Sunday, February 21, 2010







As usual we have had a busy last couple of weeks. Not too much going on today so I thought I would try and get this updated. Just after I wrote last time we got the 17 year old boy and things are working out really good with him. His name is Hieu and he is a little quite but has started to speak up a lot more lately. He likes to hang out with his friends a lot and also goes on visits to his moms a few days a week. Last weekend he spent much of the weekend with family and friends celebrating the Vietnamese new year and had a great time doing that. Tj spend last weekend with his mom since he hadn't been there for a while. He also got to go skating with one of his friends that doesn't usually get to go skating and then spent the whole night up hanging out and playing video games. Surprisingly when he came home Sunday afternoon he was in a pretty good mood after sleeping all afternoon. Scott, Haley, the girls, and I all went to Kearney last weekend to meet my mom and brother. Since my sister is going to be 16 this week we decided to buy a car from some friends of ours back in Sargent. So when we met mom and Clint we got the new vehicle. Scott and I also got new tattoos while we were in Kearney since that is where we have got all our other ones and like the work they do there. Scott got Keely's name on his forearm and I got the beginning part of the adoption creed down my whole left side over my ribcage. Gosh it sure hurts when I get them done but I love it so much now that it is done. Every time I get one I think there is no way I am going through that pain again but then after a while I think I forget how painful it is and decide to get another one. They really are addicting! Since Monday was presidents day Scott was suppose to be off for the day. I was really looking forward to him being off so he could do all the running of the kids to the bus and to and from school. But, Sunday afternoon he got a call to see if he would want to work. He couldn't turn it down since it was such good pay for getting called in on a holiday so it was just another Monday. Wednesday was a very big day that we had been waiting for. We went to court on Wednesday and became Tj's legal guardians! There isn't a whole lot that will change with us being his legal guardians but the biggest thing is that he is no longer a state ward. That is so awesome now as it was such a pain with so many people from the state having to come over all the time and if we wanted to take him out of state we had to get permission. Also there was a lot of documentation we had to fill out every month for them and now we are done with that. Our whole family went to court and then went out to our favorite restaurant for lunch to celebrate. Since Haley had gone to court with us and didn't go back to school after court I took her to take her driving test. She didn't end up passing so we will go back this week and hope like crazy that she passes! Yesterday we took Tatum and Keely to the children's museum for a couple hours while the baby was on her visit. Haley is usually working 3 days a week and hopefully will get more hours once she is 16. The baby is doing really good and is eating a lot better than she was and now has been gaining weight really good. Everyone in the house has been healthy and we are so thankful for that!

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