Funny Hudson Story

So I made home made cinnamon ice cream on Father's Day. This morning Hannah comes in and the conversation goes as follows:
Hannah: "Mom, who ate the rest of the ice cream?
Me: "Not me. Maybe Daddy did...hmmm...hey Hudson did you eat the rest of the ice cream this morning?
Hudson: (long pause) "What???" (another long pause accompanied by a very sheepish grin) "Yeah I did and it was the very bestest ice cream ever!"
I ask you how could I possibly mad at him? He was honest and complimented me all at once. I LOVE my crazy little family!

iPhone Posting

The saying "You learn something new every day." is applicable here. I didn't ever think of posting on my blog from my iPhone. Who knew?! Thanks Camille and Melissa!
So here is the last six months in the Blum family life in a "nutshell".
The kids are growing up WAY TOO FAST!!

Hannah will be in 7th grade come August. She is such a great kid! We are hoping to get her into a Charter school this coming school year so that she will be more challenged. She will be 12 in October.

Hudson will be starting kindergarten. Whoa! I think I just had an anxiety attack thinking about that! He is always busy! Never stopping. He is starting to be a big helper. He can drive me nuts one second and make me laugh and melt my heart in the next.

Our super exciting news on Halee is that she will be 2 this Tuesday and her adoption will be finalized on Thursday. She will officially be Halee Ila Blum. WOO HOO! We are so excited to have everything done in that department. Halee has also be doing speech therapy, occupational therapy and will be starting physical therapy next week.

Jeff has been deathly ill for over 3 months. He spent a week in the hospital with a severe fever reaching 105.5. The official diagnoses was "fever of unknown origin". Seriously? I didn't know that was a real diagnosis! They have run so many tests that I can't remember them all. They have gone from West Nile Virus, renal failure, liver problems, Lupus, pancreatic cancer and the current leader is Lyme's Disease. Back in March we found a deer tick in the car while we were in Davis. A day or two later he had two weird bites on his leg. At the time we thought that they were spider bites. A few days later he started getting really sick and quickly went down hill he was in the ER three times before they finally admitted him. It was very scary! One night he started talking about life insurance and such. He was so sick he thought that he wasn't going to make it. It has been very stressful to say the least! I finally found a Lyme's Disease specialist in San Francisco and took him. The doctor thought that it was probable enough to put him on some heavy duty antibiotics and run more tests. He has been gradually been improving day by day. He went back to work Monday for the first time in almost 3 months. It's been rough but he has been able to power through. Hopefully he will continue to improve. I am so thankful that he is still with us! I don't know what I would do without him! He is my very best friend and the love of my life!

Thank you to our family and friends that have been so supportive in every way from taking the kids so that I could be at the hospital with Jeff, providing meals, watching Tucker, and giving blessings. You all lightened my load more than you will ever know!

As for me. I haven't been doing much ;0) just being a wife, nurse, maid, mommy, psychiatrist, psychologist, doctor, researcher, teacher, hairstylist and all the other careers that life seems to be throwing at me. I am currently looking for a part time job until I can build my clientele base back up. All in all I wouldn't trade my life with anyone! I am thankful for the problems that I have! I came across a quote a couple of weeks ago just when I thought that I couldn't go on I was reminded that Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers and knows the depth of our hearts. It been a very difficult day. I came across this on Face book about 2 weeks ago that my sister in law Laura had posted. She rarely posts anything and I had missed it the first time I scrolled through.


No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven....
Note: a comforting thought for those in challenging times


Just what my heart and soul needed to hear that night and an answer to my prayer. I love you all and am so thankful for each of you and for your love and support through these last few weeks.

Love to all. I will try to be better about updating our blog but no promises! You never know what monkey wrench will be thrown in!

Were Officially Settled

Okay people this move royally SUCKED!!!!! We have and extra kid, too much crap and as much as I don't want to face it I'm 3 years older than the last time we moved. This getting older thing is for the birds! Okay no more whining!

We found the ideally perfect house for our family. We are still in West Sac. Still four bedrooms, the bathrooms all have only ONE sink HALLELUJAH!! Less to clean. The previous owner had already converted the garage into a man cave (so he called it) so we turned it into my studio. It has turned out awesome! I love it. I have a lock on the door so the kids can't come in and out. Jeff and I did all the plumbing and flooring totally and completely ourselves. We are getting to be experts at this stuff. I have speakers in the ceiling for soft relaxing music. I will have to take pictures and post them. If you haven't seen me in a while. Now would be a fabulous time to come and get your hair done and be pampered in peace! The other good thing is that I'm now right off of Jefferson Blvd. Across from the Nugget and Target shopping center. I miss those of you that have gone else where! I know it was a far drive and also that my children probably drove you nuts. For that I'm sorry and I understand. My cell # is 916-370-3422 and home is 916-572-0017.

Halle News
We have our first homestudy this coming Friday and the second one next Wednesday. Hopefully we will have everything finalized in February. She is growing like a weed. This little skinny peanut can really put the food away. She is walking and getting into EVERYTHING! She will be 18 months on December 21 so she will officially be able to attend nursery at church.

