We Moved Again

Changing happening with the Morrisseys. When the girls left we were very upset and were kind of done with our house. We were supposed to adopt 7 kids in that house and we just had too much heart break there. So we juggled with the idea of getting a new place. Well I didn't want to leave my ward it was the first ward in 7 years that I truly felt like I belonged and could call them my family. We looked and looked and nothing seemed to pop out at us. Well then Steve found this little place about 10 minutes south of where we were at. It's very small compared to the house we were living in. It's a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom little house which has been fun adjusting all of our stuff in. I feel more comfortable knowing that my babies will be less than 10 steps away from me as compared to our old house which the bedrooms were down the hall. I didn't want to have stairs with the twins and plus having a 2600sq ft house was so hard for me to keep clean. I was scared to death to think about having two new babies and trying to keep up with house work. The stairs scared me for when they start to crawl as well as trying to get both of them up and down them. So we decided to go for it and I love it. We are now on horse property which the dogs love and Steve is looking forward to getting some horses, cows, and goats eventually. We also have a big chicken coop which Steve is excited to start getting some fresh eggs. I am not really looking forward to all these extra mouths to feed but I made a deal that unless he was out of town or sick I wouldn't have to feed them. Steve also has a big garage in the back that can be his workshop once we get everything organized. So we have great views of the mountains which doesn't really do well when it comes to cell phone service. We get Tucson tv stations and cox or qwest doesn't come out here either. It hasn't been too big of a deal we only had basic cable when we were living at our other house. We get all the channels except ABC but thankfully we have Steve's mom DVR anything on that channel that we would miss. We are trying to get used to our new ward, which has been super hard for me, especially knowing that my old ward starts right after our new one at the same building. I love Queen Creek and am grateful to live out here. People always say don't you hate to drive and I tell them I chose where I want to live because I love it out here. So I feel like I can't complain about the drive plus I am pretty used to it. I am thankful that my friends from my old ward are still close and I can still see them. Even though this is our 8th move in 7 years it has been a good move so far.

Our Foster Care Journey

Well our girls left at the end of January. It was pretty hard for us. We had told the case worker we wanted them to be transition in May so that the oldest could finish out the year in her kindergarten class. Well they were not very nice and just moved them as soon as they could. I had cried for two days straight and Steven was very upset as well. But they ended up going to the grandparents of the people that want to adopt them. Which are the same family that had them before they were placed with us. We called and checked up on them a week later and the oldest didn't really care to talk to us and was fine but the younger one who was very attached to Steven which is crazy because when she first arrived she wanted nothing to do with guys. She talked and talked and talked to me and then to Steve. She kept having problems at school when she was still at our house. So she told Steve that she had been good at school so we need to let her come back home. It was very heartbreaking for both of us. Especially Steven. So we haven't called them back since we figured it isn't fair for them or us. We had them in our home for 6 months. It was a very good learning experience for both of us. We learned things that I think most parents will never learn and we have learned things that will hopefully make us good parents with the twins. Since we had such a hard time with the girls leaving we decided to pray to either keep up with our license or stop until the twins get older. The answer we got was to stop the foster care for a while and focus on the twins and then we will see where life takes us. We are very grateful for the experience that we had with the whole foster care program and were very grateful we helped these two little girls for a short while. I think that more than anything they helped us.

Pregnancy Updates

I was 23 weeks in this picture.
I don't know how many weeks I was but it was sometime in December.

So far so good I am now 27 weeks and ready to be done. The babies have been doing so good. I was really shocked that they would do so good. I passed the glucose test and found out I'm really anemic. I feel huge even though everyone says oh you look so tiny. Biggest reason that I look small is that she is in my ribs and back and he is down low. My ribs on my right side have been killing me and now it is starting to hurt on the front of my ribs too. I go back to get an ultrasound on Monday.