Hmm... What to say?!

10/02/08

Well, this is my first posting...hmm what should I talk about? Well, lets see... I'm Angela, (if you already didn't know!) I'm married to my awesome husband Keegan and we have an adorable son named Ian.

I thought it would be fun to to have a blog to send to family and friends. I would love to be able to share our life stories and pictures with them!

I guess some background information would be... my husband and I have been married for eight years. I can't believe it.. although there are days it feels like a million years but for the most part it feels like it is flying by! We honestly have 4 children total. We lost two babies before we could greet them our Heavenly Father took them home to heaven. We also have a foster daughter named Liz. She is all grown up and has a child of her own, Alayna. Which makes us foster grandparents!

Our son Ian is 6 years old. Oh my, six.. he is growing up way to fast! He is in first grade this year. Have I said his is amazing yet? Well.. he is. We prayed so hard and for so long to have him and God granted us the privilege to have Ian to raise. (We had lost one baby before we had Ian and then lost another baby after we had Ian.) I had a lot of complications with my pregnancy with him. The birth ended in an emergency c-section. All in all Ian was a wonderful baby. I was blessed to nurse him for about 14-16 months. Which I enjoyed completely! He met every milestone a baby/toddler is to make. But.. something had happened to Ian. He seemed to regress. Well.. in retrospect he regressed. I had no idea what was going on. I was a new mom with a husband who worked full time and went to college part time. (Which he graduated a year ago.. Hallelujah!) God blessed us with people in our lives who noticed things with Ian. So.. I called joint services and had he evaluated. They immediately put Ian in speech therapy 3 times a week. After that a spiral of testing, more testing and then some more testing. I will never be able to thank Ian's first speech therapist enough for being bold enough to tell us she thought Ian had Autism. We had Ian tested 3 times to the same avail.. he has autism. He was diagnosed at age 3. He was in a special needs preschool for two years. He had a wonderful teacher! She was and still is a Godsend and became a wonderful friend to me! He was doing so well that we decided to put him completly mainstream (layman's terms a "normal" classroom). That didn't go so well. Right before Thanksgiving of his Kindergarden we transferred him to a different school in the same district and things went a little bit more smoother! Now... he is a big boy and in 1st grade. So far so good! His teacher allows the children to bring pets in the classroom for show and tell. So last Friday I took our two puppies, Chang and Boaz in to school. Ian thougth that was pretty cool! I was thrilled to be able to this for Ian. He is going on a field trip tomorrow and I get to go with him!

Chang Cecil & Boaz Warrior