Random Happenings

My poor car! So a few weeks ago David and I were at the Nex doing some shopping. When we pulled out of the parking lot the bumper got caught on one of those cement bars and the passenger side came loose. David was able to pop the bumper back where it is supposed to be. So this week on Monday I parked in front of the Nex and when I pulled away the whole bumper came off. Neither time of parking there did we feel anything hit the cement bars. So for right now the Accord has no front bumper. We need to buy a new air guard and when we go to St. George for Thanksgiving David's uncle is going to put everything back together. And due to my pride David will be driving the Accord and I will drive the EXPLODER. I hate the Exploder. It has been having a lot of problems as well. A while back David put in a new radiator, changed the back brakes and the roter on the back drivers side. The check engine light has been on for a while and even after David changed the radiator the truck still overheats. We took it to Pep Boys on Wednesday. We got there at three thirty six and we were told that it would be ready in two hours. We were having the check the radiator and the check engine codes. At six forty eight pm we finally left Pep Boys. David was late for class. Needless to say we were not impressed with Pep Boys. We found out that the water pump needs replaced and there are two check engines codes both which could result from nine or ten different problems some serious some not. And Pep Boys wanted ninety more dollars so they could tell us exactly what the codes are for and almost three hundred dollars for them to replace the water pump. Stupid TRUCK!!! We both hate the dang thing and just want to get rid of it. I don't want to spend anymore money or time on it. And by the time I get done driving it we made need to replace the clutch. I am horrible at driving clutch. Any one want to buy a heap of junk? I THOUGH NOT :(

Here you can see the air bag sensors. Hopefully no one will try to hit one of these.

David used shoelaces to tie up some of the pieces so as not to drag or catch on the tire.

Last night when we were eating dinner the doorbell rang. David answered and this was laying on our porch. There were more cookies but I was a little delayed in finding the camera. I love the Holidays. I can't for tonight when we get to go put goodies and this little poem on someone else's porch.

Yesterday was Food Exchange Days. I look forward to this day every month. You can see in the picture all the goodies that I came home with.

I won this computer in the Food Exchange Raffle. It is a donated refurbished computer. Now we have three computers in our home.

While waiting for eternity to come at Pep Boys we got a little hungry. Jack in the Box was right across the street so we went there to fill out tummies. I am not a big fan of Jack in the Box but you can't be picky when you have only your legs to get you places and a little monster is whining that unless she eats she will most certainly die. Anyways on to the picture. They now have a machine that you can use to order your food. No more sorry looking teenagers waiting at the counter to take your order. Order yourself now available at Jack in the Box. I had not seen one of these before.

David took this picture. I think he secretly wants to be just like Jack :)

Today I will be having my annual review with my office manager at the doctors office. But lucky me I get to do mine over the phone. I feel bad for Nicole that she has to call me and do my review over the phone.

This week I have been very blessed. Monday Christy stayed home from school with Bronchitis. I like it when Christy is sick. She is very mellow and calm. For lunch we went on base and got to eat with David. Tuesday David had to come home for lunch and help me with the Accord. That's when the bumper finally gave out :( Wednesday David had the day off. We spent most of the day together. Yesterday I went on base and had lunch with David, and Fridays David usually gets off early and we have tons of activities planned for this weekend. I also had a testimony building experience this week. I don't get many aha moments so I feel like I need to write this one down. A while ago David had to spend a week in Port Hueneme training. When soldiers are signed up for short training classes like this one they are given a daily allowance above their regular pay. In Davids command most of the sailors have Government credit cards. While on training classes like this David used his credit card to pay for his motel and all his food. When they report back to base after training they fill out a form with all the financial information from the week. If they have not spent all the allowed amount they receive a check with the difference in the near future. There were some questions regarding Davids refund check and he was told by one person that he was given more than he was supposed to get and was told to bring the check in and they would re-issue a much smaller one back. When we got the check in the mail David took it to his command and was told by another person that what he had been told before was not right. David was allowed to keep all the money. I know that this happened because we have been paying our tithing. That money was greatly needed. My eyes were opened to the fact that this was a direct blessing from paying our tithing. Also this whole week has been a huge blessing. If you read my previously depressing post you will know that I have been down in the dumps and David and I have been struggling lately. We have fought so much. David and I needed this week and all the time that it gave us to spend as a couple and as a family. We needed to recharge and re prioritize.

