Our beautiful mountains

Yesterday we decided since the weather was so nice, that we'd go up to the mountains to hopefully get a good picture for our Christmas cards. We really need to get up there more. We are so close to them but we didn't get up there once this year. This year has been rough though. Jax had 4 surgeries and was in and out of the hospital, so everything else took a backseat. Here's a few pics. I will post better ones tomorrow. These are from our digital camera. Ray has a really nice camera but its a film camera. He wants a nice digital one for Christmas, but for now we have to use our film one, so I'm waiting to go get the disc today.

Jax is still not sleeping, I think its this cold bug we have. Luckily its just a cough, nothing major, but I'm learning that with a trach, a cold is HELL. He wakes up coughing, and I suction him. But he keeps coughing. Its this dry cough, but after he coughs for a while then he gets junky again. So I basically just stand by his bed waiting for him to need suctioning again. I hope this cough goes away soon. I am feeling like I did when I used to work a night shift at the hospital. Headache and overall yuckiness from no sleep.

I'm very excited to say we are getting the ball rolling for adoption. I mean, daddy even said we can start telling people we are trying to adopt. So either he's on board or he's just given up:) After the holidays we are going to get out home study done. We've decided that international adoption just won't be feasable for us. I hate the thought of leaving those poor kids in those countries. There's just no way Ray and I could both fly over to an unstable country and leave Jax.

There are a couple of adoption places here in the states that I don't think will have a long wait time. Mostly because the friends that I've talked to that adopted through them say they still get calls about a child needing a home. One company is strictly DS adoptions. The other one is any medical problem. I would love another DS child, but I would also love a heart baby. Also we just found out that Rays company will pay up to 5,000 dollars for an adoption. Yipee. And from what I've heard from these companies, that may almost pay for the whole thing. If your considering adoption, check with your employer. A lot of companies have these adoption incentives, you just have to ask about them.

I'm hoping our financial problems we had won't affect us now. We are still trying to rebuild our credit. But our house is paid off and we have no other debt except one car, so we'll just keep our fingers crossed.

I'm ready to go out and buy some bows, dresses and PINK, PINK, PINK!!!