Gald to be home!!

 Post by Stacy-Heading back into the US. I really look forward to seeing theses boy's cute faces again. I really missed my morning ritual of drinking my green smoothie.


 Stacy was so good at making green drinks for the boys ahead of time.  She had several bags for us in the freezer so we could have one every morning.  The boys love them!!  It is a great way to get spinach and kale down them!!  I love them too!!




 

It's a girl!!!

January 28th, Natasha called today and said her ultrasound says she is having a baby girl!!   Wow!! we are all so excited for a baby girl in the family.  It has been over 9 years since the last little girl has been born.  Karlee June is 9 years old now and the last girl.  We have had 7 little boys since 2008.  It is about time we got a little baby granddaughter again.  We love girls! So excited for Natasha, I know she really wanted a baby girl this time around.  We are so thrilled!!! It's official I have a baby growing in my tummy! Baby #3 will be coming July 2014!!!!!

Our weekend retreat!!

After watching the boys all week, I was so ready for a break.  Saturday morning Jan 25th, about 8am Craig was ready to head to the lake for the weekend.  I was not wanting to hurry out the door after being gone all week with the boys.  I did need to go to the cabin to get my swims suits for our upcoming trip to Mexico this coming weekend leaving Feb. 1st.  I had a melt down hurrying out the door.  Craig was rushing me and I forgot my phone and the DVD  I rented to watch, so Craig had to come back to the house twice before we finally got on the road.  He got cross with me.  I started to cry!!  I told him I had only been up 1 hour and out the door we go!!  He was rushing me and I had not had enough time to gather what I needed in such short notice.  I told him I just wanted to stay home!!  Yet I knew he wanted me to go with him.  We were hurrying to get to one of Cole's basketball games up north in Layton.  It started about 10am.  We were out the door a little after 9am.  I just needed to calm down.  I hate feeling rushed and having to run off again when I really did want to just stay home.  On our way up Craig talked to Shar and Cole was at scout camp, he would not be playing in his basketball game.  So this freed up our morning.  We kept driving and headed on up to the Lake.  We got there about noon.  I was so tired and wanted to just crawl in bed when we arrived.  Craig hung around the cabin and I knew he wanted to go snowmobiling.  I had not been out this year yet, so I muster up the energy to put my snow clothes on and off we went for the afternoon in the high county snowmobiling.  It was a beautiful afternoon.  There is not much snow this year.  I did enjoy our time out in the fresh cold air.  It is so pretty with all the white fallen snow, the sunshine & the snows glitters in the sunlight.  We had a nice weekend just resting from the cares of the our busy life.  Craig is really stressed with work and it is good for him to get away.  Home Sweet home!!  We came home Sunday night and picked up the 2 boys for one more day.  I'm not feeling the best.  I think I'm getting sick from what the boys have had all week.  I've got to get feeling better this week.  I don't want to be sick on my trip to Mexico, so excited to go somewhere warm!!

January Family Birthday's

January is a busy month for our family birthday's.  I'm the 1st, Michael is January 5th, turning 15years old.
January 20th, is Aubrey girl's 10th, birthday.  Sharlena and Dave invited us out to a family dinner last Monday night, while I was watching the boys.  It was a nice time to visit.  Sharlena had invited Saydee and Karlee over for a sleep over with them all out of school on Monday.  Sharlena had decorated a fun Frozen theme for Aubrey's party on Tuesday with all her school friends.  This past Friday Trisha had a darling party for Saydee.  Trisha went to a lot of work.  Sharlena and Trisha are both so creative!!  Trisha plan a saloon night for Saydees friends, they had pedicures, washed and styled their hair, facials, painted their nails and toes and lots of good food.  Trisha decorated so darling!!  I wanted to stay but I had to get the boys over to Grandma Anita for the the weekend and I was running out of energy.  Trisha had invited Natasha and Shannon to come help with their pamper night at the spa.  They all had a great time!  Saydee turned 11 years old this Monday January 27th.  They went to dinner at Texas Rhode house as a family and invited us to come.  Craig went, I had to stay home with the sick boys!!  Jude was too sick to be going anywhere.  I felt bad missing the dinner.   Baby Yael had his 1st birthday on Thursday January 24th.  He was too sick to do anything for him. I'm sure Stacy will plan something when she gets home from her trip.  Hard to believe it has been a year since baby Yeal was born.  I haven't been very good at taking pictures this month.

