Our Christmas

Merry Christmas a  day late. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/Holiday. We had a wonderful despite all the rain and flooding that we had. We hope that everyone who has been effected by the flooding or the storms that has happened over the last couples days are all right.
Are you wondering how our Christmas was. I am about to tell you haha.

On Christmas Eve we got up and Mike went to work. Then he came home at lunch and we open a our Christmas Eve gifts and then went out to lunch. After lunch Mike had to return to work and Jelly Bean and I came home and just enjoyed some time together. She did get a little cranky because daddy was at work and not at home haha. She helped Mommy decorate two cakes and make some cookies for Santa. She went to bed and then Santa came for a visit and bought her all kinds of goodies.

Christmas morning we woke up and came down stairs to bunch of gifts for Jelly Bean. We helped her open her gifts up. She got a little bear that crawls, a care bear, a toy lunch box, a toy laptop, a princess book, clothes, a toy cellphone, and a picnic basket that will help her learn shapes and etc.. Then after helping her open her gifts she helped mommy and daddy open their gifts. After gifts was opened we ate breakfast and then got ready to visit family. Good thing we did get my parents house when we did because the roads started flooding pretty good.

We did not let the weather stop us from having a wonderful Christmas. Mike and I's most wonderful and favorite thing about Christmas was spending it with Jelly Bean.

We hope you all had a wonderful day.

How the time flies

Oh how the times flies by. This time last year we was getting asked if we would adopt our beautiful Jelly Bean and we said yes of course lol. Now she is 5 months old and growing like a weed.  She weighs about 13lbs and is about 24 1/2 inches long. She has almost mastered the rolling over, not completely but she is getting there. She tries to get on her knees when you put her on your tummy for tummy time. She loves drinking for a sippy cup. ( Her favorite is sweet tea and before you say anything she doesnt get sweet tea all the time). She enjoys eating solid foods. I think sweet potatoes and peas are her favorites.
She will hold things in her hand and she also enjoys playing in her jumper bouncer like thingy. I have no idea what they are called. She can sit up by herself for a few seconds at a time. She also doesnt like to sit if you are holding her. She wants to stand up. She is eating anywhere from 6 to 8oz of milk each time she gets a bottle. She does eat about twice in baby food every other day. We feed her solids every other day to make sure she isnt going to have a reaction to any of it. But she will eat the whole jar of baby food. She makes the cutest noises when she is eating baby food. When she really loves one kind she will get louder. It is so cute.
She loves story time. We try to have a hour of story time a day. Right now we are reading a book called Santa and Pete. So far it has been a good story and she seems to enjoy it. She also tries read a long with you. You should hear it. She gets really loud at times and you have to stop reading until she quiets down lol.
She stills sleeps all night long. There is times she will wake up at 3 am wanting a bottle but she mostly wakes up at 6 am and gets a bottle and then she usually goes back to sleep and then get back up at 9am. She times though she will want to play. We usually let her lay between us and play while we get some more sleep. And yes before you ask she is in a safe stop and there is nothing she can get a hold of to get choked on in our bed.
She babbling more and more each day.
All three of us is looking forward Christmas Day.  Our first Christmas as a family of three. We may not have much but we have each other and that is what is going to make this Christmas special for us. Mike and I started this tradition when we first got married to open a gift each on Christmas Eve and we will continue this with Jelly Bean also. Mike will have to work Christmas Eve but that money or sometime before he goes to work we will be opening a gift. I cannot wait to see Jelly Bean with her gift from us. I also cannot wait to see her on Christmas Morning that is going to be a fun day for all of us.
I will try to update you all after Christmas how it all goes.
In the mean time Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas.

Cannot believe it is almost Christmas

I cannot believe it is almost Christmas. So far we have had a pretty good time celebrating the Christmas holiday. Over the weekend we did a lot of fun Christmas activities.
On Saturday morning we got up and got ready to go to  a Christmas market festival. That was pretty fun, even though it was crowded but glad we got there like maybe a hour after it got started. At the Christmas market festival we rode a horse and carriage ride. I think our little Jelly Bean loved it. She was just looking around. Then daddy got on a little train ride able train with Jelly Bean. I think she had fun riding it with daddy. After riding the train we got us some lunch and then went back home for a little bit.
Saturday evening we carried Jelly Bean to her first Christmas parade. It was a okay parade but way too crowded and it just seemed like people was more worried about getting candy then seeing all the beautiful lights. I didnt get many good photos and I couldnt see the parade myself (being a short person is not fun at times lol) I think people should be respectful and teach their kids to be respectful at parades. There was once Mike was going to catch a stuff animal for Jelly Bean and this guy just throws his arms up and knocks it out of Mike’s way. That really pissed me off. It was scary watching how everyone kept pushing out into the road just to get candy. Stand back I promise you the candy will reach you. I have told Mike that we are going to teach Jelly Bean not to worry about the candy as we can always go buy her candy to have. Then after the parade we went and got daddy and mommy something for dinner and then went and got some redbox movie and came home.
On Sunday we got up and went got breakfast and we went to walmart. Jelly Bean loves going to walmart. I was joking around with daddy saying her first word is going to be walmart lol. We mainly went to go get her some more baby food. She has been enjoying eating some solid foods. We came home and did somethings around the house and got ready to go see some christmas lights. There is a park here in our town that sets up christmas lights that you can drive around and see, so we went to that. It was pretty fun. We drove around and seen all the pretty lights first. Then we hoped on the little train there and went around the little lake that the park is named after and seen the lights again. After getting off the train we rode on the horse and carriage ride again. I know for a fact that Jelly Bean loved it last night. The driver of the horse and carriage was just talking away to her. She even tried to give him a fist pound lol. She was smiling and trying to talk to him.
So we had a pretty good weekend celebrating Christmas. We are going to try to think of some more fun things we can do next weekend.
Today since daddy has to work on Christmas Eve we went ahead and took our Christmas photos. I usually wait until Christmas Eve to take some of us but with him having to work on Christmas Eve it was better to take them today. I may upload a family photo of us on here but not to sure. I will talk to Mike about it. In our Christmas photos we had on ugly sweaters, well mommy and daddy did, Jelly Bean had a cute little shirt on. I tell you what though I was wishing I hadnt had the idea of a ugly sweaters christmas photos as it is hot today. The way it feels you would think it was summer. But then again it is part of living in the south  and I would not trade it for anything in the world but I do wish it would feel like winter some lol.
If I dont get to say I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year
If you dont celebrate Christmas then Happy Holidays

