Happy New Year

This was our sweet little babies very first Christmas with their new family. We were so very blessed this year to get to have them as part of our family. Last year we missed Christmas with them by a week. They were so excited to open their presents and watch all the other kids open theirs. In all I have to say it was the best Christmas I have had.

The cleaning up after 10 kids took awhile, but all worth it. Now we are getting ready for the new year, Since it will be our last here in San Antonio. It be bitter sweet to hang out with our friends. Our house had been looked at 12 times now, but still no buyers. We still have Tony's work that will buy it on March 2ND if we do not sell it first.

As far as Dallas, we have seen a few we like, but not enough to buy yet. We are a family that is hard to please when it comes to a perfect home. We have to have at least 5 bedrooms, at least 3,500 sq.ft, and we really want a pool. I guess we are a little picky, but it's just what we want!!

My little Emma is having a lot of tummy pain the past 6 months, so tomorrow morning she will under-go an endoscopy. We are praying that they tell us what is wrong with her.

So, I'm going to go and prepare her for bed since we have an early morning. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and have a great New Year!!

Loving the Holidays

I'm not sure if I had ever mentioned before that my husband Tony was adopted when he was 10 days old. The entire time I have known Tony he has always talked a little bit about his biological parents and who they were, and where they were. This year Tony, and I finally set out to find them.

Well, we did it!!! After looking for almost a year, we found them. They were shocked at first and a bit stand offish, but they came around. Now I get to sit back and watch this beautiful relationship build over very emotional emails. It has been so beautiful to me. The things his bio-parents say to him are so heartfelt. They say exactly what I believe Tony needed to hear. They were 16 and to young, but loved him so much. They talk about how they wanted to hold him and hug him so bad.

Today they sent another letter telling Tony this year they were giving their parents, (Tony's grandparents), the best Christmas gift of all, the gift of finding Tony. They will set them down and tell them that they finally found him. I thought that was so sweet and touching. Now the next step I guess is to try to meet them!! Its just exciting. I'm sure they about died when they saw we had 10 kids, but isn't everyone. They are very strong Christian people, just like Tony.

Well, that's our exciting news for now. The kids are all doing great and getting ready for the big day!!

Me and Tony have been talking a lot about adopting again, but right now we can not agree on what child, what age, and what place. Tony wants to wait until our move is over and we know where we will be. As for me there are two babies on Reece's Rainbow that I would love to adopt right now!!

Our house is still on the market and we are suppose to close on it March 2Nd. Then we will have to say goodbye t all our friends here and move away from this home, and place we have loved for so long. I will miss everyone here so dearly.

For now I will leave you with some pictures that we have taken over the past few months of our 10 wonderful kids. We feel truly blessed this year with everything that God has given to us!! On the 24Th it will be one year that we adopted our children!! What a wonderful year!!

Sorry!!

I'm sorry for the delay in writing on here. We have been so busy in trying to see our house lately that everything is a little crazy right now. It seems like every time centralized showing calls to show our home, it is the worse time possible with dirty diapers smelling in the garbage, toys all over, and dishes in the sink. We have to run very fast and clean it all up, and put the dogs in the car and leave. Sometimes the people do not even show up, those are the times that I really have to hold in my anger!!

Other than that we are all doing OK here. My little girl Emma is having some tummy issues that are concerning us and she is about to have an upper GI next week. We are thinking that she will end up having celiac disease since her sister has had the same issues before. It is suppose to be a lifelong disease that never goes away, but Grace my 10 yr.old outgrew it. We knew though that is was God that had curred her . The doctor's just do not say that.

The babies are doing OK as well. Nessie the youngest has been screaming at us a lot. I'm not sure what this means, but it is driving us crazy. She seems to be angry at everyone and is even attacking her brother Eli. We are having to keep them apart at times. Its just one of those things we are having to learn about and how to deal with.

I hope everyone is well. I'm sorry to be so short, but Emma is having a tummy ache and I need to hold her now!! Goodnight!

Hello Again!!

Waiting For The Week To End!!

This has been a very long, yet stressful week. The nasty neighbor down the road is back on her broom stick going after us again. This time she has included her sons. They have began fighting with my son. I guess someone trashed there home on Halloween night and they called the cops telling them that we admitted to it. I would never even consider doing something like this. After that is when her sons started making fun of mine. So she told my son he could not come up on a PUBLIC street to play in front of her house anymore. My husband walked down there and told her she had no right saying that, so she called the cops again!! The cops this time told her she needed to get over it. They told her tony did nothing wrong, and that it was a public street.

