Sweet Land of Liberty

As you can see I am learning a little everyday about blogging. All on my own, no calls to anyone I have given my blog a face lift. As some of you know my amazing little brother is serving in Iraq for a second tour. I found out from my parents recently that he went when he did not have too. His obligation to the Army had been met when the deployment call came in. He did not want to abandon his unit just in time to go to war. I am awed by his desire to change the face of the Middle East. He has said before that the majority of the people in Iraq are grateful for the US presence there and truly desire freedom. Thank you Michael for serving! I love you

Nine Months

Around the first of the year 2007 I was feeling like it was time to do something about the size of our family. We have been working on this that traditional way for 10 years with limited success. In 10 years I had managed to get pregnant twice losing our first sweet daughter Addison at 21 weeks gestation. The second pregnancy resulted in what we refer to as the blond beast. We love the beast a lot. We decided to review our thoughts about adoption. We had twice started the adoption plan with family services, twice found out we were pregnant. I sort if thought this was our magic pill if you will. I attended an orientation at LDS Family Services in February along with my pal Julie. By the end of April we paid our retainer to get our Home Study started. Two weeks later we went to our first adoption class where they told us they only had a 10% placement rate, that only one couple out of the 10 in our paticular class would receive a baby. AAGH!!!!!!!!! What a disappointment. Never the less we persevered and continued the process. Several months later October 2007 we were still not approved at Family Services. I cannot believe the paper work they have required. We decided to apply with a new agency. I had all the paper work filled out in like one hour for the new agency. We sent the application along with a another retainer on October 18, 2007. They began showing our profile immediately. We got the call December 29 to go get our baby girl. On January 2, 2008 we had our little girl home. It was kind of ironic to me that our little girl took 9 months from our initial application for adoption. We feel very blessed. And the blond beast is starting to appreciate the stinky beast. We are still nervous as this adoption is not final yet. We have to wait until July to apply for placement and we have already had some bumps. So far all is well!

duh!

So those that know me know that I am not especially savvy in the technology department. This being said I have logged into this blog twice successfully, both times having to call iwi to have her tell me the name of my blog and password. I talked to my friend Julie a few minutes ago to find out how to add her to my friends list. She talked me through adding her, of course it took two times. Then she added me to her blog list and laughed out loud as she viewed my blog. Now, I love Julie and truly my blog is laughable but I intend to remedy this! I spent the next several minutes reading through her blogs and I kind of understand what this is all about. I am excited to get started!!

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My husband's favorite sister set this up for me so you can all keep tabs on our family. Hopefully I'll have time to update it regularly!