Tuesday Christy had her counseling appointment at three fifteen. Dr. Deisy wanted to meet with David and I after her time with Christy. When she meet with us she informed us that she feels that Christy needs more intensive therapy and she wants Christy to start coming four times a week. Then she informed us that TriCare will only pay for two sessions a week. So basically we would be responsible to pay for the two other weekly visits out of our pocket. Now I will do anything to help Christy. I only want the very best for her. I would love for her to get all the therapy that she needs so that she can have a healthy mental life. The only problem is that each session with Dr. Deisy is $200. I would have to pay for eight sessions a month. There is no way financially that I can make that work. And the bad thing is Dr. Deisy tried to make David and I feel like we are horrible parents because we aren't willing to do this. She started questioning me on my working status. I have had enough. I don't like talking to that women. She has told me that I hate my daughter, she told me that I am very naive and now she thinks that I am selfish because if I had a job I would be able to afford the two extra weekly sessions, but I don't work so Christy can't get the treatment she needs. I feel bad I really would do anything to help Christy but I can't put our family in financial distress like that. That would not be healthy for anyone. I just have to keep praying that the therapy that Christy does get will be enough to help her.

I can't wait for Thanksgiving. Christy has the whole week off of school. On Sunday the 21st she will be flying to Salt Lake to spend the week with her Grandma Cosgrove. It will just be David and I with his family at the cabin :)

David found out that he will be going on Field Exercises soon. He will leave on November 12 and come home on the 22nd or 23rd. I guess they will be going to Camp Pendelton so David will be close but I will not be able to contact him unless it's an emergency. They will be out in the fields staying in tents and living like the ground soldiers who are deployed overseas.

Man I really jumped all over the place in this post. Sorry.

Boo Carnival

Today I found out that the City of El Cajon was having a Boo Parade and Boo Carnival. We didn't make it in time to see the parade but we went to the carnival. It wasn't much compared to last weeks Fall Festival. There were a few booths to walk around and get information from, free smoothies from McDonalds, a few carnival rides and a Haunted Pumpkin Patch. Below are pictures of Christy in the Haunted Pumpkin Patch. This is the first year that I have had to buy a costume. Christy choose this countess one. I wanted her to pick the candy corn costume but she didn't like it.

When we go to the school carnival and the wards trunk or treat she will not be wearing a white t-shirt.

I cut out the freaky looking fairy that she posed with.

This is the face she gave me when I asked her to pose for another picture.

I should have taken a picture of her hair it was so cute. All the rubber bands were white, yellow and orange like candy corn, and I used a scrapbook flower in her hair :)

Memories

I love having a scanner! Thanks Crystal. Today I was looking through some scrapbooks and decided to post some old pictures. Enjoy!

From left to right, back row: Christine, Aunt Renee, Heather, Campbell, Aunt Connie

Left to right, front row: Rebecca, Wendy

Wendy and I were born about two weeks apart. This is a picture of us at Grandma Humes house in Overton, Nevada. As the story goes I gave Wendy thrush of the mouth when we were both very little. Mom tells about how everything was stained purple from the Genation Violet used to treat flush. We were both such adorable babies. I'm still pretty cute, not sure what happened to Wendy :)

April 23, 2004

Amber and Danni were married in the St. George, Utah Temple. When they came out all of us family who weren't part of the Temple ceremony were waiting outside for them. I sure hope Christy didn't have grubby hands right then. Christy loves her Aunt Amber and wanted to be a big helper. Amber has always been such a big part of Christy's life. We sure love Aunt Amber!

What a cutie pattootie! This picture was taken in Zions National Park when I was taking Amber and Danni's engagement pictures. I look at these pictures and my heart just about bursts with love for this kid.
I have so many pictures of Christy that were captured at random moments. This picture is when we lived at Sunset Springs. We lived there from May 2003 to the end of April 2004. If I remember right this picture was taken before her second birthday.
This picture was taken the day of Amber's farewell. We were living in Provo at the time and building a house in Springville. We came down for Amber's farewell. Amber served in the Independence Missouri Mission. We sure missed Amber while she was gone. We moved into our house in Springville the day after Amber entered the MTC. That was a hard time for me. I remember that on Christmas I talked to Amber several times. I also remember that all the letters that she sent me I hid in my wedding dress garment bag because I didn't want a certain someone to find them and destroy them. If I remember right by the time Amber came home from her mission Christy and I were back living in St. George.