I had just started thinking that I love my house and getting sad about moving, but now I remember that God has got a plan in all of this. I know God is moving us to Dallas because this will only get worse staying here. I can not stand to be here next to her anymore. We have kept our mouths silent through all of this. We have been the bigger people and have not done a thing to her, and we wont. I just need to leave.

As for my kids. Everyone is well. The kids had fun on Halloween, and they are starting to get excited now about the move. Faith, my oldest is the only one that is still heart broken to leave her best buddy. This will be a painful time for everyone watching her deal with this move.

You can see below that the babies are loving the moving boxes. They have taken a few of them for toys. I think they like them better than they do their real toys.

Tony will be going back to Dallas next week to house hunt again while I stay behind. It is just to hard looking with all of the kids.

Well the kids all have Doctor apt. today so I will be running all day. This is when it gets really fun being the mom of 10!!

Getting Ready for Thanksgiving!!

Halloween!!! Well, its not my favorite holiday at all. Actually we have tried to not have Halloween , but it just was not fair for the kids I felt. So, last night we tried to make the most of it and IT WAS HORRIBLE!! After we went trick or treating we decided to have a get together with friends down the street. They just happen to live next door to the evil neighbor that hated me. Well, during the night the nasty neighbor got mad AGAIN, and called the cops. She told them that we were loud and she thought we were disturbing the neighborhood. So, what was a great night ended up turning into a nasty night because of this lady that CAN NOT stop harassing me in every way that she can. I know though that I will be moving soon enough and never have to look back. I just feel bad for all my neighbors that will have to still deal with her.

Now, I'm looking ahead and getting ready for my last Thanksgiving here in San Antonio. I'm really hoping that my brother will be able to make it like I said before.

I'm going to leave you guys with some pictures from all of our kids last night!! Get ready there will be a lot!!

Never enough Time

It seems like time is running away from me lately. I never find enough time in one do to finish what needs to be done. I went to my doctor for anxiety this week and they put me on a new medication that is giving me the worse side effects ever. They put me on Paxil. It keeps making me really dizzy and I am soooo angry all the time. I'm not sure why. I feel like I am always angry with the kids this week so I just have to walk away. I now just stooped taking the medicine and started to take my old one. I can not believe the way one pill can make someone feel. I hated feeling that mad all the time. My life brings me so much joy, everything I do I find it so interesting to me. I really love the life that I have. So fir me to feel like this, Its just odd, and I do not like it one bit. The move adds a little stress as well. The movers are coming tomorrow to take a lot of things from our house. Then we will leave at 4.00 to go to Dallas for 3 days and house hunt. We have been praying hard for a home that will keep us near other kids , yet a lot of land. We want our children to be able to have others to play with. We are praying that this goes well for us.

For thanksgiving we will be doing it at our house this year. My mom and dad will be coming. They only live about 3 hours away, yet they have only seen my adopted kids a few times. They still do not know the names of all of my kids. It is really sad. I try not to think about it very much or talk about it because I don't want it to bother me. This past month they came to visit us and we had the best time ever. I realised that them not coming to see me all the time was my dad just never being able to really sit still. My mother sat and played with the babies for so long and loved on them. For me it was bitter sweet. I can not remember a time when my mother ever sat and really played with me as a child. I can not remember my mother of father ever telling me that they loved me. So, It was nice to see that my mother had that in her, but sad that it was never said to me. So, this year for Thanksgiving it will be really sweet because I have not spent one with MY family in about the last 5 years. I have 2 brothers that are identical twins, both of them are chiropractors that have led very , very wealthy lives. One of them still does, and the other one has fallen into a terrible place ion life right now because of drugs. He has lost everything, even his family. He will be here to. It is very nice to get to spend time with him because he was so shut off from my family for so long. Now, I am one of the only people that will really sit and talk to him. My other brother financially supports him and send s him to all the fancy rehabs. He just got back from passages in Malibu. It was about 90,000 for one month. Now he is going to another rehab, so I'm not sure if he got his money out of it.

Anyways, I have talked a lot tonight. I have just had a lot on my mind this week. I'm excited to see my family that I thought forgot about me after the adoption. We were sorda an embarrassment to them with 10 kids. I'm happy to know that they are still there for me, and that we are getting close again. I hope next time O blog that I have good news about finding a new house in Dallas!!