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.

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.  

We're Home!

We are finally home. Okay . . . we got home late Sunday night. The conference was amazing and I am so thankful we were able to attend. I met so many wonderful people (I even met Carly on Saturday, she is too funny and super cute! Love her!). It was so great to go somewhere and hang out with other couples that all have something in common. Adoption. We have all felt the ache and experienced the miracle of adoption around us or in our own family. Although I have to say that listening to the birth mothers tell their experiences was my favorite part. I don't think I have ever felt my emotions so close to the surface. The spirit was so strong.

We now have so many ideas to promote our adoption and have a new found hope. It is so exciting.

After we left the conference on Saturday, we went to the Salt Lake Temple to do a session. Neither one of us have ever been there, so we wanted to make sure we made it to a session while we were up north. When we walked in the worker was talking to us and strongly encouraged us to go do sealings. I wasn't sure if I wanted to at first, since it was my first time in the temple and I really wanted to do a session. But it was so neat to do sealings again. It has been a few years since we have done them. It was neat to hear the promises and blessings of an eternal family. It just helped my testimony of Eternal families and of the sealing power of the priesthood. I know we will be with our adopted children as an eternal family, even as if they were of our own flesh and blood. What an amazing blessing. The Salt Lake Temple is beautiful and now I am wanting to go back up and go to a session as soon as possible!! :)

After the temple we went to the Cheesecake Factory. Yum. It was so good! They had cheesecake a few times at the conference and I was craving a "good" piece of cheesecake! And it was so worth it! So good!!!

We ended up staying at Dustyn's mom's house and going to church with her on Sunday. Dustyn's brother and sis-in-law gave really good talks in church. I was happy we were able to be there! After we got home, we went to my parents for the evening to tell them about our awesome experiences. We finally made it home Sunday evening. It felt good to be home.

Yesterday, Dustyn and I went to the school and started working on the yearbook for 12 hours!!! It was a long day, but we did get a lot done. Finally at 8:00PM we went with Jace, Chet and my parents out to dinner for their anniversary. Which brings me to my next post . . .