WELCOME HOME!!!!!!!

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It was the best Thanksgiving this year because my hubby surprised me by calling me the day before he came home and said he was on his way!!!! We weren't thinking that he would be able to do so. We thought that he was going to be home in December, so this was such an answer to our prayers!!! Thank you for all who kept us in your prayers!!!! The boys were really excited for Daddy to come home. They hardly slept. They were up several times the night before. So we were all tired but it worked out. The ceremony started at five and he was right up front!!!! We didn't need the big banner but it was fun anyway. We showed it off with lots of pride. It was a pretty small group compared to the last time he came home. I would much rather have it be a small group. While we were waiting for the ceremony to start, the General came up to us and was talking to the boys. He said that they looked like they were getting ready to go to the beach. He said where are you from Florida???? Malachi then replied No we belong in Kansas! So there you have it. hahaha it was Great! Then the ceremony started not too long after that. Lim came in and we were all screaming and cheering and it was so AWESOME!!!!! He was right in front practically! He was behind the Commander and the Command SGT. Major. He saw us soon after coming in and had a Great Big Smile on his face!!! We were all so excited!!! The pictures aren't the greatest because it was a really hard angle to get his picture. I went right in front of them but then you couldn't see him so I just took it from the side view so you could see him. We have the actual reunion on our video camera. My friend Sarah came with me, she is so great! So she took pictures and took the video. As soon as they dismissed the soldiers I just ran right for Lim!!! I didn't win the Mommy of the Year Award that night because I left the kids right there with my friend. I just didn't even think I just ran! I feel so bad leaving them behind. Isaac ended up running after me. Alma was angry because he didn't understand what was going on and that he saw me running like crazy right to Daddy!!! Malachi is more sensitive and he started crying because he was so happy that his Daddy was HOME!!!!! It was awesome!!! Very sweet too!!!! It just goes to show how much a deployment takes a toll on the children! I am very Proud of my Husband though and the boys are too!!! Isaac said on the way home "Daddy you are our HERO!!!" It was the sweetest way of him showing how Proud he is to have his Daddy being a Soldier. All of the boys of course said that after Isaac did. I am very Grateful for my husband and my boys!!! I love them dearly!!! I can't imagine life with out them! I am so Grateful for the time that we have as a family and we aren't wasting one minute of our time with one another!!!! Lots of wrestling is going on in the house right now! It is fun to watch the boys have so much fun with Daddy! When they are hurt or needing to cuddle they come to Mommy so that makes me feel good. : ) We had a Great Thanksgiving!!! The boys are loving every minute of their time with Daddy and I am too!!! Lim says it is so good to be Home!!!! Welcome Home!!!!!! : )

Yeppie!!!!

I really wanted to look HOT for when Lim came home! I also cut my hair!!! I Love It!!! I have AWESOME News!!!!! I just received a phone call from my very tired and exhausted Hubby saying that he is on his way home!!! That he will be home before Thanksgiving!!! Rear D called me and told me that he will be coming home tomorrow and that the ceremony will be at 5:00pm!!! I am so stinkin excited!!! So I had to hurry and get my hair cut and get the house all in order. Thanks to my Friend Sarah who stayed at my house until midnight we have been able to get things done!!! AWESOME!!!!! Now Lim can relax!!! I haven't finished my Asian table yet but I will start doing painting tomorrow : ) I want to say Thank You to all of you who have kept us in your thoughts and prayers! It has meant a lot to me and to our family! I know that it was through the power of prayer that my hubby is able to come home before Thanksgiving!!! That is the best present that I could get!!! The boys are so excited!!! Malachi was hoping that tomorrow was school so that he could tell everyone that his daddy is coming home!!! He was so stinkin excited!!!! I just can't wait!!!! Let me know what you think of the pics!!! : ) We will post more and pics of the homecoming soon. Stay tuned!!! : )

Funny Alma : )

