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ied him so that she can t she is super snuggly i love her so much ella is just wow a force to be reckoned with bossy talented attention seeking she never met a camera she didn t love she loves to dance and sings let it go with wild abandon and a bit off key she is constantly smiling and is smart as a whip she is super funny and has a great laugh she will be the first one to tell you that she s pretty and that she is going to marry a prince along with dancing lessons she and her sister are also going to preschool a couple of days a week i am doing great i would like to weigh a lot less but you know i keep starting a running program and have trouble sticking with it i do love to ride my bicycle all over our neighborhood though i am serving as a primary teacher and teach an awesome group of 6 year olds i also help teach the preschool co op so i have kiddos at my house every three weeks i recently joined mops mothers of preschoolers which is an amazing group that i am so thrilled to have stumbled upon i still miss my old job but enjoy homemaking too though i don t know that i really have the hang of it that is always evolving we have not been able to get out and play tennis much but we do have courts i feel that soon connor can watch the girls while we get out for an hour or so we did spend a lot of time at the pools this summer we are really looking forward to going back to utah to spend christmas life is good we are celebrating our 13th anniversary this sunday it s been quite a ride we are so grateful for the life we have helped create and are excited to see what is in store the adventure continues posted by amy at 12 22 pm no comments thursday october 24 2013 comfort yesterday connor was a little late to get home from school not time to go out of my mind with worry late but enough that i noticed i figured he had stopped at his friends house or was out in the street chatting but something compelled me to walk outside and just take a look around i did and looked up the road and saw the flash of red shirt that i knew he had put on in the morning i thought well here he comes he s fine i ll go back inside and make sure the girls aren t tearing the house apart but something made me stop something whispered to me that i should go towards him as i did i heard and i saw he was running towards me and was crying his eyes out i started running and when i got to him i started searching for signs of an injury i asked him if he was okay if he was hurt no he stammered i missed my stop and forgot to get off the bus relief flooded through me and while i am sure the bus driver was none to happy with him i assured him that it was okay and grabbed him and held him close to me would he have been okay if he had just told me about it when he got home sure was it better that i was there to scoop him up and reassure him while the hurt was still so fresh and he was so upset in my eyes you bet i was so thankful that i could ease his mind sooner even if just a few minutes more i was grateful for my mother s heart and for listening to the still small voice within i started thinking about how many times i have been in sorrow crying my eyes out hurt beyond measure how our heavenly father would love to reach through the veil and scoop us up and pull us close while jesus walked the earth he spoke so many beautiful words that sustained and gave peace when he left it was promised that we would be given the holy ghost i have always loved the description of the holy ghost as comforter it gives me an image of being wrapped up in a warm cozy blanket but of course another definition is one to run to our side and pick us up of course it isn t in the physical sense but as a remembrance of the words of jesus that brings comfort to those who love him john 14 26 we are told but the comforter which is the holy ghost whom the father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever i have said unto you we are given the spirit within us to bring to mind that which jesus taught us but i also believe that our father in heaven uses human vessels to bring comfort to us that s a phone call from a friend that s a message that says i was just thinking about you today it s what leads us to do acts of kindness to others sometimes without knowing why we are doing them and it s what compels a mother to go out to the street looking for her child just to make sure he doesn t need her i find comfort today knowing that i have that big old blanket whenever i need it posted by amy at 7 14 am no comments wednesday october 23 2013 houston zoo we have been getting used to our new life in houston and man that s taken a lot of time still trying to get settled into our new home learn our way around town and establish a routine i have been relishing my new role as stay at home mom though have been putting on the serious pounds gotta lay off the baking but it s a lot of work and there s no vacation or sick days we had the opportunity to take a little r and r as we hosted lonny parents lynn and edy for 10 fun filled days one of our stops was the houston zoo everyone frome friends at church to my new hairdresser have been saying you must visit the zoo so we decided to check it out it s incredible the landscaping alone is worth the trip the animals are the cherry on top they had one of my favorites an ocelot i didn t get to see him though as he was sound asleep somewhere so new name napsalot but the best pay off grandma and grandpa visiting some homesick kids who needed a taste of home and between you and me so did their mom now we can regroup and continue to explore our new home the weather is amazing and we re up to the challenge but we have some great memories to store away as we make new ones posted by amy at 1 01 pm no comments monday september 9 2013 acclimating or turning into texans i have been told that it actually can get very cold here but i have decided that there are just varying degrees of summer in texas i have laughed at stories i hear about texans bundling up when it hits the 60s brrr it hearkens me back to my days in california where the uniform in winter is a sweater with your shorts i have been looking forward to flaunting flip flops in february say that three times fast i have been planning on tossing out all the sweaters and scarves saving just a few for trips back to utah these silly texans it is so hot here sometimes i can t speak they don t know cold then the funniest thing happened yesterday we hovered around 85 degrees here we have been here just about a month mind you i looked around the house and everyone had long pants on i found myself with a chill and ran upstairs to get a shirt with long sleeves the air conditioner which is hands down the most essential thing to have here forget food and water was set at 75 and i was cold lonny and i both watched football under blankets can i tell you how wonderful it is to live in