Top 3 reasons to get up this morning!!!

#3-- we had a visit from the toothfairy a couple of nights ago. Joey lost his first tooth...So the tooth fairy left him some dinero and he was so excited about that!! He put his tooth under his pillow and shazam in the morning there was a note from the fairy and some money...the first thing he asked was "where is my tooth" - When we were in Thatcher for Cannon's blessing he informs us that his tooth is falling out durring sacrament meeting. It was very loose Yeah his first tooth...perfect because it fell out the next day at school and we were headed to the dentist that very day. so Joey had to tell the dentist all about it. The dentist said the top teeth should come in right on schedule.

#2--I'm gonna save the best for last so I'll tell you how excited I am for amazing neighbors!! We have alot!! Carl stoped by about 7:00 tonight (he called James before) and dropped of seriously a flat of cheery tomatoes, a box of peaches, 3 boxes of cookie dough (m&m cookies) 2 huge boxes of churros so we (my favorite kitchen helper - Shea) hurried and cleaned out the freezer so we could add the churros then we got out the seal a mealer....we got 4 huge bags of cookies from each box. each bag has about 4 dozen balls of cookie dough!!!!! How fun!! thanks Carl!! I am most excited about the tomatoes and peaches. I'm gonna can the peaches and I emailed Wendy DeWitt to see if she had a great canning recipe for the tomatoes with some great spices or herbs....if you do let me at it!! I'll get to the peaches soon there is one on top that's already over done. Yeah for canning and being prepared (or at least trying to be)!!!!! Especially to Jen -- thanks for the great canning recipes -sweet pork and hello......beans to do burritos. Beans, water, and salt...how hard is that and it doesn't get any cheaper than that!!!!

And the #1 reason for us to have gotten out of bed this morning was to meet our sweet new baby boy. I am sitting here speechless......He is so beautiful. He looks like Jordan the most and then Samantha. We were alittle nervous about going to this meeting because we thought there was something fishy about this case because we have never gotten a call about him from his case workers... we have had to pursue with our license worker to get info about what was going on. Well turns out that sweet little love children do fall through the cracks in the system....his foster mom said the info she got was that his parents rights were severed and that he had no siblings. She Jackie (we will become great friends!! I just know it) is in it for the fostering....not the adopting. We will need to figure out where we know her from because she looks so familiar to us. Pre-existence maybe?? She has had him since he got out of the hospital. I can't see to type because the pictures of us with baby J are so surreal. Jen I did cry on the way home because I wanted to take him home right then..... We will start the transitioning this weekend and the plan is to have him here asap within 30 days. She had a beautiful picture of him that she gave us and the kids are so excited about their baby they all want to hold him and even Jesse gave everyone the list of what we cannot do to the baby, kick, hit, scratch, step on, bite, lay on, poke his eyes, sit on, pinch I can't remember them all but it was so perfect that he knew that he needed to be nice to the baby. We are excited!! So for out 15th wedding anniversary this year we are going to have our 6th slice of heaven.

I am still overwhelmed at the love our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have for each of us and how they know just what we need and how much or little we need of it. I really believe our new friend Jackie was the one Heavenly Father wanted to take care of our baby for these past months. She is heaven. There was such a peace in the room as we were meeting to permanently place baby J. It was such a perfect meeting. A perfect day. One that I will gladly get up for again and again.....

I have the perfect quote for the day - I may have it made up in vinyl or I'll do an embroidery of it, it is so perfect for our family.

First we had each other... then we had you...now we have everything.