Mostly Mylisa...

These are for my sweet lonely husband who has been begging for pictures.

Wanting to push the cart all by herself.

Corn on the cob, her favorite.


Listening to an IPod
Talking to Bryce on the phone.


Posing!

Being too cute!



More corn!

What wonderful friends...

My best friend Amy(right) and good friend Pam(left) from our old Ward in Tigard threw me a baby shower while I was home. It was alot of fun although I hate being the center of attention. So many from our Ward showed up, it was so nice.

This cute outfit is from Amy's mom.

A long hard road...

Infertility and Adoption are both a long hard road that I know so many people don't understand. One of my blogging buddies who just recently adopted a gorgeous little boy posted this on her blog yesterday and every word is so true for Hubs and I.

Please take a look!

I won't be able to sleep tonight...

Well, today when I was cleaning, I found a little surprise. As you have probably guessed from the picture, it was a spider. Not just any spider, we are pretty sure it WAS a Hobo Spider. This picture is pretty close to the actual size it was too. NOT COOL! Hobo spiders are harmful, they wont kill you but they will leave a skin lesion that could last for months, and you are supposed to seek medical treatment immediately. SCARY!! I am really terrified of spiders!!!!! Especially big ones, and I hate squishing them too. So I managed to get a grip on my terror and catch it in a glass jar and then waited to kill it until Hubs got home. We dumped finger nail polish remover in the jar and we managed to poison it and drown it at the same time. So anyway I don't think I will sleep very well tonight, I will probably freak out at the smallest itch. I don't know if I am going to be able to handle spiders in my house all winter, especially big Hobo spiders.

***So that you all wont have to look at this spider every time you look at my blog, I will delete the picture after a day or so when everyone has had the chance to see it at least once.

The perfect medicine...

This is my 100th post, woohoo!

I have been SO homesick for Oregon, for my parents, for Mylisa, and for my family and friends. So what is the perfect medicine...you guessed it...a trip home! I am flying home Friday September 21st and staying 10 days. You would not believe how excited I am! And highlights will be getting to have Mylisa the entire time that I am there, and my really good friends from our Ward in Tigard are going to give me my first baby shower. I really can't wait. I am also so excited to get a long break from work (it has been crazy busy)! 10 days sounds like a lot, but then when I think about all the people I want to make sure that I see, it doesn't sound like quite enough! And the hard part is that I really hate being away from Hubs, we both become huge babies when we are away from each other for long periods of time. Maybe I can keep myself busy enough.

Our Angel "C"

Our Birthmother "C" is truly our Angel. We had a great visit with her this weekend. We went miniature golfing and got ice cream at Baskin Robbins. We were able to just sit and talk with her and ask her about things she likes and what she like to do. And just really get to know her. We felt like we could have talked to her all night. And I didn't really want to leave. And today I was really missing her. Her tummy isn't very big yet but she said that he is moving around. She made a really sweet comment telling us that he wasn't moving around much today and so she told the baby earlier that his mom and dad were coming and to move around a little so that we could see that he was really in there. It melted my heart! We are so excited to have this sweet young lady a part of our lives forever. And are so grateful for the amazing, unselfish gift she is giving us and her baby. We are so excited for this little guy to come, we can hardly stand it!

I kept on forgetting to take pictures so I only got one of C putting.

SUNDAY RECIPE --- Cheesy Chicken Sauce (Crock Pot)

Cheesy Chicken Sauce

Ingredients:
1 Can of Cream of Chicken Soup
1 Can of Cream of Celery Soup
1 Pkg of Cream Cheese
1 Pkg of Italian Season Dressing Mix (Found in the Salad Dressing Aisle)
About 1 Pound of cut up raw chicken (frozen or thawed)

Dump in Crock Pot and cook on low for 3-4 hours.

For Family Size double everything.

Eat on top of Rice or Pasta.

Explanation...

So some of you are wondering about my comment on only having to spend one winter in Montana. Well here is the explanation for you...

With the company Hubs works for (Enterprise Rent-A-Car) you have to apply for promotions and almost all promotions are to out of state offices. This means that we will be moving alot in the next 10 years or so, with probably staying in one place for no longer than two years. Hubs can apply for promotions now, but we are going to wait until February or March because the adoption process is more complicated when not in the same state.

I hope this helps with the confusion!

So NOT ready...!!

We realized this week that it is getting dark before 8:30pm. Which means summer is coming to an end. I am so not ready for the winter here...

People keep telling us that winter starts this month...What, No Fall?!?!? I cant believe I am going to miss the Fall! I don't want winter to start yet (although it will mean it is closer to when our baby is born).

I don't want to live in freezing temperatures! I don't want to have to put a coat and gloves on every time I go outside! I don't want to have to get up even earlier in the morning to have enough time to warm my car up before I drive to work which really isn't that far down the road! I don't want to have to worry about getting my car out of the snow that is piled on it because we are on a snow route! I don't want to worry about the weather conditions we will have to drive a hour and a half in when we get the call that our birthmother is in labor!

But I don't really have a choice and it is most likely that we wont be here next winter, so I guess I should just tough it out, right?

Share-A-Recipe!!!

I have been wanting to share recipes with all of you in hopes that some of you would share some of your recipes too. So I encourage you all to try to post a recipe every so often on your blog.

We happened to be making this tonight for dinner. This recipe comes from Hubs's family.

