Come have a look...and let me tell you a secret!

We wanted to invite anyone and everyone who wants to, to visit our adoption profile that has finally been posted online with our agency, LDS Family Services. We are pretty dang excited that it is up and running, since now that means anyone in the entire country can consider us! We now have our paper profile circulating all throughout the state of Utah AND this internet profile which has the potential of circulating nationally! This also means we are all done with this phase in the process and can just breath a sigh of relief and WAIT! We got an email from our case-worker last week that said we had been getting lots of action on our profile and that she would be sure to contact us if anything more serious arises! So, it's good news all around and we are just so excited! We hope that all of you will share our link with anyone you know who might be considering adoption as an option! Thanks so much!

And pssst...can I share a little secret?! I know this is incredibly cheesy, but a few nights ago, when I was home alone, I went upstairs and sat on the floor in the baby room. We had just purchased this swing (one of my favorite things we have found up to this point) and after staring at it and the other baby items in the room, I reached over and turned the swing on. I just sat there watching the swing go, the sweet music playing, the mobile turning, and let myself daydream of our little baby fast asleep. I kept thinking, I can't believe, can't even begin to fathom that someday soon we will actually have a child -- OUR child! After dreaming and wishing and hoping for this to come after all these years of complete frustration, the reality of that swing moving back and forth in our BABY room made the reality of having a child so much closer. And I also realized how much my emotions have changed in the last few months. No longer are we bogged down with that overhanging cloud of frustration and disappointment. Now there is this amazing hope and excitement in the air, all around our home, and filling up our hearts! And I love Chris in so many new ways as we get ready for this miracle to come into our lives, as we work on the baby room together and pick up little baby items here and there together. This is OUR dream, and it's so close, and it makes me love Chris so much more! So, cheesy as it is, I'm gonna keep turning on this swing, keep holding up the onsies, keep buying the bottles, and keep hammering in the nails in the baby room because it is making our dream become a reality -- a reality that feels closer than it ever has before!