I Love to See the Temple

Friday June 20th, Cooper was Sealed to us.

What a wonderful day.

Corbin sang "I love to see the Temple" for days before and still is all this weekend. I hope that he will keep a memory of that day.

He is still so young.

I could tell that he felt the spirit there. I could tell by the way he held on to me and was so reverent as he looked at the pictures of Christ framed on the walls. I whispered to him that the feeling he had inside was the Holy Ghost. That the spirit was telling him that the temple was a special place. A place where families can be together forever.

I hope that he will remember that feeling .

When Derek and I, along with all of our family that were in attendance, were sitting together in the sealing room the man dressed in an all white suit talked about families. He was darling and said some great things to all of us.

When he thought enough time had passed and that the boys had made it down the hall to us and were probably waiting outside the closed door, he went over to open it and said that "your children should be here now"....but they weren't.

In that moment I was reminded of our journey to bring kids into our home. And how when we decided it was time to start a family and we opened that door...no one came.

They didn't come when we thought it was time... and they didn't come the way we had planned.

We know that is because our family wasn't just in our hands it was in our Heavenly Fathers.

Sitting there it only took seconds. A few breaths. And they were here, we were a family.

I'm sure that's how time passed to our Heavenly Father too.

He knew that once we opened the door that He would be walking these little boys down the hall to us . He couldn't help it if their little legs couldn't move as fast as we wanted.

They are here now, and so worth the (little) wait.

We hope to do this again. We want to adopt again. We pray for more children. The door is open, now we are just waiting for them to make it down the hall and join our little family.

(Thanks to all the family that were there to be part of this special day. We love you for fitting us into your busy summer. And we know that the family who couldn't make it, wanted to be here too and we love you for that)

Happy Father's Day Derek

I am lucky to have such great Dads in my life.

Derek is a wonderful dad. Derek loves being a dad. He learned how to be the great dad that he is by being loved and taught by his wonderful dad.

I love my sweet dad. By watching him I learned how a man should care for his family. Because of his example I knew what I was looking for when I found Derek.

So thank you to the amazing Dads in my life that make me and the kids feel special and loved.
Derek is great with babies.

He takes us fun places

He loves to get out and play with the boys

Derek always comes to rescue and fix things for us

And when it's a two man job, Pops is always there to help

Our boys are so blessed to have a dad that loves them the way Derek does. I know that they will grow up to be fun, loving, wonderful Dad's like their Dad and Grandpa's are to us.
We love you Dad!

I Spy

Because I plan on turning my blog into a blurb book every year I won't take the time to make excuses for how all of these little things found their way onto my kitchen counter over the course of a couple weeks and then one by one into a vase that I had bought to put hydrangeas from my yard in instead of getting put away.

So, this will be just be our I SPY page.

Can you find:

baby hair brush

painted toilet paper roll

2 tooth brushes

light bulb

4 straws

sun screen

3 markers

tape

sunglasses

bubbles

dental floss

Cootie body and leg

large plastic coin

tampon (oh the boys will love that)

sharpie

medicine cup

foot file

hair pick

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N

Corbin and his teacher Ms. Lynn

(That's his new "Happy Face")

Corbin has loved going to school. He loves riding the bus, he loves his teachers, he has even made friends. His language has really improved and his social skills are too. Enrolling him was the best thing we could have done for him right now.

But....

Today was Corbin's last day of Preschool. Summer break has officially started.

And I'm a little freaked out.

I was very sad to see Corbin off to school every morning....in the beginning.

Now, I love having my mornings to run errands, give Cooper one-on-one time and clean up messes without someone making new messes simultaneously.

I'm not sure what to do with Corbin.

He hasn't been mine in the first 5 hours of the day for what feels like forever.

In know that we will get a new routine soon. But right now I'm a little afraid he's gonna go crazy.(this is the boy whose new experiment is to take his poo out of the toilet and try to wash it down the sink instead, ahh). I may enroll him in a private preschool a couple days a week (wonder what they would do if he tried his poo game with them?), but maybe he just needs a break.

I don't know what I'm gonna do, but if you live close you'll probably be getting a phone call from me wanting to set up a play date.

Please say yes...

No More Bottles

Cooper is 13 months old today.

This week I packed up all his bottles.

They have been in the cupboard the last 3 weeks just in case he needed one.

He didn't.

He is a big boy.

He doesn't need a bottle any more.

He drinks his milk out of a sippy cup.

I am a little sad.