Fostering

I was on Facebook several weeks ago when my cousin posted a picture of three puppies who were in a shelter and needed out due to over population.  Because these shelters are so over crowded, dogs are being put to sleep every day, thousands of dogs.  Its mind blowing.  Anyway, the post was sponsored by a rescue group called, Rescue Rovers Pet Adoptions.  This group finds dogs in over crowded kennels and pulls them out and gives them to their group of foster families.  I just thought this was so cool.  So I decided to sign up to be a foster.  I forgot to mention it to Eddie, or maybe just thought I would let him know after we took in our first foster.  Anyway, literally 10 minutes after I signed up to foster, I got a call from Jodi who is the director of fostering.  This group is so very organized.  There is a person in the lead of each phase of the process.  Pulling the dogs, fostering them out, medical, adoptions and follow up.  I loved the organization.
So I got the call and they asked if I would take in three sister pups.  A shepherd mix of some kind.  I was so hesitant to take three as my first fostering experience, but agreed to it begging Jodi to find two other fosters to take the other girls.  Thankfully she did and we only ended up with the one puppy.  A little black and brown dog that we named Mystique.

Well Mystique won our hearts very quickly and when it was time to take her to an adoption even, I just could not do it.  I FOSTER FAILED and adopted this sweet girl.

After failing as a foster, I decided to try again and take in another rescue, this time a wery active little beagle.  His name is Price.  He was with us for almost a week, super fun and the kids just loved him.  Last night he met his forever family and they quickly adopted him up after falling in love with him.

On Saturday our house will get super crazy when we take in two new puppies who have been rescued from death row.  I am excited and nervous at the same time.  TWO puppies!  One is hard enough, but two.  Please say a few prayers for me.

I can't deny it, I am hooked.  I love all these little fury friends who come and stay with us for a little while as we work to find them forever homes.  If you are ever looking to add a furry friend to your family, consider fostering or adoption.  Save a life.  They are so worth it.


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We up and left Orem.

Here I sit posting again.  I just don't do this whole blogging thing well.  I guess I consider Facebook my blog.  Why not?  I update it daily and add pictures and everything.  But some people (mom you shall remain nameless) do not think that facebook counts and that I should be blogging regularly so that every one of my faithful followers will know what is going on with the Crazy Mormon Family.

Here is the big news, we moved out of Orem and headed north up the I15 to North Salt Lake.  Why?  Because we wanted to.  Does that sound crazy?  To some it may, but to me it feels like freedom.  To be able to come and go as I please, move, move back and move again, that feels freeing.  I like that feeling.  Thankfully Eddie and I have worked our business to be in a place financially to do things like this.  We feel super duper blessed.

I have decided to venture into fostering dogs.  Again, why?  Because I felt like it.  Doing things that feel good is how I want to live my life.  Eddie and I sat for a while several months ago and thought about all of the wonderful blessing we receive when we act on our gut feeling, or intuition.  Things happen to us, blessings come that we did not foresee.  I have decided to live life without fear.  Fear keeps us from truly growing and I want to grow to my fullest potential and I do NOT want my girls to fear life.  I want them to embrace every opportunity that comes their way.  We has such strong influence on our children.  I gotta use that influence wisely.  So anyway, we moved, we are fostering dogs, Eddie is getting promoted like crazy at the new Progrexion office, the girls LOVE being near their Burgess cousins, Madison is in Clayton Productions USA, Jacquelynn is in Clayton Productions To The Top Purple, Brook in To The Top Blue and Sutton is making her CP debut in Kidding Around, doTERRA bizz is so much fun and is such a blessing in our lives.  So many awesome things.  And all because we decided to "jump".

So again, I will try to stay on this blogging thing, but I can't guarantee anything. Sorry mom..er...person to remain nameless.

Angela

Mom's are Busy and Insane.

I have seen a lot of cute cartoon pictures on facebook lately about being a mom with more then one child.  They seriously have me laughing out loud.  Because they are absolutely true!  I atomically share them on my facebook page and immediately my other mom friends are laughing and posting the picture on their own pages.

Yes, being a mom of 4 (soon to be 5) kids can make me go absolutely insane and want to scream at everyone, but honestly, I would not change it for the world.  Sure the "I love yous" are fewer then the "I hate yous" and the messes are more then the neatly organized home I have in my head.  Sure I want to crawl into bed more often then I want to get romantic with my husband (hey no judging, I'm 8.5 months pregnant).  But at the end of the day, when I am oiled up and in bed ready to pass out, I think how blessed I am to have all 4 of my little girls.  And how blessed they are to have each other.