It is finalized

The adoption was finalized yesterday. We had our court date of going up in front of the judge and watch her sign the final decree of adoption. Now our little Jelly Bean is officially ours in the law of courts. I can not believe that the long journey of becoming parents is finally over with because now we are parents. Both of us nearly started crying when the judge said she is yours now and congrats. It was such a wonderful day.
We didnt do much of celebrating. We just went out to eat just the three of us and carried Addison to pick out a toy, then came home and watch movies. We really did not have much money to do anything really big to celebrate it this year. But maybe next year when we celebrate our Adoption Day we can take a vacation somewhere. Dont know where yet but we will see.
Jelly Bean is our most wonderful Christmas gift that we have ever received. She is so special to us.

4 months update

Sorry that I am just now doing a 4 months old update. I wanted to wait until our Jelly Bean went to the doctor for her little 4 months checkup. I just want to say this. I love the fact that they get our Jelly Bean in and out at the doctor office. Her appointment was at 8:15 this morning and we probably wasnt even there not even 5 minutes before they called her back to the patient room. I guess we was probably there for about 30 to 40 minutes all together. (and you know that most doctor visits lasts longer then that lol ). Our Jelly Bean weighs 12lbs and 11ozs. ( I think our scales must be wrong or something because when we put her on our scales she weighed nearly 13lbs. but then again she did have clothes on when we weighed her and the only thing she had on at the doctors office was a diaper lol so that could have made up the difference lol ). She is 24 1/2 inches long. She is growing so fast. I just can not believe it.
She has started eating baby food this week. On Saturday she had half of a jar of carrots, on Sunday she had the rest of the carrots. On Monday night she had sweet potatoes and let me tell you she really put the sweet potatoes away. She ate the whole jar on Monday. Then on Tuesday she had some apples and then last night had the rest of the apples. She sure is a eater lol. I am glad that she is healthy and a good eater. I hope she stays a good eater.
She had her second round of shots today and she did very well with those. When the doctor was examining Jelly Bean, she did not like that. She did not like that a stranger was close to her and that she was laying down. The doctor said that most babies dont start with the stranger crying until like 6 months old. So Jelly Bean is a little ahead.
Okay now for some milestones that we have passed and still working on.

1. Jelly Bean is talking more and more (we dont understand what she is saying but she is talking up a storm lol ) She will wake up talking.
2.  Jelly Bean is giggling. It is so cute when she giggles. Like last night she wanted to stay up and play and giggle instead of going to bed. There was one day she just busted out giggling at me. Daddy and I both was sick with food poisoning and we was pretty much staying in bed all day and I was getting back in bed and fell over a little on the mattress and Jelly Bean thought it was very funny lol. It was really good to have heard her laughing that day.
3.  There was one day a few days ago I had her sitting up infront of me and she actually sit by herself for a few seconds. I was surprised she done it.
4. She will pick up some of her toys. I notice this Tuesday evening. I had laid her down for some floor time and I looked over and she had reached over and picked up her little ball that is lays in the floor with her.

1. We are still working on rolling over. She has rolled over from her belly to her back like once or twice but she hasnt rolled over from her back to her belly.
That is pretty much all she is still working on right now. Maybe in the next couple of weeks she will be rolling over.
That the update for now. Maybe one day next week I can give another important update.

3 months old already

I can not believe that our little Jelly Bean is 3 months old today. She is growing up so fast. I got on the scales with her today and she weighs about 12lbs. She sure does love to eat lol. She has been very cranky today. It could because of her having a tummy ache at least I hope so. She also has had her first little cold this week but she seems to getting better now. In about 8 days will be her first Halloween and we can not wait. We are going to carry her to a couple of places this next week. On Saturday we are going to carry her to this place that is going to have some characters that you can take pictures with and then on next Thursday I will be carry her to her first trunk a treat. Then on Halloween night we will carry her to one place and then come home and watch scary movies. She will most likely be a sleep when we watch the scary movies.
I still can not believe that it has been 3 months already. I took her three month photos (I am not putting pictures of her on here until the adoption is finalized so please dont ask). I took her photos with some pumpkins today. I had to go to the Walmart to get them first. She loves going to Walmart. Especially going to look at the toys.  Yesterday we went to Hancock Fabrics and she loved it in there. She was all smiles. We then went to the bookstore and she did not like it there at all. She was very cranky while we was in there. I think it may have been because she was sleepy but who really knows.
She loves her little minnie mouse security blanket that she has. She has to sleep with it. She also takes naps on mommy to ( that is when daddy is not home). She wanted a miss potatoe head today at walmart but mommy would not let her have it because she is not old enough for it yet. maybe in a couple of years she can have one.
I need to come up with a really cute idea for her 4 month old photos. If you have any ideas please let me know.

starting to feel better

I am starting to feel better now. I got the stint removed this morning. I am still in a little pain (mostly like sore pain) from the stint but that is slowly going away. I am hoping that by tomorrow it will be completely gone and I will be 100% better.  I do want to take the time to thank Mike and my niece.
Thank you Mike for being the a very wonderful husband while I get better. I know I couldnt have gotten thru any of this without you. Thank you for taken such great care of our daughter when I couldnt. I know you will say that I dont need to thank you because you would do it all over again but I do have to thank you because there is some men out there that wouldnt do all that you did for us.
Thank you Jessica (our niece) for helping out over the weekend like you did. I know that I would not have been able to take care of Jelly Bean at all and I am so thankful that you came to stay and help out. Jelly Bean loved having you here and she says she cant wait to spend time with her cousin Jessica again.
And now I am going to thank Jelly Bean.
Thank you Jelly Bean for being a very good girl for us while mommy has been recovering. Your smiles has helped mommy recover quickly and your cooing at us has helped also. Mommy loves you and thinks that you are a very good baby. Now just continue to sleep like you do at night until you are not waking up at all not even for your pacifier.