Hudson News
Hudson turned four on November 27. My goodness where does the time go??? He is my joy and pain! The other day I was getting after him for something and he turned around and said to me "YOUR NOT MY MOMMY ANYMORE!!!! I'm going to go find a new mommy!!!" I pointed to the front door and said "Fine. Good luck trying to find a mommy who will love you and take care of you like I do and who will put up with your crap." I think my response surprised him. He went up to his room. The next morning he was snuggling with me and he siad that I was the very best momma ever and that he was sorry for saying mean things to me the day before. He really has his sweet loving moments.

Hannah News
Hannah had to move schools. At first she was pretty angry but once she started at the new school she was shocked when she realized how many friends she already had at the new school because of church and the swim team. She is doing awesome. We had her parent teachers conference with all of her teachers a few weeks ago and she had all A's and 1 B+. All of her new teachers raved about her, what an assett she has been to their classes and how wonderfully she fit in. Jef and I Are so relieved! That was our biggest worry.

Christmas News
We are leaving for Utah for Christmas. Jeff's whole family will be together to celebrate Harold and Renon's 50th wedding anniversary. We are staying in a huge cabin somewhere between Heber City and Park City (I think). It should be a lot of fun. We are having family pictures done while we are there so you all will get a valentine letter instead of Christmas. I hope that each of you and your sweet families have the best Christmas ever! We love and miss you all!

Love,

Noel

New Home for Buster

We found a great home for Buster. They have kids and and a little Yorkie so he will have a buddy to play with. The family fell in love instantly with him. So although we are sad we are happy knowing that he will be well loved and taken care of.

Funny Story

For the adoption our worker needed copy of Hannah's last report card so Jess scanned it and email it to her. A couple of days later we got her current report card in the mail which was awesome! She had 2 A+, 3A & 3B. So I electronically faxed her new one to Jeff and wrote on the cover letter

"Hey! Thought you would want to send this report card to Mai Yer. Much Better!

Love Your Loony Wife (with a smiley face waving)

Well Jeff didn't read the cover letter he just PDF'd the whole thing and then emailed to our adoption worker. I don't know, maybe she already thought that I was loony and that just confirmed her suspicions. Oh well. I will have to be careful what I write to Jeff who knows hat could end up out there?

On the Adoption Front

Just thought that I would let everyone know that the 60 appeal after the parental termination is officially over. Her bio's will never be able to get het back. So we are now officially in the adoption process of Halle Ila Blum. Jef and I took a two day adoption course this last weekend. We are getting all our lttle ducks lined up in the midst of packing and moving. Busy times! Halle also started walk at Aunt Jessica's house and Grandma Kriser's house this weekend while they were babysiting. Our life as we knew it is over. They grow way too fast!

LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME FOR BUSTER

I can't remember if I have mentioned that we have to move in November. The house we are renting is going into foreclosure. It has been really difficult to find another house to rent that allow pets and if they do the pet deposits are rediculous! So unforunately we are not going to be able to keep Buster. We got Buster at 6 weeks old right after Jack was run over and poor Buster is always being compared to Jack, which is really unfair to him because Jack was 7 and he is still a puppy. The kids rarely help take care of him and I don't have the time that he deserves. We need to find him a new family.

He is 1 1/2 year old full bred Miniature Schnauzer. He is a salt, pepper & liver parti mix which is very rare. He is current on all of his shots and has been double micro-chipped.

He is the sweetest dog, loves to play with the kids, is a great kitchen floor vacuum. The best part is that he doesn't shed and he is hypo-allergenic. If anyone is interested please email at noelblum@gmail.com or you can call me at 916-370-3422. The link below is where we purchase him. We are asking $350 obo.

http://www.rpuppies.com/

Hudson Antics

Hudson wearing one of Grandma Blum's play costumes.

Great black mail picture for later!

Independent Hudson made his own PB&J

Hudson fell asleep on Grandpa Kriser's lap. VERY RARE occasion!!!

Hudson's idea of putting his clothes away.

Halle's News & Antics

We went to court on August 4th where the judge terminated Halle's bio's parental right. They didn't even show up for court. The judge adopted all the paper work into the courts and looked at Jeff and I and said "Take good care of her!" So we are officially in the process of adopting her. We have to wait sixty days for them to appeal but that will be up in on October 4th. We have pretty much everything ready to go except our live scan and the homestudy. We are thrilled and will be so glad to have everything finalized. Hopefully that will happen before the end of the year! What better Christmas present!

Jeff kept saying that the day that Halle's parental rights were terminated he was going to take her to have her ears pierced. He wasn't kidding. As soon as we got home from court we piled the kids into the car and took Halle to Claire's and had her ears pierced. She only cried for a second and then was perfectly happy the rest of the night

It's kind of funny, Halle isn't walking yet but she sure can climb. I was cutting hair one afternoon and I could hear her banging on what I thought was the sliding glass door. This is what I found when I looked over. She was trying to see Peacow. Jeff was sitting right there but he thought the same thing I did. Between her climbing and putting everything she can find in her mouth we can't take our eyes off of her for a second.

Summer Fun at Beal's Point

The day after the 4th of July we all went to Beal's Point at Folsom Lake to play.
The kids had a ball playing in the water. Afterward we all went to Grandma and Grandpa Kriser's for a yummy dinner of Grandpa's famous BBQ chicken. MMM MMM!

A few weeks later we went camping there with Jessica and her family. We had so much fun! The cousins do love to be together. Jared and Hudson are two peas in a pod. Great company and great food. What more could you ask for?