I thought it would be fun to add some of my most favorite pictures to this blog on Insanity and Thankfulness.  So I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.

My loves!

Keeping the girls busy with art

Brook after she fell into the fountain at the mall. A proud parental moment.

The last few weeks

This past week, my little Brooklyn was spotlighted as her classes Star Of The Week. I really wanted to make it a BIG deal because I am seriously slacking in the mom department with my Kindergartner.  I have missed or forgotten so many little things that have gone on in her class (I blame pregnancy brain).  I feel like such an A@@!  So I really wanted to do this week up BIG!  We made a poster all about Brook!  We had so much fun going through all of her old pictures and talking about all of them.  She was so sweet to sit and listen to her life in pictures.

On her first day as SOTW, She got to wear jewelry!  That was such a big deal for her.  She promised to mot touch or play with it through class, but to just wear it pretty, and she did.  

Brooklyn had to opportunity to go up in front of her entire class and perform her favorite nursery rhyme.  She did Jack Be Nimble because she thought the "burned his toe" part was hilarious.  Her class agreed and burst out in laughter.  LOVE HER!

This is my little doll about to take her poster into class on her first day of SOTW!  She was so excited and so very proud!!!!  I am so proud of you my Brookie Cookie!

Oh it has been so stinking cold here in Orem Utah!  Blah!  My girls and I are having serious cabin fever.  Yesterday it was a warm 32 degrees and I let them play outside.  I had to.  We have been so trapped indoors lately that I just had to let them out.  I am so glad I did.  They had fun being outdoors.  We did a few activities indoors to keep the girls busy.  For the most part they all worked.  Some of the fun things we did.....

Crafty Wood Cutouts.  We painted Conversation Hearts.

Baking Soda, Vinegar and food coloring fizzy fun.

2013

Don't be so shocked!  I am actually blogging.  I think I missed out on all of last year.  LOL.  I can't say I am upset at myself for not keeping my blog active, I just had way too much stress to worry about blogging.  Last year.....well, the last 2 years really, have just been the most difficult of my entire life.  I think I wanted to quit life 85 times just last year alone.  But I pushed forward and did my best to smile and keep on keeping on.  I am a big believer in knowing that the Lord will never give us more then we are able to handle.  Well, the Lord has tested me and I am still here.  I have my parents to thank for that.  I am not sure where I would have been if I did not have their love and support (in so many ways).  I think the literally picked me up and carried me through some of the hardest days of my life.  For this I am forever thankful.  I know that my trials are no where near over, but they are at least getting better and I can see a tiny glimmer of light at the end of the far, far, far off tunnel.

What is the biggest thing I have learned through all of this?  Be thankful for everything you DO have.  Don't ever complain about your husbands job or where you live or that you live in an apartment and not a home.  Because one day, all of that can vanish.  Without warning, just disappear.  I will never be ungrateful for the blessings that I have ever again.  That is for sure.

So onto bringing this blog up to date.

It is freezing here in Utah.  This morning when I woke up it was a freezing 1 degrees.  YIKES!  We don't leave the house much as it takes like 45 extra minutes to bundle everyone up.  So we stay inside and figure things out to keep everyone busy.  My girls have become very much addicted to Plants vs. Zombies (thanks a lot grandpa).  But at least it keeps them busy.

I am now 28 weeks and 5 days pregnant with our first baby boy.  We have still to settle on a name.  But are looking forward to meeting him and beginning to balance out our home.  I am in the stage of constant back pain and inability to sleep.  Weird, weird, weird dreams every night and undying thirst.  I love it because I love what all of it will bring.

Eddie started a new job and he really loves it.  We are going to enroll him in Real Estate School within the next month.  I think it is a step in the right direction.  I am contemplating Massage Therapy School after the baby comes.  But that is still very much up in the air.  I have wanted to do that for some time now.

Madison, Jacquelynn and Brooklyn are all in school!  4th grade, 1st grade and Kindergarden.  They are all doing well and keeping me busy with everything they are involved in.  Madison has been asking to be home schooled lately.  I am not sure where this idea came from, but she seems serious about it.  I am not opposed to it, I just like having a somewhat quiet house during the week days.  Who knows how I will feel about it once a new baby arrives. I told her just to finish out the year at school and then if she sill wants to home school, we can talk more about it.

I have pictures to add, but they are all on my phone.  So in an effort to cross blogging off my "to do" list, I am going to publish this and then add pictures later.

And that's a wrap!