Family Fun!

This past week and weekend we were able to spend lots of time with our families. Andrew was able to go fishing with 2 of my brothers and my dad. They went snowmobiling while they were fishing too. They had a good time. Andrew caught a pretty nice fish.

Andrew and I were also able to get in some ice fishing. We had a fun day together!

Then we were able to go to Pinedale and spend the day with the Kaiser's for Mack's blessing. We had such a great time seeing everyone, especially the new baby. He is a doll! We enjoyed some dancing from Hannah and the boys were running around like crazy, but it was fun. We had some good food and lots of good conversation.

Doesn't he look like a natural. He is going to be such a wonderful father. I can't wait to see him hold our sweet baby in his arms. Speaking of that our home study went really well. When I had called to set up the appointment the social worker told us that he would probably be in our home for 3-4 hours, he would interview us together and then seperately and then walk through the house. He got here at 1:00 and talked to us together for 45 min. then we walked through the house and he left. He was here for a little over an hour. He said that he felt good and didn't need to know anything else and that he thought we were a very deserving couple of a baby. So that was a huge relief. I was so stinkin nervous before he got there and then it turned out to be a breeze. I also just finished our profile to send to the adoption agency. That profile has been such a pain. It was just not working for me at first then my computer thought it should say there was no more RAM left so I had to get an external hard drive and the list could go on and on with what happened with that darn profile but Andrew and I finished it last night. I just have to go get it printed and bound and then we are set. Can't wait!!!

Wish us Luck.....

....because tomorrow is our home study. This is when a social worker comes into our home and inspects it to make sure it is a good environment for a baby to be in, then he will sit us down and interview us together and seperately. I am extremely nervous. I never thought I would have someone come into my home to interview me to get a baby. With all the nerves and feeling so overwhelmed I know that it will all be worth it in the end when we get to hold our baby in our arms!

A fun saying that I saw on pinterest (I love pinterest) is: "From the moment they placed you in my arms you snuggled right into my heart!" What do you think? I really like it and I think I will make a sign to put in the nursery.

Well I have some more cleaning to do before tomorrow so I will post again after our home study. Wish us LUCK!!!

A weight has been lifted....

So about 8 months ago Andrew and I really wanted to get a nice truck to be able to haul our boat and camper (when we got one), we started the search for a older Dodge Cummins with low miles. We found the one we wanted after 2 months of searching 2005 Dodge Cummins 61,000 miles and so we ended up getting it. At first I wasn't too excited because I really just like to drive my little car not this huge truck, it was kind of intimidating driving such a huge vehicle. BUT after awhile I got attached, as I always do to things, and I love this truck it really is such a great truck, fun to drive, fast and reliable. So I was happy!
Well in December when we decided to start the adoption process we knew that we would have to sell the truck to pay for the adoption, because there was no way we could afford the truck and the adoption. We put the truck on KSL and we waited and waited. We thought it would sell really quick, but it didn't and of course that put a huge stress on Andrew and I because we knew we couldn't send in our paper work for the adoption until we had the money in our account. So we have been putting off sending in our paper work until the truck sold. We finally got a buyer and the truck is officially gone. Andrew and I have had such a huge weight lifted off of our shoulders, we have confirmation after confirmation that adoption is what we need to do. We knew that the truck would sell when it was supposed to and it did. We are so grateful for the gospel in our lives and the comfort that we receive from Heavenly Father on a daily basis. This process of adoption hasn't been easy and we know it won't get any easier but knowing that we have a loving Heavenly Father guiding us we know we will be able to get through it and hold our baby girl in our arms soon!