Here is Amber holding Christy at our apartment in Provo.

Four Generations

Left to right: Christine Beasley, Rebecca Cosgrove holding Christine Cosgrove and Vyonne Humes. This picture was taken at our apartment in Provo, Utah. Grandma Humes was with my family and they came to visit Christy and I. I can't remember why they came or where they were going but we were glad they stopped to visit.

I feel beaten.

More downsides of infertility. Yesterday David and I went and had some lab work done. We had our blood drawn here in San Diego and the blood was fed-exed to a lab in Los Angeles. I guess it's some special lab. And special labs come with special prices. I had to put over two thousand dollars on our credit card today for our blood to be processed. Today is not a good day. Things like this happen and I wonder if I really want to go thru all this. And it seems like every time I go to the doctor they find something else wrong with me. I don't think emotionally I can handle all this. It's days like this when I start questioning so many things. I wonder why I keep getting all these huge boulders thrown in my path and I wonder how am I ever going to be able to conquer it. We talked in Relief Society about how at the time of our trials they seem un-conquerable and then we look back and we can see that we stood on the top of the boulder and smiled because we had accomplished the task and the boulder has been removed from our path. Right now I feel like an ant looking up at Mount Everest and I feel despair and failure creeping in. Then I look at my relationship with Christy and wonder if I really want to ruin another child's life. I have spent the whole day so far in bed or on the couch watching TV. I have no motivation to do anything. My house looks like a tornado tore through our house and I don't even care. And because of all my crying now I have a headache. ICING on the CAKE! I also know that if we go thru all this and we don't succeed getting and staying pregnant, that that's it. There will be no more tries because once David gets out of the Navy we will not be able to afford it or have insurance coverage.

Fall Festival

I have a friend here in San Diego who posts on her blog things that are happening around our area. Today I checked her blog and found information on the Point Loma Nazarene Fall Festival. It looked like great fun so we decided to go. The festival took place on the Nazarene University grounds. It is a beautiful place located right on the water front. The festival had lots of fun things to do. There were hay rides, bounce houses, a rock wall, story time, kids crafts, a petting zoo, pony rides, llama rides, face painting, food booths, a pumpkin patch, ice cream and so much more. And the BEST part is that it was all FREE!!! We had such a great time. We will be sure to attend this next year as well.

Christy wanted a flower.

Christy wanted to get her face painted. She wanted Tinkerbell but I talked her out of that. I worried that the girl would not be able to paint Tinkerbell.

This is the pumpkin Christy choose for us.

Christy at the pumpkin patch.

Minnies Moonlit Madness Scavenger Hunt

Every year Disneyland does a Minnie's Scavenger Hunt. Disneyland employees can sign up for the scavenger hunt with a team of four members. There is a fee to participate but all the money is donated to charity. The scavenger hunt starts around ten pm and goes until midnight. The teams are allowed to enter the park and head to the meeting place around 8pm. There they have a presentation to the charity that was chosen and there is a scantron quiz. Then groups are set free in the park to complete their hunt. Each team of four is hooked together throughout the night. It is so much fun. You get to run around the park at night solving clues. This is the second year that I have participated. The members of our team were: Wendy, Jennifer, Gabby and I. Some teams go all out on their costumes and others just dress normally. We all had on crazy socks. We finished all our clues seconds before they announced that time was up. But we FINISHED!!! We came in 73 place with 1202 points.

Our team ready to go!

Our CRAZY socks

Thanks Wendy for allowing me to be part of the team :)

LegoLand

While the Moody's and Grandma Bushar were here in August we went to Legoland. David the girls and I had been there before but it was everyone else's first time. We got a really good deal. For each adult ticket we bought a child got in free and Cole was free for Legoland and $3 for Legoland Waterpark. We went on Saturday August 14, 2010. It was a cool day. Christy and I had a big surprise while we were there. We were getting off the Red Riding Hood boat and we saw Cami and her family. Cami works at Zion Orthopaedics with me and her daughter Britten and Christy are friends. It was really good to see them. We had a great day at Legoland. We went into the water park but didn't stay long as it was not very warm. Enjoy the pictures!

