Thankfulness (A little late)

Right now I have so much to be un-thankful for. I am really having a hard time and have so much going on I don't know how I am still standing. This morning I was looking through blogs of everyone's Thanksgivings and I decided that I should probably for myself if nothing else write down the things that I am grateful for. So here they are:

I am so thankful for my savior. I am so grateful for his sacrifice that I may be forgiven of my many many imperfections so that I may return to my Heavenly Father one day.

I am also so thankful for my Heavenly Father who buoys me up and lifts me through these tough times. I am so grateful that my prayers are heard and answered and I have faith that one day the prayer I pray the most will be answered.

 I am so grateful for my handsome/wonderful/adoring/sweet/caring/protective Husband. I am so grateful that he holds me when I cry, loves me despite my imperfections, does things with/for me even if they don't make sense to him, plays with our daughter,works so hard to support our family, will do anything to make us happy, is a worthy priesthood holder, and I am so thankful to have him in my life! (love you hunny!!)

 My little angel daughter who loves to dance, sing, make up songs, play, help mommy around the house, takes care of Rudy, loves to play games, talk, be outdoors, and play with her friends. She is such a sweet girl and I am so thankful to have her in my life!

 Believe it or not I am so grateful to be in the Relief Society Presidency. It is hard work (especially right now) But it is good work and I love being a part of it. I am so grateful for Natalie, Jean, and Debbie it is so great to be in the presidency with these special ladies! I am so grateful for their many sacrifices for me and for the sisters in the Relief Society.

 I am so thankful for all my wonderful friends and family members who are praying for our family right now. I am so grateful for all the sacrifices made on our behalf. And for all the love that has been sent our way!

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 I am thankful for a roof over my head, food to eat, a car to drive, health insurance, a job for my husband, and all my needs being met.

Russell's X-Rays

Here are the X-Rays of Russell's foot. If you look right above the ankle bone you can see the fracture line on his bone. He broke it while playing football with the Elder's Quorum over the weekend. He is in a boot cast for the next 4-6 weeks. We have a follow up appointment next week to get more X-Ray's and to make sure he doesn't need surgery. Please keep him in your prayers he is really having a hard time.

My Little Ballerina

Kennadee decided she wanted to be a Ballerina for Halloween this year. She is in love with the show Angelina Ballerina on PBS so she HAD to be a Ballerina!! Here are some pics..

Oh and here is what I am for Halloween..

Still Recovering...

Well I am still recovering. Physically and Emotionally. I will write more when I am up to it.

A Blessing Discovered

I went to the doctor this last week since we finally have health insurance

(hooray!!) I talked to him about how I have been starting to have the pain from the endometriosis come back and how we have been trying to get pregnant for 4 years with no success and a few other concerns I have had about my body. He recommended we do the Laparoscopy surgery which is the same one that I had 10 years ago. I thought that I had been told by my first doctor at the time of my surgery that you could only have the surgery once and that after the surgery they treat the endometriosis with the Depo-Lupron shot which I had 3 years after my first surgery. Well this doctor explained to me that the surgery results last for 5 years and that is why it was treatable with the shots the first time but since it has been 10 years since the surgery and 7 years since the shots he said that surgery would be necessary to get the problem under control. So this morning I realized that I had the surgery in May of '99 and I got pregnant with Kennadee in May of '04. Russell were married May 1st and decided that we should not prevent having a baby just in case I had a hard time getting pregnant. Well now I realize that if we had waited I wouldn't have been able to get pregnant since May was 5 years and that would have been my last chance!! I am so glad that we didn't wait because it probably wouldn't be until now that we would finally be in the position to get pregnant!

He also ran some tests on my Thyroid and hormones and some other things and I haven't heard back about those yet. Also when he was doing my breast exam he found a mass in my right breast. They think it is Fibrocystic Breast Disease which is non-cancerous it just causes me some pain and discomfort. I will be having a mammogram and an ultrasound on it next week if they don't schedule my surgery before that. Otherwise I will have it done when I recover a bit. I will post the results from all of my tests as well as the date of my surgery when the Dr.'s office gets back to me.

Please keep me in your prayers!!

Big Job

Who would've known that a garage can get so messy in just a short eight months but ours sure has!! I have even cleaned it out a time or two but it keeps ending up looking like this:

So today I decided to organize it. Saturday we went and got some shelves and first thing this morning I went to work on it. I discovered two dead mice along the way (eeeekkkk!!!!) But other than that the project went pretty smoothly. Here is the result:

Long Summer

Well as most of you know Russell's contract was not renewed for this school year with Hutto High School due to the need to hire a Math teacher they had to eliminate a Spanish position.

Well all summer Russell has been earnestly searching for a new teaching job for this year. Early in the summer he had a couple of interviews but nothing ever came of them. So we spent the whole summer hoping and praying that he would find something. Well June came and went, July came and went with no interviews. We were seriously worried when August came and he still hadn't heard anything. And then last week he got a call for an interview with a Primary School that was hiring for a Bilingual 2nd grade position. He interviewed and felt really good about it but Wednesday they called him and told him he didn't get it but that he would have been their second choice. We were both heart sick because we had felt so good about this position.

Well yesterday a school in Manor called and asked him to come in for an interview this morning. So he went for the interview and they told him they would get back to him either this afternoon or Monday morning.

Well this afternoon just before 4:00 they called and offered him the position!! We are so excited and so thankful for all your thoughts and prayers!!