Holy crap! Turn my music off

He is fantastic and makes me smile!
Loved it!

Thank you and I'm going private

Hey everyone,

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I so very much appreciate them. As you know much has happened and I have so much I want to say. I feel best if I keep it some what safe. I have met many of you in person and some of you I have not met but feel like I know you. I am going to go private please please leave me an email if you want to and I will add you.

I have lots on my mind these days and want to keep it real.

Crystal

Struggling

Yes me for many many different reasons. I don't know how much I want to share or should share so I am still working through things. If I get the guts to share I will. My faith is all over the place and I hate that I feel this way. My days are filled with so many ups and downs that my kids are feeling it most days and I feel guilty for that. Everyone says "this to shall pass" I sure hope so.

Chickenpox

You have got to be kidding me!!! Yes he has them.

More later when I can catch my breath.

Thank you Haiti Ha!

We are home

K that sounds good "Home" but the trip was totally exhausting really. I left on Wed flew to Fll, then on Thurs I flew into Haiti in the morning and out of Haiti that afternoon. I stayed in Fll then flew home on Fri.

For anyone traveling soon I don't know if I would recommend traveling in and out of Haiti in one day. I will write more on this later as I don't want to forget anything. I was by myself and it was just hard but so much had happened that day to add to all the emotions going through me. However, I don't know that I would of wanted to stay overnight either. So I am just glad its over and we are home.

More coming...

We have Visa!!!!!!!

Traveling tomorrow be home Fri

THANK YOU all so much for your comments and well wishes they mean the world to me.

Please pray for safe travel and my friends that are just a couple days behind me. So wish I could be meeting them in person.

Maybe someday

See this face! I get to kiss it soon!!!

My little boy is coming home!!! HOME did you hear that!!!
He looks so big in this picture

Love This! Way cute for his Daughter

Make sure to turn my playlist off at the bottom and the whole thing is way cool!





Read the KSL story here huge hits on You Tube- http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6629666

After reading the story I'm sure it will be on his next album.

You don't just quit!!!

These are the words spoken to me so loud and clear by my 12 year old. I will admit I sometimes want to quit and run the other way as fast as I can BUT in our home we have taught our kids to never quit on anything they are doing. You might not be the best at what you are doing and you might find out that you don't love what you are doing but you at least finish it out and try.


If you choose to play a sport and you sign up, then you finish the season.

If you choose to take dance and you sign up, you have to go through recital.

If you want to play piano then you practice.

And the list goes on. I don't mind if they change their little minds which of course happens when you are trying to find what you love but you don't just quit.



So with that, how can I just quit "I CAN'T" I have to finish this season in my life.

Today is the day and I couldn't be more happy

Isn't this a great picture? I think it says it all and maybe this is the reason for my journey.



Two years ago as I sat at Sarah's while she waxed my brows I was telling her that we were adopting again. She asked me about it and I showed her a picture I had with me. That was the extent of this conversation. Well a few weeks had gone by and she calls me and this is kindof what I remember- she says something like "so I have to tell you something, when you were here getting your brows done and told me you were adopting I thought it was great. Then you showed me the picture and I of course thought he was cute." But after you left that day I said to myself "how on earth can you really fall in love with a picture and I really had a good laugh about you" seriously she was like "I laughed when you told me you fell in love with a picture." Well then she saw something on a TV show during those few weeks since she saw me and really felt like it was something she was suppose to do. So she called me and started asking lots of questions and I shared where we were adopting from and told her they had a website she could look at. Well this is the next call I get "there is a little boy on the website and I know we are suppose to adopt him" I haven't told Russ yet but I was up all night and I couldn't sleep and she went on and on. I told her who to contact and the rest is history and TODAY is the day that my friend is bringing this sweet little boy home.

Today is the day she starts her journey to go get her little boy. I can't wait till Monday to see them home and will be praying for their safe return.



To Sarah and Family

I am so excited for your journey this weekend. It is the culmination of a very long wait and a lot of emotions. I know we have talked about the different things people have said to me and to you "I hope this wait is short for Sarah's sake" or "Sarah will have a nervous breakdown before this is over" but you know what, you have done it with Determination and with Grace. You are a great mother who knew this was your child and went for it with all your Heart. I am so proud of you and I hope and pray that you will enjoy this last leg of the journey, take it all in and be grateful for all that is to come. I pray that you will know that your Heavenly Father is by your side and is aware of all your needs. I love you and I am grateful that I could be a small part of this journey with you. All of your family is so excited and they will Love on him with all that they are. Thank you for all you do for me and our friendship. Remember that picture you fell in Love with, now I can laugh at you and smile that you fell in Love.

Love
Crystal