Meeting Joey

We are home now from our very long and very fun visit with Joey. I thought I would let you know what we did and how it went. Overall I give the visit a 9 out of 10. We got in at noon on Saturday. We picked up Joey and went to lunch and did some shopping. We went to lunch and came to our amazing hotel room. Joey and I went swimming. We have a waterproof video camera so we had some fun playing with that in the pool. When I get the videos uploaded online I will send you the links. They are pretty entertaining. Phil and Joey spent the rest of the first night building a cool model car. You should all ask him to see it since he was super excited with it. We were pretty worn out the first night from the long drive so we all crashed out early.

On Sunday we got up early and ate a yummy breakfast at the hotel! Thanks to Miss Lisa we were given tickets to the Denver zoo. HOLY FUN!!! We spent around 5 hours there and just enjoyed spending time together for the first time as a family. After seeing all the animals we could possibly see, we went to the Cherry Creek Mall. Joey wanted to go to build a bear. We decided to have lunch first. This is where I saw Joey in ALL his glory. He mentioned he wants an earring at our house. I told him in our home boys do not wear earrings only girls. Joey shut down and was very inappropriate. He wanted to go to the FCC but we stayed firm with him and would not move until he acted properly. That took about an hour. Once he "came back around" we took him to build a bear. He LOVED it. He chose a blear bear with white stars on it. He picked out a Denver Broncos outfit  and cleats for the bear which he named after his brother Carlos. He did not put the bear down. He even changed into PJ's and seat belted it in the car.

By Sunday night we were pretty wiped out. We went swimming again and played with the underwater video camera again. We finished then had a serious talk with Joey. We let him know that when he comes to our house we will have rules. Rules that he will most likely not care for but the bottom line is that this will be how we run our house and we are in charge. We then asked him How he felt about it and if he thought he would be able to handle that. He took some space than came back and said Yes he wants to come live with us rules and all. HE and Phil stayed up pretty late that night building a model airplane. We slept than had breakfast and returned him to the FCC.

I am really glad we got to go and spend this valuable time getting to know Joey! Thanks to everyone who helped make this trip possible. I feel like it was a good experience and I am glad we did it.

Lady bug shower decor

We made the cute little ladybug toothpicks using a cricut machine. The punch was cranberry juice, pineapple juice, ginger ale and fresh blueberries for the "spots".
I made a cute ladybug label that we glued to the water bottles. I will post more pics again soon. Leave a comment if you have questions or need ideas.

 

Kimie's Shower

A few weeks ago I the extreme pleasure of throwing my super sweet pseud sister Kimie and lady bug baby shower. We have tons of food, fun, and played some entertaining games. The pictures below are not the greatest but I will be editing them all soon and plan to post more then. Thank you Kimie for allowing me the pleasure to celebrate you and precious Averie Elizabeth. Mose pictures to follow soon.


 

This to shall pass....

Yesterday was hard but today I am so craving a smoke. I officailly had my last ciggarette on Sunday April 15th, 2012. I have a stash of hot tamales and sunflower seeds, bum, and suckers. I don't know why this is so hard but I am staying true to myself. I WILL DO THIS!!!!!!!!! I sure could use the support and positive JUJU that you can send my way!!! Thanks for the support.

New life? yes please!

As of right now I have gone 26 hours with out a cigarette. Oh, you didn't know I smoke again? I quit for 4 years and then started again about 3 years ago. I am restless, frustrated and anxious. I was also planning on stopping soda. I have only had about 1/8 of soda today compared to what I normally have. I cannot stop both at the same time or I will go NUTS!!! Stay tuned to see if I fail again or can finally kick these terrible, sickening, and deadly habits! This is the first step in the new, healthy, amazing, beautiful Derin transformation.

Ultrasound Results

So I had the ultra sound yesterday and I even got the results right away. Well, all your prayers helped and the lump is nothing to be worried about. We will keep an eye on it and check it in a month or two to see if it is smaller, bigger, or the same. For now I am counting my blessing and am so relieved about this. I was so scared. Thank you Laura and Whitney for being amazing friends and praying for me. You are amazing friends and you really helped me yesterday. All my friends are so wonderful. Thank you all for your continued support, love and friendship!

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

Ultra sound

So I talked my way into an appointment this afternoon for the ultra sound. Please pray for me.