Emergency!!!

Today we noticed SHE had gotten her foot stuck in her cage and evidently chewed her nail off. She seemed to fine so I just let it go. She is just a bird. I went to pick up Jackson from school and when we got home there was blood everywhere in her cage. I seemed like alot of blood for a little bird. I called the vet and they told me to bring her in right away. Jackson heard me talking to the vet and saw the blood. Eventhought I tried to stay calm Jackson knew I was worried and he almost began to cry and asked if Jade was going to be ok (Jackson is a very sensitive kid) I wasn't sure. It seemed like alot of blood for a little bird.


We rushed to the vet. It turns out Jade pulled the nail out and didn't chew her toe off. They were able to stop the bleeding and put the cutest bandage on her foot I have ever seen. Her nail should grow back just fine. (If it doesn't we will have to amputate her toe.) But all is fine.

Happy Memorial Day

Hope everyone is having a happy memorial day weekend, no big plans this weekend. We are just spending the day at home with the kids having a little cook out. I am grateful to all the troops fighting for our country. I do not have anyone personally fighting but hope that everyone's loved one make it home safely. Have a wonderful Day.

I need help!!!

Has anyone seen the musical wicked. I had heard about it and heard it was good but didn't really think it would be that good. Who care about witches. The story is about the withches from the Wizard of Oz. Back in January Wicked came to Arronff Center in Cincinnati. I started volunteering there this year as an usher so I could see the shows for free. Anyone Wicked was one of shows. I ushered it 3 times and I have fallen in LOVE. Then I found out that it lives in Chicago and we were planning a trip for the East meets West adoption conference. So I quickly bought tickets. Before we went to Chicago I bought the CD and listened to it frequently. The show in Chicago was wonderful!! The Oriental Theatre is georgeous!! I have become totally obsessed. I listen to the CD all the time. I have the music playing in my head all the time. I put the music on my blog. Hope everyone enjoys it. I almost feel like I am going thru withdrawal.

I know it sounds crazy. If you haven't seen it, you must. It is a wonderful story. It is a story about frienship, betrayal, loyalty, standing up for what you believe in, it is a love story. Not to mention the music is wonderful. If you are a Wizard of Oz fan it explains alot about the movie. The picuture that I have included are my favorite part of the musical when Elphaba (The wicked witch of the west) learns to fly. Listen the the song Defy Gravity, this is what she is singing while she is flying(literally above the stage). I don't want to give away the story because I want you to enjoy it for yourself. So if it comes to your city even if you don't care for musicals I promise you will like it, you may even love it like me.

Baby steps

We found out today that our dossier has been translated and has joined the group of dossiers that is pending review. This may seem sort of little but with the ever lengthening wait and uncertainty I would like to celebrate the baby steps through this process. I hope we make it through the review process without any problems.

Let it go!!

I copied this from someone else page. I holeheartedly agree. We can't live in the past. People are part of our lives for a reason, some are meant to stay forever and some are meant to only pass by quickly. However long they are in your life they had an impact on you and shaped you into the person you are today.


By T. D. Jakes



There are people who can walk away from you.
And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk.


I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.


When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.


The Bible said that,"they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]


People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.


Let them go.


And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead.


You've got to know when it's over.


Let me tell you something... I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat, I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.


Let them go!!


If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......


LET IT GO!!!


If you are holding on to past hurts and pains .......


LET IT GO!!!



If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth.....

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you .

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge.....

LET IT GO!!!


If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents ......

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude......

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better.....


LET IT GO!!!
If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him.....


LET IT GO!!!


If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.....

LET IT GO!!!


If you're feeling depressed and stressed ......

LET IT GO!!!


If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!


Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2008!!!

LET IT GO!!!


Get Right or Get Left. Think about it, and then.....
LET IT GO!!!
The Battle is the Lord's !

Special Delivery

We had a very special delivery today. My husband found a bunnies nest in our back yard while he was cutting the grass. They were the cutest little bunnies you have ever seen. The boys were able to hold one of them. The problem is we have not seen the mommy bunny and I am worried she will not come back since we have handled them. So I may have just become the mother to 3 baby bunnies. Baby humans I can deal with but I don't know the first thing about baby bunnies. Look at the picture closely there are 3 baby bunnies in this little hole in the ground. It really is amazing.

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Happy Mother's Day. Hope everyone has a wonderful mothers day whether you are a mother already or you have a mother. Being a mother is the most wonderful thing I have ever accomplished. You can't appreciated what your mother did for you until you become a mother yourself. Boy do i appreciate everythine my mother has done for me.

Butterfly show

On Sunday we went to the Khron Conservatory in Cincinnati for the butterfly show. Every year they bring in Butterfly cocoon's from all over the world and incubate them and hatch them and then put them on display. This year the butterflies were from China. It is really cool. You go into this large greenhouse like building with all kinds of flowers and decorations and the live butterflies fly around you and land on you and you are able to hold them. It is really cool. There was many displays about Chinese culture. Fans, bonsai trees, silk worms, embroidery etc. It was really cool.
Along with the butterflies we also so alot of ladybugs. With every ladybug siting I wished that some else recieved their referral.
They also had a Prayer Tree. The Chinese believe that trees are where heaven and earth touch.
This is why they are concidered excellent places for prayers and requests to be made. Prayers, offerings and requests are written on a piece of woven cloth such as cotton or ribbon. I made and wish for our baby and the babies of all of our new friends to come home quickly.
The kids had a great time holding the butterflies and making butterfly masks.

Gas Tips

I copied this from someone elses page but I thought it had some good points and the tips seemed valid. The price of gas is really starting to hurt our pocketbook and I am going to pay more attention which gas stations I fill up at.
TIPS ON PUMPING/SAVING GAS I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon..Here at the Kinder Morgan Pipeline where I work in , we deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period thru the pipeline. One day is diesel the next day is jet fuel, and gasoline, regular and premium grades. We have 34-storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons.Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role. A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some other liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor.Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money. One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine.Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount. Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--mostlikely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered,and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.Hope this will help you get the most value for your money. DO SHARE THESE TIPS WITH OTHERS! WHERE TO BUY GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of . Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends. I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil. Thesecompanies do import Middle Eastern oil: Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrelsChevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels Exxon /Mobil...............130,082,000 barrels Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrelsAmoco...........................62,231,000 barrels Citgo gas is from South America , from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now$90 - $100 a barrel Here are some large companies that do not importMiddle Eastern oil: Sunoco..................0 barrelsConoco..................0 barrels Sinclair.................0 barrelsB P/Phillips............0 barrels Hess.......................0 barrelsARC0....................0 barrels If you go to Sunoco.com, you will get a list of the station locations near you. All of this informationis available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It's really simple to do. Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to atleast ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREEMILLION consumers !!!!!!! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it .....THREE HUND RED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all that take?

I Can't wait til summer.

I have spring fever something terrible. I can't wait for school to be over. I am so tired of doing homework. I love this time year when the flowers start blooming. The boys have started playing baseball again. This is Colby's first year playing T-ball. I haven't seen him play but he looks so cute. AJ said he did really well his first game except he got mad when he didn't get to catch all of the balls. Jackson's first game is this weekend. Our Saturday's are going to be dedicated to baseball games for the next six weeks. It will be fun watching them play. I have more fun watching them than I ever did playing myself.