I'm back.

It has been 2 years since I have posted on a blog. I started on Facebook and it's just easier to post pictures right onto facebook from our Mac...really, like a button and it's done. With that being so easy and this taking, you know...effort, I just converted. So then why am I here NOW? After all of this time why am I coming back? I have to admit that I have felt a real push to have my experiences with adoption made public. I'm tired of hearing of young, young girls feeling like there is no choice and they are stuck. So over the next day or two there will be some really long posts, stories if you will. Stories of me, my family and the love of many, many people.

Until that is all ready for me to post though I thought I should post some updated pictures of my sweet family from the last month. 

We were able to go to the Oregon Coast with some good friends. We rented a big beach house and it was so much fun! They have kids similar in age as our (plus 5 more that are older), so we just had a really really great time!

 This is at the Oregon Coast. Lucy & Nick.

 Sarah's first time riding a horse. We wanted to take Lucy on ride on the beach but you have to be seven. They did let her ride around the parking lot though which is pretty cool when you're 2 and 6 years old!

 Lucy out in the waves - the beach was such a perfect vacation spot for these too chicka's!!

 Sarah enjoy the waves too...nothing slows this girls down! I love the pure look of joy in her face here!

 Daddy and Sarah EARLY in the morning. We went out to see low tide. It was COLD.

 Our sweet little family. Our friends we had gone with is a photographer and so even though we hadn't really planned on having family pictures taken it just turned out that way. We would have maybe planned outfits a little different though if it was more planned.

 This is our trip to Salt Lake City. We had gone to the Bear Lake area for a wedding and thought it was worth our time to drive an extra 3 hours to go to SLC since Lucy had never been there. It was pretty awesome and the girls were so great, well they are just great girls :)

We actually leave in just a couple days to Disney World so I guess when I get back I'll have A LOT of cute pictures and stories ;)