I hope and pray that I do not get another kidney stone again.  That was rough, it was rougher then what it was the first time I had one back in 2012. That time I did not have the kind of pain I had this time around. This time around I had a whole lot of pain. Now get back to 100% and I will be doing good. I also havent being drinking as much soft drinks as I was. I think I am slowly getting back to where I am not drinking them at all. Maybe by this time next year I will have quit drinking soft drinks all together. That is the plan.

as most of you know

As you all know that a week ago I had that shockwave blast kidney stone surgery (shock wave lithotripsy). Well I had my follow up appointment for that on Tuesday. I go into the doctor, the nurse carries me around to where they do the xrays and takes a xray then carries me to the exam room. The doctor comes in and goes well I was hoping that surgery would be it for you.
So yep I had to have another surgery (some of you may already know this because of being my family or very closes friends or just friends on facebook and plurk one) The doctor goes on to tell me that it did break up some but not like it usually does. He also told me that he usually dont have anyone come in as early as I for a follow up but when he did the surgery last friday he just couldnt really tell much so he wanted me to come in earlier and see. So after we talked about what was next to do I went and set up another surgery this time I had the same surgery I had three years ago with the last kidney stone surgery I had. Today’s surgery was laser lithothripsy (for those who do not know what that is. It is where they go up my urinary tract with a scope and locate the kidney stone and remove it with a basket thingy with a laser to it. At least that is how he explained to me. Let me tell this doctor was the best urologist I have seen and I have seen two. He took the time to explain it the way I could understand it and also listened to my concerns about things. ) It went pretty good. At least it went better then last weeks surgery where I had woke up throwing up and this time I did not.  I am still a hurting a little but not like I was. I think it is mostly like a uncomfortable hurting lol but I think that after thursday  I will be feeling better that is the day I go to have the stint removed.
Now to talk a little about the surgery. I had to be at hospital at 6 am this morning. We got there and I got signed in and I guess we may have waited like 30 minutes before the nurse came and got me to carry me to pre op to get ready. She was a very nice nurse. Very talkative and that is what I like someone who is going to talk to me that helps keeps the nerves down. She was trying to check my blood pressure and ask me questions to and we got disturb like three times. Then when that was done she picked up my chart off the bed and it started making this noise. We both just started laughing it was funny. (Oh I have to tell you this. You know how there is lines in woods that how most hospital room doors just been stained or something like that. Well the lines in the inside of the door to my room looked like angels, so I guess my two of my guardian angels was there today.) After laughing she finished up the questions. I think it was a little after 7 when the gas man (sorry but I dont know how to spell the right word for him so he is the gas man to me lol.) came in and talked to me. I told him how I got sick last week and he said we will get the patch and put it on you and every change things around a little, so glad that these doctors and nurses listened instead of talking over me like I have had them to do in the past. Then it wasnt really too long after the gas man left the room the my doctor came in and talked to me (yes Mike and Jelly Bean was in the room with me, everyone got going how cute she was)  then before he left the room he said that he one person in front of me but it was just a little surgery that it wouldnt take too long. Then Mike and Jelly Bean left the room and the nurse came in and gave me one of those I do not care shots and I slept on and off a little until they came and got me. They wheeled me in the surgery room and the gas man and nurse was getting tickle at me I think. As I was ready to get it started over with lol. Then the next thing I knew I was waking up in recovery. Then went back out to post op (which is the same area as pre op) and I had the same nurse I had last week in pre op and we talked as she was rolling me down stairs to get in the car to go home. I think I may have stayed in post op for maybe 30 to 40 minutes at the most. When I asked if I could go pee she came in and discharged me afterwards. She said she was waiting for me to say something lol. She got going on how Mike was a very good father and he is. He has taken very good care of me and Jelly Bean since all this started. There is not enough of words how grateful I am for him. But I do want to take a moment and thank him
Thank You So much for taken such great care of me and our daughter. I do not know what we would have done during this time with out you. I love you so much.
I also want to take the time say a thank big thank you to our niece Jessica. Thank you for helping us out this weekend while Uncle Mike works. We love you and even though I am laid up in bed this week we still going to have a good time. Love you.
Okay I think that with this being my second kidney stone in the past 3 years that I think it is time to find out why I keep getting them. Maybe what ever it is it will be something easy to prevent.
Oh yeah almost forgot. Last thursday when I went to the doctor I had weighed in at 200lbs (yep :/ I hit that weight mark again) I have lost back down to 193. Not the way I wanted to lose weight and I know I may gain a little of it back if not all but I am going to try my hardest not to.

2 months doctor appointment

Our Jelly Bean had her two months doctor visit yesterday and it went very well. Well better than very well it went great.  She has grown to 23.5 inches long, her little head is 39.5 cm round, and she weighs 10 lbs and 12 ozs now. The doctor said that she is doing very good and for us to keep up with what we are doing. She also did great with her shots to. She did not do a whole lot of crying and the nurse seemed surprised at that. She did cry when she got stuck with the needles but once daddy picked her up she stopped crying until , okay this is  a funny party, the nurse said “wow no more crying,” then she started to cry a little. It was so funny. She did very well once we got home to. She was not all that cranky, thinking back I don’t think she was cranky at all. She was all smiles. She did sleep a little more but the doctor did tell us that was to be expected, so all in all she did a great job yesterday.
I am now going to take a moment to brag about our Jelly Bean for a couple of things. Since I have been sick she has been such a good girl. There was one time that she got a little more  crankier then usual  once and that was on the day I had went to the emergency room when all this kidney stone pain started really bad. But I think the only reason she was crankier was because she didn’t feel good herself.  We was laying in bed I believe we was watching Ice Ages,  and I was given her bottle. She acted like she was didn’t want it anymore so I was going to burp her and she throws up all over herself and our bed. I think her little belly was upset. She had been eating up a storm that so maybe she just over ate. (before anyone starts, no we do not over feed her. We do give in a couple more ozs of milk if she wants it though) Or it was just because she was just very gassy which that is probably what it was it. Other then all that she has been a very good baby for her. I know her daddy has been taken over most of the duties (both mommy and daddy duties (good thing we bottle feed lol )).
On the second bragging moment her and I may turn around tomorrow and say I shouldnt have been bragging because it bit me in the butt but I just got to. The pass two to three nights she has had longer spells of not waking up for a bottle. I think it was Tuesday or Wednesday night she slept from 10pm to 7am and last night she slept from like 9pm to close to 5:30am and only then woke up because we had to change her so we could leave for my second surgery this morning ( I will write a post about that in just a few moments). I don’t want to say it but I do believe that our little Jelly Bean is gearing up to be sleeping all night long. Well, I hope so anyways. It would be nice about it. The doctor asked us about her night feedings and we told her and she that is very good.
Well that is our update on our little one.

