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We set up our adoption blog so you can get to know our family a little better. I started blogging back in 2007 and have kept up with it over the years. At the end of every year, we print off our blog for that year and give it to Daniel's mom for her Christmas present. She keeps all of her children's yearly journals in a notebook that we will get back one day to pass down to our kids. I try to keep it up to date as much as I can.


When we decided to start the adoption process, I decided to make an identical blog for birth mothers to read. Everything that I write about my family on our personal blog, I copy it over to my adoption blog. I understand that an adoption profile only gives limited information about us and we want you to have the opportunity to really get to know who we are and what we like to do as a family. Our adoption blog will show you who we were even before we adopted our boys. Feel free to read as much as you want or click on the links up above!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Go U.S.A.

Daniel and I have been staying up late every night this past week watching the Olympics. We mostly have just been watching Michael Phelps and gymnastics. We are both in awe that Phelps has raced 8 races and has won a gold metal in every race with 7 of those being world records. We have of course watched every one of his races and this is something that I will always remember.
And of course I have been watching the men's and women's gymnastics. I think that Shawn Johnson is the cutest thing ever. Part of me wanted her to win gold at the beginning for best in all around instead of Nastia Liukin just because of that. But then I got thinking and decided that I would be ok with Nastia winning gold too because she's from Dallas and she's older so Shawn still has the next Olympics for sure. So I'm glad that we got a gold and silver and beat China. I am not the biggest China fan right now when it comes to gymnastics. The fact that 3 of their girls are under the age of 16 performing and somehow managing on getting a better score than they deserved has not made me a fan. I think during some of the Chinese performances, the judges must have all blink at the exact same time and so they didn't see all the mistakes she made. Anyways this just makes me mad! But we did end up beating them and getting what we deserved.

Two of the guys on the men's gymnastics team, Raj Bhavsar and Jonathon Horton have trained at Cypress Academy. This was really neat to me because it is right down the street from my house that I grew up in and it is where I took gymnastics when I was little.
Tomorrow starts the gymnastics individual events. I can't wait!
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