A Pray of Faith and a Kiss for Good Luck

A few weeks ago we had someone email us. It was an agency and they were having a hard time finding a couple for a birth mom. It was out of state and it was a LOT of money. It was so hard to tell them no, but it just didn't feel right.

Let me make it clear that we are not looking for A baby, we are looking for OUR baby.

Last night I had a dear friend email me about a possible situation. It is in Utah and it's not quite as much money (although it is still about $12,000 more than we had originally planned to spend when we chose our agency 2 years ago). This situation feels...different. It's hard to explain. But we went ahead and mailed them some of our information after sending them an email that we might be interested. I also just spoke with them on the phone and I am working to get a few more things together for them. I was too nervous to ask how many other couples they are looking at. He did say that they are trying to get a number of profiles together to present to her on Wednesday.

I want to get excited, but for now I am in neutral. After all the excitement in February that wasn't real, I have to shift to neutral. I don't want to get excited only to hurt again. Please pray for us, but also pray for this birth mom. She is making an incredible decision right now in regards to her child. She needs all the prayers she can get. Pray that she can make the right decision, even if it isn't us. I know of several couples who received the same email I did and I forwarded it to a few more. They all deserve a child just as much as we do.

We also need some prayers for other reasons, but they are too personal to share. Please just pray that our minds can be in tune with what is best for us and our family.

Adoption Happens in Nature Too

Wow, things in the adoption world never cease to amaze me!

I think this video was my favorite. Thank you Jessica for sharing it with me.

Dinner last night

Josh is such a great husband to want to help in the kitchen. But from time to time he declares that HE wants to cook and he kicks me out of the kitchen. Isn't he just the most awesome hubby ever!
Last night was such a night. He made a Chinese Chicken recipe. It was really good. To check it out click HERE to go to my cooking blog.

View from our house

I can't say enough how much I love where we live. We live on a dead end road with only two other houses besides our own. The views are INCREDIBLE! I've wanted to take a picture, but I was waiting for things to green up.

Last night I noticed that fields were FULL of elk. They were everywhere! Too bad I didn't notice them until a loud truck made them take off or I probably could have gotten some better pictures. I know they are hard to see, but I just loved this picture, so I thought I would post it.

This & That

We are thinking about creating new picture collages for our adoption profile. What I really want to do is to do it digitally, but I'm not sure what the best program is. I use Scrapblog a little and I just started looking at Smilebox. But so far I can't find a layout that is a portrait size vs. a landscape size. Any suggestions? Oh, and free is always great!

I'm hoping that my car will only be out of commission for another week. Last time I called the body shop (I've called every other day!) they said the parts should be here today or tomorrow and then it will take 4-5 days to fix. Last night I drove for the first time since the "incident." It's easy to not have to drive when you have NO CAR to drive! But we had to borrow a vehicle for a few days so I can go somewhere tomorrow night. I was pretty skitterish. I thought EVERYTHING was a deer just getting ready to jump onto the road. Another great note on my car - I just paid an extra half a payment on it. Yep, I'm so determined to get it paid for I will make payments even when it isn't driveable.

Remember that secret I've talked about... we are getting another nephew.

We have a new favorite movie at our house "Bolt".
It is a must see!

Mountain Pictures

On the drive home I was playing around with my camera and I took all these pictures while Josh was driving down the interstate.
This must be the new winter sport. It looks like fun! I'm not sure what they are balanced on as the wind pulls them around on their parachutes, but I would guess snowboards or skis. Once again, I took this picture while we were driving and this plane was landing.

Okay, I lied. We were stopped at the gas station when I took this picture. I can't wait until spring starts to bloom at home.I know I posted pictures of Bridal Veil Falls a few weeks ago, but since my other pictures were turning out so well I took another picture.

This is the mountain behind our house. We call it the Sleeping Lady Mountain. At work we are having a photo contest. The pictures just need to have some form of our power equipment in them. I took these ones. I'm trying to decide which one to submit.

Full Moon

I took these pictures last week while the moon was full. The first picture I took with the regular setting on my camera. The next two pictures I took using the night setting.

Easter at my Grandpa's

We went to St. George for Easter Weekend. It was so nice down there and we had so much fun. It rained while we were there, but it was still better than the weather up home, because the wind didn't blow while we were down there and we didn't have to build a fire at night.

I love my grandparents so much and I am glad we were able to go see them for a few days.

What do we do while we are there? Mostly play the Nintendo, as in the original. Wow, games and consoles have gotten so much better over the years!
My grandparents live in a cute retirement community. But they have an over population so rabbits. I was able to get a picture of one of them.

Signs that it might be a bad day...

You hit a deer before the sun is even up.

Yep, that about sums up my morning. I was on my way to work today and hit a deer. Luckily my passenger and I were not injured and I was only 5 minutes late for work! My day did get a little better when I learned my deductible is only $100.

Josh thinks I should get a picture with the deer... isn't he soooo funny!