A kidney stone again

Well I got a kidney stone again. Being meaning to write about it but haven't felt like doing much of anything at the moment. I started having signs of the kidney stone a week ago today. I was hoping it would just pass and I wouldn't have to go to the doctor but it didn't work out that way. I got to hurry so bad on Wednesday that my husband had to carry me to the emergency room. We got to the emergency room about 12:00 or 12:30 pm and didn't get out there until nearly five. But I wasn't feeling no pain. The er referred me to a urologist and I got in to see him on Thursday. And he set up a kidney stone surgery for Friday. He did the shockwave blast to break it up. On Thursday before the lady that sets up the appointments called to have my set up. She had to arrange payment. She wanted me to pay over $800 and there was no way we could do that. After we set up a payment plan she called to set up the surgery. Once I got to the outpatient surgery I had to make another payment plan before I could get the surgery done. What has this country come to when someone is in so much pain has stand up and make a payment plan because they don't have $2500 to have surgery done. Yes we have insurance but we have a high % and had not reached it yet. Once I told them we didn't have that money. They wanted me to pay half of it. Seriously if I didn't have the full $2500 what makes you think I have the half of it. Then she asked how much I could pay. I said $200. So all together before having surgery I had to pay $600. And that is so wrong. I was supposed to be at outpatient at 12:30 pm on Friday and we didn't get out of there until after 8pm that night. And very since then I have been pretty much in bed sleeping on and off. 

how the months are just rolling by

OH look how the months are just rolling by.  I can not believe that our Jelly Bean is 2 months old today. The days are just rolling by. We carried her to the zoo over the weekend and yes she slept for biggest part of it lol. We didnt stay at the zoo all day like we was kind of wanting to because I starting to feel bad. I had gotten up that day with a sinus headache and the heat didnt help it any. After we left the zoo we went to the rainforest cafe and our little Jelly Bean loved it there. She stayed a wake the whole time we was there looking around and smiling. It was so good to see her smile like that. I think it warrants us to carry her there every chance we can.
She is holding her head up pretty good and she can push her upper body up when she is laying down or on one of our chests. She loves sitting up. If you ever pick her up and think she will lay in your arms she doesnt like it to well. She wants to sit up and look around or stand up and look around. She will follow us and other things with her eyes. She has her cranky days but hey who doesnt. Her 2 month appointment isnt until Oct 1 so it is still a little bit before she gets her 2 month shots and we can find out how much she has grown. But I can tell you this she is a eater and can eat up to six oz.
Today when I was feeding her she kept wanting to hold the bottle her self. She did a good job to be 2 months old lol. I think in another month or two she will be sleeping thru the night. (well I hope that she will) She has gotten where she will only wake up like twice at night wanting a bottle. So hopefully it wont be too much longer and she will be sleeping thru the night.
She doesnt like to be in the backseat by herself at all. If we all three are together in the car and one of us is not in the backseat with her she will cry until one of us gets back there. So you can image how hard it is to talk to each other with one of us in the backseat.
Things are going very well. I am going to get off of here as I am not feeling to well. I can tell you this passing a kidney stone is not fun at all. I hope you all are doing good.

2015 bucket list update

Well so far the 2015 bucket list is going okay. I have a couple of things check marked off.
First up is a list of things I have gotten check marked off.

1. Going to Disney World.
2.  becoming a mother
3. adopt a child
4. I watched the fireworks at the Cinderella castle
5.  Take some online classes

Those are the things that I have gotten done so far this year. It isnt all that had hoped that I would be able to do this year.
Things that I still need to do.

1. eat healthier
2. run/walk everyday
3.  drink more water
4. lose 10 pounds
5. go a day without technology
6. go to a football game
7. give up fast food for a month
8. give up soft drinks for a month
9. take a photo every day

There is more that I would like to do but I know I will most likely not get to it this year but hopefully next year. Yes I am thinking of my 2016 bucket list. I will tell you what all I would like to do next year sometime in December.
Do you think I will be able to check mark the 9 other things I would like do this year off my list?
Yes there anything you would like to do before the end of the year is up.

Raising money

We still like a little more money to have the adoption paid. Please go to this link and purchase a shirt to help us out.

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We tried to do a design that would be for everyone and set the price as cheap as we could. We need to sale 500 shirts buy Oct 2 to be able to get the funds. Please help us out if you can.

One month check up

Our Jelly Bean had her one month old check up today. It went pretty good. She has grown some and the doctor, well RN said that she was doing very well. Our Jelly Bean weighs 9lbs and 5 oz now. I kind had a feeling that she was going to be weighing in over 9lbs. She is one healthy growing little girl. She had to have her second hepatitis B shot today. She did okay with it. She had a little bit of a delay reaction when she got the shot but she stopped crying as soon as daddy picked her up. Now we are back home and daddy is on his way to work, Jelly Bean is laying in her playard (play pen) fussing at the flying monkeys about her (the mobile LOL) and mommy is sitting here checking on the my grades for my online class and thinking of taken a nap as Jelly Bean did  not want to go to sleep until nearly 12 last night and then the only way she would is to be hugged up by mommy. So mommy is tired. So yep I think a nap is in order.
We hope you all are doing good.

