Friends + One Long Limo = One Mini Vaca

   After a long and tiredsome day.  My classmate/friend (Teri) and I decided to tackle the sad, makes you wanna cry, shopping for a dress fun.  Little did I know that I would walk out of the first store happy and ready for my much needed mini vacation to Dallas for our friends bachelorete party.  Needless to say Teri and I have the same GREAT taste!  We ended up buying the same dress just in a different top color.  Friends that shop and tell the truth together stay together :)  Not only did I find the right dress I also found some killer heels!!!  Killer as in killing my knees and feet by the 2nd hour and killing your eyes because they are that awesome!!!  HAHA Let me know what you think??
                     THE SHOES :) 

                    THE DRESS shown my BUDDY DOWDEN :)

Love....has made us stronger

    
               Buddy and I have talked about having kids and have tried the fertility meds for a while now and nothing.  No baby just me psycho from the reactions to the meds :) Thank goodness Buddy is still even with me!! We have talked about adoption and what not and we both came to the conclusion that we would just live our lives and hope that one day we would be able to afford an adoption or invetro to be able to call ourselves parents.   We on 1-8-2012 I received a phone call that would change our lives forever.  I had a lady wanting use to take her son because she would not be able to give him a good home and knows that Buddy and I would be able to.  All I could do is cry!  After a long discussion about timing, school and finances with Buddy, a sit down with the birth mom plus a visit to a lawyers office Buddy and I can now call ourselves parents.  I AM A PARENT WHO WOULDA THUNK IT!!! He is a 19 month old little boy with curly hair and the softest skin.  He is a handful, he is shy, loving and needs some working with but I believe he is well worth it.  Never in a million years did I think that my opportunity for motherhood would open up in a 15 minute phone call.  I am so blessed beyond my wildest dreams to have such an amazing husband and the most beautiful little boy.  This year so far has been the best. 

Our Little Family :)

Momma's Boy!!

My Little Jazz Man

My Little Man

Breathing...What a wonderful thing!

           After a long long week of studying (cramming) for finals I am happy to say that I passed both of them!!! WOOHOO  This means that I will get to proceed on to the next semester.  If I had not passed them I would of been dropped from the program!!!  Maybe this semester I will not be such a procrastinator and get ahead for once.  MAYBE :/  Buddy decided to take me to dinner and a movie for all my hard work in school so we decided to go to Genghis Grill and the New Year's Eve movie, which was awesome by the way.  I have such an amazing husband that I am so thankful for.   Now that I have a full month off from school I have decided to vamp up my house a little and make it not look like such a man's cave.  The boys are just gunna have to get over it with my girlie stuff being everywhere.  I have let them have their man cave for almost 2 years and now its my turn!!!  Get ready house cuz here I come.............

Santa in November

Always a good day when you walk out of a clinicals and see Santa riding down the street on his motorized wheelchair!! I haven't wrote a blog in so long I feel guilty!!!! I have been so busy at work and with school/clinicals that I haven't even gotten a chance to breathe.  But I took my first final today and I take the other one Wednesday so I will have a lot more time on my hands come next week.  On another note I love my classmates and can't wait to graduate with them!! If it was not for them I would not still be in the program.  They are lifesavers :D

Mrs. Jandi

So I left yesterday on a journey to the Land Of Oz! I made it about 11 pm last night safe and sound as well as the cake I had made for my bestie. :) I got to my mothers house and got everything unloaded and changed into my pj's and realized there was something wrong.....Buddy's size 12 socks don't fit me very well!!! Lol Guess I should of packed a little better.  Oh well if that's my only problem this weekend I will be good.  Today it is lunch with my mom and decorating with Missy for Jandi's wedding shower then out for Jans 26th Birthday!!!  Wooohoooo In the big town of Liberal. (This should be interesting!!)  Remember hug the one's you love and pray for the one's you don't.  XOXO

FOREVER

    As I was riding home today in a Toyota full of great friends I realized that I needed to update my blog.  So much has happened since I blogged last.  My family and I are trying our hardest to deal with the loss of my brother then my grandma, and for the most part we are doing great.  We have our good days and we have our bad days.  The good days are weighing our the bad so that is always a good sign.  Since March I have finished my first year of being a college student and have since been accepted into the Surgical Technologists Program.  There were 40 applicants and only 12 got accepted so I am super stoked and excited for the next 9 months. I will be very busy with being a full time student, working and being a wife...But as Buddy says , "It will be worth it!" Buddy and I have also been on Vacation to New Mexico and just recently this past weekend we went on a mini vaca to south Texas to float the river.  Cooking out and drinking with great friends is always a blast.  I am burnt and tired and not ready for the week ahead but I am a trooper and I will get through it.  Hope every one's week is great and is full of laughs.  Remember: Hug the ones you love and pray for the ones you don't. 

Here we go Round 2

    I have had the longest 3 weeks of my life!  I lost my brother on the 12th of February and on the 1st of March my grandmother lost her battle with cancer.  My heart is so torn and broken in so many ways.  In times like these family and God is what you hold on to, and you hold them tight.  I find myself numb and daydreaming of things I did with my brother and grandma that I can no longer do.  I find myself praying for my family and for my poor husband because all he can do is hold me when I am crying.  I know time will heal all wounds but does it make a difference when they heal if your wounds are very large and wide open and seem unbearable?  I am the type of person that I like to see the positive in every situation and I can not grasp anything positive other then Catlin was there at the gates of heaven with his arms wide open to welcome my grandma.  I know there is a reason for everything but I just can't wrap my head around it at this time.  Thank you to all that pray on a daily basis for our family to get threw this and thank you to all who have helped in other ways.  Your kind spirits are greatly appreciated.

~Lindye Dowden~

  

I miss her dearly!