Jan.21,2009 Had the Heart operation and back home.

Hello everyone, It is good to be home out of the hopsiatl. I went in on Jan 13. At 6:00a.m. got to the hospiatl signed in and waited for a little bit. At 7:24 or so they called me back and got me ready for the operation. Anyway, they got the ivs in,the gule in my hair for the EGG. Then they gave me the don't care shot. I was out just like that. Then I guess started on what they need too and then operation. Chris said that they put the vaule in and cleaned out the rest of the vaules while in there. I am home glad to be home. Just wanted to let everyone one know that I was home. Thanks for the prayers. Terri

Anna painting with Mommy at Artsmart class.

Anna went with me Friday to Artsmart. She got a small snowman and a mouse and I let her paint them while I was doing something there. She enjoyed it. I have been painting a candle for Christmas. I am still working on it. Am about done with the candle so next I will have to put the light in it. The kids have been going for sometime now to do clay and other projects there. They enjoy going. There was a lady that we meet at Kinderclass with Nicholas long time ago she came in and we talked and she took Anna pictures with her Iphone. Then sent to me. Thanks to her.

Today is Anna's Gotcha Day.

Today was Anna's Gotcha Day when we got her from Odessa, Ukraine from Orphanage #3. We went out to eat with her to a Chinese Restaurant. She like the food really good. We also when got her hair cut. She had a pretty good Christmas. Anna got lot of stuff and clothes. I will post more later on. Happy New Year.

It been 2 years from Anna's adoption in Dec. of 2006 Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

Wow , I can't believe it been 2 years now. After bring our little girl home. Anna is 4 years old now. She is doing really will. Anna is growing up so fast on us. We still have trouble getting like Jeans to fit her. Tops are ok. Anna is her 2nd year of preschool and doing really will. She will be in a Christmas play at school to with her brother. Also we signed her up in cheerleading this month. I hope she will like it and do well with it. We shall see. Nicholas is in basketball. We have them in the Upwards game. Nicholas was in the Soccer and we like it lot. After Christmas I will try and get pictures on the blog before I go into the hosptail for the open heart. I don't know how long I will be in. We went to Anna Cheerleading meeting last night to meet the everyone;they had them go up on the stage. Anna was doing the cheer. Then later she was looking at all the girls and then she started moving her arms around like them it was so cute. Hope everyone have a great Christmas and Happy New Year.

Here are some pictures of My Neices playing the role of Bell in the Youth Theater.

My neice playing the role of Bell in the Beauty and the Best. At a Youth Theatre here in town. Were we live they have plays for the youth to tryout and in the plays. They do a great job of doing it too. My Brother-N-Law made this for the play.

I have had a lot on mine mind , things has come up.

Hello everyone, I am sorry that I have not posted any pictures yet. I have had lot of stuff going on. The kiddos are doing pretty good. Our school has started here back in Aug and now the kidds are on fall break for a week. Nicholas did pretty good on the first day off on fall break. The next day we had trouble again. Anna is doing pretty good. She had just turned 4 years on Oct 3rd so we had a birthday party for her on Sunday with our family.Anna got a lot of toys,colthes, some money too for her birthday. Caitlyn came in from college for the weekend. I told you all it has been crazy around here back in the summer and now. Still is , it has not slowed down yet. Back in July I had a strest test done on me again. It was not good. I had too many of the PC that they call them. I am not good with Medcail stuff. The heart drs wanted me to have a catherzation done on me. We set up an appt to talk to them about it and the next day I had it done. They did three test on me with the catherzation for heart. Checked back of my heart with a camera, elctor testing and the reg. catherzation test of it. That was done all in one day. I have to have a right value replace. It is leaking to much that what it should be. I was born with heart problem and had it fixed onces, and now they are saying that now that I am older it needs to be done. I really don't want to have this done but I guess I have too. We will be talking with someone about on the 24th of this month to see what they will do and how long it will take for recover from it. I have a lot of planing to do from now until they tell me when to do. I don't wish this upon no one. We will keep you posted on what is going on from time to time.

Sept Getway for the weekend at Barren Hights

sHello everyone. This is going to be a little different posting. Chris and I and the kiddos heard about this place down around Barren Lake. Its called Barren Hights Retreat. Its for families that has children with special needs. This was a great weekend for both Chris and I also for the our children. We got to meet new families and volunteer's that helped with the children that were there. Chris got to talk with the men and then I got to spend some time with other ladies. Then Chris and I got to spend sometime together that we really need to talk to each other. It helped out lot. Anna and Nicholas got to meet new boys and girls and they had fun. Nicholas has told me something that I thought I would never hear him say to me. He said that he will be nice to me now. I hope it stay that away. Sunday he was pretty good coming home and Monday and Tuesday he was good to me. I hope this has helped him out allot. They got to play out in the rain on Friday night. Then we did thing that was plane for us and they had a great time do it. I think that if we could we would go back again. I do feel little better than what I did before we left for the Retreat. Someone had told me about this when Nicholas was taking swimming lesson. I am glad that we checked into it. It was great to just talk to anothers adults. I think God new what we need and when to go. If you and your family are stressing out and don't know what to do this is great. I did not know about this place at all. I would like to say thank you to the lady that had told me about this. I did not get her name at all. I guess I better get off right now. I need to go and finish Nicholas up and I will add more to this post.