Tag is 4 months old/ Another Stalker Story

September 15, 2008 Tag is 4 months old!

As for our family, I have taken a few recent pictures of Tag and wanted to post them. He is getting so big and never wants to sit still! He can roll over now and loves to bounce on my lap! He is working on getting his 2 bottom teeth and isn't happy about it! Right now he also has a little cold and that has made him a bit grumpy, but I get grumpy when I am sick, so why wouldn't he! Tag weighed 15 1/2lbs at his 4 month checkup and was 26" long! He is a very tall kid...already wearing 6/9 months pants! CRAZY how fast they grow! He is such a sweetheart and loves to cuddle with mom and dad! I call him our little "cuddlebug" We love you Tag!
Ty's birthday is this next weekend, so he will get his own little post too!











September 28, 2008 - Another Stalker story

I feel like the last 4 months of my life have been so crazy and hectic! I know I haven't been home a lot because I am always packing up a suitcase and the kids for some adventure. Last week I finally felt like life had calmed down and that I would be at home for awhile. How quickly things changed. In my last blog I mentioned a guy who had called me and totally freaked me out. The first night back at my house without Josh here was really hard, but it got better and better. Finally last week I felt like I could go on with life and that it was just a one time thing that was over. Once again, I was dead wrong.
My children are napping last Monday and I am on the computer trying to get bills paid, emails checked, blogs updated, etc. etc., when my cell phone rings. I look on the caller ID and my heart stopped when I read "restricted" I answered the phone and it was him! Why was he doing this to me? What did he want with me? Could I get him to stop calling me? All of these questions ran through my mind. I decided to talk to him because I was told by the police to try and get information from him. This time I was just so mad at him and I think he knew it. We played a little game...I gave him info (of course it was all fake...like I would tell him the truth) and then he gave me info. Who knows if what he gave me was correct, but it was worth a shot. Thank goodness my cell phone was about to die because he started to become very inappropraite and I let him know it. He demanded that I tell him certain inappropriate things about myself and I let him know that I would not do that and it was totally inappropriat to be asking me those types of things! I think he could tell I was getting more angry as the converstation went on and that he wasn't going to hear what he wanted to because he hung up on me. I immediately called my husband and he was not happy!! My heart was pounding so hard that I thought it was going to burst out of my chest, I was shaky, and very scared! I locked all the doors and started packing our things once again! My husband wanted me to leave the house and stay with our friends for the rest of the week! I was more than happy to do so. After I talked to my husband I called a couple in our ward because her husband works for the company that this guy told me he worked for. He did some digging and was able to find some info, but we weren't sure if it was really the guy or not. I called the cell number he gave me and was so disappointed when I hear the voice and realize it was not the same voice of the guy that had been calling me. It is such a crazy and complicated story, so I will try and only give the most important parts. I was also able to get an address from the man in our ward and the cops went to the house and lets just say it is a VERY SCARY looking place. No one was home and when I told him I called the cell # and that it wasn't the same voice, they said they still wanted to check into it further and they also got the Highway Patrol involved in the matter. This all happend on Monday.
I felt better staying at my friends house and am so grateful that they let me and my kids stay in their home for 4 days! Do I have great friends or what!!! The crazy thing about all of this is that he has called me on a Monday both times! I think that is a little weird! So on Tuesday I am running some errands and I get a call from a "restricted #" , but no one is there. Then I get a call from a guy that tells me my # is programmed into his phone 3 times with no name beside it, but he doesn't know how it got there! I pretty much told him straight up what was going on and that he better find out if someone has been using his phone because if he didn't it would all come back on him. I have never called his cell phone # , so I don't know how he would have gotten my number. He really freaked me out when he asked if I lived in the town I live in. For safety reasons I will not mention where I live. How would he know all of this info? Well, I gave the cell phone # to the police and they can get the cell records and see if that phone called me on the two different dates that I have been called on. Everytime I feel like we are getting somewhere it seems that we hit a dead end. I just hope that this time we can find something that will put an end to all of these calls!
I am tired of not feeling safe in my own home! I am tired of having to pack my children up and be a burden on others! I just want my normal life back! Once again I apologize because I have been so behind on blogs because I haven't been home! Tonight is my first night back in my house by myself and I have been so jumpy! I keep saying little prayers that Heavenly Father will give me peace and help me to feel safe! I am so grateful for the power of prayer because he truly has answered mine and help me feel peace in my heart. I must tell an experience with prayer this past week when all of this was happening. I didn't know if I was just being a baby by not wanting to stay in my home or if I was just being smart, so I decided to kneel down and ask my Heavenly Father. Immediately after I ask if it was safe for me and children to stay in our home, my heart started pounding, I got all shaky, and I felt great uneasiness in my heart (exactly what I feel when this guy calls me). I was so thankful that I was given such a powerful answere! I knew without a doubt that we needed to leave and stay with my friend until Josh returned home. My testimony of the power of prayer was strenghtened so much and I feel that I pray all time now for guidance on what to do with this situation.
To all my friends, thank you for your thoughts and concern! I really apprecaite it! We will see what happens tomorrow, but I hope it will be a normal day and that I can just go on with my life again!