Someone got her hairs cut

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

I decided to chop all my hair off, well, not all of my hair, but about 7 inches. I also decided to get it highlighted. I had been going back and forth on whether I was going to just trim it or cut it short but decided to go short. Here is a before picture with my longer hair:

and after:

front

and back

To me it’s a big change but so much easier to fix in the mornings! Especially since I just bought a chi! What have I done all these years without a chi??! It’s amazing. As one of my friends says “once you go chi, you never go back!” I hear ya, Jen!

We’re licensed!!

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

Well, as of this past Thursday, we are officially licensed foster parents. We met our case worker, the adoption coordinator and case worker and the intake worker Thursday morning and we are ready to go. Now we just wait for a call to tell us we have a placement. It could be tomorrow or it could be in a month, I’m hoping for sooner rather than later, but I’m sure you knew that already. We will keep you updated as things happen!

Photography

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

Over the last several years I have grown to love photography. I love how it captures life and it can take something that happens in a split second and freeze it in time. There are moments in life you want to remember forever and through photography you can.

These are some of my favorite pictures I have taken over the last few years.

During the last 6 months or so I haven’t take many photos, I’ve been in a photography rut! My excuse is, “I just don’t have anything to take pictures of.” In 2010 I want to get back into it and start taking more pictures. A few weeks ago we went out to Jonathan’s uncle and aunts house for Christmas and I took this photo. This photo reminds me how much I love photography and why. I love the time of day when the sun sets. The colors in the sky are usually amazing and it always seems peaceful at that time of the day.

Facelift

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

My parents have had this dresser in their garage for about the last 15 years. Before that it was in my room and before that it was in my mothers room growing up. So, needless to say this is a very old dresser and it has seen better days.

For the last 10 years or so I’ve asked my dad if I could refinish the dresser so I can use it, I always got the same answer, “it’s so dirty and old and I don’t want to clean it out because I don’t know where I’ll put the stuff that’s in it.” So when we started fixing up the babies room I tried one more time and to my surprise they said yes. All it took was for me to say it’s for a grandchild–geeze! So I went and picked up the dresser and brought it home. I stripped it – all 10 layers of paint, sanded it and repainted it. I stained the top of the dresser to match another dresser I refinished a few years ago that is in the room as well. Here are some pictures of the dresser before I started and then the finished product.

2009 Review

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

2009 has flown by and we are already into 2010. Jonathan and I did quite a bit in 2009 and through its ups and downs, we had a great year. We started off the year like every other year, a birthday bash with my family and the Medlin’s (My other family) to celebrate my dad’s and Bob’s birthdays.

In February Jonathan and I went on our first cruise to Cozumel and Progresso, Mexico with our friends Josh and Shalyn.

Jonathan and I completed our first bike race, Tour Dallas, with our friend Todd. We had a great time and hope to do it again this year.

A few months later, we rode in another bike ride, Mesquite Rodeo Ride. We attempted this one but about 10-12 miles in I was done, my heart couldn’t take anymore.

We took a visit to the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens on Memorial Day Weekend

Our good friend Tami got married to Michael in May and Jonathan and I were the photographers.

In July Jonathan and I went on another cruise to the Bahamas with my parents, his parents and his sister and brother-in-law. We had a great time with everyone!

In August we put our house on the market so we can move closer to both our families. We are hoping to move to the Forney or Rockwall area. Hopefully our home will sell in 2010 and we can move closer to our families.

In October we started the process to become foster parents so we can adopt through CPS. We had to do about 32 hours of classroom training, we filled out 1000 pieces of paperwork, done drug screenings, got our fingerprints done with the FBI, and have completed our homestudy so we are just playing the waiting game now. For our homestudy we had to have the babies room set up with the crib and everything so we moved our guest room into the office and set up the babies room.

Throughout the year we went to a few of my nephew, Jake’s, soccer games and spent time with my niece, Brooklyn.

We spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with both of our families and rang in the new year with some friends. We started 2010 the same way we started 2009, a birthday bash with my family and the medlins.

We finally got an updated picture of all the Turner-Medlin “kids” and their significant other.

So here’s to the New Year and a happy and joyous 2010. We anticipate 2010 to be a big year for us as we bring a little one into our home and hopefully adopt a child this year. I wish all of you a wonderful new year and hope your dreams and goals of 2010 come true!