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no ones perfect

Again, I apologize about not posting a few days ago. We were traveling back from Colorado where we were visiting both Steve's and my grandparents for a few days. It was so good to see my grandpa, he is 84 years old and he has Parkinson's Disease. He is a trooper and absolutely hates his walker. He was diagnosed back in 2009 and the one and only thing that he wants to be able to do is to get back on his tricycle and ride around. Seeing Steve's grandparents was great too. We helped them with their yard, ate at some good restaurants and strolled around downtown Denver. We met Steve's parent at Steve's grandparents' house. They got a 8 month old bouvier named Chewy and we brought home Lisa Steve's mom with us. Wrigley doesn't get along with other dogs. He likes the dogs he was growing up with but any new ones are goners in Wrigley's mind. We think he had a hard time a year ago when everything was happening to me and now he wants to protect us with everything. Sunday night was pretty stressful but, now it is getting slightly better.
I hope all of you had a wonderful day celebrating America and the freedom which we have. Now that Lisa is here with us, we all when out meaning Steve's younger sister Kate and her husband Matt and went to a neighborhood gathering, ate breakfast and visited with each other. Then we had Steve's good friend coming over with his family and we went to the zoo with their kiddos. After that we headed over to a BBQ that our friends invited us to and finished off the night on top of our garage seeing fireworks in all directions. Seeing all those kids this weekend makes me want one of mine own so much more. 
We have decided that we are going to be more open about our suggoracy process. We have been moving forward with the process and let me tell you this stuff is no walk around the park. We have spoken to a legal person, our surrogate mother has been seen by Dr. Peterson the doctor that is going to be doing this for us. He has cleared her to be able to carry so everything is looking good. I got my blood drawn for some additional labs this morning. I am so blessed that everything is going good so far and to be able to be in this era right now that they can do such marvelous things. 
Like I said at the beginning of this post I am sorry for not posting, but then as I was thinking about how to start I thought no one is perfect and it's okay. If we all just continue to keep trying to be the best person we can be. That is what matters in my book, but my book has not been published yet hahaha! 


My grandpa Bill and I at The Boardmoor in Colorado Springs. Breath taking beautiful


Helping this sweet gentleman and making sure he see the lip on the ground ahead


Lisa and I being children in downtown Denver



Steve and I taking an evening stroll not far from his grandparents' house



At a sculpture museum, Steve was supposed to be doing what the man was doing in Loveland





Again with Lisa and I being silly and Chewy the gentle giant sort of....

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