Thoughts

Alright, Nate and I obviously made the choice to adopt through foster care now how do we decorate their bedrooms. Difficult? Yes, how do you decorate a gender neutral bedroom, better yet 2 bedrooms. For this reason I am turning to my friends and family to give me ideas. Here is what I know. We are requesting children from the ages of 2-7, either boy or girl (we have no preference.) We are also hoping to also foster a sibling set, hence the two bedrooms. So far the larger bedroom is painted light blue, with a navy blue rug. The other room will be painted yellow with green walls. So where is the dilemma? Well we still need bedding and decor... any ideas?
Allie

Update

Nate and I are both very excited! We are meeting with a social worker from Hillside foster care next Friday. From there we will have to do a great deal of paperwork and "homework" since we will be doing a home version on the training. I will update more when we have a better timeline but Nate and I are on the way to expanding our family! Wish us luck :)
Allie

What I should have told you yesterday.

This was really not the way that I anticipated everyone hearing about this, but it is a start. As many of you know despite our best efforts I have been unable to get pregnant. The medication that I have been on in the past not only made me sick, but also made me very emotional and moody. In addition being on the fertility medication I became very stressed and hard on myself for the fact we could not conceive. Even more stressed for the fact that the Doctors did not know why. They had run so many tests and had I never told them there was a problem the test would have been no indication. The Doctor basically told me that they don't know what is causing my infertility but he believed that they could give me medication allows me to conceive. After the whole ordeal of being sick, and just plan awful mood wise we called it quits. Nate and I agreed that it was way too much to go through when there is another option. In our minds this is a wonderful option.
Nate and I were blessed to be Married and sealed in the Palmyra Temple, sealing our family together for time and all eternity. We both look forward to having our children be a part of that blessing. After much thought and discussion Nate and I have decided to turn our attention to adoption through foster care. Because in the eternal perspective, when these children are sealed to us they become part of our eternal family. These children will be no different than the children born into the covenant. They will be our family and we will love them every moment for it. Of course we still have to go through the home-study process this summer. The home-study will be a great deal of work but worth every minute of it.
Before we are ready to start any of this process we are going to have to talk with everyone in my family and in Nate's family. To ensure that they support us and will agree to show our children the same love regardless of their background. Most of all I just want to know that our children have the best that life can afford them and that process starts with their family.
This may be a great deal for some to understand, but the way we see it there are so many children in this world that go unloved. We want to do our part to make sure these children do know that they are loved.

Quick update

Alright an update is due and I suppose there is much to say but for now I will make it rather brief. Nate has a new job and started this week. He loves it there as he is constantly moving. I have my last day of being a nanny on Monday, I will be glad to be done with that. School starts back up on Tuesday, I am thrilled (honestly.) I am in my last year of my AA. Then hoping to keep going till I finish my Masters in Psychology or Counseling. Sage is still a pain, but we lover it for her. She must be over 60lb by now but one can never be sure. The rest of it I will share when the time is right I suppose!!!!
Allie

Children and Craziness

As most people know I am a full-time nanny and 99.9% of the time I love my job. However there are some days that I would give anything to go back to my office job. The good thing is being a nanny gives me time to get my homework done, most of the time. Speaking of homework, my semester ends next week and I get a much needed break till I start back. I wish I could say that I see the light at the end of the tunnel but once I am done with my AAS I want to go for me BS and then hopefully continue for my masters.... so as you can see I have a long road ahead of me. If it could some how all be over that would be great but I am enjoying it as it comes for now.
I have finished all my Christmas shopping and am now in the process of waiting for a few things to come in the mail and then send things out. I don't know if I will get Christmas cards done this year or not, I guess we shall wait and see. I will post pictures later of our Christmas tree is is of course decorated in GREEN!!!!! Sage is not sure of it yet and enjoys running circles around it, but that doesn't surprise us. Anyways I should get back to work!!!!
Allie

Another Update

Sage... you know Heavenly Father made them so cute so that we would put up with them. Bedtime came for Sagey and like every other night she did not want to go to bed. Well tonight she thought she could out run mommy and daddy and ran around the chair, behind the couch into the kitchen till she was caught. Here you can see just how cute she is!

Thanksgiving

So this week was crazy as many weekends are. Nate and I hosted thanksgiving at our home and lets just say things did not go how I expected. Nate and I were hoping that everyone would come over by noon, as I had made snacks and had hoped to have time to hang out and enjoy everything. I guess Nate and I remembered our childhood growing up were thanksgiving was an all day event. However the day was still successful we had great food and a few good laughs. I made Nate an Apple Pie for his birthday and we sang to him, despite his wish that we not. Then we went off to the movies. Nate and Phil saw BOLT. Steph and I saw TWILIGHT and FOUR CHRISTMAS'. Other than that my Dad has informed me that I do not update this as much as I need to, so I will attempt to be better. Here are a few pictures... I am of course behind the camera.