Zucchini Patties

2-3 cups of shredded zucchini
1 egg
1 cup of Bisquick
1/2-3/4 cup of shredded cheese

Mix all together in a bowl. Then cook patties on the griddle (like hamburgers).
Make sure that they are cooked all the way through since there is egg in them.

We like to eat them with ketchup and a little tabasco.

Why I am excited to have a BOY...

This is Hubs...

...this is my favorite picture of Hubs as a little boy, mostly because of the story that goes with it. Doesn't he look like such a good boy in this picture? Well Hubs's mom took this picture and a few minutes after this picture was taken, Hubs got the hose and sprayed his mom down and wouldn't let her into the house. Funny huh?

A few things I am excited about having a boy...

(not in any particular order.)

1. Hubs can take him on the "father&sons" camp out.

2. Someday I will have another priesthood holder in my home.

3. I love how little boys get all dirty and rough when they play.

4. I get to teach him how to respect and treat women.

5. I get to send my son on a mission.

6. I wont have to spend as much time on doing his hair before we go anywhere.

7. My son will probably always look GQ, I am super picky about baby/kids clothes.

8. The cousins he will be closest to in age are all boys.

9. Hubs will have a fishing buddy.

10. Watching him imitate his dad.

Waiting...

In exactly 4 months from today our little guy is due to come into this world. Some days I feel like that is not enough time to prepare, and the next day it feels like it is forever away. This entire weekend it has felt like way too long of a wait. After waiting 6 years for this to come, you think I could manage 4 more months.

On a more exciting note...

We are meeting with our birthmother this weekend, and I am really excited for Hubs to get the chance to meet her. I met with her about a week and a half ago, and she is such a sweet girl, and we got along really well. I am hoping to get a picture of us with her so that I can show you all.

...a boy...

Boys are found everywhere -- on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to.

Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

-Alan Marshall Beck

Random Facts...about me!

1. I dont like ice cream, milk or cake.
2. I am some what of a germ-a-phobe. And because of this I hate using public restrooms, and I avoid them at almost all cost.
3. I am super self conscious when people look at me, because of my knarly teeth and crooked nose, and I still get zits.
4. I have literally weighed the same since highschool up until about my last birthday when I gained 5 lbs for some reason, and it freaks me out although I know that no one can tell.
5. I love shopping clearance racks, especially for baby clothes.
6.I have never lived outside of Oregon until just moving with my husband to Montana.
7. I seriously knew I was going to marry my husband the second I saw him.
8. I have a hard time falling asleep, so I use Tylenol PM alot.

Your IT...Michelle, Julee, Kylene...well if you want to. (Anyone else I know can do it too, I just picked these girls because I thought that they would want to.)

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Exciting News...!!!

It's a BOY!!!

We are adopting a baby boy that is due December 13th!!

Birthday, Carousel, Ice Cream and saying Goodbye (Family Visit, Part 4)

Our Visitors!!

We had to say goodbye to Hubs's parents and the kids Tuesday night. We were really sad to see them leave. I was just about in tears after they left. We had so much fun!!

But before we had to say goodbye...

McKenna turned eight, so we decided to celebrate by going to the Carousel and having ice cream. The kids loved the Carousel, and got to ride it a few times. Then they all picked out blue cotton candy ice cream. Although I don't like ice cream, I tasted it because the kids said that it really tasted like cotton candy, and it did!

The Birthday Girl!!

This picture crack me up, because every time I tried taking it, Hallie would be trying to pose some goofy way. See how she is blurry. I like it because it shows how much fun she is having.

Also...notice what they are sitting on...a fish and frog.

Mmmmm...ice cream!!

Click on the picture and read the sign. Kinda cute!

Us with Hubs's parents.

Us with the kids.

Gates of the Mountains (Family Visit, Part 3)

This is going to be a long post, sorry!

"Gates of the Mountains" is part of the Lewis and Clark trail which is on the Missouri River. Why it is called the Gates is that a part of the river and the rock formations is in an S shape and when you come upon this part the rocks part and it looks like a gate opening up then when you go through and look back it looks like a gate closing. (If and of that made any sense.) The captain/guide had been doing this for thirty years and was able to talk the entire 2 hour trip about the history of the area. He knew a lot. My mother-in-law loved all the information because she is an elementary school teacher and they study Lewis & Clark every year. There is a big forest fire there and the kids were enthralled by the whole thing. We couldn't see the actual fire but we did see a few little flames here and there. The guide told a story about 15 smoke jumpers who died in a forest fire in the exact same area about 50 years ago.

I love this man's SMILE!!

Goofin around!

Cole.

Who doesn't do this when you have the opportunity.

Cole checking out the yellow jacket trap.

Waiting

Getting ready to leave on the boat ride.

US!

There was a big forest fire in the area, and this picture shows how smokey it was up there.

We saw two adult, Bald Eagles, and a young one. The young ones are all brown and don't get their white heads for about 6 years, and they look as big as the adults.

They call this the "Monster of the Mountains".

These are Indian hieroglyphics of "dream quests". I don't remember how old they said they were.

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The captain of the boat let all the kids steer the boat for a little while. The kids thought that this was pretty cool. I thought that this was pretty cool! And they all did a good job, because we didn't crash or sink.

Cole

McKenna

Hallie

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Just hangin' around!!

"M"

"C"

"H"