Update

Right after we got licensed through LDS Family Services again,
I debated whether or not
to start a blog that would be linked to our profile.
I already post regularly on my other blog
and I only wanted to start this one
if I was committed to keeping it updated.

Ha,
I failed!

Oh well. Sporadic updates may just have to do.

I think
for me
there's just too many emotions associated with this blog.
Like wanting our family to grow so badly
but feeling like we have no control,
and
feeling so vulnerable and awkward and sometimes silly
to put our family out there as a
"Hey, look at us!
We are such a cool family, don't you wanna pick us?"
thing
but not really knowing how we come across to someone.

This adoption journey is just a rollercoaster of emotions
for everyone involved,
isn't it?

We feel frustrated.
We have hope.
We wonder.
We feel peace.

Back and forth
and all around
at the same time.

Yet, we put our trust in a loving Heavenly Father
through it all.

I am so grateful that adoption is an option for our family
and that there are birthparents out there who consider it
and feel their own waves of emotion
and make a decision. 


On to the update of our last two months . . .

Let's see,

Kacin experimenting in the kitchen

with his very own cookie recipe.

 

My first 5K . . .

 

 

Our new basketball hoop. . .

Our trip to Texas to visit my little sister, her husband, and two boys. . .

 

 

 

Soaked after a ride at Six Flags . . .

Oklahoma Mountains . . .

 

A date with Eric . . .

 

Easter . . .

 

The dollar inside each Golden egg . . .

 

And a beautiful Tulip Festival . . .