Got to help with my niece Saydee's spa birthday party tonight! Love this girl happy birthday Saydee!

                     Aunt Natasha & Our Saydee Bug  11yrs old.   What a fun party!!

I survived the week watching the darling Towner boys.  They are good little boys.  There were several days that baby Yael ran a fever for several days and I thought it was due to teething.  Thursday was his worst day.  He just laid around all day and wanted me to hold me.  Well Jude came down with the same symptom Saturday night while Grandma Anita watched them for the weekend.  So guess it has been some kind of a bug.  I got home Friday night from my five days of watching the boys and I was beat.  I came home and went to bed early.  Craig got me up early on Saturday morning and out the door we go to the cabin for the weekend.  I just wanted to stay home after being gone all week.  I was feeling frazzled.  Watching the 2 little boys all week is a lot of work.  I had no help!!  Craig was busy all week and wasn't able to help me any. Anita is watching them for the weekend again and I have them all day Monday until their Mom and Dad get back in town.  Jude felt horrible all day!!  He ran a high fever and just laid around on the couch.  It was a long day caring for the two boys.  baby Yael was feeling much better.  I felt myself not feeling well.  I have a cold, sneezing and congestion and body aches.  I've got to get feeling better for our trip to Mexico this coming Saturday Feb 1st.  It's hard watching grandkids when they are sick.  I seem to come down with the same bug a few days later.  I tweaked my back put the car seat in the car and then trying to lift it.  It is alot of work getting two little boys all buckled up in their car seats.  I'm so glad I raised my kids when I was younger.  I  hate to say I'm slowing down, but I am. It has felt so good to just be home today and rest!! 

Uncle Scott with baby Yael sitting in our Pop corn bowl

Scott is living with us at the time being.  Not sure how long it is going to be.

Baby sitting the Towner boys for the week

Stacy & Chad left a cruise on Saturday for a week, grandma Anita baby sat for the weekend, I'm baby sitting during the weekdays.  I just picked them up tonight . They fell asleep on the way home.  I brought them to their home so they can sleep in their own bed.  Baby Yael woke up crying at 1:30am, he is teething, I gave him some numbing jell and he went right back to sleep.  I'm having a hard time going back to sleep so I'm typing on my new cell phone my blog post, love the app for my cell phone, it is easy and fast to add a new blog post. It is 3:30 am I really do need to go to sleep!!

1940 census for Nathanel Loveall & marriage record.

I found the family!!  I was so excited when the 1940 census record came out this past year so I could learn more about our Loveall family.  In looking on Ancestry.com several different searches their family name was not showing up.  Why? and where are they?  They should be showing up!!  I looked yesterday and got really frustrated why can't I find them?  Today I thought I would look on familysearch.org to see what is showing up on my family lines the website through the LDS church.  I have an account and have slowly added info to their family history site over the past few years.  They updated their website this past summer and it is suppose to be better with working with.  It is going to work a lot like ancestry.com.  If I find a source I can now attach to the family name, just like ancestry, which I have loved working with.  On ancestry this weekend I was able to attache several sources to Nathaniel Loveall.  In one search for records I found a marriage record for Nathaniel Loveall and Margaret Smith in Nevada in 1965.  I'm sure this is his marriage record.  Because when I meet him for the first time, He came with his wife and her name was Margaret and they had been married for over 12 years.  I was married June 7, 1977.  This is a 12 year span in their marriage record.  Nathaniel left our family living in Texas some time in 1960, and my Mother married to Charles Turner Sept. 11, 1960.  There very few Nathaniel Loveall's recorded in any national records that I have found.  So the marriage record I found yesterday is most likely a new connection to the life of my birth father.  Still frustrated in my searches the past few days, I could not find any John W. or Nathaniel Loveall on the 1940 census.  So today I thought to look on familysearch and review what I have done and what is showing up in their family files.  In reviewing Nathaniel Loveall on my family tree, I found two sources listed.  The 1940 census and his birth record that I had attached to his name.  So excited to find the 1940 census record listed as a source.

Name:	Nathanel Loveall
Titles and Terms:
Event Type:	Census
Event Date:	1940
Event Place:	Ward 1, Hannibal, Mason Township, Marion, Missouri, United States
Gender:	Male
Age:	12
Marital Status:	Single
Race (Original):	White
Race:	White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):	Son
Relationship to Head of Household:	Son
Birthplace:	Texas
Birth Year (Estimated):	1928
Last Place of Residence:	Grand Rapids, Minnesota
District:	64-6
Family Number:	575
Sheet Number and Letter:	24B
Line Number:	66
Affiliate Publication Number:	T627
Affiliate Film Number:	2128
Digital Folder Number:	005460063
Image Number:	00178
	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Head	John W Loveall	M	47	Arkansas
Wife	Anna Loveall	F	39	Minnesota
Son	Samuel Loveall	M	18	Texas
Son	James Loveall	M	16	Arkansas
Son	Nathanel Loveall	M	12	Texas
Stepdaughter	Margery Taylor	F	18	California
Niece	Louise Ann Bertram	F	5	Minnesota

From this record I learn they are now living in Hannibal Missouri.  John W. has remarried to Anna.  Children listed living with the family are Samuel, James and Nathanel, step daughter Margery Taylor and their neice Louise Ann.   In a phone interview in 1997,  Uncle James Loveall told me he had a brother Joseph that died as a baby and a sister Elorrine, not sure the correct spelling of her name yet?   He told me she had died from complication from a surgery, buried in Hannibal Missouri.    I have not know where to look for her death record.  From this 1940 census I learn she past away before 1940 and is most likely buried in the area of this census.  This is a great clue to look for her death record.  I have looked for Joseph's birth and death record and have not been able to find it on ancestry.  They do not have birth record for the area of Arkansas digitized that I need to look for, so I will check on familysearch.org.
In my phone interview with James he told me that their father had remarried to Anna Taylor and that their were step children added to the family, he mentions Margaret and Louise. and another boy named Sunny man.  These are all clues that help to fill in missing pieces.  I have since learned that Anna' maiden name is Bertram which explains the niece living with them,  and that she married a Taylor.   

In 2002, when I was able to go to Uncle James home and find what records I could about the Loveall family, I did find the obituary of our Grandfather John Wesley Loveall from this record I was able to track down his death record.   I also found many pictures in the home that were ready to be thrown away.  I was able to recover them for our family records.   In 2004  I was reading the obt of John W. Loveal and it is listed having a daughter living in Pengilly Minn. that has been over 50 years ago.  I called information and was able to track Louise done.  She is still living in the same area and able to tell me several things about the family.  I mailed copies of all the pictures I had collected and she was able to identify who was in the photos for me.  She returned the photos with names written on them.  This was very helpful in knowing I had indeed recovered family photos of our Loveall family  I have more work to do.

 In this obituary 1957 all three sons are still living, I learned his birth information and that he is a Rev.  He was of the Pentecostal faith - formerly from Grand Rapid Minnesota.

Who are the five grandchildren?  Scott Loveall, Debbie Loveall,  don't know who the others are?

I need to contact Louise again and ask her more questions about the family.  She married  Tony Egerdahl, and maybe the other three grandchildren are hers.  As far as I know James and Samuel never had any children.  I looked in my research log and I still have Louise phone #  It has been going on 10 years since I last talked to her so I hope I find her well and can glean some information from her.

Life as We know it- Winn 17 months old

This a blog entry from Natasha, I love what she posted, so fun to see how the boys are growing.

Winston is 17 months old! He's growing so dang fast!  He's at the cutest, funnest age! He's loves his Momma and Dadda! He has a special bond with his uncle buck too,  that just cracks me up! He just loves to cuddle with him whenever we see him!  He has spent lots of time at the Burbidge's house cause of me doing hair at there house! But  I just put a salon in my house so I won't be going out there any more! Kinda a bittersweet thing but it's been good!  

Winn loves to be silly! He takes 1 long nap for me a day like 3 or 4 hours he sleeps through the night like 7:30 pm to 8 or 9 am!  He's loves his newborn binky! And loves his Aden and Andis blankets! 

- Does peek a boo!

- Waves hi and bye and says it too

- Says no no

- Says Mamma Dadda

- Plays with his Lincoln 

- Loves cars

- Loves a warm bottle of milk but only from his mommy! It's the weirdest thing.  He won't take a bottle for anyone but me! 

- He's  actually starting to say lots of words I need to start writing then down.

 We just love our little winners!

The many faces of Winn. 

These were all taken in a matter a about a minute! Ha ha 

This was taken at Mike and MarLiece wedding in November!

My new salon!

Posted By Natasha and Bridger Thomas to Life As We Know It at 1/09/2014 11:16:00 AM

Our Lincoln Thomas

To Mom November 21st, 2013 from Natasha's blog

Lincoln is nearly 4 in one month! So crazy I will have a four year old. He is at such a fun age he started preschool this year and is so in love with it!  He would go everyday if he could. Just yesterday I was talking to this painter in my kitchen and Linc gets himself dressed.  He is wearing shorts mind you, it's the middle of November, a sweater on backwards and snow boots which he tied by himself.   He Kept saying he was getting ready for school.  While I was distracted talking to this guy! He said "bye mom in going to school" then a few minutes I told the painter,  wait I think my son just tried walking himself to school. I ran out the door looking for him  and didn't see him.   I Got in my car drove around the neighborhood didn't see him! I just didn't think he could get to school that fast. His pre school is at our neighbors house in the back corner of the neighborhood. So I went home,  he's not there. I call his teacher and ask is Linc there. She says "yea he just got here, I was just about to call you!" "And he's really out of breath!"  Ahh I was so freaked out!! that little stinker. All of us were so shocked that he new where to go. He is very independent! He's always loved going to nursery and now he's in Sunbeams at church  and loves it!  He gets ready first thing on Sunday mornings I have to keep telling his church isn't for a few  hours honey! Linc has a stutter problem! I don't think it's too bad but he definitely struggles sometimes. In the car today I asked him what he wanted for lunch and he kept saying I want a ham, ham, ham, ham, a ham burger mom I want ham ham urger! Just not being able to get it out. He stopped all frustrated and said mom "I don't know how to talk" it just broke my heart. You never want to see your kids struggle. Hopefully he will grow out of it as he gets older.

Lincoln's birthday is this December 13th in week.  He will be turning 4 years old.  Tasha has decorated his room in  a Dr. Zeus theme.  I want to make Lincoln a fun blanket for his room in the Dr. Zeus theme.  I"ve got to get going on it.  I have only a week to complete it.

(Linc With his teacher Mrs. Johnson and some of his classmates)

Lincoln started preschool and is so obsessed with it! 

He is so excited to go and loves showing me every thing he did that day

Our Lincoln Thomas, he is such a darling little boy!!

Time to take Christmas decor down

January 11, 2014 - Guess it's time to start taking our lovely Christmas decoration down.  I dread the mess it makes in the process of taking it all down.  I have converted to lots of glitter decorations which makes a huge mess putting it all away.  I'm not in the mood today, but just have to make myself get going.  It needs to be done!! Next week I'm babysitting for Stacy, while her and Chad are on a cruise for the week, so I will have no time to tackle it.  Christmas is over and time to move on.  With Scott here in our home I have had no time yet to tackle it all so I guess today is the day.  My time has freed up to where I can make a good dent in putting it away today.  I would rather be working on my family history projects, but I need to take a break and give our home some attention today.  I have loved our Christmas decorations and it is sad for me to put it all away.  I work so hard putting it all out and the time goes by all to fast for me.  I have enjoyed leaving it up a little longer this year.  Chris my sister-in-law, in town last weekend enjoyed seeing what all I had done.  She has not been to our home for Christmas over the years so it was a joy for her.  She likes to decorate too.  We are kindred spirits in the decor area.  Soo... I guess I had better get to work!!

Scott, Craig's Brother

Scott, Craig's brother is having a very hard time emotionally in his life.  He had an accident about 20 years ago, which caused a bad head trauma.  From this accident we qualified for disability benefits and has been receiving all these years.  He has not worked in his profession of property and causalities insurance.  It has been a real hardship on his wife Jan.  Scott does not function normal.  They have been married since November 1976 37 years.  Jan has said she wants a divorce and does not want Scott to come back to their home.  She has been pushing this since summer.  Scott is not accepting it.  His emotions have become to out of control he acts crazy.  He has had several emotional break downs.  The weekend before Christmas, Scott came to our home for a place of refuge.  We drove up to the lake to check on the cabin with the very cold weather to make sure there were no frozen pipes.  We stayed just a few hours and them came home, on our drive home up Logan canyon, Scott got very upset with his family problems, started crying out of control and tried getting out of the car while Craig is driving over 50 miles.  He appeared to have a mental breakdown.  It was very bad.  He was just out of his head with grief that is not realistic.  With his head trauma life's challenges are even more overwhelming to him.  We were able to calm him down by the time we took him home.  We dropped him off worried!!  We called his kids to tell them to watch him thru the holidays.  He was diffidently suicidal.  He needs help!!  Christmas day he had another melt down. His two daughters checked him in at the Utah University hospital for Neuro- Psychology care.  He was there for a week and we were not real pleased with the outcome.  The doctor there said from his evaluation  that Scott needed to be medicated and live in an assistant living environment.  He wanted to have him committed.  Craig was furious with the assessment and did not agree with the doctor.  He wanted to get him out of the hospital before it was too late and he is locked in the mentalcare system.  There would be no getting out, after what we went thru with his Dad Merlin, it is like history repeat itself again.  Craig was so mad he was going to bust him out of the hospital!!  I told him he needed to calm down!!  Craig talked to Jan his wife and told her she needed to meet in the morning at the hospital and check him out.  He could come to our home to stay.  Craig was not going to leave his brother Scott in that place another day.  Jan did meet and did all the paperwork that was needed to check him out against doctor's orders..  She was hesitant and wanted to actually leave him, just move him to another area of care.  Craig said no way let's get him out of here, before it is too late!!  Scott can function, he has done so for over 20 years.  He knows his $ very well and has manage to care for his family well in the situation he has had to deal with all these years.  He is goofing, easy distracted and has let himself go physically.  He has gained weight.  This has really bothered Jan his wife and their relationship has not been good for the past 20 years.  They basically have lived separate lives.  She has gotten to where she will not go anywhere with him, he is an embarrassment to her.  She is just done now and does not want to live her latter years with the challenges she has had to deal with in their relationship.  She does not love him, is what she says.  I don't know how she has put up with what she has dealt with.  I do have compassion for her and my heart aches for her and Scott.  I don't know if Scott can make it without her.  Having his life fall apart at 60 years of age is a challenge, dealing with mental illness is another challenge.  Jan says he can't come back to the house until he loses 50 pounds.  She wants him to learn to take care of himself and show some pride in himself.  She is so tired of taking care of him!!  She is giving him four months to lose the weight!! They will then re-evaluate.  So Scott has been living at our home since Friday 3rd, 2014.  The morning Craig got him checked out of the hospital, he had calmed down.  Craig dressed in a suit and tie, he was all business and playing the part when he meet with the doctor.  Friday night their sister Chris and her husband Terry, with their mother LaVon arrived to rally around Scott and give him some love and support.  We all went out to dinner and had a nice visit.  They all stayed here at our home for the weekend.  This week we have spent a lot of time talking with Scott and helping him to take care of himself.  We have gone to the gym, trying to eat well and encourage him.  Craig went with him to several doctors appointments.  They meet with his primary care doc, one appointment with a psychologist, and one with a psychiatrist which over looks all the meds he is taking.  Come to find out one of the meds he has taken for 10 years is the worst he could be taking for head trauma, it causes symptom he has suffered with the past 10 years. So they are changing his meds.  He has had no counseling in all these years, which is a shock for us!   They have had some marriage counsel, but not for himself.  So this has been a busy week taken care of Scott.  This is going to be a long road for us and I just don't know if their marriage is going to survive.  Time will tell!!

Mother's Visit In The Fall 2013

Women's conference. Our Ga Ga is in town! So fun to have her with us!

Shannon, Mother, & Natasha 

September 28th, 2013 

 Mother with baby Winston Thomas

Happiness is "State of Being.", The power of Gratitude

Happiness is a “STATE OF BEING”.
In today’s world we make it a CONDITION.

In BEING HAPPY, only YOU have the power within to ALLOW HAPPINESS AS YOUR 

 STATE OF BEING.

These brief and powerful messages are designed to give you the insight and tools to bring your God given design of happiness alive in your life and to use the power God has given you to CREATE a joy-filled, prosperous life.
To create better health, amazing relationships, and a substantial flow of money to support your purpose.
Start this week with activating:
The Power of Appreciation and Gratitude
Appreciation and gratitude are two of the most powerful emotional states we can be in.
Appreciate everything. Express gratitude for every single moment of your life. The more you create feelings of appreciation and gratitude, the more you will attract into your life which you can appreciate and for which you can feel gratitude.
Gratitude is one of the highest vibrations in which we can be. Look for things for which you can be grateful.
Everyday this week as you are driving along in the car play the Grateful Game. Either by yourself or with your family, share out loud what you are grateful for.
Everything counts. Keep going and see how big you can make your list.
Write yourself a reminder, “play the Grateful Game” and put it on your dashboard in your car.
As you do this you will turn on more of your Radiant Circuits.

Remember,
“We have been given creative powers and are meant to participate in an active relationship with the Universe and its processes. It requires conscious intention and skill to start partnering with God to co-create the life you want.”
“By keeping your intention signal strong and clear, and never giving up and surrendering to the old energy, your dreams will come true.”

These thought were posted on my Dressing your truth website, by Carol Tuttle.  She is very inspiring to me and I wanted to share how grateful I am for my many blessing and I need to be even more aware.  I have felt lately my emotional and spiritual fuel tank is very low.  I need a pep talk to motivate myself and this is a great way to raise my levels by recognizing the many blessings in my life and expressing my gratitude.  My level of Happiness is my choice.  I have found the past few months a cloud of sadness, which I'm sure is due to the terrible words my mother said to me while she was visiting in September- October.  She has broken my heart again to the very center core, it has been so painful to recover from.  The loss of my family history file and all my documents files in September is a time to mourn.  Also in September I went put on my diamond necklace Craig had made for me from my first wedding ring.  In looking for it I found it is gone!!  I have tore my jewelry box apart time and time again and have not found it!  I'm just sick about it!  I cherished this one piece of jewelry out of all and now it is gone!  It makes me so sad and I'm at a loss as to how it came up missing?  I'm clueless!!!  This is not something I would lightly misplace.  I have kept it in my jewelry box in save keeping for years.  Craig is really struggling with his work and all the changes with the new national healthcare program.  He is fighting depression badly and it is hard to not let it effect me.  I feel his pain!!   So in review these past few months have been very emotionally difficult for me to deal with.  I need to pull myself out of my depression and move forward.  Which I'm trying to do!  Having our family for Thanksgiving this year and getting ready for Christmas is a time to remember our many blessings and thank the Lord for all those blessing!!

