Change of a button.

We are no longer going to be on the Parent Profiles website.

I love the exposure and the layout, but I don't love paying for it or all the scams that come along with it.

We decided that since the LDSFS website is being revamped, we'd just focus on that profile. Of course our profile is not active on the new site just yet. Well, actually it is active, there are just not any pictures. For some reason they have not been approved yet. I don't know. It's been a seriously long process.

So for those of you that have an adoption button, please update it. It currently sends you to the Parent Profiles page. For now I am just going to have it send you to our adoption blog (until we get the picture thing all sorted out and get the website out of beta). Here is the new code.

Copy and paste the following code into the html gadget on your sidebar.
<a href="http://dustynkamie.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Dustyn and Kamie are hoping to adopt!" src=" http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg78/kamieallen/DKadoptionButton1.jpg " /></a>

Thank you for all your support in our adoption journey. We truly appreciate your support and prayers. If anyone has any questions, feel free to comment or send me an email at dustynkamieATgmailDOTcom.

Have I ever mentioned . . .

How much I LOVE the rain?

 (sadly, I did not take this picture, or any of them really)

How much I LOVE General Conference?

How much I LOVE Eternal Families?

How much I LOVE adoption?

How much I LOVE hope?

More random thoughts on a Monday.

~I thought about making a post for Brandon's birthday, yet neglected to do it!  So HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brandon!  I hope you had a great day.

~On Saturday we were able to go to SLC and go through a session in the SLC Temple.  Brandon received his endowments that day.  It really was amazing.  I love the Temple.

~My wisdom teeth holes are really starting to get sore.  They weren't so bad last week.  I think because they were so swollen.  The swelling has finally gone down a little, but that is just making it hurt worse.  Oh well.

~Today was a very productive day!  That is a good change for me!

~I don't have to babysit until 12:00 tomorrow.  The entire house is pretty much clean and laundry is done.  Whatever will I do?  I need to go to the Library and get a new book.

~I have been going to read "The Host" but I left it in Dustyn's classroom.

~Dustyn and I are listening to Twilight.  :)  We are about a quarter of the way through - and he's still listening!  :)  We'll see if I can get him past Twilight.  Right now his favorite character is Mike.  Ha ha.  I am totally kidding.  Mike is his favorite character to make fun of.  It's quite funny.

~I totally miss Dustyn.  He got home late and then two hours later he had to head to the hospital to check in for his sleep study.  :P  I miss him.

~Over the weekend, Greg and Arianne let us stay at their house.  It was so fun to see them, and they are so sweet to let us spend the night.  Even though we had to leave by 7:00AM.  And Anika... she totally cracks me up.  I love her.

~One of the couples in our local FSA were placed with a baby this week!  We are super excited for them!  

~It has officially been two years since we have been approved to adopt.  

~Coming up this next month, it will be 4 years since we lost our sweet Hannah!  Man, time flies.

~We are hoping to get pass-along cards here soon.  If you would like to have some, feel free to send me your address (dustynkamieATgmailDOTcom).  You might get some even if you don't send it to me!  ;)  

~Well I think I am off to bed.  I am pretty tired tonight.

~More randomness tomorrow.  G'Night.

More about . . . me, of course.

Tagged by Libby! (better late than never, right?)  :)


20 years ago.....
1. I was 9 years old. I believe we lived in Mt. Pleasant at this point in time. Mrs. Barrett was my teacher (or was it Mr. Hansen? - Now I am confused).
2. My nickname from the boys in my class was Mrs. Fartsworth.
3. I loved riding my bike around the neighborhood, and jumping on the tramp to NKOTB.
4. We had a dog named Sheena (I think).
5. We made Lake Powell in our sandbox in the backyard.


10 years ago.....
1. I had just moved back home and was working as the manager at Hogi Yogi.  And was working at Arby's.
2. One of my best friends was Debbie.
3. I bought my 97 Ford Escort!  Woohoo!
4. I had some crazy friends and stayed up too late every-night and got up too early every morning.
5. Michelle and I wrote a poem to our friend Brandon.  It rocked.


5 years ago....
1.  I was following Dustyn around trying to get him to talk to me.  Okay, I was stalking him.  Whatever.  He still didn't talk to me.
2. My best friend was Jenn.
3. I was working at Hampton Inn at the front desk.  Also looking for a job and interviewing all over the state.
4. I got a new state job at Decker Lake Youth Center.  It was great.
5. I got engaged.


3 years ago....
1. We were working on getting our house remodeled.
2. I was the secretary in the Primary.
3. We were thinking about adopting (we called and were send the paperwork), but still trying to get pregnant.
4. Dustyn spent his summer at Camp.
5. Dustyn was working on his Masters @ BYU.