WOW

Wow, we knew it was going to be in the thousands with this adoption. But we didn’t think it was going to be that much with a friend coming to us and asking us to adopt her daughter’s baby. We got the amount on Wednesday how much we have to pay to the adoption agency. We have to nearly $10,300 to the adoption agency. If you count the fees we have done paid like the home study fee and application fee it is over $12,000 together. Then if you count our stay out in the state that our Jelly Bean was born in it makes it close to $18,000 to $20,000 all together. Our Jelly Bean will most likely be our one and only child. We had hoped and dream that would be able to give her a little brother or sister but that isn’t going to happen us God grants us another miracle by letting me getting pregnant.  Because there is no way we can afford another adoption, unless we played the lotto and won lol. We had to trade our truck off just to be able to pay some of what we have to pay. Our truck was all paid for. Had been for like nearly 2 years now. But we was able to get a nice 2011 car (that will be cheaper on gas in the long run and is very nice also) and we also got like $9000. We had to pay the adoption agency $2000 yesterday when we went because the dodge place hadn’t gave us the check for the truck yet as we had to find up the title and carry it to them (shoot we couldn’t find it and we looked all night Wednesday night. So the dodge place was able to go on some State website and look it up), so we got the check for the amount yesterday when Mike went by there, but that was after we had to done went to the adoption agency.
We had to go to the adoption agency to sign papers that has to be filed for the courts and by the end of November or sometime in December it will all be finalized. I have thought about having a little party then but I dont know if we will have the money for it with that being around Thanksgiving and Christmas and plus Mike’s birthday (that will be the best Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ Birthday give ever lol ).
Yes we are sad to have gotten rid of the truck but we are happy to because we have our Jelly Bean and she is worth everything that we have to pay or go thru.

Finally home

We finally was able to come home with our Jelly Bean. We got the all clear to leave on Thursday, so Mike came back to drive Jelly Bean and I back home. He got back to the hotel on Friday night and we got up on Saturday and started our long trip back home. That was a eventful trip, we had to pull over twice on I40 to change Jelly Bean’s diaper. Once I had to even clean her car seat out because she got it all over her and the car seat to. Once we got in Mississippi I drove the rest of the way home, well expect the last 30 minutes, I had to get Mike to drive as I was starting to get sick. I was just too tired and had a headache and was starting to get really hot. I wouldn’t have made it home if I had drove the rest of the way. I tried to but I just couldnt do it. It has been so good to be home. Jelly Bean is sleeping in her own little bed and she is sleeping pretty good in it to. That first night home she didnt want to sleep in it but last night she did. She got to meet some family members yesterday and it was a wonderful day. I think we are adjusting pretty good being home.

still waiting

We are still waiting to get the okay to leave the state that our Jelly Bean was born in. Well Jelly Bean and Mommy is waiting. Daddy had to go back to AL for work or he wouldn’t be paid and he needs to be paid. We hoping to hear something soon about being able to leave with her. I think we may be getting to leave this weekend but I am not going to hold my breath on that.
This week has been good and tough also. Good is getting to be with Jelly Bean, she actually only woke up like twice last night. So surprised at that. I dont know if it is just for last night or if she will continue to do that. I hope she does continue to wake up twice at night until she is sleeping thru the night. That would be so much better for mommy and daddy lol, but it will be what will be and wouldnt change anything about her at all. She is a good baby. She is happy just laying in her swing and swinging. She is happy with her Ms Owl that plays music.
The bad being away from Daddy. Both Jelly Bean and mommy wishes that Daddy was with us. And also this week my grandmother will be having a major surgery and I cannot be there as I am here waiting. My grandmother is not doing well at all. They have said that she may make it thru surgery and she may not. She is having to have her legs or just one of them removed (think it is both but not to sure). She has a very bad infection in them. I wish they was able to do the surgery sooner then what the doctors had set it up but I guess it is one of those it is what it is. I can not tell you how many times we have been told that my grandmother will not make it thru the night or etc over the years but by some miracle she makes a recovery. She is not the same woman that I remember as she has dementia and has had strokes and etc , so she is in a nursery home. (and yes I will emit it that I cannot stand to see her like that as I dont want to remember her like that. I want to remember her as the woman who would have yard sales. Drive fast and argue with my grandpa and etc. So I have not visited her the nursery home. But that doesnt mean that I dont love her and do not want her to suffer) So please pray for my grandmother and that we get to go home this weekend.

Two weeks and counting

Our Jelly Bean is two weeks old today and things are still going good. I am still a one happy mommy, even thought I am tired I am still happy. We still haven’t left the state she was born in yet as the lawyer seems to be taken his time about things. We will be so glad when we are back home and can get on a schedule schedule and can spread out more. We are so beyond tired of living in a hotel. I do not recommend hotel living for anyone.
Jelly Bean is growing like a weed. She has her two week appointment today and I bet she will be at 8lbs or over 8lbs one. She loves to eat. We can feed her bottle of two oz and she will still be hungry so we will give her a extra oz until she stops feeling hungry. There is times she will four oz, now not all the time but sometimes.  She is still as pretty as can be and melts our heart every time she smiles at us. I just wish that she didnt have her days and night mixed up. Going to try my hardest to get her to stay a wake more during the day then night. I hope that helps.
Mike and I are doing good. Like I said we wish we was home already and not living in a hotel anymore but we are doing good. Yes we are tired but what parents of a newborn isnt tired lol.

Has it been a week already

Has it been a week already! It sure doesn’t feel that way. Feels like Jelly Bean just came in our lives. Actually, it feels like the birth mother was asking us to adopt her baby (well it would if the weather was cold haha).
Jelly Bean is going like a weed. She eats up a storm. She is only a week old and she can eat up to 3oz ( now this isnt every feeding but at some). She will wake up at 1 am and usually stays awake for awhile. This morning at this time I draft back off to sleep so I have no idea what time she actually went back to sleep. She is content to laying on the bed between mommy and daddy. The little bassinet type thing that our oldest niece got us wouldnt fit in the car with all our stuff and Jelly Bean’s to, so we left it at home. We had gotten one of those baby snuggle nest things that you can put in the bed between mommy and daddy but she will not sleep in it. We have tried. Plus the bed in the room here at the hotel isnt big enough for it and us to. There for a couple of days we tried to sleep with her in it and one of in the bed with her and the other in the arm chair but that just got uncomfortable and like I said it was just uncomfortable. I will be glad once we get home and I can put her in her own bed and I can sleep a little better. I know I wont be able to sleep much as she will be waking me up but at least it will be a little better then what it is now.
I would not trade Jelly Bean for anything in the world. She has stolen our hearts. When she is just laying there looking a round and when she thinks you are not looking she is just smiling and it will melt my heart every time. She is a really good baby. And I am surprised that we made it thru her first week.

