Difficulties Still Loom

First I just need to apologize for once again using this thing as a journal but I have so many thoughts right now and I feel like someone is listening. Life is so funny. You think that you are super human and invincible and then The Great Man Upstairs decides to bring you back to earth. My dear cousin, I just found out, is suffering from the same liver problems that I suffer from. My whole heart and faith are with him and his family right now. I haven't been sick in a little while and because I have recently been blessed with good health, I have felt invincible. Clearly with life no one is invincible. I have been brought back to the reality and reminded that I am not perfect nor is my health and because of this the Lord can take me at any time. I emphasize His time, not mine. My amazing mom reminded me that all we can do is live like we need to right now and it is what it is. So now, once again after a great reminder, Live it! My health is what it is and no amount of tears and worries will fix that. I have been a great wife, mother, daughter, friend, sister. I am truly happy. I know my Father and Brother live and I have complete faith in their plan. I love my family and my prayers are with my cousin and his family. God Be With You and the doctors treating you.

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Happy 1st Birthday Our Sweet Girl

This picture makes me melt... Gotta love party suckers...

Yummy... a candy covered baby!

The nieces and nephews were so great with helping Oak open her presents. They are awesome kids and I love em so much! I just need to brag by the way... I have the best family and the best in-laws ever to exist anywhere ever!!! I love you guys so much! You guys Rock!!!

Oak's pretty ball from Aunt Colettey.

This event has been bitter sweet. It is wonderful that my baby girl is growing up so fast. She is so smart and beautiful and I trully could not ask for a more perfect child but the memory of the nurse laying her in my arms for the first time in the wee morning hours of October 24 a year ago is so vivid to me. I ache to have these little moments back. Looking at this beautiful celestial being staring up at me and touching my soul deeper than ever has happened before, with just one look, still brings me to my knees. I love my daughter so much and I feel closer to my Father in Heaven in her presence than I do anywhere else on earth. I am so grateful to be the mother of a real live angel. Happy Birthday my sweet baby girl! We love you!

The Cake

So I tried making a LadyBug cake for Oak. It kind of looks like one but it kind of doesn't so if you think that it doesn't just consider it Rachel's attempt at baked abstract art. I am much better at eating cake than I am at decorating it. Sister's first bite.

Little bit more....
Almost done....

Ahhh, Finito and Chocolate Covered. I was cleaning out chocolate boogers the rest of the night. Oak sure loves sugar.

Oak's Window and The Legend of Pink Boots

Oak's new favorite thing is climbing on our floor heater and looking out the window. She will pound on the screen and let the world know that she is looking at everything. She just happened to be wearing her cute pink boots too.

So when I was a little girl there was this story that my parents and grand-parents always told me about the little girl with long blonde hair and pink boots. Well the wee one was me and my hair was so long it once reached my butt, and I had these Pink boots. I was very angry at my parents one day for something(I was a snot, my name was rotten rach) and I wanted to run away. So I did. My parents and grandparents said they watched me walk away really fast and all they saw was long blonde hair swaying from side to side as I stomped down the sidewalk in my stupid pink boots that I loved so much. Well I was at Wal-mart and saw these super cute pink boots that were Oaks size and I had to get them for her. I love them.

"A stone of stumbling, a rock of offense".

So I just heard Jeffery R. Holland's talk for the first time (I know a little late) and all I want to do is shout my testimony from the roof tops. The church is true! The Book of Mormon is true! Joseph Smith Junior died for something true and real and I am eternally in debted to him for his sacrafice! I love my husband with everything that I am and I love the child that we created out of our love for eachother! So take that world! I stand as a real witness to the divinity of Jesus The Christ and His true gospel and as God as my witness, I will stand as such until the end of eternity!