Adoption Story Update

Even though we have only been online for a few months we are blessed to have already have had a few contacts, although none of them have played out yet.

Our first contact was from a lady who was taking care of her sisters daughter and the child was going to be put in foster care while her mom was on probation. However if the mother did not shape up the little girl was going to be placed for adoption. The aunt was looking for a family that was foster care certified who would take care of the child and adopt the child if the mom did not shape up by the end of her probation. We were interested but the court date was less then a week away and we were not able to become foster care certified that soon. We never heard anything back so we assume the aunt found a family for her niece.

Our Second Contact, well sort of a contact, was from a girl named Brittany in the Salt Lake area. Brittany's case worker contacted our caseworker and said that Brittany was interested in placing her child with us and was going to be contacting us with in a few days. We never heard anything, but Brittany's casework pulled our profile off-line while she decided between us and another couple. I imagine that Brittany chose the other couple since it has been a couple of weeks and our profile is back online and we have not heard anything. Even though we did not get chosen it is exciting to hear that other couples who have been praying for a child have received the blessing of a child. It's also great to know our profile is being looked at and that we are being considered, I just hope that we get chosen soon.

The latest contact is from a girl name Allison who lives in Georgia that is having her first baby boy in June. We got an email from her on Friday saying that she was going to be placing her child for adoption and if we were interested to contact her. So of course we emailed her right away and said that she were interested and we asked her where she was from. That evening we got an email back from her telling us that she was in Georgia and that she was open to question. We emailed her back with some question that next morning, and now we are just hoping and praying that she will email us back. Please keep us and Allison in your prayers. I will keep you updated on our situation. Sorry it was kind of long but we appreciate your love, support and concern.

Family Pictures

Our Friend Dani Christensen with Christensen Photography (www.candidsbydani.com) took some pictures of Curt and I to help us enhance our adoption profile and help us attract the right birth parent. Here are some of our favorite pictures that she took.

My Little Sister is All Grown Up and Going Off to China

My younger sister Debbie is going off to Southern China to go teach English to Chinese children. I am so proud of her she will be going across the world all by her self, but I know she will have a great time and learn a lot. I love my little sis and I am greatful for her friendship. I will miss you Debbie and look forward to seeing you in June. Good luck and have a great time.

Happy Birthday to Me

I know this is kind of late but here are pictures from my birthday. I had a great day I love my birthday. Curt made me breakfast and gave me presents before he left for work. After  he got back for work we had friends over for cake (yes Curt decorated the cake himself :), ice cream, and games. I am grateful for my friends and family and all those that made it a great day. I am especially grateful for my husband and love him so much.

Visit to Rexburg

Curt and I went up to Rexburg a few weeks ago to spend time with our family and celebrate our nephew's baptism. We are so proud of his choice to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. Also Curt's family gave his Dad a stuffed beaver wearing a scout shirt to celebrate him receiving of the Silver Beaver, one of the highest honors in scouting. My Dad is also going to be receiving the Silver Beaver reward. I am so proud of them. It was fun to spend time with the family and enjoy playing games.

Adoption Profile Button

As many of you already know we have been approved and our adoption profile is online. Now we are just waiting to hear form birth parents. To hopefully help move this process along I had an adoption profile button made for me so that all you have to do is click on the button and it will take you directly to our adoption profile. I would ask that you put the button onto your blog and I also ask you to invite your friends to put the link on their blog as well. The more links that are created the higher we will come up on a search engine if some one is searching for adopting couples. Plus the more button that are on peoples blogs the more likely it will be seen prospective birth parents. Please help us get our name out and find the birth parent and child that is right for our family.

Our Own Little Christmas

 

We decided to have our own little Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning before going to our parents for the holidays. It was nice to have our own Little Holiday Celebration.

Pictures with the Characters

 

It was fun to see all the characters dressed up in their Christmas attire, Disney Land was so pretty decorated for Christmas, and it made it all better being there with children. Thanks for the idea to go to Disney Land Kjars it was a blast.

Disney Land

 

We went to Disney Land for Graduation with our friends the Kjars and their two adorable kids Kate and Gordon. I love Disney Land.  We had so much fun together.

We drove down together and shared a hotel suit.  Kate love's Curt and when we were driving to California she would say "Hi Curt, Hi Curt" and then Curt would respond "Hi Kate" and she answered "Hello Curt".  This happened about every five minutes.  It was really cute.

Graduation

 

Yeah We Have Finally Graduated. Here we are with my parents and sister and Curt's Mom.  

It feels so nice to be done.  Now we will see what real life brings. 

 Curt and I got to sit together since we both Graduated from the College of Education, it made Graduation better. 

 Here are a few pictures my sister took the week before graduation.