Welcome

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!

Friday, October 10, 2008

26 - Oh My!

So last Saturday I turned the big 2-6. I wasn't exactly excited about my birthday for several reasons that I won't get into. Daniel and I didn't really have any plans other than go shopping and out to eat until Jeremy called. Emily and Jeremy were going to be coming to our area of town and wanted to know if we would like to tag along. So we headed out to a small city to go to a farmer's market. Some of the fruit there smelled so good and the pumpkins were huge.




After we left there, we decided to head over to a nearby state park. Well I obviously wasn't thinking and had worn flip flops. I didn't know we were going to be hiking! The weather wasn't too bad and it was really beautiful there. We decided to hike down to the lake and just hang out. Molly had fun throwing rocks into the lake while the boys found a rock to go climb on. Us girls decided to join in on the fun with the boys and relaxed on top of a big rock. We got a lot of really good pictures of all of us.















Later on our hike back, I tripped over a rock with my left foot and I put my right foot out to stop my fall and ended up tearing off a piece of my skin on my big toe. Luckily it didn't hurt too bad at all at the time and so getting back up to the top wasn't too bad except for worrying that the blood was going to get on my jeans. I had to make sure not too look at it or else I might have passed out. (I don't do too well with blood) We cleaned it off with a baby wipe and then put a band-aid on it.
Everyone decided that I got to pick where we ate for dinner. I wasn't too hungry at the time because we had just had sonic earlier that day for a late lunch and I had subway before we left. I decided that I wanted to go to the Olive Garden since I LOVE their salad and breadsticks. And of course....it was so good.