What has brought a lot of new amazing changes our way

I Have not blogged anything in months, I have been so busy and on the go non-stop. I feel like I worked this passed year 2011 away and that makes me so sad because life is to sweet to let it pass on by.

This December I gave notice at the per school I was working at (Which mind you I LOVED those kids more then anything, they always brighten my days) I worked there for almost two years and thought the world of it or most days I did. The people I worked for well they are different to say the least but I surely do miss some of my co workers. those people were a huge part of my life for so long and its hard not seeing them and the parents. oh man some of those parents I thought the world of as well, some made me laugh and others made me cry but no matter what they always left a smile on my face on way or another.

The Adult family home I worked at for the last almost three years. I am also working my way out the door but for now I am just going to be working a full day there on sundays, just until other things can get off the ground (which we will get to that here shortly)

I started school back in the fall and totally fall in love with it but to say the least overly stressed from working 55 hour weeks plus school and no time for my family. I felt like I did not learn a whole lot this passed fall but this winter I am feeling so excited for school to start and get going I just can't wait. I am also starting to meet with a personal trainer weekly as well so that is so exciting to me.

The reason I left the daycare in blaine was because I was going to go work somewhere else that was going to give me all the hours I needed in just three days. WOW! sounded perfect right? well on 2nd thought they sold their business right our from under me. I was crashed when I got the phone call but somehow felt totally peaceful about it.

The day after that I said to Luke I think I shall open a in home daycare. we totally agree and since the middle of this month it has been getting off the ground. I have 5 kids enrolled and maybe two more to start (oh wait! I forgot three other young monkeys two days a week will be coming as well) I am pretty excited and knowing I can spend more time at home even if it is with a house full of kids that excites me. I get home sick so easily and I know it's because I am always away from my home but to sleep the last two weeks have been amazing and I have loved every moment of it. God sure had an amazing plan and somehow somewhere I surely was listening and did not even know it. God answer the most amazing prayers at such random moments in our life's.

So, The daycare is called "LittleMonkey's" and it should fully be up and running by the end of next week. Now is God good or what!!! he may take away from us but always replaces it with something much better then we could ever of dream of.

School is starting on thursday the 4th for me. I am so excited to see everyone. I have missed my classmates like crazy!

Christmas was a busy holiday filled with family and friends but the sad part is is that it did not feel like christmas to me or many people I know. I am still awaiting the snow. I can't believe it hasn't snowed yet. it seems a bit crazy that it hasn't. it sure has been cold but I guess not cold enough and we awaits the snow in excitement this year. I have changed my mind on how I feel about snow now that I don't really need to drive anywhere I think I might just grow to LOVE it and it might get me out of class a few times hahaha!!!

I have met some of the most amazing people and have became close with them and I feel so blessed to have them as apart of my life. I truly feel God bring people into our life just at the right time when they are needed to lean on most.

Luke has been working really hard and I am so proud of him. he is doing so much for us and is such an amazing husband. Thank you babe for all you do.

This new year we will have a house full of children, the house will be full of laugher, cries, screaming children but needless to say they are all amazing in their own way.

This saturday I will be trying out cornwall church, I will be going their saturdays for a while. i will totally be missing Christ The King. I am looking for a woman bible study to go to if anyone knows of any?

Well thats about it for now. love you all so much and be safe this new year.

What a road to have to face......

It has been a while since I have done any blogging but I thought now that I have a little free time on my hands well I am under the weather I would share the past weekend with you all.

