Happy 2012!

Well well well...its December 31, 2011 and I am sitting in Lake Havasu Arizona with Jackie, Ben, Nick, Ray, and Rob. It is going to be a quiet New Years eve. Whew it has been a crazy summer and now end of the year. The baby has grown so very much he is 2 1/2 and such a precious doll I love him so very much!

New Job, I like it, but who knows. School is awesome, already done with my first year. Start my sophmore year next week!

My kids are amazing, Ray is great, Boo is almost finished with school graduates in March! Bear is going to school and he and Coco are doing well.

Mom is good and in Atlanta with Sean right now.
Dad and Jacquie are good....
Lori is good too!!

Well I will post more this coming week!

Family, Fun and Life....

Hi hi Hi...

It was Rob's Birthday on Sunday...but we had a surprise B-Day party for him on saturday night! He was so surprised. I invited our friends, and family and he was totally taken! Me and Mom and Ray and Lesley made 60 yes...count them 60 chicken and cheese enchaladas and I made 4 tons of rice...LOL and beans too!

Dad and Jacquie came over, and Nick and Katy, Kim & Carlos...everyone had a good time.

Frannie made her Cheesecake..which of course was phenom!!!

It's Monday...I didn't talk much about my trip to the Bahamas with Rachele..so I wanted to just do a quick synopsis!

We flew to Florida on the red eye on the 15th of April, landed, went shopping, and helped pack the boat for the long trip to the Bahamas.

We slept on the boat, and got up around 6am for the embarkation! IT was so beautiful to watch the sunrise as we were leaving Lauderdale. We had a 5 hour trip to the first Island which was Lucaya, Freeport, Grand Bahama's. It was event full with pleanty of sick stomachs and all that jazz! But we slept a lot, and pulled into port and really enjoyed the time.

We only spent one night there...and didn't really go anywhere but the village that was right next to the docks. We headed to the beach close to the docks, and spent the day just playing in the water and having fun. We got a few handmade necklaces from the locals and really enjoyed the weather!!

We went to sleep and woke up straight away when the ballasters of the boat began to grind and grunt while leaving the harbor. We quickly downed a couple of Bonine, and were on our 8 hour ocean journey to Nassau!

Ray and I slept a few hours, and before you knew it, we could see about 10 miles in the distance Atlantis. I felt a sense of joy at seeing land, and could almost understand how when people years ago were sailing to the new world, or just trading spices etc. happened upon the land how it was a sense of accomplishment, and happiness. We of course have all of the modern equipment, radar and depth perception etc. We just set the course, and hit auto pilot and off we go.

Nassau was AMAZING! We went to the Atlantis Resort, walked around and spent a number of hours at the water park!! I wanted to take so many photo's but we were always soaking wet!! Rachele loved Atlantis! I did too! I would love to go back. We were there for 2 days, then hightailed it to Eleuthria! Eleuthria was absolutely breath taking!! Beaches that I have never seen, and amazing people who were so very kind and beautiful!!

We went to a Club Med beach, that was deserted because of a Hurricane a few years ago. It was a private beach, and now it is public and has pink sand and is beautiful!

A place where I could sit for hours and watch the surf. Peaceful..beyond even explanation.

We were there for a few days, saw an amazing site called the Glass Window Bridge. It was something that I will always remember!! One side of the bridge has the Angry Atlantic, the other side...The Calm Caribbean Sea. The narrowist place on earth.

We spent 3 nights in Eleuthria and then we sailed back to Nassau. We spent another two nights in Nassau at the Atlantis resort, so a total of 4 nights there! Rachele loved it again because we were able to go back to the water park. We rode the 'Current' which is just riding on the river, with slips and falls and a huge wave machine. We laughed, and we just enjoyed such an amazing wonderful clarity how life is such a beautiful thing.

I had such a good time with my family, and with my beautiful daughter.

Happy to be here to enjoy the gifts of family, fun, life and of course my daughter!!

Be Well Folks!!

Just This Close....

Well with a deep breath I sit here on May 2nd, 2011 and write my words. Sooo much has happened since I last wrote..ya ya..I know I am remiss. The most important update: Ok..wait for it.... I found my Sister! Yay! Ok for those of you who don't know, and apparently there were more than a few, I have a sister and her name is Kim. She is my half sister, my father's daughter. I have known about her for as long as I can remember, and finally I was able to find her thanks to Ancestry.com.

I am not going to bore you with all of the details, but it was a bit hard to find her, but I did it..Ok...so I will bore you with the details, because in a few years...I know I will forget!

I began researching somewhere around 2001 or so. Online etc. All that I know is that my sister's name was Kim. She was born on June 9th and that her mother's name was Florence. Not much information to begin with. Recently my gusto for researching family lineage began to overflow! I couldn't seem to stop, with all of the amazing information that I was finding not only on my side of the family tree, but on Rob's as well. There were death certificates from Rob's GG Grandfather, which led to more and more information on his lineage. I was purely elated by how 'easy' it seemed to find the information I was looking for! I decided to dig a bit deeper. Here I was with all the tools I needed at my fingertips, yet I didn't really know how to go about searching. I began watching a new show called aptly 'Searching For' with a professional genealogist Pam Slaton. She is an adoptee who began searching for her birth parents and made a career out of searching for family members of people who request her help. I was going to contact her, but thought that I would indeed watch her show, and see exactly how she did it.

