HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

WE ARE BACK YA'LL!!!!

After ten months of living in Idaho we have moved back to Texas. We aren't in Trophy Club anymore but right around the corner. Cobi got a job back at Fidelity and after 10 months of nothing we will take it!! I was sad to leave my job, but I decided that following Cobi to Texas was the best decision for us. It is nice to be back, we sure missed it. It is amazing how you don't realize what you have until you let it go.
I have truly been changed in this trying ten months, it has been the hardest time of my life. But I am ready to move on, to remember who I am, and why I am here. I am excited to rekindle the friendships that I have made over the past nine years. I miss my family and friends in Idaho dearly, but sometimes you just have to take a leap of Faith......and I am just glad that I don't have to start from scratch!

***Please keep Cobi's nephew Trey in your thoughts & prayers he was diagnosed with Leukemia (ALL) ***

We are still here

We are still here. Life got busy all of a sudden. After dealing with the loss of Cobi's mom on December 11th and the death of his Grandmother on the 22nd, we tried our best to enjoy Christmas. The kids did. They were really cute Christmas morning. I think Preston thinks that Christmas is the coolest day of the year. My favorite part was Adyson reapplying her Tinkerbell lipgloss over and over and over. She is such a girl.
I got a job in February working as an interpreter for a deaf kid in Blackfoot. It is a 30 minute drive but it is WITHOUT traffic. :) Cobi is still seeking employment and has a couple of promising leads. But as for right now he is parenting Adyson during the day. I come home to a clean house with dinner on the stove most nights.
It has been two months since Cobi's mom Robbie passed away, every month on the anniversary of her death we take yellow roses to her grave. She loved yellow roses. We buy a dozen and leave the number of the months she has been gone. This month we left two and took the other ten home to remember her by evertime we see or smell them. I think it helps to keep her memory alive. It is strange being in her home seeing her things and missing her. We used to talk a lot and she always gave such great advice. I find myself longing for that conversation. At Alexa's funeral service in Texas last June they released 50 pink balloons symbolic of her the 50 months that she lived. The kids and I were in Idaho when they funeral happened so we went to the store and bought four balloons of our own and did a balloon realease for her. It was so symbolic watching the balloons float into Heaven. Now evertime my kids get a balloon they let it go in hopes that Alexa will be able to get it in Heaven. So now each month when we take the flowers to Robbie's grave we release a balloon for her and Preston sends his balloon to Alexa. Life sure has handed us lemons lately. I just hope that we will be guided to make lemonade out of it.
Preston is enjoying his HALF day Kindergarten. He transitioned well to the new school and is playing basketball at the YMCA. He made up his own slang word (or got it from a tv show) He thinks things are JANK now. He told me "you remember that day when I wanted to go to play go carts and we didn't? Well that was sooo JANK mom! I couldn't help but laugh!
Adyson is getting so big. She loves to sing all the time and she is an awesome rollerskater (I guess the apple doesn't fall far from that tree) we took the kids to the skating rink (my high school hang out) about a month ago and by the end of the night she was skating without help!
It is nice being "home" in Idaho but we sure miss Texas and all the wonderful people we met there. We are hoping that we will be able to come visit for spring break. Cobi's other Grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and the chemo isn't going to work so they are trying radiation. When it rains it pours I guess :( Just wanted to let yall know we are still here. Even though we haven't posted.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Check out our snowman and igloo...

(thanks to our plastic house covered in snow:) )

Preston was sooo excited to see Santa he even brought a list...

Adyson not so much! :(

WISHING YOU ALL
MERRY CHRISTMAS
FROM IDAHO!!!

The Reason...

We made it to Idaho... I am sorry I haven't kept up with this blog. It has been a crazy whirlwind this year. In September we were told that they were going to end treatment for Cobi's mom, Robbie. We rushed out to Idaho to see her thinking it would be our last. We got to visit with her and the kids got to spend time with her. It was nice. We decided that we were going to move here as soon as our house sold. We sold and closed (a miracle in this market) and were able to arrive right before Thanksgiving. We got to spend a couple of weeks with Robbie before she passed away yesterday in the hospital. The kids are doing okay. Preston understands that Grandma went to Heaven to see Alexa. We went up to the hospital yesterday to see her at peace. It is strange being here in her home without her. She would want us to keep things as normal as possible for the kids. So I guess we will put up the Christmas tree and decorations to honor her memory. So this was the reason we moved here to spend time with Robbie knowing she didn't have much time, to take care of her husband and hope that having the kids around would give him a reason to smile. It is bitter sweet, She was suffering soooo much and now she is gone but isn't suffering. I am glad we are here and are able to help. It has been a rough year but we are definately here for a reason.

GO COWBOYS!!!

This year for my big 33 we went to a pre season Dallas Cowboys game. Preston has been bugging us for a very long time to be able to go... We got tickets on stub hub (we paid more to park at the game then we did to actually attend the game.. I won't even mention the fortune paid on food :) It was a great experience we even got to see Tony Romo play... that was the highlight for Preston...

I guess I should mention that the Cowboys game wasn't the only thing I got for my birthday.. I went with Cobi August 2nd to the Brad Paisley Concert.. ( Might I mention.. It was my FIRST CONCERT EVER!! It was quite the experience. I think I learned that I am too old.. my neck hurt from looking up at the screens... my head hurt from the noise... my butt hurt from sitting.. and my feet hurt from standing sooo long. I think I now understand why concerts are for the young... haha)

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