It started in the middle of the week last week with me just feeling really sick, I thought it was no big deal as I have felt that way before and it has just gone away. well Friday June 3rd came and I started to feel really sick, I thought "OH NO. NOT THE FLU" but I let it roll off my shoulders and went about my day. Friday night I was babysitting for some of our friends when I started to get some terrible pain in my belly it started out as just cramps (I was not due for my period so I thought how odd is that, why would I of been cramping like that) as the night went on the cramps only got worse, so I thought well maybe something I ate didn't sit right. I got home around 1am on friday night and just went to bed and thought I would sleep it off. saturday came and I felt worse then ever. awful cramping and I mean we are not talking period cramping cause I can handle that no big deal at all but this cramping I could hardly walk on my own and I felt so sick, Luke was headed off to work. so I called my best friend Melissa and her being as wonderful as she is came and got me and took me to the walk in, in bellingham at the walk in they couldn't run any test on me with it being the weekend, so they told me it sounded like it was case by my appendix (at that point I was a bit freaked out, the thought of surgery scares me greatly) at the walk in they told me if the pain got any worse to head to the ER RIGHT AWAY. me being who I am. I thought I could just brush it off and deal with the pain until it went away on it's own. so I went back to my best friend's house for a BQQ that lives about 40 minutes away from the hospital, As soon as we got to her house my pain started to get a LOT worse. I told her we better get to the hospital now. Thankfully her husband was home and took over the children. we got to the ER at about 6:30pm. they told me there was about 3 people ahead of me. I could hardly talk or walk by this point I was in so much pain. after about 20-30 minutes of waiting they took me in front of the 3 people that was before me, they ran test on me but could NOT find my appendix, I was shaking and having trouble breathing it hurt so bad. after about 2 hours of screaming in pain they drug me up pretty good to kill the pain and calm me down so I could at least catch my breath and relax enough so they could run a couple test on me. after about five tests and about 7 hours of being in the ER and them still not knowing what is wrong and not being able to find my appendix they wanted to run one last test on me which was a CT at about 1 o clock in the morning and by this time I was so wore out and needed a break, needed some rest more then anything else. so I turned down the CT on sunday morning and headed home to get some rest. I was able to sleep well on some pretty heavy drugs to help with the pain. on monday I headed back to the doctor's for that CT (which I would never get again, I hate how it made me feel, I hate the fact the ink is inside my body, it made me feel very weird and get really hot and my skin turned red and I have been drinking water like crazy since) So I got the CT done to see if it was anything to do with my appendix and so far it is ending that my appendix are OKAY and no need for surgery. praise be to God for this BUT it was a cyst on my left side that bust and then I had another one also. these are the worse most painful things I have ever felt in my life. I am glad we have come to the end of this puzzle and now just for my pain to go away and for me to feel better again. I am told by my doctor that I COULD get one of these painful cyst EVERY month when I am fertile. I am praying to God that this isn't the case and that this was only a one time thing or a once every 10 year thing. I have a doctors a appt with my OBGY on thursday and I have a ton of qustions for her. for now I am taking it day by day to recover from this. praise be to God for NO SURGERY!!!

Thank you to my wonderful husband for being there with me in the ER and taking care of me.

Thank you to my best friend/sister Melissa for taking care of me and driving me to the ER and looking out for me. you are a blessing to me. I love you girl.

Thank you to EVERYONE who prayed for me and for all your thoughts and kind words. they truly meant a lot.

God bless.

nothing exciting about this one...HUH!!!

Just sharing

Wow! what a wild ride the last while has been for us but over all God has showed his wonderful grace through it all. Where do I start..... So, We just moved about four months ago now into a four bedroom town house and I must say I am LOVING it. we have a ton of room. I still have some work to do on it. I want to get some flower pots for the outside of our place to spice it up a bit and some covers for the windows. I am not sure what color to go with though, it such a rough thing to make everything match. we do plan on having a house warming party here soon to have everyone over to see our place. maybe next month? warm enough for a BBQ? that would be just lovely. We also got two kittens, Zander and Zoe. Zander is very out going and Zoe is very shy and scared of everything. it's kinda funny but kinda sad for her but still a lovable kitty. so we are enjoying having them. I am working out at a per-school/daycare now full time and not as a CNA full time, all that lifting become to much for me. doing it 40 hours a week, yikes my back wasn't a happy camper. so now I work with one and two year olds and they are much lighter to lift as many of you know and they are cute as can be. oh man! lets not even get started on my baby fever lately. I know God will bless us when we are fully truly ready and I am excited for our 2nd year of marriage to see where this path will lead us. I am getting off track as I was saying I work with one and two year olds and they are the joys of my days. I love seeing their smiling faces, they light of the room everygtime i see them but they are trouble makers but goodness they melt my heart almost every moment of the day. haha!!! I do that 40 hours a week and work as a CNA 10 hours a week, so I still get to see my buddies, its like apart of my family, I couldn't just give it up after two years. I am pretty blessed with the job I love working there with DD people. This summer Luke and I are going on a trip, I am not sure where too yet but I am pretty excited to get away from everything for a week or two and spend that time together as a couple with how busy our lifes are we have trouble finding our one on one time with each other but lately we have had a ton more of it so that we are blessed with. Luke and I are still going to christ the king church and enjoying it. we love the pastor there, he surely is great. I am still working out with Jillan Michaels and at the homestend gym, I am also picking up a kickboxing class and I am super excited about it. Some BIG news though is that I am going back to school to be a fitness trainer. whoohoo, I am EXCITED! it only takes 10 months. it's perfect. going to school for something that will have benfits for our lifes and making bank would be exciting too ;) I gave up the thought of being a RN because it is to much schooling and not for me. I do not want to be in school and also have little ones around. that just seem like to much and I don't want to miss out on the things. fitness trainer takes ten months and i will be able to set up the time with my clients that works best for me and my family. it seems like the perfect fit for me and I am really excited about it.