So I did.

And with that...I found her. I found that her mother re-married some 7 years later after divorcing my father (rightly so) and that Kim had been adopted by her new and only father Albert. She told me that he is a great father, and like Sean and I who have a great father too, was very lucky. Armed with this new information, and knowing her last name, I entered the information into Ancestry.com website, and really, literaly held my breath. And straight away, up popped her name, and attached to her name was in (parens) her married name. I let out a big sigh, and realized that I found her married name, and armed with that...I KNEW I could find her.

I looked up her married name and found that she had indeed been married sometime ago in the 1980's and found her husbands name as well. I actually just sat on that information for a couple of weeks, already knowing that I was about T-H-I-S...(finger and thumb about 1mm apart) close to finding her. I had an old address, and two other addresses so I wasn't so sure which address was hers. Lorimy BFF being the Realtor that she is, told me to look up the County assessor records for the county she lives in, which of course is public record! Thank goodness she is a smarty pants...because when I went onto the County Assessors website, and typed in her name...Low and behold, a house was quit claimed to her by her husband in 2010! Therefore....I now had her address, at least what I thought was her address.

I decided before I went on holiday with Rachele to send her a card, and just to let her know that we were indeed related, and that I wanted to talk with her. I included my business card and sent it off the day we were leaving.

I didn't expect much, or much of anything to be truthfully honest. I wasn't sure how this news of being her sister would be taken. I didn't know if she knew anything about my 3 brothers and I. Well as you have it...she didn't. She didn't know anything at all about any of us. She emailed me first, with a short and to the point email that basically said she didn't know anything about our biological father, or his family. I felt it was important, that she know in case she had children, and for her to know about her biological father just for goodness sake.

WE have chatted a couple of times on the phone, and facebooked, and emailed..and it's all been Great! I love getting to know about her, and her children and I still want to get to know more.

I have a Sister!!

I am more than excited that she is just as excited to know about Sean and David and Bruce too!

This is only a short 'synopsis' of what happened while searching for my sister. I hope to continue growing our relationship, and learning more about her in the years to come.

Super happy!!

Thanks!!

Dids, Disneyland....and Horton

It's Tuesday... It's a good day today. Was feeling a strange pain in my upper jaw, neck. Could it be related to the fact that I have been sick for about 3 weeks!! I am sure, or it could be the tooth that I need to get filled. Note to self: Go to the dentist!

Oh well...I am most sure that I am perfectly good and ok. I am watching Connor eat some chicken nuggets that I just cooked him, and he dips it in ranch. No chicken nuggets unless we have ranch! He's such a handful of energy but worth every single minute of exhaustion that I have. Why? WELL...Ready...Wait for it.... EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY! So in the future, I won't be spending 10 hours a day with this perfect prince, nope...just already know this. He should be in pre-school in a year and a half I would guess. He's so smart, knows everything that you say. I am teaching him his colors. Blue is the color of the day today. So I go around the house and gather blue things and teach him BLUE. We had Blue Mac and Cheese today. Yes..it was blue. He ate the Blue mac-n-cheese and loved it! He likes the movie Horton Hears a Who! He is watching it today, for the second time. He doesn't usually sit down, he runs about watching TV and then sitting down when he wants.

I love teaching him new things, especially words. New words are fun. He can say a number of words now. Let's see he is almost 19 months old. These are the list of words he can say: Happy, Lola, Baby, Football, Ball, Eat, Juice (Sounds like Jew! lol), for Cat he says Owme, like Meow but backwards? He says Mama, Dada, Papa, Goti (for Grama Martello), Nana for me and mom, He calls Amanda and Ray "E". Just "E". It's so cute. He says Maaaa for More. He says Peeeese. I can't think of anything else right now.

Anyway...so looking forward to starting school yet again... getting a degree in Public Health it might take a couple of years, but it will be worth it. Got Financial Aid yippee..its realy expensive to get a degree online...yikes!!!

On Friday morning Ray goes to Disneyland with her 8th grade class! Yipee for her. She should have a great time. She is excited to get away with her friends ALONE and have no parents.

Well enough of everything I can think of. I am feeling good, but need to really work on eating better...which equates to loosing weight!! I could stand to loose a pound or two.

Who doesn't!

See Ya!!!!!

Catching up!

Good Morning!!

Yesterday was Berto's 20th birthday. He's 20 already...I can't believe it!! We were in So.Cal for Brittany and Felipe's Wedding/Anniversary. They did the Sacrament wedding in the church. It was beautiful! We left early on Sunday to get back for Bear's bday.

