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!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Shopping, Shopping and More Shopping

On Saturday we decided to venture out to an outlet mall that we've been saying we've been wanting to go for years now. When we first got there, we thought it was tax free weekend because there was a line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot. Thankfully it wasn't this past weekend and it wasn't too bad once we got into the lot. 
 Talon is so cute but we've decided that Daniel and I can't go shopping together if we have him with us. He is in this stage now where he wants whoever doesn't have him and within seconds. He will end up screaming either "mommy" or "daddy" at the top of his lungs. But if we each take a kid, he is an angel! Also, if just one of us is out with the boys, he is fine then too. Go figure! 
 So what we figured works best is to go to different stores and then meet up later. That way Daniel can go shopping for himself and I can go shopping for myself and the boys. We ended up spending 5 hours shopping!!! I still can't believe we shopped for that long and both of the kids did amazing. It's been a LONG time since I had been shopping for myself and so I enjoyed every minute of it and got some great stuff. I also got a ton of clothes for the boys and they are almost all set until the end of next summer. All they need now are a few more long sleeve shirts and we are all set. 
Now I'm in the process of going through the entire house and getting rid of lots of stuff and organizing everything. I usually do this several times a year and I love it. I hate clutter and I love to organize! I actually enjoy getting rid of stuff while Daniel doesn't at all so we make a good match that way (: