When life gives you lemons

Well, my life has certainly taken a drastic change over the last week. Matthew and myself have become "parents" to a 18 year old boy. Thats right. We always said we wanted to foster children, and eventually adopt....I just didn't think it would be this soon or for a kid this old.
Ryan, is a neighbor kid of ours that was in desperate need of some help. I guess that is why we are still in Las Vegas. We have been praying for months for our move to Utah to happen. The Lord knows whats best for us. I have spent this week trying to get Ryan set up in our house. I took him for a haircut, bought him clothes, and tried getting him signed up for school. He hasn't been in High School since middle of his Jr. year!!
Life in the Tripp house is quite different from a week ago. I just hope we can do our best for him, and mold him into a great young man.

Happy New Year!

I can't believe it is 2009 already! So much has happened for us this last year, and it seems like yesterday 2008 was starting.

I really look forward to this year. I have a few goals that I would like to accomplish this year, I won't say resolutions because those are never kept.

In no particular order; we are getting out of debt and staying out this year! My dream is to only have a house payment, no credit cards, no car payments. Believe me the house is enough!

I feel very strongly that I need to get going on food storage. Truth, I don't think we have enough to even last a week! Scary!

This year I am going to become more active with church. I love the gospel, I know it's true, get off my butt and go!! Along with that I have already started reading the scriptures every night, I want to continue that.

I have got to get my sctapbooking caught up this year!

Lastly. I want to work on being a better friend, neighbor, daughter, sister, mother, and wife. Pretty much a better person all around!

Sorrry for the ramble I knew if I actually wrote this down it would remind me of what I want this year.

Happy New Year to all!!!

Matts Christmas Present

Begin forwarded message:

From: Nicole Tripp <korismom08@yahoo.com>
Date: December 16, 2008 8:49:02 AM PST
To: "go@blogger.com" <go@blogger.com>
Subject: Matts Christmas Present

So for the last three years Matt and I have not exchanged Christmas presents. We both felt that it's more important to buy for all the kids in our life than eachother. But, every year I have still tried to at least do a stocking for him. This year we once again said we were not going to exchange. But, I had a surprise planned.

Lately I have been clipping coupons and one of them I found was for sears portraits. For only $4.95 I got 45 shots!!!!! And no sitting fee. So knowing that Matt was going to be out of town last week I scheduled Kori and me to go get some pictures done together. I found the most perfect little shirt for her, it read " Result of Mommy Kissing Santa". Friday morning I got both of us all ready, picked up my mom and we went. It was so much fun!!! The pictures turned out great and I can't wait to give them to Matt. I was even doing really well at not telling him. I just wish everyone else had done as well also.

Sunday my mom and step- father came over. Shane let the cat out of the bag, and Mom didn't help!!!! So ofcourse now I'm sure he knows. Although he is being really sweet and acting as though he didn't hear. Oh well at least the actual pictures will be a surprise!

This is Kori before we took the pictures, I love this outfit!!

New

Well, I am very new at this blogging thing but everyone keeps telling me to start and after reading some friends blogs I think I will give it a try.

So much has been going on for us the last two months. First ofcourse was the birth of our daughter Kori. She is eleven weeks old now, I can't believe it!! Since she came along I haven't worked. And, thanks to Matts wonderful job I get to live my dream job of wife and mom!!
Matt has been able to be home with us a lot since Kori was born. What a blessing that has been!!! He is just the best dad ever!!! Last week Matt had the lapband surgery done. We have been trying to get this done for over a year. Insurance issues kept him from being able to have it. But, his wonderful job has amazing insurance and they covered it in full. :)
This week Matt went out of town without us for the first time since Kori was born. It was a very difficult week for both of us. It is so hard for us to be away from eachother. Is it like that for every married couple? He missed us so much he came home early!!!
Well, I know I have more I could probably ramble on about, but, I won't bore anyone that wants to read this. I'm going to try and keep up on this really well.
We shall see......