Best.News.EVER!

Heath and I feel very blessed to be able to announce that we have been chosen by an amazing young woman to become parents. Beckie contacted us last week and we've been able to get to know her better through e-mail. We know that Heavenly Father has had his hand in this.

From the very beginning of our journey to become parents we felt like Heavenly Father has guided us to adoption.  From our conversations with Beckie we can see that Heavenly Father helped her find our profile from the many available.  It is clear now that God has more in store for us then we would be able to see or do on our own.  There are people we are supposed to meet and things we are supposed to do to enrich our lives and the lives of others if we are open to the promptings of the Spirit. We feel that Beckie is one of those people, and we are so glad we "met" her. She is early on in her pregnancy so we hope our many friends and family could send prayers her way. Prayers that she can have a safe pregnancy, prayers that she can be comforted when times are hard, and prayers she can accomplish the many things she needs to do each day. Our hearts are just over filled right now, and we feel so grateful to be able to add Beckie to our family. Our Beckie as we affectionally call her. We're so grateful for the Lord's hand in our lives.  His plan was so much sweeter than the one we ever had.

We just wanted to thank you all for the many thoughts and prayers that have been coming our way since we announced our decision to adopt. They have been felt, and they are greatly appreciated. Please continue to send them on Beckie's behalf.

Love,
Heath and Adrienne

I got in a fight with a vacuum...

and lost. In my 28 years, I've never had a broken bone......until my foot decided to pick a fight with an inanimate object. I was walking by, just minding my own business, when my foot (seemingly) involuntary reached out and kicked the vacuum cleaner....and kicked it hard. I'm pretty accident prone, and have stubbed my toes a lot, but when the pain didn't go away I knew something was wrong. Then the bruising showed up and it still hurt to walk on it. I knew it was broken. But there isn't much doctors can do for a broken toe so I decided to tough it out. But on Saturday I had two friends-who are doctors-tell me to go in and get it checked out. So I did. It was indeed broken. I got fitted with a sweet ortho shoe, got physical proof of my first broken bone (an x-ray), and was sent on my way. Now I just need to cook up a better story than "I kicked my vacuum". :)

Now it's time for gross pictures!

This is from Friday-the day it happened-notice the bruising by my 5th toe.

This is from Saturday-the bruising is worse.

And this is my sweet ortho shoe I got fitted with. 4-6 weeks and I should be all healed.