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, June 18, 2012

No More Bumps

They have been building houses like crazy in our neighborhood so our street looks like a construction zone right now. Of course our boys love it because they get to see lots of trucks right now and that has been their new obsession lately. 

Our carpet has been needed to be stretched for some time now. We just aren't usually ones that hire people to do stuff. We (Daniel) likes to figure it out himself and fix it. We have only hired one repair guy (to replace the fan on our refrigerator) since living in our house and we have lived here for over 5 years now. 

A few days ago I noticed that they were installing carpet in one of the houses being built and told Daniel we should just go over and ask him if he could fix our carpet. So Daniel looked up a few Spanish words and walked over there after they were done installing the carpet. He agreed to come look at it and he said he would fix it for us. It took him just over an hour but it looks amazing now! I should have taken before pictures. He was a super nice guy and we decided to pay him a little extra than he asked for since we found out he has 3 kids at home and he was missing time with them to help us out. He even gave us his phone number in case we wanted anything else done in our house (he knows people). That is a great person to know!
 Right to the left of where the ottoman is was where the biggest bump was. It was driving me crazy! So glad it's gone!
 Down the hallway. There used to be 2 bumps here. 
Our living room looks huge with no furniture in it.