The quick low down!

Ok, for those of you faithful followers that have noticed the lag in my blogging, I apologize again. I have been trying to blog some details of our last month or so and have encountered obstacles with downloading pictures. I have finally been able to download pictures, so they are now posted..read on after this post! I will have more pictures to add for Michaels birthday as well as my mom's visit and the Baptism! A lot has been going on in our lives. We are quite busy. Things are going well for all of us and we are adjusting to the HEAT! Baseball is now over and we have entered a new venture of swimming. I am totally excited! I am in my final class of school to get my associates and I am very excited about that as well! Robert is still enjoying teaching soldiers. Elisa is finding friends at school and church and adjusting. Still misses Washington terribly, but she is coping!
Well, I hope all is well with everyone! I love reading all of your blogs. I just wanted everyone to know that I love and miss all you you so much! I will have more to post soon. Keep in touch with me and I will do the same!
Love and hugs to all !

A Very Special Day...more ways than one!

Well, today was such a very special day. Michael was baptized today. What made it even more special than it normally would be is that his grandma got to be there. My mom and I collaborated together to surprise Michael and fly her her so she could witness his baptism. He was so excited. He actually knew that we were going to try and get her her, but did not know the date. So, when Robert and I went out on a date, he thought nothing of it. We actually were going to pick her up from the airport. When we arrived at home I called him and asked for his help getting something out of the car...here is his reaction!

Elisa is the only only one who knew she was flying in that night, but she did a good job and keeping the secret.

Now, quite a bit happened before the baptism. We went to Sea World and a couple baseball games. (Which I will write another blog about and post lots of pics) but I have to tell you that the adversary worked very hard at trying to keep my sweet Michael from being baptized. The day of the scheduled baptism, we were returning home from a baseball game to get ready and we had a slight mishap. Mom, missed the step to my front porch and fell cutting her leg very badly. Robert and I wrapped it up, but we both knew it needed stitches, the problem was we had no idea where to go. We called the paramedics and all they did was tell us that we did a good job bandaging her up and draw us a map to the hospital. I am exaggerating, they did take her blood pressure, check her sugar and so on. They were great and Michael was excited to see them, cause he just loves anyone in that kind of uniform. They did ask if we wanted them to take her, but we decided to take her instead. We had to cancel the baptism for that night and reschedule for the 12th. We would have tried to do it on Sunday, the 10th but that was Mother's Day. Michael was sad at first, but he was more worried about grandma. In fact he went to the ER with Robert and I. He was such a great trooper. The Dr. let him come back and watch them stitch her up. I was worried at first, but he did amazing! He was so interested in what the Dr. was doing. I told him then that he could be a Dr. He immediately said, "No, I am going to be a Firefighter!" I then told him that he could be a fireman while he went to school to be a Dr....you should have seen his eyes light up. And I immediately thought "What did I do????"

It was a long night for all of us, I was just so grateful that mom didn't break anything. She felt so bad, but I know it was just the adversary trying to keep the strong spirit Michael has from progressing. It didn't work. Today Michael entered the waters of baptism, and it dawned on me. My BABY! was just baptized. How special this was. He was so excited and he just seemed to absorb everything the speakers said. We had two amazing speakers Brother Luna and Sister Schoen and I am so grateful for their willingness to speak at his baptism. We sang Micheal's favorite songs, "When I am Baptized" and "I'm Trying to be Like Jesus". The closing song was done by us, and it was "Teach Me to Walk in the Light" It just went so beautifully. I really could have not asked for a more special day. I hope it is a day that Michael will remember and hold dear to his heart...I know I will.

He is such a special little man, and I am so grateful for the opportunity to be his mother. I hope someday he will be as proud of me as I am of him EVERYDAY! (as I am with all 3 of my beautiful children)