Our first appointment

Tyler and I are so excited for this week because we have our first official, sit-down visit with LDS Family Services! Yea!! This is step number two on our road to adoption. I am so anxious to sit down with the counselor and ask him all my questions. I have decided that during the week I need to write down the questions that pop up, or I will forget when we get to our interview! And I want to make sure I get all my questions answered!
Tonight we had my nieces birthday party, and that was lots of fun. Plenty of family, good food and fun to be had. I absolutely love and thrive on time spent with my husband and family, so it was a great night. I made her a crocheted stuffed panda, and she loved it. I am making a couple bears for some baby showers, so I will have to post pictures. I want to start making them to sell to people, I think that would be fun. I love doing crafty, artistic type stuff, and if people would pay me too, that would be way awesome!
Next week Tyler is going on a ride-along with a member of our bishopric who works for the Richland police department. Apparently any citizen can go on one, so take advantage of that! Ha ha, maybe not. Tyler is going on this ride-along because he is applying to several local police departments, and this will give him a kind of preview of what he would be doing. I am so psyched for him!
This week is turning out to be one of those weeks where you think you don't have much going on, then you turn around, and every day is jam packed. But, this is good. One of my goals for 2011 is to just do more, be less idle. (I hope I am not inadvertently inviting chaos into my life! :) )

My boat trip to Australia

I found this posted on a blog I enjoy reading. The blog is written by a woman who is LDS and a mother of two adopted children. I find her blog to be really inspiring and uplifting and I loved the sweet sentiment of this article. So many people take their "flight" to Australia for granted, or anguish over their "boat trip", but it truly is just all about the beauty of Australia. I have posted a link to her blog, so you can read it for yourself and understand what the heck I'm saying! :)

http://growingupsara.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-analogy-from-dear-abby.html#comment-form

A new year, already??

I don't know about the rest of you out there, but 2010 seemed to pass faster than 2009! Family visited, we travelled, big decisions were made, we turned in our adoption application. So many great and wonderful things happened, but at the same time, I can't help thinking about the things I wish I had gotten done.
Now it is 2011, so weird to type, and a chance to do or not do all those things I didn't do last year. I guess that is one good thing about the New Year, it refocuses me on the year to come.
2011 has already started out with a bang, I've had a sinus infection cold thing since before Christmas, and I was reassigned to the Sunbeams. I am really going to miss the kids from my CTR 5 class, but this will be a new adventure!
Tyler has decided to go in a completely different direction for his career, so 2011 will be about helping him achieve those goals.
I will add more of my plans for 2011 throughout the month of January, as for now, my sinuses hurt too bad to think!