What A Great Way to Start off the New Year!!

New Years Eve is always my favorite time of year now, now that I'm in the Tolman family my mother in law makes the best Monte Cristo's. Oh they are heavenly!! The end of the year I DON'T like at all, because that's the time when J is working till almost midnight.

That day we had taken Tempe to where we had gotten her so that she could spend time there and hang with her cousin and the other dogs. It was nice to know that she was in safe hands, while we were gone.

The next morning we drove to Cody and got on our plane and went to Arizona, it was a really nice surprise to see Jordan, Meghan and Stacey there. I was just expecting my mom and dad. The best thing about thing that was said to me made my day when Stacey hugged me and told me that I looked good. It is nice to have people notice that I'm losing the weight that my stupid Gal bladder made me gain. That night we went and ate at Olive Garden, it is our family tradition and it would be the last get together with everyone there for awhile. I felt truly blessed to have all my sisters and brothers there (aka sister in law, brother's in law). It was fun to be able to see them and talk to them again.
That night the boys took Jordan out to have his Bachelor Party. Kristen, Bethanie and I talked for an hour on the couch and then we decided to go to bed since we all were tired. We hadn't heard anything from the boys so we figured they were having a good time.
The next day was the BIG day for my baby brother. I'm so proud of him and I couldn't ask for a better person to be his wife. She is an amazing person and I'm blessed to have her as my new sister!!. The sealing went so perfect, it reminded me of Justin's and my sealing, I had looked around the room and the spirit was so strong and the feeling of love and peace surrounded me. I even got to see a old roommate of mine, who is also Meghan's sister!! =). I felt a lot gratitude towards Meghan's mom because she bought all the sisters earrings and necklaces and the brothers/brother in laws ties, because she didn't have to do it but she wanted everyone to match and it was just so perfect.
While they were putting away stuff I got up the nerve to talk to Bre (I know that sounds stupid "got up the nerve" but I hadn't seen her in years and I'm a very shy person.) Well we talked for about 10-20 minutes before Mav comes up and tells me that they wanna go because Trevon was getting tired, I get her number and we say our goodbyes. That night we buy Filaburtos (sp?) and it was soo good and it stopped my craving for the super nachos and fries.
It was hard to say goodbye to my family because I wanted to stay longer because I actually felt welcomed and I didn't feel like people were treating me different like the other times I had gone. But I also didn't wanna ruin the feeling, I wanted to leave on good terms and feeling like that. We also had to come back to get the puppy since he was doing us a favor and watching her for free.

Michael (aka Mav) has gone into the Air Force and was sworn in on the 5th. Its so good to be able to feel relief for my sister and her family. Kristen is so strong is letting Mav do this, this will help them in many ways. He will graduate from basic March 5th and I'm hoping we can go, even if we can't we will be there in spirit.

Justin and I have actually started the process to adoption, as many of you know we've not had much luck lately. I know it is in the Lords hands and He has a plan for us, I knew it but when my father gave me a blessing and actually said those words "You will become pregnant, in the Lords time." It gave me strength to keep believing and have faith in the Lord that I will. Lately I've been thinking alot about adoption and just keep thinking we need to start. I asked J the Sunday after Christmas and he said we could start it after we get back from our trip. He has called the agency and is waiting for a caseworker to call him back. I'm excited that we are actually starting it, its not a "I'll believe it when I see it" or its just not an idea, we are actually starting to do it.

Thatcher's Temple is almost done and the open house is in April we are going, but not sure when. This trip I will stay longer and I'll take little Tempe with me. I know she'll have so much fun and she will actually get to play outside and love it.

I'll post pictures of Christmas, the wedding, recieption and Tempe and Cali up as soon as I get them to the net disk. They are on J's computer right now.

Btw, Cali (our cat, that hated everyone but J and I) loves adults, she loves to come up and see who is at the door, and she is getting used to the idea of having a dog in the house. She doesn't like it at times because when we are not watching and Tempe gets lose she'll chase Cali right underneath the bed. Cali has only hissed at her a few times for doing that, but she'll run away she doesn't try to defend her ground. She is also getting used to the fact of having kids over sometimes.

This year has had a lot of good stuff happen already, I'm so excited to see what is in store for us later!!

Christmas 09

To me 09 came by way to fast.

For Christmas Justin and I decided that we wanted to get a puppy, so our christmas gift to each other was our puppy Temperance Snowball Tolman.



I had asked my niece what name she liked for the dog, she came up with a few. Crystal, Snowball, Everest. We liked the names, but J dated a girl in high school named Crystal and so he didn't wanna name our puppy that. So I came up with the name Temperance (like the tv series Bones) and used Brooky's name Snowball for the middle name. Because I would have felt bad for not using a name she picked out. Yes it is our dog, but I don't want her hurt that I didn't use one of the names she suggested because I did ask her. We call her Tempe for short.

The Wednesday before Christmas Justin's brother Kris and his wife Ang and their boys Brayton, Mondelle, Weston, and Champbell came and stayed at our house. It was nice having them and Tempe loved having some kids to play with. Its a good change in our home since Cali doesn't like kids, she is getting used to them but still doesn't like them. On Christmas Eve we had a family get together in Cody (45 min - 1 hr) drive from our home, on our way out of Burlington (10 min away from our home) we were just hitting 45 mph and this deer ran right infront of us and there was no time to stop so we ran right into it. We weren't happy at all, you have to understand there is not good cell signal at all through Burlington and so we tried calling 911 and his mom but nothing would go through, it even said we would have 2 bars but it would just drop. So we drove up the hill and went to one of the people that J knew up there and asked to borrow their phone. We finally got ahold of the police and they told us to make sure we come in before 10 days are up to file a report, we were on our way again. We have no left blinker but our car still ran. We finally get to his uncles house and we had a great dinner!!
We say our goodbyes and go home and go and get Tempe so we can go to his parents house to open our Christmas eve gifts. We get to his parents house and Tommy and Sumer walk in the door a little after us and play with Tempe before the kids came in and made her hyper again. She won't eat, drink or even go to the bathroom when there are kids around. She gets so hyper and so happy. We open our gifts and SURPRISE they are pj's!! Thats the gift I look forward to every year lol.

Christmas morning comes and we all head over to their parents house. Watching the kids open up their gifts was priceless! Justin and I got a camera and I love it!! I use it a lot lol.

I did miss not being able to spend it with my family, but I knew we would be seeing them in a few weeks anyways so I was excited about that.