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!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Apartment Searching

No we are not moving. Our friends, Deanna and Mark came down to visit us over their Spring Break and to look for places to live. They are moving to the area at the beginning of June and I cannot wait. It will be like old times having Deanna live close to me again except now we are both married.

We spent our days looking at a ton of apartments. Mark doesn't know yet where he is going to school yet...so we had to look at a variety of different places since they don't know for sure where he will be attending school.


This is Deanna and I in 2005 in Florida (man we were tan)


This is us just recently

While they were here, we headed over to Lowes to look at some plants. I wanted to get some ideas of different plants to put in our front yard. I decided while we were here to go ahead and pick up some mulch.

It took both of us to push this cart and we were struggling even with both of us doing it.

After we bought the mulch, we headed home and ate some delicious dinner. Then we decided to go ahead and lay down the mulch. Only problem was that it was getting dark outside. So Deanna and I put on a head lamp so we could see a little bit better. I have to say that we did a pretty good job seeing that we did the whole thing pretty much in the dark.

A few days later, after Deanna and Mark left, we went back to Lowes and bought some flowers and a red maple tree for the backyard.

Our yard before
Click on the picture to make it bigger to see the flowers we put in...

Here is our small and only tree in the backyard. It's a red maple but hopefully one day it will look like this one...