Mother's Day

I'm so grateful that they assigned a day to celebrate the wonderful women we call Mothers. I've really been reflecting on the influence that the women in my life have been. Of course only one of them is my actual mother, but many women have been powerful influences on me. My mother taught me many things. The first thing that comes to mind is that we don't steal. When I was about 3 I went shopping with her at the Safeway's in Castle Dale. I was riding on the bottom of the cart (the old ones that had a really high basket so you could sit up straight underneath it). She had passed by the candy at the front of the store and I had seen a package of those wafer candies that were pastel colored. They had been broken open and were just sitting there. So as we were passing, I grabbed one of them and ate it without my mom knowing. Whenever she would stop, I would run off back to the candy and take a few more. I would run back to where she was, her hardly noticing that I had left. But when I wanted more, I decided to just take the whole package of the candy and came back and just went to town eating them. She noticed I had gone and come back, so she wondered what I was doing. She came over and bent down and said, "Oh honey, where did you get that from?" I told her that they were here and already open, so I was eating them. And she taught me that when we take things that aren't ours, and we haven't paid for it its stealing and not a good thing. So she took the candy from me and put it in the basket. I remember asking her what she was doing with it, and she said that we had to pay for it, because I had eaten a part of it. I remember feeling bad that I had done something wrong, but I never felt like she didn't love me. And every other time that I was getting into trouble, which was quite a few times, :D she always made me feel that no matter what I did, she would always love me. I have appreciated that my whole life. I'm so grateful for her. "I love you Mom!"

A Special Favor to ask of all those that love and care about us...

I didn't have everybody's email or phone numbers so I thought it would be good to post it on here also. If you could help us by passing this along to others that you may know, that know us we would greatly appreciate it!! This is the email that Jason and I sent out tonight.

We know that for some of you this is the first time we've had contact with you in a long time. But we have a special favor to ask as we consider you our friends and people we care about. We hope that the feeling is mutual. :D

What we are asking of you is a very tender and somewhat difficult thing to ask, but have felt for over a month that we should. As most of you know, Jason and I have a difficult time getting pregnant. It took 3 years for us to get pregnant with Josh, with very little medical intervention. As it has now been 3 years of trying again and no success, we sought professional help. Basically it came down to the fact that both of us needed help...but mostly Jason.

He has what is called a vericocele that is preventing us or significantly reducing the chances of us getting pregnant. It will take a "same-day" surgery to correct the problem. It will take a week for him to recover, so right now, we won't be able to even think about him having the surgery until the end of summer. We still have a small chance that we could get pregnant on our own, but as time passes, the chances decrease and potential problems increase. The procedure costs anywhere between $2-3000. The insurance may cover some of it but most likely not. We aren't worried about the financial side of it, we know if we have faith that a way will be provided. What we would like to ask of you is to add your faith and prayers to ours and do a special fast with us this Sunday, May 4th. What we are asking is for the Lord to provide a way for us to have another child. Whether its through the surgery, or on our own or whatever it is that we need to do. I know that when we add our faith together it is poweful. I know the Lord loves us and gives us the trials we need to come closer to Him. We appreciate the love and friendship that we have with you and pray for you also.

Thank you...in advance.

AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! Ok...I feel better now

The title of this tells how I feel right now. I'm grumpy b/c we got some frustrating news today. But after a little venting...I'm feeling better. So yesterday I went up to my sis-in-laws to watch her kids and it was great. The kids were good and Josh had fun playing with his cousins. I got to read pretty much the whole day...not a whole lot to do when you spend 11 hours at somebody else's house. But I realized something when I was up there and it hits me everytime I go to her house as well as my mom-in-law's. Their homes are beautiful...not that they have extravagances that I'm coveting...but their houses are very well put together. They are really well organized, everything has a place and everything is in its place. Then I come home to my house and it feels like a never ending project. Nothing is finished...not even in the front two rooms. The basement drives me crazy b/c its unfinished, no ceiling, cinder block walls etc. It just made me realize that if my house was a finished product...it would reduce a lot of stress in my life. So today, I'm being really ambitious and starting where I need to start...which is the garage. We're having company over tonight for a BBQ..gotta love the beautiful weather today!! So I spent the morning cleaning my house...but now I'm heading out to the garage to see how much I can pile into a "get rid of" pile. I'm really wanting to do a "CLEAN SWEEP" of my house....ya know, if you're familiar with the show...take everything out and then go through all of it and only put back in the house what is absolutely necessary or special. Its going to be fun!!! Anyway I better get going. I only have 2.5 hours to work on it.