Short Update

So I know I have said I would do this a long time ago... but here is a short update.  Dalan's family came to visit again in October... here are a few pics from Six Flags.. Magic Mountain... only a few because the camera then broke on the Terminator ride!

The kids are growing wayyyy too fast, not quite sure how it happened, but Dalan is quite a bit taller than me these days, and Isabel is turning into a young lady for some reason, even though she is only 10!!!

I'm thankful to have a job still, and have no complaints... still planning to go to school next fall, anyone who wants to help me with that process, I would be forever grateful too... I'm too old to know how to do any of this stuff anymore!

Hope to get better at this still!

 

More

Well something happened with that last post... so here are a few other shots.... priceless story first though.... while on the boogie boards at Santa Monica.... Dalan lost his trunks! His big brother was nice enough to hand over his extra pair under the water! sooooooooooo funny!!

Then of course... they realized that now that there was 5 of them, they could make a star!...

And this last shot... they wanted me to catch them with all their feet in the air! man... I'm good! ... although we can't see Marc!

Visit from Dalan's family from Phoenix

Well I guess it was going to happen at some point in time, Dalan has met some of his extended family. His biological father has not had any contact with us since he was 2. It was all a little crazy, but thanks to facebook...... I connected with relatives and Dalan's half brothers and sister all talked, and decided they wanted to know their little brother! Well it has been quite a month for me with all of this, the car, my kids.... it has been crazy, but this past weekend it all came together and was great. We had a lot of fun, it was neat to see all of the similarities with Dalan and his half-siblings. Their toes are the same... their hair is the same, and oh my.... most of their personalities are the same! it is CRAZY... how they can grow up in completely different environments, yet be soooooo much alike! Victor and Isabel were great about it, I know it is all kind of strange to take in... and kind of scary, them not knowing anything about us, and us them. It turned out to be wonderful though! We hope to have many more get togethers with all of them. So anyway... here are some pics!

Stuff

Ok, so I guess since I'm on here... I may as well get all of my frustrations out and inform everyone on what has been going on with us... I've had a very emotional week or two.... Not quite sure where to begin.... but here it is...

Root Canal... never had one before, now I never wish to have one again! Floss, floss, floss, is all I have to say! ... oh yeah... and make sure you have your wisdom teeth pulled before you are 35 and they are causing issues with your other teeth!

Cars..... don't buy one through a friend... or you will not only NOT have a car anymore, but not have a friend either! ... You see, after paying over $9,000.00 on my little Aveo.... someone didn't bother to pass my payments along to the bank, and as you can see in the photo below, some very nice bald man came to my home and took my car from me! Yeah... isn't that nice... Thankfully, we had a great lesson on forgiveness at church on Sunday, so that is helping me with the issue.... pray for him... it's not about him, it's about me....isn't that right?... still working on the process.... Oh... yeah... and fix your credit now... so you don't have trouble getting another car!

Youth - Not only did Dalan suddenly get the attitude of a teenager when he became one... but my precious little Isabel who just turned 10 became a young lady this week! UGHHHH enough said about that.. (I'm near sobbing now)

Children - My kids left me and went to Oregon for a few weeks with their grandparents... you can see below a pic of my kids with my Dad when he came to get them last week....

Families - Ok, we all come from different types of families, big, small, mixed, crazy... etc. Well my son is finally going to be able to meet some of his other family! After 13 years, it has all come about. He has got 3 half brothers and a half sister, and several other members of his biological father's family who have learned about him. We have been in contact with eachother and I am soooooooo excited for him! Two of his "big" brothers have asked to come and meet him next month! You see, I've never even had one single picture of his biological father... so he has never quite understood where he comes from... I mean, let's face it... he looks NOTHING like me!!! How exciting it is to know that they look like him, and that they want to know my beautiful son! I'm scared of all of it... truly, but believe, that Heavenly Father had a hand in this and these kids are really great, funny kids from what I have learned, and think it is all going to be GREAT!

So anyway... yeah that has been my past week.... I'm hoping that the only event coming up this week will be the purchase of a new (new to me) car!

Dalan's Birthday!

Well.. yes, you are seeing (reading) correctly... they both had Birthdays! Dalan's was on the 1st of June... and he is...... yup... officially a TEENAGER!! 13... I mean, really? Am I old enough for this?! Last I checked, I was just turning 19... but anyway.... here we all are... and here are just a couple pictures I have from his day.... he wanted to head to Six Flags... we did the same last year, except went to Hurricane Harbor... this year Victor took him and some friends to Magic Mountain, Victor is too scared for the rides, so he just snapped pics when they met to eat together!! We went to John's for dinner also... so I got him eating ice cream!

Isabel's Birthday....

Ok, so I didn't get a chance to write anything when I posted pictures. Here's the thing.... We had a GREAT time... the kids got really wet, threw many water balloons, and there was plenty of food to eat! It was great to see that near everyone we invited were able to come and thanks to all of my friends who dropped their kids and ran!!! Can't believe that my baby is 10!!!

Isabel's Birthday!