HAPPY EASTER!

We wanted to thank everyone for their love and support with our Adoption journey. It is so nice to know that we have great friends and family all over the country who are willing to help us out. Thank you so much for your kind words and efforts to spread the word for us! Thanks:)

HAPPY EASTER

I love this time of year! I love all of the new life around us from the green grass, blooming flowers and trees, to new baby lambs & baby calves. It makes me happy to see the sunshine and blue skies again as well as the longer warmer days. This time of year always makes me excited to be out planting and working in my yard and garden. I also start counting down to our first hike and camp trip.  

Most of all though, I love this time of year to reflect on the blessings that we have through the life of the Savior Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful that because of his Atonement and Resurrection I can be with my loved ones. I'm grateful for this Easter Sunday to think about him and to remember the things that he wants me to be an do. I love the hope that the Savior brings into our lives, that there is always a way through him. Our life and happiness is built around the life of our Savior and his gospel and I know that through him is where we find our greatest joys.

Happy Easter

I remember Elder Holland giving this talk in Conference and it touched me so much. It made me think about the Atonement in such a different way and it still brings tears to my eyes when I hear him talk about the Saviors last days.

Read the whole article HERE.

OUR EASTER CELEBRATIONS

We ate all our meals today with some of our best pals. We started our day with a delish Brunch at John & Halsey's house with all the fixings you can imagine. Later for dinner we headed over to the Lennon's for a huge Easter dinner. I basically ate until my eyes popped out of my head, it was wonderful! I'm so grateful that we have good friends who take care of us even though the favor is RARELY returned.

 The Easter Bunny popped by our house and dropped off some of our favorite Easter treats! 

I love candy in all it's many forms and flavors but I especially love it when it is sold in pastel colors:)

'TILL NEXT EASTER

Our Adoption Blog

Many of you know (if you didn't know...now you do) that Brock and I were approved for adoption through LDS Family Services last spring. We are super excited to adopt and pray that we can piece our family together through adoption.

We are ready to take on a baby anytime, unfortunately it is not up to us. The Birth parents are the ones who study adoptive couples and then ultimately pick the placement of their infant. We have a profile on LDS Family services which is a great place for birth parents to browse couples but unfortunately it is somewhat limiting on what you can post about yourself.

Okay, so here's my point...we created an Adoption Blog! We felt it would create a better environment for people to learn more about us. It has been a lot of work and really time consuming, but it's finally done. I'm not 100% in love with it but it will do for now. Please take a peek and feel free to add our button (link) to your blog, facebook page or wherever  else you think that it would get some traffic. Adoption placement usually comes from "word of mouth" and through acquaintances, so we could use everyone's help. Also, the birth parents do not have to be LDS to work with us. Please keep us in mind if you ever know of a couple looking into adoption.
Here are our links:
http://kimandbrockadoption.blogspot.com/
https://www.itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/24348390/ourMessage.jsf

If you want.....

.....Grab this picture and add it to your blog with our link to our Adoption blog.
(you should be able to resize it, I don't know why mine in my side bar on this blog is so big. The one on my other blog isn't so huge).

Thanks again for all your help!

HOLY COW...8?

We just celebrated our 8th (holy cow) Wedding Anniversary! I seriously cannot believe it's been 8 YEARS already...craziness!

                                         
Wedding Day Highlights:
-Snow on our SPRING wedding.
-Starving and talking about food on the way to the Temple.
-Stoping at McDonald's to get some food so we could survive the day.
-Getting to the Temple late.
-Both our Mom's frantic faces when we finally arrived.
-Spending time talking in the elevator in the Temple and then realizing we had no idea where they told us to go.
-Getting lost in the Temple together.
-Freezing outside for pictures.
-Being late for pictures at the reception.
-Having that "awkward talk" with my mom & sister.
-Brock having his "awkward talk" with his mom.
-My cake getting knocked over.
-Casey driving us to our hidden car.
-Everyone being upset that we hid our car.

Okay so here are some of the top highlights over the last 8 years:

-Kim learning how to cook full meals for two people.
-Going to college together.
-Taking a Chemistry Class together (not recomended).
-Living in CHICAGO for a summer.
-Learning that you have to mix hot water in with Jell-o for it to set up right.
-Brock teaching Kim how to drive a clutch.
-Buying our first car Jeep together.
-Finding out that liquid dish soap doesn't work like dishwasher liquid soap does in a dishwasher.
-Vacationing like "grown ups".
-Brock Graduating from school & starting his career.
-Buying our first home and then buying our second home 9 months later.
-Learning how to build/manage a yard together: assembling a sprinkling system, building a fence, planting & re-planting trees and planting a garden.
-Living off of $500 a month while going to school. (I still don't know how that worked).
-Making lasting frienships.
-Moving to Montana
-Kai, Boog & Brutus
-Christmas together
-Brock buying a "grown up truck".
-Breakfast at 3:00 am at some random diner "just cuz".
-Sleeping in the back of our Jeep.
-Staying up late and eating junk food because we can.

There are many more hightlights but those are just of the few things that come to mind! We look forward to many more crazy and fun years to come:)

* We didn't do much on our Anniversary because it was a Sunday and I was out of town but Brock surprised me with some pretty flowers. He also finished up some projects around the yard and house for us!