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Friday, July 6, 2012

Merry Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We held Bryants work party at our house and that was fun! Bryant dressed up as Santa and saw all the kids at teh party.Most of them were not sure about Bryant. My good friend Rowan helped me prepare and stayed for the party. It seems she is with me for all my wonderful and stressful events. I am so thankful for her. Then right before Christmas Evelyn came. I love Evelyn she came and we went our family hers and Rowans to the Seven falls. This is a beautiful waterfall lit up by lights on seven different cascades. it is amazing! Then we spent christmas at The Richard and Lisa McNeills house. It was so much fun to be with family. Winslow and Melissa came down to visit along with  their kiddos, and Evelyn and Ian and their kiddos. The kids played and laughed. Richard and lisa have such a cozy home, it is very heartwarming, with the fire going and delicous food baking. Melissa had some special moments getting to know and cuddle Fawn.We had such a good time. One of my favorite things was listening to the singing, it was so beautiful that it even impressed Hyrum who asked Evelyn to sing at his baptism because he  heard her sing at Christmas. Lisa helped up carry on our own family traditions by making a cake for us to sing to baby Jesus. WE sang silent night, the spirit was there!
We went over to Cliffton and Janelles and we were able to see their cute kids. Boy does Jesse love his oranges!!! WE had delicious pancakes and a good time visiting.
Lita and Lito had the biggest icicles and the kids loved pulling them down. Another favorite christmas memory was seeing all the grandkids watching a movie on Lito and Litas bed! It was so cute. I tried to take a picture but it did not turn out well.
                                                                  Santa Bryant
                                                                    Sisters and friends!
                                                         Melissa with baby Fawn
                                                                           Seven Falls
                                    

Rowan and Kailey and kids:)

                                                     Kids on Grandma Litas FEATHERBED!
Then we went caroling as we sang the spirit of christmas was in our hearts. I love that Bryants family always seems to have a song quick in their hearts and are quick to sing their joy especially at Christmas!I love the christmas season, and the time we have to reflect on Jesus Christ, it seems like the rest of the world at this time is more drawn to the Savior and acts with a beautiful spirit. I am so thankful that we could feel and share that this Christmas at the McNeills!
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Adoption is a Heavenly Gift

To all our friends, We have started this blog because we want to keep others in touch with us, but the main purpose of this blog is to let all those that we know and their friends that we are trying to adopt. We feel so strongly about this and know that their is a precious life that is destined to come to our home.To those of you that do not know this is our story.When Bryant and I met and shortly before we were married Bryant asked me what I would do if we could not have children. I thought it a strange question, I said I did not know. He asked if I would be willing to adopt, I said yes I would. He asked several other questions, and then we never talked about adoption. We were married and shortly after had our first son, he was beautiful but was born and passed away within fifteen minutes. This was a trying experience, yet it helped us understand how hard it is to come home without a baby, and that we just needed to have faith that he was ok, and that the Lord was taking care of our little one.Since then we have had (as many of you know) three beautiful children: a daughter and two sons. They are the joy of our life!Each pregnancy came with great challenges, and many complications to my health. After our second son was born we lost two other babies due to misscarriage, and full of complications. It was at this time, that a friend of ours suggested adoption. We felt we needed to have more children than the two we had at home. I pondered it, but thought that we should try again. It was then that I had another misscarriage.It was at this time one day I took our children to a story time at the library. As we were getting ready to leave, my daughter tugged on my arm. "Look Mommy look!" I turned to look, and there was a little african american baby girl. " She so cute!" My daughter said. I felt something in my heart at that moment, it seemed like a prick and the thought came, you need to adopt. I thought perhaps I made up the feeling, but could not explain it because it was so strong.I then went home and my mother in law called me, she did not know that we had even had the second misscarriage, because we did not tell anyone that I was pregnant. She told me she had been thinking, and felt to tell us that we should adopt. I felt a stirring again in my heart. Later that day Bryant came home and told him all my thoughts. I then remembered a dream that I had each time before I delivered our children. In the dream I have a child but am very surprised because the baby does not look anything like us. As my husband and I talked I realized the meaning of this dream. He then told me he always thought that we would adopt.It was then that my husband and I knelt down in prayer and felt such a strong feeling that we did need to adopt, that a child needed to come to our family this way.It was then almost five years ago that we got ready to adopt we did our home study and have been ready ever since. Shortly after we were finished with our homestudy, we had a surprise and found out I was pregnant with our youngest son. We almost lost him at 16weeks, and I was very sick. We were so blessed to have him come to our family. After he was born we knew I could not have any more children. Still the feeling that we needed to adopt never left.So we have been waiting, waiting for someone to choose our family. We are have gotten really close, and have even been chosen , but things did not work out. We are trying to be patient, the feeling that our family is not complete remains strong. Our children have been such an example of faith to us. Our daughter especially she said that maybe she could win a race to pay for the adoption. And our son said maybe he could win the Hamburger contest at Red Robin, and then we could adopt a baby. Our youngest is so fond of babies, so gentle and sweet. Our children pray for a sibling. I think even they can feel the Lord preparing their heart for their new brother or sister.Sometimes it is hard to wait, but we know that the Lord will bless us, and lead that special mother to us. We are open to "open adoptions" (where we keep in contact with the birth mother). We pray for the birth mother whereever she is and hope that the spirit will lead her to us. We hope that when we do adopt that if she desires we can stay in contact with her, and let their little one know who gave them life like some of our relatives who were adopted and whose birth parents have also been a blessing in their life.We ask that you can keep us in your prayers when you can that this will happen at the right time also. We want to ask you if you can please share our story with your friends and family in hopes that we can be found by that special mom.We are working with LDS Family Services and this is the link to our profile for more pictures and more about us. https://www.itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/11193581/ourMessage.jsfWe love you all, thankyou for your prayers

Love,Bryant, Audrey & kids