Lately Alma has been climbing on everything!!! He has been jumping off of the stools that I just bought which gives me a heart attack every time I see him jump. He is so funny. He doesn't want me to just put him in his car seat he wants to climb in his car seat himself. He newest thing is " No I do it Mom" He still is my cuddlier. So the other morning I was talking to my hubby upstairs and Alma was downstairs. Well I went down there to start breakfast for the boys and I found Alma in the sink! I couldn't believe it. He climb onto the counter and went across the sink to the side furthest away from the counter that he climbed up on! I wish I would have had my camera when I walked down the stairs! His facial expression was priceless!!! I did get very cute pics though. His socks were soaking wet because I had dishes rinsed and ready for me to load up in the dishwasher. I couldn't believe that he wanted to be in that one that had so many dishes in it. I tell ya. He always is surprising me. I just can't wait for Lim to come home and see how funny this boy is!!! All the boys are funny. I will catch the older two doing something soon I am sure and then I will post a blog. I Love finding the Joy in the Journey!!!! : )

Extreme Home Makeover!!!!

Okay so everyone has said what is in Kansas..... Well Extreme Home Makeover was!!!! I am not kidding, because of all the horrible tornado's that we had this past summer, they came to help build a house for a soldier and his wife and repair some parts of Chapman. How cool is that! I didn't get to find out until it was too late but my friend Sarah was able to go and volunteer and Ty spoke to her!!! Yes Ty spoke to my friend Sarah!!! AWESOME!!!! So here are a few pics of my friend Kathia's daughter. They went up after school. We would have but the boys were all so sick and I was too. So we had to pass up this Awesome event!!!! So Awesome!!!!! I so wish I could have been there!!! You never know who will be in Kansas!!!! : )

Pray for Us!!!

My hubby called me yesterday morning and said that he might not make it home in time for Thanksgiving. : ( He said that there is one chance that he will make it home so I told him that I will put my focus and my prayers for that one chance for him to come home in time for Thanksgiving. Otherwise he won't be home until the 2nd of December. He said it has something to do with the contracts that they have with the planes or something like that. So I am asking everyone to keep us in your prayers and pray that Lim will come home on that one chance back here before Thanksgiving. I thank you all for your love and support. I will make sure that I will do a post as soon as he gets home!!!! : ) What a great day that will be!!!!!! I just can't wait!!! We all miss him so much! The boys are getting really anxious and so am I. Lim is also anxious and we know that we just need to put our trust in the Lord and everything will work out. We will keep you posted. Thanks

Sick, Sick, and more Sick : (

The boys have been sick. First it was Alma and then Malachi and now Isaac! Well they all thought that sharing would be caring since I always tell them that so they shared with me! Oh so sweet of them to do. So yesterday Sister Hyrns and Sister Maldurick came to my house and help me do some laundry and help me clean my house. I kept telling them not to worry about it but they wanted to help!! I can't thank them enough!!!! So after we were done having dinner our friends the Rowleys came over to my house for Hannah's birthday! (their daughter) We had cake and cupcakes. Sister Hyrns loves taking pictures and video of people when they are not expecting it. If anyone has ever seen me sick they know that once my nose is raw I put tissue up my nose to help from having to wipe my nose all the time. This is how I greeted the sisters when they came to my house that day. Sister Hyrns was determined to get a picture of me, well she ended up getting a video of me and it was funny! I thought I would share it with ya. There can always be a funny moment even when you are sick. I didn't even know that she was video taping me! I thought she was just taking a picture so I thought okay might as well make a funny face! Yeah she was taping me the whole time!!! It was a great way to end the day! : ) I feel much better today but still sicky. : (

Thank you all who have served and who are serving!

I just wanted to say thank you to all of those who have served and who are serving our country! With out all of you we wouldn't have this wonderful country that we live in. I have a greater appreciation for all those who have and are serving now since I have married my husband. Who is serving in Iraq at this time. My heart goes out to all of you!!!

Alma's owie!!!

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Alma fell today on our front stairs outside! I was opening the screen door to unlock our front door and the boys were all right there in front of the screen door. So I lost my footing (if that is the right way to say it) and knocked Alma right off the stairs! I tried to grabb him but I think I ended up choking him! Not a good activity! He scraped his chin and chipped his front tooth! His bottom teeth were bleeding! I had my friend who is a dental assistant look at his teeth and she said that if his gums start changing color that his teeth will be dead and that they will fall out! I am praying that it doesn't happen. I have a dentist appointment for Alma and Isaac on the 1st December. Hopefully everything will be alright. He is doing good though.