Happy New Year 2014

 It's a new year!!  I have to say I'm ready for a new year , 2013 has been an emotionally challenging year for me and it did not end well on the family fore front.  Christmas Day was our family Christmas party for the entire family.  They started arriving at 5pm.  The Chaudhry family did not come until 6pm so we were late having dinner. We handed out all our family gifts and having a great time as a family, the last to leave were the Chaudhry family.  The Tomas family on their way home, little Lincoln said that Landon did it again and said he sucked on his pee-pee  & said, " Don't to tell it was a secret."  Landon is only 5 years old and Lincoln 4 yrs old.  Tasha & Bridger are in shock and devasted as to what happened.   Here we are all together as a family and no one saw what happened.   This has been a challenge for our family 5 years back when Shannon was pregnant with Landon , Trisha caught Alec & Saydee doing things they should not be doing at  5 & 6 years old.  It has caused a huge wedge for the Chaudhry family and Burbidge family.  We have tied to work around it the best we can at family gatherings at the lake. Only the girls sleeping together and all the chaudhry boys in the downstairs. Trisha has had a really hard time putting it behind her and has panic attacks when we all together at the cabin the past few years.  We totally understand as grandparents and have tried to work around the situation.    Now this with Landon is very upsetting and adds another wedge of contention to the family.  Natasha & Bridger called the Noriega family, Burbidge family, Towner family, talking about what to do. How do we go forward as a family?  Natasha & Bridger met with Shannon & Ryan and told them what happened they were very upset too. Craig & I drove out Sunday to visit with the chaudhry's , Ryan parents were in town visiting. The boys were not ready for church so we just visited.  When we were leaving Shannon came out to our car to visit and tell us what happened with her visit with the Thomas' she started to cry and feeling horrible and knowing this is going to cause more contention in the family.  Craig & I have been so heavy hearted, we love both of these little grandson so much.  For Landon to do this to Lincoln means that our little Landon has been sexually abused by someone else, he is acting out what has been done to him.  Now it is finding out who?  It is strange that these I incidents keep happening in the Chaudhry family, which is a huge concern  and making us wonder if it is in the family?  There is so much we just don't know right now.  Our hearts are just sick inside!!  Monday Bridger called and said they wanted to have a family meeting with us the 4 adult families to discuss how we are going forward with this.  The meeting did not end well.   As for now none of them are going to associate with the Chaudhry family which puts a real damper on any family gatherings.  Even with what happened with Saydee & Alec 5 years ago and it has not healed yet , now this has just added fuel to the fire.  I'm just so heart sick over this all that I could not sleep Monday night, all I could do was cry, seeing my family being ripped apart before my very eyes.  Dave and Sharlena have not had any  incidents with their kids yet, they are very strong in have no association with the Chaudry family.  Sharlena has a lot of resentment to us as parents over the years that she is not letting go of.  I feel it has to do with,  she feels that we are favoring the Chaudhry family and not her's, which is not the case.  We go to everything we are invited to and try to spend time with their children.  I don't understand why she feels we are not giving her family the attention they need.  The meeting felt like they were ganging up on us as grandparents, which is my worse nightmare!! I have tried with all my heart to build a close family unit,  Family life is a lot work and very challenging blending multiple personalities, just pray for the wisdom and insight we need at this very challenging time in our family!! We finally arrived to the cabin about 6pm New Year's Eve, I had invited all the families to come up and with this incident happening that blew that to all hell!!  No one was coming up.  I feel I could not emotionally deal with it myself.  This situation has caused a huge rain cloud over our family in tears on every family. How do we go forward?  Natasha text about 6:30pm they were on their way up to the cabin to spend the year new with us.  Atleast we won't be alone bringing in the new year, staying awake is going to be the challenge this year.  I'm stricken with grief right now and just want to go to bed.  It has been nice to have some family share the day with us with some RR time at the cabin.  We all just need some healing time and learn how to rebuild the family unit.

Lincoln went on the snowmobile with papa he got cold, come to find out he forgot to put on a shirt and socks in his boots no wonder he got cold!! 

Our Lincoln boy!!

Loveall Family History

 Friday January 10th, 2014-  This past week I have had the family history bug.  I have so much work that needs to be done in my family history research.  I got a new cell phone for Christmas this year and I'm loving my new phone.  I added the Ancestry.com app, so I can work online on my phone.  I spent time learning it on New Years day and since then I'm loving ancestry.com.  I'm adding all the family history info I can.  In losing all the Personal family files I've collected in the past 10 years with my computer delete mistake, I have felt the need to take the time to get all my family history information that I have collected on ancestry, this way I know it is not going to be lost.   The LDS Family History / Family Tree,  has merged with Ancestry and this will be a great way to get all the research I've collected over the years updated and continue forward in my family search.  I have felt for years since my Loveall family history miracle story in 2002 that I need to get back to working on my Loveall family lines and work up some kind of a history.  I have just put it off for years  11 years to be exact.  I have worked some on it off and on and have done some temple work for ancestors.  I just feel that I need to take the time to record this story in a book format.  I know my half brother Scott would love to have copies of my research work.  Ancestry is so fun.  There are so many sources that come up for my ancestors, I'm able  to attach the source to the ancestor's name and study the information that I find on the source.  It helps me to fill in the missing pieces about the life of my ancestors.  I spent this past week in all my spare time working on Ancestry.   I'm scanning pictures and documents that I have and adding to my family files.  I got out all my Loveall files and reviewing what I have done over the years.  I found documents that I had search out in 2011 at a visit to the family history library downtown.  Now the info is all on ancestry!  It is like magic the sources come up in seconds and I'm able to review them.  The internet is a modern miracle in our lives.  The work is speeding up at pace that is,  how fast can I enter the info and move on to the next name!!  I have so many histories that I want to create about my family lines.  I'm reading a family history book right now that I picked up this summer at BYU education week.  He talks about the power of one.  Stay focus on one family at a time.  Ive been bouncing all around on ancestry.  I need to re-focus.  So I'm going to focus on my Loveall family lines of my birth father at this time.  Stay on this path on downloading all that I have collected and writing my histories before I move on to another family line.  This is going to be a huge winter project for me!!  I love working on it!!  I'm going to focus on my Birth father and grandfather John Wesely Loveall, the grandfather I never knew growing up.  I'm going to study all the sources I have collected and put together some kind of a history.