Our Baby Girl

Our baby girl was born the other morning. She came the day before her due date and she is so beautiful. I never knew what the joys of mother hood was going to be like. I had heard about it but never thought I would I ever get to experience but thanks to one young lady who has a brave and loving heart gave us the blessing of being parents. There will never be enough words how thankful we are to her and her family. They will always be in our hearts and part of our family.
The day that our little girl was born, I didn't hear my phone ring the my friend tried to call me. But once I got me and I thought I had felt a vibration but wasn't too sure but I decided that I would check my phone to be sure and I see that I had several missed calls and texts messages. I texted my friend apologizing for not hearing my phone and then she called me back as soon as she received my text message and told us that our baby girl (who we call Jelly Bean in our blogs) was born. She weighed 7lbs and 1oz and she is so beautiful. I told Mike and we got up out of bed and got ready to hit the road as we had a long drive ahead of us. But the drive was well worth it. Everything is worth it for our Jelly Bean. We didn't meet the birth mother or Jelly Bean until the day after she was born because we got into the state and city we was going really late and we did not want to disturb them. So the very next day we got up ate a little breakfast (as it was still a little early lol) and then got ready to go meet our Jelly Bean.  Once we meet them the birth mother handed Jelly Bean to me and I was in love with her. After I had held for a while I handed her to Mike and that was a site to see. I had always seen him hold our nieces and nephews but not one of our own. The hospital got a room for Mike and I ready to spend time with our Jelly Bean. We didn't realize at first that we would be staying the night in the hospital or even have her in the room with us that whole time but it was great to spend that time with her and bond with her. I think we all was pretty much scared, nervous, and excited. Isn't all new parents feel that way. Scared to even touch the baby (even if you have before lol ) nervous, and excited.  
We got to leave the hospital with Jelly Bean yesterday evening. We bought her to the hotel we will be staying at until we get the okay to leave this state and to enter back into Alabama with her. Our first night a lone as a family of three (a night without nurses coming in and checking on things) went pretty good.  I think it went better then I thought it would. She only got really fussy once and that was about around 1 something. We feed her, burped her, and changed her and she was still fussy. So I swaddled her up and Mike walked around with her and she still was fussy. So I took her climb in the bed with her and cuddled up with her and she went right off to sleep and slept until 6 this morning when she woke up hungry and needing a baby changed. What is it with babies, in when you get them changed and pick them back up they poop in a nice and fresh diaper? Yep, Jelly Bean did just that.  After all that she wanted to be cuddle back up by daddy and went back to sleep where she slept until 10 and got up wanting to be feed and changed all over again. But this time she wanted to stay a wake a little bit and smile at us. It was so cute seeing that smile. She doesn't give you a little grin, she gives you a big grin that is so cute. 
Well I am going to go and I will update you again once we get to go back home.

Product review

I got the infusium 23 leave in conditioner in a influenster voxbox yesterday and I love it. Most leave in conditioners makes my hair all greasy and etc and this didn't. It has a very nice smell to and made my hair smooth. Just what I need haha. I love it and I will most likely buy it in the future.  I recommend you go out and give it a try if you are already not using it. 

we passed the home study

We found out today that we passed the home study. I kind of thought we had but you can never be sure of how someone is going to come in your home and judge you. They may like you and they may not. We are all done except for the baby. Now all we are doing is waiting for the Jelly Bean to be born. We are so excited and can not wait to see her and hold her. Go on trips with her. Watch her grow up and etc. She will be here sometime this month and we cannot wait.

SLOW DOWN OUT THERE

I decided to blog about this because I keep reading stories of people seriously hurt or killed in wrecks now days.  Like I think it was almost a week or two weeks ago that I read this story in the news that this man lost his life because he ran into the back of a 18-wheeler. One of the factors was speed, I just keep thinking that if he had just done the speed limit maybe he would still be here with his family and friends. It was like at the end of May where I read a story about a wreck, yep in the news about four teenagers going to the graduation practice and a car cross into their lane and hits them. The lady that had hit them passed away and the four teenagers was very seriously hurt but thank God that they are here with their families and is recovering nicely. Yes there was another wreck I read in the news that a young lady had a wreck and now she is in a fight for her life. Then today I read in the news that there  was a man who was helping to change a tire on a 18-wheeler on the interstate when he was struck by a car and killed. It is very sad to read these stories and to know that the people that are being effected by all this are going thru at this moment in time. So yes I am saying SLOW DOWN OUT THERE, yes speed is usually the main factor (now not the only factor at times) in what causes wrecks. If everyone would just slow down then maybe people wouldn't be losing lives. Everyone lives are important, even yours. Please Please Please SLOW DOWN OUT THERE. If you are going to be late for a job or appointment or etc then call the place you are going to be a late and let them know instead getting out there and racing time to get there before you are late. If you are facebook or text or etc while driving put that phone down and pay attention to what is around you. If you are taken a guess about how far and how fast a person is going don't pull out in front of them.  Again I state PLEASE SLOW DOWN OUT THERE every life is important include yours.

Coming this summer, Its a girl

On Monday we found out what the baby is. It is a girl and we both are happy and excited. (yes we would be happy and excited if it was a boy to lol ). On Sunday Mike and I was talking about the baby and wondering what the sex was. Mike told me that he hopes it is a boy so that way the boys would have all the votes lol. When I told him Monday that it was a girl, he told me that he was going to spoil her and she would vote with him. Yes I do believe that he will have her spoiled rotten but that is okay. I have always imaged a little girl and her being a daddy’s little girl. I see him never letting her date at all lol. Yes we have a name for her but we are not putting it in our blog. She has a nickname of Jelly Bean so I will still call her Jelly Bean on here. We so cannot wait until she is here. Now we just got to start buying bows, shoes, and lots and lots of pretty girl clothes. Yes she deserves lots of girly clothes. Oh cannot forget the barbie dolls and baby dolls and etc lol.
We so cannot wait until our little Jelly Belly Bean to be born this summer.

soon two families join together

soon two families join together and not by marriage but thru adoption.
Yes my family is expanding with more with  one but with a whole extra lot of people also.
Yes I will be a mommy but I will also gain the extra love that will be coming along
I will also see the birth family of our child as family to me.
I cannot wait to see our child and let him or her know the love that everyone has for her or him. To let him or her know that he or she is a blessing to everyone who will know and love him or her
I will never be able to thank the birth family enough for this very special blessing that they are expanding to us.

