Here we are....

     
        warning this is long! :)


 I am writing this for myself if people read it great! But this is more so that I can look back and remember!

         So through a series of Drs appointments having our own biological children is out of the question for Steve and I. God has chosen in his sovereignty to close the womb.  God was gracious to put some amazing Doctors in our path! One actually refunded our co pay because there was no way he could help and he didn't want to take our money?? 

                           What!?!

That was pretty cool!!

        So in December we had our final appt and it was clear that we are not going to have children.  That was the Friday of Steve's family Christmas party I was a crying mess and we had a party to go to and Steve loving suggested that we really needed to talk this out but we also had the Holiday's to celebrate and Tristen's birthday so we made a deal to revisit this after the New Year!  Which as I write this I am shocked I agreed to that but I did! So Christmas came and went and all the other family shin digs and New Years and a nice relaxing week with my hubby!

                                              Who wouldn't want to be in this family!?!?!

He is 9!

       After New Years one night my friend Erin came over and we were just hanging out talking and she asked whatever happened to fostering to adopted? Something we had previously talked about but for what ever reason we put it aside. After talking about it with her it kind of got us talking about it but there were still a lot of unknowns and all that! So the idea was there hanging around....  Then a few nights later on Twitter we found out that Steve's brother and wife were expecting again. That was hard for both of us but it was what had us really question what we were waiting on we knew we wanted to adopt through the foster program of our state.

        Then on January 21st I was hanging with my crafty friends at craft night and my friend Kerri who has adopted told me that her church was hosting fostering classes and to check it out!  So a few days later I checked in to it and they had already started and we were heading out of town so I emailed to find out if they were going to do the classes again. A day or so later we left town to visit family in Michigan and when we landed and I turned my phone and  had a email back and they said we could join the classes! So we attended ten weeks of classes! 


                                                   

                                                                     Shoveling in Michigan!


                                                

                                                     Part of our home study

                                        Where we are now.....

We have all of our paper work done and turned in! As far as we know we are done with home visits. We have the room ready! Now we will just wait for our approval letter and a call for a little girl! YAY!!!!

  
                                                                                
                                                        

For better or for worse....

Our wedding day!

Hmm... what does the "worse" mean? We always think about the "better"...vacations.... how many kids will we have? Will we live in this house for ever? Will we move to another state?

Do you worry about the worse??.... Defiantly not when we say "for worse" on Our Wedding day, a day we promise to love and cherish each other, in sickness and health and better or worse...

Our first year of marriage was everything I thought it would be! I love my hubby and I love living life with him! He is awesome! I am pretty sure the first year was more of an adjustment for him than me! It was a good year! Last year we went to dinner and a movie on our Anniversary! Than a trip to G'burg a couple weeks later! It was a blast!!

Photo booth at movies!
Sooo.... on to the second year!! This is where the "worse" part comes in! Shortly after our trip to G'burg, by short I mean 4 days! Our basement flooded with raw sewage!.... Which makes me think family Christmas vacation.....you know the sh*tters full...anyway we thought that maybe we had fixed the problem .....

but....

Our back yard being dug up!

We didn't. So just 6 days shy of our two year wedding Anniversary it happened again! Thankfully my in laws live close and LOVE having us around so we were able to stay there till all the details of what needed to be done were worked out! Luckily my husband loves Jesus and me and I love Jesus and him so this "for worse" part was not that bad! We just prayed and continued to communicate how we were really handling this "worse" and you know what.... what doesn't kill you will make you stronger! God worked the details of this in such a cool way! Blessing upon blessing flowed down!! We are so thankful!! ....So we will take the summer and maybe fall off from hosting parties but we can flush the toilet! :-)


Niki