Well. I haven't wrote a blog in so long, I am excited to tell you all how the Thompson family is doing.

Fall is just a few weeks away and we are so excited for it. this means a month until Luke's birthday and I can not tell you how excited I am for that. Thank giving next month for us that are from Canada. we are excited for some good home cookin' on thanksgiving. then US thanksgiving is a month after that and then we MOVE. I am so very excited. We were so blessed with the apartment we are in and so thankful for what was given to us (Thank you Bailey family) we are looking for another two bedroom apartment in lynden with a washer and dryer would be wonderful. we are putting off buying a house until after Luke is done with law school. Our lifes are moving, moving fast but nothing less then how wonderful and how blessed we are.

God blessed me with a wonderful teaching job out in birch bay/blaine. I start it on tuesday and can not wait to get back into teaching young children that will grow into wonderful amazing adults someday and to be able to be apart of that is such an amazing thought.

Luke and I are enjoying our marriage. everything about our marriage is so AMAZING. the good and bad. if there wasn't rough moments then what would make us stronger as a couple, what would make our marriage stronger as one. I see our marriage growing and becoming stronger each and every day.

We are still going to christ the king in Lynden and still very much in love with them.

Luke is starting school in the next few weeks, he is excited to get back into his classes. I am so proud of him for all the hard work he puts into his studies.

I have got back into working out five days a week for one hour and am loving it. I love the rush after an amazing workout.

We count our blessings each and everyday and are so thankful to God for putting us together. sept, 25th, marks 6 months of marriage already. can you believe how fast time is going? it seems like yesterday we were saying "I DO"

We are still awaiting our wedding pictures. the lady that did them is also in the army and got pulled away right after. she comes back this weekend, so I am not just hoping, I am praying we get them very soon. I am way to excited to see them.

Well. that is all that is new with us for now. will try and update better.

Blessings to all!!!

The very pretty sunset we got to see well we were out whale watching

the love of my life

On our way home from our lovly trip

At a beach well we enjoy relaxing in the sun and a 5 mile walk

This is me all RED and sunburn

Down by a ton of boats we got to see and the water

Someone was so kind to take our picture. we love this picture too

Kisses are the sweetest thing

It sure has been a while since I have wrote on my blog. So I thought I should update what the Thompsons have been up too. well last week we got back from our wonderful relaxing trip from the Islands which was amazing. Getting back into the work week was rough but great news I will be only working 40 hours here in about a week. so I am very excited for that. Luke's hours have been a lot better at work and he got the most wonderful raise that we could of ever dream of. no joke my husband makes REALLY REALLY good money working for safeway. Thank you God for that. July 25th was our 4 months of a wonderful marriage. it doesnt seem like its been 4 months. time has gone by fast. marriage is so exciting and such a wonderful thing to share with the love of my life.

My nephew's first birthday is coming up on saturday, we are so excited. we got him a ride on toy that is an airplane and lights up and makes sounds. it is so cute and we are so excited to give it to him. can't believe the baby of the nephews and nieces is already a year old. time goes by so fast it seems.

We have been enjoying our summer, it has been a very busy one but aug it will slow down and we pray we will have more time to see each other before school starts for both of us.

I have a HUGE qustion. I need to know what you guys think.

So, I can start school in aug and be done in a year the same time that Luke is done but keep in mind I would be working full time and going to school full time, or I could live a life of working ONLY one full time job and take of break from the crazy life and start my school next June when Luke is done and will be working full time and I can go down to part time and go to school full time. I am unsure of what to do. I feel i would love a break from crazyness but then again it would be nice just to get it over with. what do you guys think?

So, Things are well with us and we pray that things are well for everyone reading this.

God bless and thanks for sharing in our lifes with us.