1 year ago...
1. We were getting ready to fly to Tennessee or somewhere to adopt a baby.  Obviously it fell through.  :)
2. I started subbing for the first time.
3. We went to Larry the Cable Guy.
4. I got new glasses.
5. There was a fire in our backyard while we were at work.



This Year....
1. We attended that FSA National Adoption Conference.  (Have I mentioned that it was amazing?)
2. I started tending the twins twice a week.
3. It will be 4 years since we had our Angel Baby.
4. I have to get my wisdom teeth out.  :P
5. We spent a lot of time camping (flaming gorge, fishlake, and Gooseberry).



Yesterday...
1. I had a terrible headache.  (normal for this time of year.  Ugh.)
2. Went to church.
3. Made a worksheet for Personal Progress
4. Made Chicken Tortilla Soup
5. Watched Juno.



Today...
1. Subbed.
2. Read Breaking Dawn.
3. Tried to clean up the house a little.  Dusted, Vacuumed, Laundry, Kitchen.
4. Listen to a motivational speaker from Australia who's key phrase was "freaking hoodwinked".
5. Made the adoption board for Dustyn's classroom.


Tomorrow....
1. Subbing at an Elementary.
2. Watching the BB10 finale.
3. Talking back the Redbox movie that Dusty is watching.
4. Reading Breaking Dawn.
5. Finish Laundry.



Next Year....
1. Dustyn and I will have been married for 5 years.
2. We are going to Minneapolis (I hope).
3. I would love to get a swamp cooler or central air!  :)
4. I want to get Dustyn a new laptop, but we'll see.
5. I want to get further out of debt.

Lazy Friday

I am so extremely tired today.  I have been fighting sleep for the last few hours which has resulted in a  headache.  I should have just slept.  I don't have a reason not to, besides the fact that I hate napping in the middle of the day.  

I subbed over at Dustyn's school today.  It was a nice relaxing day (I think that is my problem).  I had 4 freshman classes and a few senior ones.  The freshman are always pretty quiet and don't give too many problems at the beginning of the year.  So that was nice.  I started reading "Breaking Dawn".  I almost fell asleep about every page.  But I did get through the first 3 chapters or so.  *yawn*

My house is pretty messy today.  Sadly it would take like 10 minutes to get it all clean up, but I have yet to start.  Maybe later.  ;)

I finally downloaded some pictures last night.  It has been since about the first of July since i have downloaded any pictures.  Sad, huh?  I haven't even attempted to catch up my photo blog.  I just haven't been taking pictures.  Oh well.  But here are some cute ones that I found on my camera.

Here is a picture of all the kids when we were tending the twins and Dustyn's brothers kids.  Dustyn brought them over to place once when I was tending the twins.  They had a lot of fun!

Here is my attempt to taking a picture of me and My.  Apparently she did not want her picture taken with my.  Silly girl.

I was changing REL's diaper and told her to lay down, all of a sudden I had all four kids laying down.  It was funny!  Too bad I can't get them to lay down for my any other time.

Here is my My.  I love the twins. They are so funny.  Sometimes they like to act shy.  

Here is Mal.

We took the kids over to the park to fly a kite.  They had fun running.  We had fun keeping track of 4 toddlers two and under.  

Here's My, REL, and Mal chillin'.  They loved sitting up to the picnic table on their own.  It made them feel so grown up!

Here's ADN running free.  He is such a funny kid!  And so good!  We had a lot of fun with both of them that week.

Here is the prep work for Dustyn's mom's living room.  It took us a good couple of hours to get to ready.  Sadly, I never took an after picture.  But her walls are no longer purple.

This is a picture that we took when we went to the SLC Temple on the way home from the FSA conference.  We did some sealings.  It was really neat.  I want to go back and go through a session.  It was my first time in the SLC Temple.  Beautiful.

We took a picture of ourselves.  And man, was I looking stunning that day!  Ha ha ha.

Then I took a picture of Dustyn.  Then the little man in the background took the time out to get a picture of both of us.  He was a funny little man.

Here is the picture that he took.  Nice!  :)  And again, don't I look stunning?  :)  I was exhausted.  

Here are some picture from Dustyn's grandpa's funeral.  Dustyn's cousin, his mom and Grandpa's sister.

This is my niece Bobbie who is getting married tomorrow!  Congratulation Bobbie!  Love you!  You can also see her mother (Hi Jer) and Dustyn's other sister and her family.

Here is Dustyn's older brother and a few of his kids.

And here they are again with a few more of the kids.  I really didn't take too many pictures, but here are the ones I did take.  It was a really nice day.

And here is a random picture of me that was taken yesterday.  Just in case you wanted to see my sunburned head.  Lovely, huh?

And that concludes the picture portion of this post!  I know these pictures are old from past post, but hey...  you still might be interested, right?  

Well enough rambling for one post.  Have a great weekend ya'll.  

More random thoughts be me.