 John Wesley Loveall as a Minister and his wife Rachel Dickey

family picture June 1959 my birth Father Nathaniel Loveall, my mother Shelva Jean Bailes, me and my baby brother John Wesley Loveall.  picture taken at the home of my grandparents John Bailes and Beatrice in West Virginia living up a West Virginian Holler called Camp Fork 1959

Went To The Movies Tonight

I went to the Movies tonight with Trisha and her kids.  They had all gone to see the movie Frozen on Thanksgiving day.  I had bought tickets for all the families to attend.  They loved it so much they wanted to go see it again.  I had not seen it yet so Trisha invited me to attend with them.  Craig went and worked out with Scott his brother so this freed up my Friday night to spend time with the Burbidge family.  Buck has gone duck hunting for the weekend.  Since the new year it has been 10 days out and our lives have been consumed with helping Scott (Craig's brother).  It feels nice to take a break and just do something fun!  I loved the movie too!! The music is so great in it, I want to get the soundtrack of all the songs.  It was a fun night out with the grandkids and my daughter Trisha.  Went to lunch today and have had a nice day visiting with one another.  Craig & I had a good work out this morning  I burned over 500 calories in my workout.  After the holidays I'm at my all time high of a 166 lbs.  I've got to get some weight off!!  It is time to buckle down and focus on losing some weight this year.

My 57th Birthday 2014

 Natasha & Mamma Debbie

 Opening my gift from Natasha

 She gave me a new knife set for the Cabin, I love them fun and bright colors

 Our baby Winston Thomas

 Bridger coming down the stairs and Our Lincoln hanging out at the cabin

Today is New Years and it's also my Mommas birthday! She is 57 today and I couldn't have a more loving and sweet mother! I look up to her so much. Especially In  my life now. I have so much help from my mom and all my sisters with my young kids. And I just think of her as a young mother with no family around with five little girls! I always say "Mom  how did you do it." And she always did it with such grace and Patience. 

Bridge and I  came up to our Bear Lake cabin last night to celebrate New Years up here  with my Mom and Dad! It's so fun have a place like this to come up to and spend time together. It's beautiful as always and really cold!! Linc, bridge and my dad just went for snowmobile rides! Linc just loves it up here, he's been on cloud nine ever since we said we were coming up to the cabin!

As always I have lots catch up on with all the holidays, Christmas etc! But let me start by saying I'm Pregnant! 

I had my first Dr appointment Dec 30th 

And I have been frustrated cause a had to find a new dr due to insurance! But went to Dr Pead and I liked him and it's close to home! But he said I'm 11 weeks and I'm due July 21st 2014! It's crazy to think of having 3 kids! And this was a total surprise but we are so excited to grow our family one more! Lincoln is already convinced it's a girl but I'm not getting my hopes up so I'm assuming it's another boy! 

It's always such cool thing to see your baby for first time. The Dr. said we are just going to do a little ultrasound and we may not see anything but that doesn't mean anything. So I was not expecting to see anything, but there it was  a full on baby in my tummy.  I could see it's heart fluttering too! So exciting!

It's my birthday, another year older. I can't believe I'm 57 now, getting closer to the big 60.  I've had a nice day hanging out at the lake with Natasha & Bridger and my dear husband Craig.