I am one in eight

Today starts National Infertility Awareness week and I am here to say that I am One in Eight who has struggled with infertility.  I have struggled with me for nearly 11 years. Even though Mike and I has decided to adopt I still struggle with infertility. I have come to realize that infertility is just part of who I am. Do I wish things was different? Yes I do, Do I wish this on anyone else? that is a big NO no one deserves to go thru infertility no matter what kind of person you are.
There is a few things that you can do that help someone struggling with infertility.
One please do not make anyone struggling with infertility feel like it is their fault. There is nothing that a person does that puts them in this struggle. No God is not punishing them for something so please do not make them feel like it is their  fault. (trust me when I say this that they are already blaming their self in some ways so they do not need you to blame them)
Second please dont make them feel like they should be a ashamed of infertility. It is nothing to be ashamed of.
Third just listen to them when they are talking. They dont need your advice of if you stop trying it will happen. If you have sex on your period it will happen and etc etc.  (If they ask for your advice give it to them but give them advice of things that you know may help them and not some myth.)
Fourth. be understanding when they do not want to celebrate a baby shower or mother's and father's days or etc. They are  not being mean or ungrateful for or what ever you may think they are just sad and need a little time.
Those are some advice to you people in support others with infertility
Now to you in this journey of infertility my advice is to you is dont forget to take time for yourself during this struggle. If you let it take over your life then you are going to lose yourself. Yes it can happen. There for awhile I did let it take over my life in some ways and it did affect me. Also just be there for each other. Dont say I have it worse then you and etc. Each every person who is struggling with infertility has a different journey. Just because it is different doesnt mean that we are not hurting in some ways. Please do not feel ashamed of infertility. It is something not to be ashamed of. I am learning that it is time embrace infertility and not let it take control. If your spouse wont talk to you about the struggle please dont let it upset you as they are not trying to upset you. They may want to be strong for you. Have date nights and not talk about infertility on those date nights.
I will be praying for everyone who is struggling with infertility. Love you all and you are not a lone. I am one in eight.

bucket list updated

I just thought I would do a bucket list update.
We wanted to go to Disney World again this year and we did and we had so much fun. I rode some rides that I didnt think I would but I did. Learning the guitar is going okay. I am not that good yet but it does take time to get good haha. I am about to learn a song so that is good. It may not be good but I am about learn one. I have always wanted to learn how to knit and not talking about using a loom to knit with. and I finally learned how to knit and I really enjoy it.
that is all I have done on my bucket list for now but I will keep you updated.

fairytale question 2

Fairytale question 2 is
Do you ever dream of your prince/princess charming?
Even though I am married to my prince charming I still have dreams of him. Mike is my prince charming and I do not want anyone else (yes my dreams are of Mike lol ) He is all I have wanted and always want. He treats me with kindness and loves me for me. He doesnt try to make me someone I am not and I love him very much.
Do you dream of your prince/princess charming? If so what are they like.

fairytale questions

I will be doing fairytale questions everyday for 50 days and today is day one

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?


That would be you my readers. You all are the fairest of them all (did you think I was going to me lol ) I am so grateful to have you all as my readers. I know I may not write as much as some or as much as I use to but I do try and I am so grateful for you all.

Day three, four, and five our vacation

Day three of our vacation was another good day. We had went to Animal Kingdom. Besides the photos we took for the memory maker the first thing we did was meet Donald Duck. He was alittle mad at me as I had a the mickey hand on my shirt and mickey mouse on my hat and no Donald Duck. ( I think Donald Duck has a little problem with lol. He is still the mickey’s best friend so that counts right lol ) Then we went to the dinosaur ride. That was pretty fun. I didnt think it would be but it was fun. Then we walked around some and then went on a safari ride. That was okay it wasnt as fun as the dinosaur ride. Then we walked around some more and went to eat at rainforest cafe (that one at animal kingdom was not all that great. We had to wait like 5 minutes or longer for the waitress to come a long and then once she was walking to our table another waiter stopped her. It was very frustating.). Then we went to the hotel and rested awhile and then we went back to Magic Kingdom. I think I could spend all our Disney vacation in that place. I love Magic Kingdom. As we was getting closer to the castle they was getting ready for the block party that they was having to move a long to it end and as the float that Goofy was on passed us I was taken pictures and Goofy got his phone (which was really big lol ) and took my photo at the same time lol. It was so funny and so much fun. We took more photos of the castle and then rode the tea cups. I think we both had a lot of fun on it lol. Then we walked on down to the buzz light year ride and we had a lot of fun on that to. Then Mike rode on the race car ride and I did a little shopping and then we watched the fireworks. It was a pretty good day.

Day four our vacation we went to Hollywood Studios that was a okay day (some people got on my nerves some but it was still a good day). We took pictures went to the drawing class they have there and draw, Mike did a pretty good job even though he thinks he didnt lol. Then we went to the star wars ride, it was okay but not that great. Then watched the Indian jones show and then went and watched the little mermaid show and then rode another ride called the great movie ride. It was okay. Then we did a little shopping and then went back to the hotel we rested up for the rest of the night.

Day five of our vacation we went to Sea World. It was a okay day. It was cold but it was a good day. As we was walking around a couple of the workers came around and gave out prizes for their 50th anniversary. We had gotten a free backstage tour and it was okay. I got to pet a shark (Mike wouldnt pet it lol ) and we got to pet a penguin. It was a pretty good day.

I wish our trip hadnt came to a end but it had to. I really miss Disney World and I so cannot wait until we can go back but I keep thinking that once we do go back we will have a little one with us and will get to experience it in a whole new way. I so cannot wait.

