My New Life

Nie

So like I said, I am new to this blogging thing, but check out this video (I think I accidently put it on a new post) She is awesome, hope I can become the amazing woman she is! Night all

Frustrations

So the past month or so, I have been super stressed with school and such that I kind of put working on our adoption papers off a bit. Well school finally ended and Norm and I FINALLY got our "dear birthparent" letter written and sent in to LDS family services. (We're STILL waiting on our background checks to come in!) Lisa, the very nice and patient woman who I talk to ALL the time at LDS family services said they would call as soon as everyone in the office finished reading the letter (the letters are read by all the employees before they are posted). Well its been a week and no call. We still have to schedule our homestudy AND one more set of interviews. So yesterday morning, I woke up feeling very down. I honestly woke up and just started crying thinking how slow this is all going and how much I want a baby of our own. There are days where I just ache to hold my own child. Yesterday was one of those days. However, I came across a blog of an old friend of mine that I'd lost contact with. Apparently she and her husband are trying to have a baby too. They've been trying for two years. I realized that although sometimes when all my friends are having kids and becoming moms, and it seems as though I am soo far behind everyone, I am not alone. I also realized that Heavenly Father never leaves any of His children comfort less and that in His time I will have my precious baby. I just hope it is sooner than later! LOL

Christmas 2009

Norm and I spent Christmas with the Smith clan! Nathan and Lynsie and their kiddos came down, and as always we had such a fun time with them. Here are just a few pics of all the kids. It's always a crazy house when we all get together, but we had so much fun

Thanksgiving

for Thanksgiving this year, we got to go to Las Vegas for Norm's grandmas 80th birthday party. It was so much fun. Sadly, my stupid memory card messed up during the trip, so I don't have any pictures. But we got to spend lots of time with all of the Las Vegas Hollingsworth's, most importantly see Grandma and Grandpa H. The day after thanksgiving, Norms cousin Abbie was baptised so we went to that and then went and did Black Friday shopping whoo hoo!! That night we went out to the strip and walked around for a few hours (lots of crazies out late at night by the way). But Vegas lit up at night is beautiful! It was a fast trip, but very fun.

First Post

Wow, this is kinda exciting. I'm finally a blogger. We'll see how well this goes...the main purpose of this blog is so that potential birth parents can see what we are like and what our lives are like. I think I'll do a few posts and catch everyone up on what we've been up to these last few months