Almost December!

Woah! Have 20 days gone by since my last post? Sheesh! I mean really can we put the brakes on things for just a second. Slow down. Take a deep breath. Relax. Ahhh rest.
Phew. This month has been nutty.
Somethings the Wilkinson's have been up to:

*I made my last cake for 2012 the weekend of Nov. 3rd. What a mess. haha! Note to self, when you bake a cake with fondant then travel up to the mountains the altitude makes the fondant expand thus making the sides of your cake bulge with air pockets! ugh. thankfully it was for a friend & they were very gracious. wow. Reason 999,999 why I won't open my own cake shop. ha!

*We had court for the adoption on Nov. 9th. The birth mother & father have officially terminated their rights. They did have 7 days to petition the court in writing if they did want custody back...thankfully that didn't happen. :)
So now we start our home study visits. Over the course of the next six months we will have 3 different visits with our social worker, then after all that paper work has been turned in & handed over to court, our lawyer sends it to circuit court & if all goes well we can officially change Alivias birth certificate & social security card! YAY! Right now we do have legal custody, but we don't "officially" have it until the paperwork is finished. confusing, yes?

*Went to funeral for one my the high school girls I used to disciple. That was not fun.

*Then last week was Thanksgiving week....oh my...can we rewind & do that week over please? Phew. Here is the short list of what happened:
We had planned to go on a mini vacation over Thanksgiving with some friends, and the day before my friend called & said her son had signs of having hand, foot & mouth disease, but wasn't showing all the signs of it. She wasn't sure that he really had it, but it was up to us to make the call on whether we still came or not. So cocky me was like oh yeah, we're good! I'm sure its nothing.....I'll come back to that part. So we got there & the place was so nice! it really was awesome, but we had to share a room with Ella & she isn't' used to us being in the room with her, so she was up talking till 1 both nights, we could not get her to stop talking. :( So that was awful not getting sleep.  On Wednesday we went to the park & Ella got scared on one part & there was a boy behind her & she freaked out & wanted down but b/c he was blocking her she took her hand & pushed his face till he nearly fell :( that was awful. then Friday we went to the big indoor water park & Jeremy & I rode a ride together & when we landed his knee clocked me in the back of the head & so when I stood up I was holding my head saying ouch...so then the life guard came over & was like does your head hurt, and I was like yes it hurts! I just got hit in my head! So because I told her it hurt, she had to administer all this life guard stuff because I was showing signs of a concussion. She immediately grabbed my head & neck & wouldn't let me go. Next thing I know they blew this loud air horn & they stopped all the rides in the WHOLE place because of this. THEN they were going to place me on a back board!!! I was like I AM FINE! Really! then proceeded to do some dance moves proving I was OK. SO THEN like 10 other life guards came around & then they brought a GURNEY out!!! I was like OH NO!! I am NOT going out on a gurney! I am fine! UGH! I was like JEREMY!! Looking to him to help me out of this awfully embarrassing mess! He said Jan you can refuse service...I said to him GET ME OUT OF HERE! It was so awful. people were starring ugh. I was like I AM FINE, they were like ma'am, ma'am we have to do this it our policy. (Which I totally do respect, and understand why they do it...I was just really OK) So finally Jeremy just pulled me away & we walked away saying we refuse to have this happen. It was time for the kids to nap anyway so we just left the park all together. WOW. What an experience. We had planned to leave Friday night so we stuck to that plan. THEN Saturday morning Ella starts to run 103.6 temperature! poor girl, then the rash starts all over her body :( She caught hand & foot. So I am trying to get her to feel better. I am holding her a lot & stuff because she is super needy, which any Mother would do. So then Sunday afternoon I start running a fever! Mine got up to 101.6. and I now have blisters from hand & foot in my throat, which kills by the way! :( So I stayed home from work yesterday because I still had a fever. So needless to say, we just should have stayed home. :( We wouldn't have had the park fiasco, water park debacle, & Ella & I wouldn't have gotten sick. :(
hahah its funny now looking back at all that happened, but wow....could have used a week without all that.

*Sunday we had the opportunity to meet our birth mothers, Mother. Even though we were all feeling under the weather, we still wanted to give her the chance to meet Alivia. So they came over for a 1/2 hour or so, and that was nice. I got a picture, which will be neat to put in Alivias scrapbook. :)

So here we are today, with sore throat still in tact but fever gone, looking at the date! Nov. 27th! WOW. What a month. Its definitely had highs & lows! But all in all I look at my life & it is a good good life. Its a fun life! God has been so sweet to this Wilkinson family, hand, foot & mouth disease and all! ha! :)