Day two of our vacation

Day two of our vacation was pretty good would have been better if it hadnt rained. We had went to magic kingdom and it rained just about the whole time we was there. The first thing we did once we entered the park was meet tinker bell and then snow white. I think that is the only characters we meet that day. at least thinking back it seems like they was the only ones we meet lol. could be remember it wrong but I think we only meet those two. Then we had some pictures taken in front of the castle ( my battery on my camera started dieing on me. I was glad we had the memory maker (if you go to disney world or even disney land get the memory maker or just the photopass they are very nice to have.)) I also was wishing that I had carried my extra battery with me lol. After taken some pictures we headed into tomorrowland where we did the monster inc laughing showing. that was very funny.  Then we did the people mover and then carousel of tomorrow ( i think that is what it is called) then we after all that we headed on over to where the dumbo ride was at and got on the dumbo ride. Yes everyone this lady right here who is scared of heights got on the dumbo ride. It started raining on us while we was on the ride and so we decided to hope on the train and go to the frontierland where we had lunch and then we went to the hall of presidents show. that was kind of nice show. Then after that we just walked right on over to the haunted mansion where we had a fast pass for and hoped on the ride. Now that was fun. it isnt scary so please do not think that it is. It was dark in there but not scary at all. (I didnt think it would be lol ) but it was fun. Then after the haunted mansion ride we hoped on the jungle cruise ride and that was a okay ride. I think the best part of that was the captain of the boat and her corny jokes lol. After that ride we decided to just head on back to the hotel as it was raining and we was tired and our feet was hurting us and we wanted to rest. We was going to go back over to magic kingdom after resting but we decided to go down to downtown disney (which is being rebuilt a little at a time to become disney springs ) we went to eat at the trex restaurant. It was okay but not like some people had made it out to be. To me the food just wasnt worth the money or the time that we had waited to be seated. Then we did a little shopping on the way back to where we was to meet the bus to go back to the hotel (yes we stayed at a disney hotel and we will always stay there as the buses that they have that gets you to the parks. you dont have to worry about parking or how far you have to walk to get into the parks lol. I love it lol )
and that is day two of our vacation. I know doesnt sound like much but it was a good day could have been better if it hadnt rained lol. I will write days 3 and 4 tomorrow.

Day one of our vacation

We went on vacation (a week long vacation ) to Disney World and Sea World. And we had a blast. We so did not want to leave but it was time to get back home to our pets (well once we go pick them up from my parents house. We can not thank my parents enough for taken care of them while we was gone) and Mike needs to get back to work. I think if someone would pays us to live there we would lol. This made our second trip to Disney World. The first time we had went around Christmas in 2009 and let me tell you, you do not want to go around that time if you do not like the very big crowds. This time it wasnt that bad crowded. Yes there was lots of people there but not as many as it would be if it was summer or Christmas. There was maybe once or twice I got frustrated at other people and that was because they was hitting me as they walked by and didnt say sorry or I would be in a shop and looking at something and someone would step right in front of me and didnt say sorry. In a place like that you will find rude people. Our hotel was nice but was not all that great. We will most likely not use it again unless it is the only one available lol.  We went to epcot on our first full day there. It was okay not really a whole lot to do there but walk around (yes they had a few rides that we got on but that was about it.) I did get to meet sleeping beauty, chip and dale, and pluto at epcot so that made it worth it. Also got to eat some french food (all i had was a ham and cheese sandwhich but it was okay). Didnt get to meet bella as the line was very long for her and Jasmine’s line was very long to and we was already tired at that point and legs and feet was hurting so we went back to the hotel for a little bit and then went back over to epcot for the viewing of the light show. We didnt think that it was all that great. It was okay but not all that great.

I will write another blog on our second day at the park later.

The journey begins

Yes our adoption journey begins. We meet with a adoption agency today. We got all the paper work we need to do to get it all started. We also have a birth mother who wants us to adopt her baby. There will never be enough words to express how grateful we are to this birth mother. She would always be in our thoughts and hearts. We dont see that we are gaining a child we see our self has gaining a extended family for our little family. ( I know some may not get that but oh well ). We have know since before Christmas that we will be adopting this baby but we just now told our family. We wanted to wait until after we talked to a lawyer or adoption agency. It took us until this week to find someone who will meet up with us and not say they will call us back to set up a appointment. So after meeting up with this adoption agency we decided to tell our family. We are so happy and excited to be going down this journey.

Do you love your nails?

Do you love your nails? I love my . My look on my nails today is Moon Glass from Jamberry Nails. You can get yours at nailsbyelizabethseats.jamberrynails.net  I promise you will not reget using these nails. I love them and they are gluten free and doesnt take long to apply. You can do all kinds of things after applying them that you cant if you use nail polish. Like brush your hair, put your shoes, change clothes, or etc.

2015 bucket list

I have to do a 2015 bucket list. I am not going to put everything that I hope to accomplish on here at the moment but I will put a few things I hope to accomplish. I will update when I finish each one.
I hope that in this year of 2015 I will be able to check this things off of my bucket list
Running/walking every day
drinking 64oz of water a day
take a photo everyday
eat healthier
lose ten pounds
go a day without technology
Those are just some of the things I hope to accomplish and check mark off this year. I will let you know when I do. I hope I can check mark every single one off. I will What do you hope to check off your bucket list this year.

2015 is going to be a good year

2015 is going to be a good year. I already know it is. ( Yes I am being positive lol )
2014 ended with me being by myself last night as Mike had to work and he didnt get home until 2015 lol, So I just practice some on the guitar and played with the pups (yeah i know what you are thinking see you wasnt a lone you had the pups but it just isnt the same) then I listen to the small bark and bark and bark for no reason. ( I think she has stress issues or something but her barking doesnt help with my anxiety lol ) finally decided to carry the lord of the rings to bed and watch them there so that way I could get away from the barking. After the first disk I just went to bed. Yes it was before midnight that I went to bed. Then this morning the first morning of 2015 I woke up beside Mike and that made this year start out great.  This year is going to be kind of busy for us I think. I go pick up our kitty  tomorrow from the vet (yes we adopted a cat from the animal shelter. ) Then sometime in feb we will be going to disney world. So can not wait for that. Then we are hoping to go to the beach a few times this year and to carry the animals with us once to see how they like it lol. We are also hoping that we will get to adopt this year (well we know we will be starting the process this year but we hope that by the end of the year we will have a little one in our home :)  Our new little niece will be born this year. Yes this is going to be a good year.
Okay a couple of things I hope will happen this year.
I hope to loose weight and keep it off
I hope to get a job this year
(yes I will put this here also I hope we get to adopt)
I hope we and our family will stay healthy this year
I hope that we all on this country and other country find it in our hearts to let the past stay in the past and look forward to a peaceful future (yes I know that is a very long shot but I still hope it happens)

Happy New Year I hope you all have a very good year.