We went to Grandma's house where Bear and Coco and Connor live to have a very nice dinner! Bear wanted Steak and Crab, and we had cupcakes for his "cake". It was nice, Boo, Ray, Coco, Connor, Frannie, My mom, and Rob.

The past few weeks have been crazy for the world. The HUGE earthquake 9.0 in Japan and the Tsunami on 3-11-01. So, so horrific. There is a nuclear disaster as well, with a Fukishima nuclear power plant. We are waiting to see what happens there. Libya is in major trouble, Kadafi the leader is on his way out. He needs to leave, and the UN has issued a no fly zone so in essence Kadafi can't fly his airforce jets.

It's raining today, coooolllldddd.. 42 degrees! I love it!

Well Connor just got here..so it's another blessed day with my Grandson!

So cal in a couple of weeks, then Florida and the Bahamas with Ray!!!

Talk soon!!

As easy as 1,2,3...

So...today I have payed it forward, 29 gifts etc. 3 times today. It wasn't that I did it intentionally, what happened came to me as I suppose it was supposed to.

1st thing happened this morning as I sat logging into my email. Up popped an email from a woman who was just diagnosed with Breast Cancer for a second time. I wrote her back, and extended my thoughts, and prayers and love. I was pretty straight to the point, I kind of have a way like that...sometimes mostly all the time I don't sugar coat anything. I was very kind of course and sympathetic, offered advise, thoughts and of course help if she needed.

2nd thing was a phone call from a good friend, who is hurting because her boyfriend (my husband's best friend and my grandson's uncle)broke up with her 2 weeks ago. I told her after 2 1/2 years of hanging out, she could always come over and call anytime. Well today was a particularistic bad day for her. I listened for 45min and 23 seconds. She needed a shoulder to cry on. That took up some time of my day, and I was so happy to extend the love, and felt good helping her.

3rd thing that happened was I got an envelope from a company. No biggie. I opened it and it was addressed to our address, yet a company name. Thinking nothing about it, I opened the envelope and on the paper inside was a man's name dates of employment, and his date of termination along with his social security number. NICE!! It was obviously sent to the wrong address. I now have everything I need to steal this man's identity and make his life a living he**. Of Course that is nothing that I would EVER do! So I promptly took out my lap top, and looked up the company and gave them a call. I got this really nice woman named Brooke, and she was aghast. I explained what I had in front of me, and she promptly gave me a FedEx number to mail her the envelope and the letter inside. I got up, drove my self to the nearest Post Net and while addressing the envelope my phone rang again. It was Dan, the head of HR, or some other position, apologizing over and over for the mix-up and was going to raise 'bloody hell' for the mistake. I reminded him that people make mistakes, and that I had no problem mailing back to him the confidential information. He thanked me over and over, and was so nervous, but kind.

So that is what has happened so far this day, it's 3:20 pm. I have been taking care of the baby, cleaning up, and I am making a delicious dinner of spaghetti and meat balls, garlic bread, and a fat fluffy salad!! So... I better get my self going to get it done by 5:30!!

Have a great, amazing, wonderful, everything you want day!

Be Well,

Stacy

Crazy Dreams

Soooo.... I have had totally crazy dreams lately. The one I had last night, of course fits straight away into that category. It was an end of day's for sure dream.

The whole west coast was flooded, and not just up against your knees, I am talking Completely covered in water. I was watching the flood waters rise, and could tell you that it was catastrophic. It covered valleys homes, cities, people and just plain crazy. Then I was going to be left behind by my family, because Rob didn't think that I could climb a mountain to get away from the flood waters. I was so upset. I was also sick. I was talking with some doctors and was told that I have a AAA. Abdominal, Aortic, Aneurysm. No, no not for real, it was in my dream. Then I asked the doctors how long I had to live, and they said months, and I smiled, and said at least it isn't just days!! LOL...WHAT??

What a crazy dream. Now the end of days dream is because I was reading a report called overview to the ARKstorm scenario. Here is the link: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1312/of2010-1312_text.pdf

Interesting report about a Superstorm in California. Which I think is kind of funny because yes, it takes up most of the coast of the west coast, but what about Washington State, and Oregon??

I don't think so. I don't buy into it.

Well...we shall see!

The Apocalypse???

Has it begun?? LOL...this is what the media is saying all over the world. According to news media around the world there have been multiple deaths of marine animals as well as birds.

Here is the link for the crabs that died in England.

http://www.huliq.com/10164/40000-dead-devil-crabs-found-washed-along-uk-shores

Here is the link for the Chesapeake Bay Fish.

http://www.huliq.com/10164/over-2-million-dead-fish-found-along-marylands-chesapeake-bay

Thousands of Red Winged Black Birds die on New Years Eve.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/02/ap/strange/main7206964.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Sweden, Millions Of Dead Fish Found In Maryland, Brazil, New Zealand

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/dead-birds-fall-from-sky-_n_804591.html


Let's keep an eye on this!!

OK adding to this:

Turtle Doves in Italy!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-8k-turtle-doves-fall-dead-Italy-blue-stain-beaks.html