yep... we're still here

So it has come to my attention, alot, that I haven't been to good about writing on the blog lately. But I have some excuses. Rick has a little tool thing he can strap to his hand and type with so he told me not to write and he would. So I was all excited that he was going to write on the blog instead of me, and needless to say he keeps putting it off. I think he'll do it soon, but I decided I'd better do a quick update because who knows when he'll do it.

Well for my birthday my parents came and for my present they gave me all sorts of cute stuff to decorate my house. We got my plant shelf all decorated and we added a cute little shelf (or is it spelled shelve?) and cute stuff for the bathrooms. I'll post pictures of those next time. It was so fun to have them visit. And before they came my brother shay got home from boot camp and stuff, so he came and stayed with us for a weekend. We had a crazy wii tournament. First he played Rick in tennis, boxing, and baseball. Rick kicked his butt at tennis. Then me and him had a bowling tournament. We were up till 1 in the morning! We played the best of 5 and I won 2 and he won 2 and on the last game he beat me by 2 pins!! I was so mad!! But we had tons of fun!

While my parents were here, I kind of had a strange experience. Well strange isn't the right word, but a interesting experience. Lately, as I've already said, Rick hasn't been making tons of improvements. He's still been making them, but not as fast as they were or as fast as we'd like. So I think we've both been having kind of a hard time these last couple weeks. I've been praying harder than I ever have in my whole life. And sadly there are days we just get so down that it's hard to feel the spirit and it doesn't feel like our prayers are even being heard. Well during one of these days there happened to be a rain storm here. Right when it got done, our neighbor called me and told me to look out the front door. When we opened the door there was a rainbow so bright and close, I've never seen a rainbow like this in my life. And right above that rainbow there was another one on top of it. So it was a double rainbow, and the prettiest one I've ever seen. To most people I'm sure it was just a really pretty rainbow and that's about it. But right when I saw that rainbow, my eyes filled up with tears and my heart just swelled. It's almost like I heard a little voice in my head saying that rainbow was just for us. I felt a complete calm come over my body, and right then I knew that everything was going to be okay. I've always learned that a rainbow is a sign of a promise, and I know in my heart that Heavenly Father sent us that rainbow that day promising that he would keep those promises that he gave to us in blessings saying that Rick would be healed and that everything will be okay.

I know that this looks a normal rainbow because a picture of it doesn't do it justice, but it was amazing! Sorry to get all personal and tell everyone that but it made me feels so good and it just amazes me the ways Heavenly Father will remind us that He is there, and He is listening to us.

Well we got the news that we got accepted to Neuroworx, and our insurance is going to work just fine!!! We are so excited! We think it's going to do great things for Rick. A little bit more of a drive, but it's worth it! We have our first session this Thursday. So I'll take lots of pictures and tell you how it goes!!