. Because at home knowbody is kicking my seat and I dont have to worry about strangers puking on me, if there is a bad smell at least its my families bad smell and not some strangers AND my drinks dont cost $15 for 3. O and if I have to pee I can pause!! LOL OO I sound like such a whiner but really being a bit of a germ freak at the theater is NOT fun!
Ok good news! The HS is officially done! Our part has been done for almost a month (yesss stressful waiting) but there were things that we have been waiting on to be finished and yaa its done!! I talked to both my agencies today and everyone is a GO! So now our HS and a few other things are headed to the CIS for approval, Ive been told this should only take about a week and then it all gets shipped off for the I-171H which I cant explain what that is I get lost with all of this stuff. But I cant tell you how excited I am to finally say its done finally its done, I feel like we are half way there maybe even more that half??
I have adoption brain Im almost certain I am not the only one, I can relate it to pregnancy brain. But... it is driving me crazy just crazy. I cant sleep I am always thinking about the baby about the paper work about the things that need to be done the things OTHER people need to get done and it is driving me crazy. I have done the shopping and the cleaning and the blanket making BUT it is NOT distracting me..... Actually the shopping helps hehehe but I am stopping the shopping until my referal because I dont want to keep buying the wrong size clothes or wrong season. So Im stuck and obsessing over every little thing. Im not alone in this crazy brain right?? I even have crazy pregnancy dreams and Im not pregnant. Blogs are a help to me I love to read everyone elses blogs and to see the little faces of what my little one may look like seems to be a comfort to me. I have found a new obsession YOUTUBE I go and I watch G & R's on YOUTUBE and I get a little (or a lot) teary watching, Madison loves watching too. If Im on the computer she will say I want to watch the babies so we search and find a new one to watch!
So hurray HS and hopefully I will be saying hello to a good nights sleep. I do have to say even though Im totally complaining I already know that every tear heartache and hour of stress is all worth it and I also keep hearing in my head that the timing is all right and so with that I will try to stop complaining and just be greatful!
