This Monday was Dustin's birthday which we celebrated by going to a Portland Trailblazers basketball game vs the Toronto Raptors. It was a fun game and the Blazers won which is always nice. We also celebrated D-man's birthday by seeing The Hobbit in Real 3D with Dolby Atmos sound at the Cinetopia in Vancouver. It was so unreal! The video and picture quality was just... crazy awesome. The movie was pretty good too, but I was mostly amazed by the imaging.
In case I didn't mention it before, in October our ward got a new primary presidency and I was called to be 2nd counselor. It has been fun but also made me SUPER busy! Between learning what the heck we're supposed to be doing, cub scouts, sharing time, and planning a meet and greet breakfast for the beginning of the year, every night is booked! But I work in an awesome presidency and we are learning quickly.
It's crazy how sick this world is getting. And not the good kind of sick. On Tuesday here in Clackamas, just a 10 minute drive from our house, there was a shooting at the Clackamas Town Center mall. This is the mall that we usually go to! We love Clackamas! We love how the sidewalks sparkle! It's crazy to think that someone would come and start randomly shooting at our mall! It's lucky that this happened on a Tuesday afternoon instead of a Friday night or Saturday because the mall is always extremely busy. Our hearts go out to those families that were affected by this sad incident.
And then Newton, CT on Friday. Oh my. I can't even begin to imagine why anyone would go to an Elementary School to kill innocent children and teachers. That is a sick sick crime and I was so heartbroken to hear about the massive amount of damage that was done. I send my prayers to those families in that town, both to those that had losses and those that survived. That is such a tragedy.
What is this world coming to?!
As far as us, we're doing ok. The news of our negative results reached a breakdown last week. We were fine until some LDS students in a club meeting at school with Dustin started complaining about how they were pregnant again and how they can't believe they have so many kids. UGH. Makes me so mad. And then I started my period which is always that awful reminder that it really didn't work. That we are still waiting and must continue to exercise patience and faith.
I did meet with a family doctor this week to get testing done on my TSH again and see how that is doing and whether we need to change my dosage for my thyroid. I'm still waiting on those test results, but hopefully we can start making progress. My insurance is changing next year, which I am SUPER happy about because I've hated my insurance. We did get a ray of hope when I saw an EOB show up online from my insurance that looks like it will cover most of the first ginormous bill we received for bloodwork. I'm talking about an $818 bill going down to $24.... HUGE DIFFERENCE! I'm still waiting for an updated invoice to really feel in the clear, but it was a tender mercy and a little sunshine that we will make it through this and not become absolutely broke at the same time.
I probably won't have time to post again this next week so we wish you all a very Merry Christmas! We look forward to 2013 and hope it brings happiness, peace and miracles!