~Tonight I was in charge of Personal Progress in Young Womens.   It went pretty well.  I have a hard time coming up with activities to pass off goals.  I'm pretty much a crappy Personal Progress Leader.  By the way - if anyone was wondering. . . Personal Progress is a program in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) for the Young Women (ages 12-18).  It helps them learn valuable life lessons and keeps them thinking about their spirituality in hopes that when the time comes to make a decision they will have guidelines in place to help them make the best decision.  

~It seems like there is always someone turning around right in front of our house.  It kinda weird.  I don't know if it is the widest part on the street or what.  But it is right where everyone chooses to either turn around or park and look at their map (I guess).  Weird.  

~Verizon is irritating me.  :P  I am so ready to cancel our plan.  So ready.  We bought new phones.  Dustyn's broke within a week.  We called and they were going to send a replacement.   We got the replacement and they had sent it for my number.  My phone sucks and I don't really like it (it is SOOOO slow and freezes all the time), so I didn't really want another one.  :)  Anyways we call Verizon to see if they could change the phone to Dustyn's number and of course they said they couldn't.  (Which turns out is a lie).  So they tell us to send it back.  But the phone is out of stock.  Well they upgraded him to a Palm of some type.  Well that is great.  But now they are not sending it to him.  They just want him to use another phone.  No one will call us back.  We asked to not be charged all the plan fees for Dustyn's phone for the month (yes, he has been without a phone for almost a month) and they thought they were SO nice and gave us a $10.00 credit.  Oh.  Thanks.  Lame.  It's all just a huge mess.  If there were another good service provider around here, I'd switch.  But of course, there's not.  

~Seems like everyone around here is getting cold.  Even me.  Grrr....  I can't be sick yet.  I mean I still have another week of summer left.  Hello?  

~I can not find anywhere in my living room to hang the picture that Dustyn got me for my birthday.  I want it in my living room, but I don't know where.  For now it's sitting on my mantle and might be there for some time.  

~Our house has been so hot lately.  Luckily tonight it has cooled off a lot.  It did rain a little bit so that helped a lot.  I don't know if I can handle another summer without central air or a swamp cooler.  Guess I better start saving up.  

~Does anyone watch Big Brother.  I have been quite entertained in this season.  I still haven't picked out a favorite to win.  It changes weekly.  But I think if the house was smart, they would get rid of Memphis this week, otherwise he has a good chance to win it.  But Jessie does drive me crazy.  He seriously only thinks about himself.  And I am so tired of looking at his muscles.  Blah.  I wonder which it will be.  Oh and Michelle.  Was she mad or what?  She for sure does not like the Leotard as much as Jenn from Season 8.  Ha ha ha.  Speaking of season 8.  Michelle reminds me so much of Amber, except she cries a LOT less.  Keesha reminds me of Danielle in a way.  There are so many similar people in the two seasons.  I am totally loving it.  I loved season 8.  I know, I am easily entertained.

~I am so excited for the adoption conference.  Yay!  There are going to be some great workshops.  We are leaving Thursday afternoon.  If anyone wants to hang out Thursday night, we'll be around.  Email me and I will send you my phone number.  Of course Dustyn won't have a phone by then.  Grrr.....

~I finally found Breaking Dawn.  It was the last one on the shelf at our local Wal-Mart.  There weren't any last time we went.  I have heard a lot of mixed reviews about this book.  I am excited to read it to see what I think.  But I don't know when I will actually read it.  I might save it for when school starts so I have something to read while I am subbing.  I want to read a lot more books this year.  I read quite a few last year, but I stopped after the Twilight series.  I just couldn't find anything to capture my attention.  I hope to keep my library a little more busy this year.  

~I so need to scrub my kitchen floors.  I want to do it, but I am stalling because our house is so hot.  When I clean I get so so hot and sweat to death.  But it has to be done.  I just need to clean up the kitchen and the bathroom and my house will be clean for school to start.  I wanted to get everything caught up so that I wouldn't get behind when I started working more.  

~I can not believe school starts in two weeks from today.  Dustyn starts next week.  Of course we will be spending a lot of time at the school trying to get everything ready.  We have 20 something computers to get set up and posters to hang.  Plus a million other things!  :)  Time to get busy I guess.

~I so need to get to running/exercising.  Usually I lose weight during the summer.  I think I have gained 10 pounds in the past few weeks.  (I had been around the same weight for 2 years, until now.  :P) I don't even feel like I am eating too bad or too much, but apparently I am not doing something right.  I just wanna lose 30 pounds!  That would get me to my pre-marriage weight.  Wouldn't that be awesome?  :)  Now I just need to do it.  I have been getting some healthy recipes lately through a program that my Insurance Company does.  If you wanna see them, I have been posting them on the Anything Cooking blog.  I need to start riding my bike again!

~Well I think that is enough random thoughts for the moment.  Have a fabulous evening.  (Or afternoon for Heather.)