Malachi lost his first tooth!!!!

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Tonight as I was getting ready to brush Malachi's teeth he said Mom can you not brush my loosed tooth? I asked him where it was and he showed it to me. I don't know how I could have missed that before. I was really excited because I wasn't expecting him to loose his teeth until he was older. The dentist told me that he wouldn't start loosing his teeth until he was six or seven. I am thinking maybe she meant his teeth in the back. Anyway so I asked him if he wanted it out tonight so that the tooth fairy could come! He said yes and so I started to get the tooth out but he kept moving his head so I said okay lets lay down on the floor. Not such a good idea when trying to pull a tooth out. As soon as I took his tooth out he moved his head around and almost swallowed his tooth! I told him to lay still so I could get it. It was in between his lip and his gums so we were good. He said is it out Mom???!!!! (very excited) Then got up and went straight to the mirror! It was so funny!!! He had to show his brothers his tooth and the whole he now has. He is very proud of his tooth being gone!!

Our Sealing Date!!! : )

I have called the Seattle Temple and have set up the appointment for us to be sealed! It will be February 5th at 11:00 am!!! I can't wait!!! I am so excited!!! We have been waiting a long time for this. I want to thank all of you for having us in your thoughts and prayers!!! We truly feel blessed!!! Lim is coming home in less then two weeks!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!! We are so excited!!! I can't wait to see him!!! We all are excited!! We are praying that there won't be any delays! That he will be able arrive on time!!! I wanted to share this good news with everyone!!! I hope to see you there!!! : )

Happy Birthday to Me : )

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So today is my Birthday!! Yeppie!!! I almost forgot how old I was. It is a funny story. I was being asked how old I was turning and I told them 28. For some reason that felt wrong to me, but I kept on thinking that I was turning 28. So on Halloween we had some friends over. My friend Sarah Timmons was like so you were born in 80 and I was like no I was born in 81 and she was like then you are turning 27 and I was like no I am turning 28. She then said it is 2008 not 2009. It hit me right then and there that I am turning 27 and that I had forgotten how old I was!!!! Oh man how sad is that. Hahahaha. I had my husband on the brain!!! He just turned 28 this year. That is how I normally remember how old I am because I think about how old he is and then subtract a year. I tell ya!!! Funny huh!!! For my Birthday Lim sent me these beautiful roses!!! 12 longstem and 12 short stem. Red,white,and pink. He also sent me a teddy bear and some chocolates!! They messed up and sent them to me on Halloween but it was fun to get them no matter when it was!!! My Friend Amy Rowley is taking me to see Fire Proof!!! If you haven't seen it look up the trailers!!! It is AWESOME!!!! I can't wait to see it!!! Good morals and doesn't have junk in it!!!! You just don't see those anymore. It is PG and it is for adults!!! I have heard great things from everyone who has seen it!!!! I saw a trailer for it the other night and man it is awesome!!! I really want to go see it!!! So She found a babysitter so that I don't have too and so that we can go see it!!! I am so excited!!!! Yeppie!!! This morning I made cinnamin rolls and the boys put candles in their cinnamin roll and one in mine and lit mine and they sang Happy Birthday to me this morning! It was a Great way to start the day!!! While I was talking to my hubby he forgot that today was actually my birthday!! hahaha He just thought it was Tuesday not Tuesday the 4th of November!!!! Hahaha So when he didn't say anything I told him how the boys sang Happy Birthday and he thought and was really quiet and then said Did I write Happy Birthday to you in my email this morning? I said no and he said Oh I am so so so so so so Sorry!!!! He felt so bad!! He has been so super busy lately trying to get everything done that he has lost track of what day it is! Poor guy!!! So he said that he will make it up to me when he gets home. I told him well I will let this go this time because you sent the flowers wink wink! He laughed and said yeah well if they would have arrived on time I wouldn't have forgotten. Then we both laughed. I could tell he felt so bad! I know that he LOVES me and that if he wasn't working crazy hours and wasn't so busy that he would have remembered!!! He is really good about that. So that is my birthday so far!! I will let you know more at the end of the day!!! : )