The Christian Crew

WE'RE MOVING!!! only about 28 miles away! But, we are moving in one month to a great home with 3,600 sq. feet of living space, 7 rooms, 2 living rooms, walkout basement and deck, ranch style and space enough for us to have a dedicated foster kids room! So very blessed that the Lord has let this happen and things have fallen in place. I really feel this will be so wonderful for us. Yes, we will miss the new friends we have made ( but we will come to this area often for doctors appointments, temple trips, shopping etc) but, we are excited to see who the Lord has put in our path this time! For right now, we are moving over slowly stuff each weekend and in between we are getting stuff ready for FC. Can't wait to share more exciting news soon! Happy Leap Day! *Our family at the ice castles in Silverthorne!

Just a couple of quick pics from our Valentine's Shoot. Much more to come! Man, I'm so blessed by these 3 crazy monkeys!

Russ , is a fantastic writer, great musician and all around funny man! He is also an adoptive father who BLOGS/WRITES about it. It easy to see his humor and candor and openness. Just check out his blog and sit a spell and read some of his funny stories too. I have tons of childhood memories of him and his siblings and parents. I will have to share a few sometime soon. All are fun or funny or taught me something pretty awesome! Rock on Russ, You truly are a SUPER DAD!

Both my husband and our sweet boy were brought into their families through the miracle of adoption! This was taken just moments before we had Gavin's finalization! As I saw my husband holding and playing with Gavin, I couldn't help but think of how unique and special this is, not only for us but, for him. His parents also had an experience like this. They probably choked up when the judge said his/her final words as well. It's surreal and such a miracle! Jessica and Dustin- thanks in not even close to enough. Having Gavin join our little family is our pleasure, honor and joy! We will do everything in our power to be worthy of this little man and give him everything and most importantly a solid upbringing founded in Love and Righteousness! We will do our very best to provide and nurture all our sweet children into loving, honest, well-rounded and talented young adults! I imagine that Brandon's birth mother hoped and prayed for these same things for his life! I hope she i...

YAY! We are preparing for a new adventure into the world of foster parenting !!! I know some of the readers are thinking I'm nuts and " i could never do that, it seems so hard" But, we are not nuts and it will be hard. Good things in life normally are challenging! If you didn't know our story here's some details... Before we ever had children we knew and felt strongly that we would one day be foster parents. less than 2 months after that feeling, we adopted Brielle. 18 months later, I brought Aria into the family! When we moved to CO, Aria was almost 3 and we put our papers in with LDSFS again and felt like we needed to keep the Foster Care option open. We took the classes October 2010 we finished our CPR class last april 2011 on the 7th and on the 8th of April , Jessica made her first contact with us. 8 weeks later Gavin was born & welcomed to the family! Both adoptions have blessed us with VERY OPEN contact on all sides! We love the relationships we have...

here's some articles about the adoption tax credit changes and FEB. 13th ... http://www.irs.gov/ individuals/article/0,,id= 231663,00.html http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/ article/0,,id=242932,00.html http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/ article/0,,id=236174,00.html http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs- pdf/i8839.pdf http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs- prior/f8839--2010.pdf Also check this flier out!( below) Join with other families made through adoption and write/email your congressman! http://www.nacac.org/ taxcredit/awarenessday.pdf