6 going on16!

We celebrated Dalin's birthday earlier this month. Another cause for having family over to eat chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. Our Dalin is a character. His vocabulary is off the charts, with smart alecky lines we call "Dalin liners". They come out of the blue and either make a stop in our tracks, laught hysterically, or put him in his room for some needed contemplation. He is generally a happy kid, with bouts of being so goal oriented that there is no tolerance for other peoples flaws or mistakes. He loves learning to read, singing, riding his 2-wheeler, coloring, and being and doing anything with his brother. If I can count on anyone to help me and leave with a responsibility to get something done...it's him! I can't believe he's 6 years old. After 6 1/2 weeks in the intensive care nursery after being born 2 months early, his life is going quickly in my eyes. We love him dearly!

Sweet Time

Last night my wonderful husband and I were finally able to schedule a visit to the Temple. It's been a long time since we've been able to attend for various scheduling issues, but we had a moment and ran with it. My great parents took the boys over night and had their time. Dalin kept saying to me in a rather teasing tone that he and Logan were going to have more fun then Christian and I. Dalin reminded me of the traditions that my parents have started when they get to spend the night, there's usually a dinner out, then a stop at the store for doughnuts, my dad pops popcorn with a huge scene of events too difficult to explain but let's just say it involves singing and pounding spoons on the kitchen counter, then they get into PJ's and watch a movie and stay up as late as they want or can stand. Now that I think about it and see it in writing, it does sound like a ton of fun! But I wouldn't change a thing as to what I was able to do with my eternal husband.
As I sat in the room waiting for the session to start I began to cry thinking of my wonderful grandma who bought Christian and I our temple clothes as a wedding gift. Then I thought of the woman I was going through for and felt her strong spirit. I needed a kleenex already and I had been in the room less then 5 minutes! I love my life!

We are approved!

It's official, we received notice by LDS Family Services that we are now approved as prospective adoptive parents! It's been a long road and tons and tons of paperwork and getting to know each other as husband and wife with all the questions about each other...and it's done. So now we wait! But we work hard to network with any and everyone we know to spread the word about our endeavor to adopt. So please help us by keeping your eyes and ears open and to also tell 2 friends and they'll tell 2 friends and so on and so on.........! We made a link in the top right corner under the family picture which will take you and possibly a potential birth mom directly to our adoption profile through LDS Family Services. We are hoping to add a baby girl to our family. Thanks so much for all your help and please keep us in your prayers.

A new beginning

Today we created a family blog site without too much wailing and gnashing of teeth. It is amazing how many design choices are available to us, and we are now mildly surprised that we are unable to find a stock witty introduction that we can simply cut and paste onto our family blog. Christian is convinced that he will now have to spend a fortnight tracking down in our family computer the adware and spyware that can accompany purportedly "free" software. Lisa is equally convinced that Christian was looking for an excuse to use the word "fortnight." Lisa also points out that when there is a posting in the "third person" voice, it is Christian doing the typing. "Hey, I am figuring out this blog site stuff, so I am invoking the 'I control the keyboard' privilege.' " O.K., privilege relinquished...