On this ride you are supposed to pull on the rope to get to the top then you let go of the rope and slide down. I think that Ryan did most of the work.

This is the pedal ride that we waited in line for almost two hours to go on. I am not a huge fan of Legoland. You wait in ridiculously long lines for a very short ride.

Overall we had a good day! Thanks Grandma Bushar and the Moody's for hanging out with us!

Christy's Quilt

For an Achievement Day activity we going to have a talent show. All the girls were invited to think of a talent that they would share. Some of the girls will be singing or dancing, some are making cookies and others want to display things that they have made. Christy and I decided that she would make a quilt. She choose the material and she did most of the work herself. I am so proud of her, she learned so much and she can't wait to display her quilt at the talent show.

Her she is learning how to iron. Poor girl is nine and I just barely taught her how. I don't particularly like ironing so it is a rare occurrence, thus not many opportunities have risen for me to teach her how.

Grandma Beasley let us borrow one of her sewing machines for the project. I took a couple different shots of Christy sewing and believe it or not this was the best. In the others she looks stoned. This was the part of her quilt that she required the most help with.

Christy wanted to add big colorful buttons to her quilt. There are five buttons. Here she is sewing one on.

Her she is learning how to quilt and tie. This part was extremely challenging. We didn't have any way of lifting the quilt of the floor and we had no access to quilting frames so Christy had to kneel on the floor and do her best.

And here is the finished Quilt. She did an amazing job!!! I am so proud of her.

Grandma Bushar sent Christy another small blanket in the mail that is all done except for the quilting and tying. If we get time she will finish that blanket and display it at the talent show as well.

Weekend in St. George

This weekend David, Christy and I made the trek to St. George. We left Friday after David got off work. We got to St. George a little after one in the morning. We crashed at mom and dads house. On this trip our car was filled with stuff. We went to the case lot sales on base here and bought tons of stuff for us and for moms and sisters. We had to pack it all in the car to bring to St. George. Saturday morning I had an orthodontic appointment. I now have bumps on my front six upper teeth. So fun! It takes a little getting used to the bumbs. Good news I am getting close to being done with braces. Six more sets on the bottom and twelve more sets on the top. My teeth are looking great! My dad watched Christy while David and I were at my appointment. Christy and grandpa made waffles for breakfast. After my appointment David and I headed over to the finish line at the St. George marathon. David's brother Scott and his wife Selma both were running. We watched them both cross the finish line. Scott's time was 2:58, and I think Selma's was around 3:40. It was great to be able to be there and support them. Then we went to my parents house loaded up all our junk and headed to Essence Salon so Lucinda could cut David's hair. David gets free haircuts on base but they never look quite right. After that we went to lunch at Five guys burgers and fries with Lucinda and mom and dad Bushar. I will be honest and let you know that I was not that impressed. The burger was expensive and not as good as In N Out's burgers. After lunch we hit DI looking for bikes for the girls. Christy got a bike last Christmas and she left it outside and it was stolen. David and I decided that we would rather buy both girls used bikes for cheap so that it won't be such a big deal when they are mistreated and left outside to be stolen.. We also checked out the books. David found a design one that he wanted. Books are usually the only thing that I will let David buy at DI. I'm a proud person and I hate shopping there. After DI we went to Deseret Book and bought a few things. By that time Highway 18 had been reopened so we could go to Enterprise. We spent the rest of the weekend in Enterprise. I was(and still am) sick for the whole weekend. It is no fun being sick. I am also beginning to despise the drive between San Diego and St. George. I think it gets longer every time I drive it. At least this trip I had David to help with the driving. It was a busy weekend, and it was so good to see so many family members. It's great to be home!

Scott, Selma, Josie, Ellie, Scotty and Bentley after the marathon. Great job Scott and Selma!

Yea for being closer to being done with braces :)

Where we had lunch. I was not that impressed with the food and it was hecka noisy their.

A little humor in my Scripture reading

So I have been reading in Proverbs for my personal Scripture reading. I have been trying hard to study it out and have been finding some humor in my reading. These are a couple of my favorites so far.

Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Oh yea, so all you men out there with wives you have a GOOD thing! Remember that!

Proverbs 23:13-14 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

So basically the Scriptures are giving us parents permission to beat our children....Right?

I should show these verses to Christy's counselor when she is chastising me for spanking Christy.