a football town again it s in an overused word awesome i felt like making a pot of chili could it be that we are turning into texans we have made it a goal to try every bbq joint in the woodlands then perfecting our own i am determined to learn to make pie crust connor has noticed that all the kids say ma am and sir at the end of their sentences he and i both sported cowboy boots at our ward fair on saturday i don t scream my head off at the cute little lizard who lives on top of my outside trash can anymore i accidentally touched him on my birthday while throwing out some trash because i didn t see him and had the heebie jeebies for two hours after i don t know who freaked out harder in fact i have dubbed him larry i have even caught myself calling him sir i do believe we are turning into texans and i couldn t be prouder posted by amy at 8 00 am 1 comment saturday august 31 2013 blowin the dust off whew almost went an entire year without a posting shame on me and what a year it has been after so much uncertainty and having to exercise tremendous faith soooo not easy we finally got the answer to the questions that have invaded our lives where are we going to wind up what s going to happen in the next few years what does the lord have in store for us what he had in store was certainly nothing i saw coming we were presented with a few different scenarios a few i was absolutely certain held the answers only to find that no that s not the fork we re to take and finally ended up with a wonderful opportunity to live in texas we had both looked at the job posting and considered it then thought nah well maybe but well nah then during a conversation with lonny one day he remarked off handedly that he had put in for the job in houston we thought nothing would ever come of it he had been called for a second interview for a job in washington d c as well as orange county my home stomping grounds we had already lost what we thought was our dream opportunity to move to sacramento they interviewed lonny he felt he nailed it we felt so certain that was were we were going then they casually drop the well we don t actually have funding for this position so we don t know when we will be able to fill it as of this writing they still haven t so we were trying to remain cautiously optimistic then lo and behold the call came from texas for an interview right away in the back of my mind i started thinking hmm something about this feels right and no one was more surprised than me i will spare you a long drawn out rest of the story ha when have i ever but the short of it is that in june we don t you love how i say we but really it was entirely a team decision accepted the position in houston and 6 weeks later we were on the road we have been here a month now still settling in everything sort of fell into place lonny received a welcome to the court we are excited to meet you i am a byu grad type of email from one of his fellow law clerks as it turns out he and his wife have been amazing friends to us because of a contact we were given by them for a real estate agent we were able to rent a house that we love sight unseen which i would never do again exercising faith and we have landed in their ward our new friends and the agent so we already knew a few people when we arrived lonny s colleague also is in the bishopric here in our ward and when we arrived there were 35 people here to help us move in we love the area we are in we are really into the woods and there are critters to get used to and the heat and humidity here are cray cray we were warned august is the worst month to be here so it can only go up from here we live right around the corner from a nature preserve there is everything we could want except a café rio but we are in the heart of mexican restaurant central i think we ll survive and so far we have been very happy i am in love with how much closer we are becoming as a family i also have the opportunity or should i say challenge of staying home full time at least for now it is a huge relief to have these questions answered of course more answers lead to more questions in any case i am excited to have landed and am going to work diligently to blog our journey here in this life again don t really know if anyone is that interested in reading it but it is good for my soul so here it is warts and all i have some camera related issues always it seems there is a lesson somewhere that i am not learning but will post some pictures soon the kids have sure grown from my last post more to come the journey never really ends even if the blog post did for a while posted by amy at 8 19 pm 3 comments friday september 14 2012 splish splash what better way to cool off on a hot summer day and let mommy go shopping splash pads at gateway ahhhhhh posted by amy at 10 50 am 1 comment posted by amy at 10 47 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom connor connor abby abby ella ella quotes about adoption a special one for you connor i did not give you the gift of life life gave me the gift of you the bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other s life richard bach if a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing where there is complete truth about who we are you can t give a child any greater place from which to fly amanda bearse time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child i have born two children and had seven others by adoption and they are all my children equally beloved and precious dale evans we look at adoption as a very sacred exchange it was not done lightly on either side i would dedicate my life to this child jamie lee curtis i realized at the start that whether a child is biological or adopted one does not know all the ingredients in the package that is what growth is all about a child is the slowest flower in the world opening petal by petal revealing the developing personality within robert klose somehow destiny comes into play these children end up with you and you end up with them it s something quite magical nicole kidman adoptive mom i am mom i need no other label or prefix joanne greco it has been said that adoption is more like a marriage than a birth two or more individuals each with their own unique mix of needs patterns and genetic history coming together with love hope and commitment for a joint future you become a family not because you share the same genes but because you share love for each other joan mcnamara by choice we have become a family first in our hearts and finally in breath and being great expectations are good great experiences are better richard fischer contact us lonnyssongbird comcast net performing with leo ego at the avenues street fair me and my girls we take a trip to bryce our little lady katie pretty kitty chloe close to our hearts fighting with charese alaska eight sydney abby ella mike and lanae private because 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