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!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Official Nerd-dom

According to Laura I can officially call myself a nerd now. I guess I have been incorrectly labeling myself a nerd for the past 10-20 something years. Why am I now truly an official nerd? Well, I solved my Christmas present. I asked for a Rubik's cube or something to do at work when I need a few minutes break here and there.

Well, I found out rather quickly how frustrating it really could be, so I haven't taken it to work yet. I'd manage to get a decent portion done in an evening at the dinner table, but inevitably, either Laura would want a turn or I would get frustrated and try something stupid and move things back to square one, complete chaos. Anyway, there is a big benefit to having church at 8:30am now instead of 1:30 like it used to be. I have all day to do stuff. Here's the fruits of my work. It took me about an hour or so.




While I was digging the whole "my-sundays-aren't-over-by-the-time-I-get-home-from-church" mood, Laura and I went ahead and put in some more lights in our front yard. It wasn't as nice of weather as yesterday (in the 30-40's today and I was in shorts yesterday) but I'm guessing it will be nicer than tomorrow. Here's the end result of the work on our humble abode.