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Friday, July 6, 2012

Thanksgiving 2011






We spent thanksgiving with my brother Allen Paul. I really got to know my brother better as we had time to spend one on one with our families. Sarah was a wonderful host and has been a wonderful friend to me since our early years of marriage. She is quick to laugh to smile, and gives wonderful advice. She is a good friend and I saw her be such a loving mother to her kids. My brother Allen "Paul" is an amazing dad. He loves his kids so much and I could see him be silly and play with htem and love them. Landon is my nephew and he is so proud of his Dad. He was a really good friend and cousin to the boys they still talk about him and the fun they had with him. My neices Tru and Nicole were a dream come true for Isabel, they spent every moment together, Isabel thought Tru was so so cute, and she has always considered Nicole one of her best friends. We had so much fun watching the kids play and laugh and do shows for us, the girls sang for us. we took the kids to play at a place called wizard quest, at first they cried we don't want to go, we just want to play with our cousins. I thought how wonderful it is to have family and to be friends! Fawn was adored by Tru which was so cute, but really she fell in love with Sarah. She is a shy baby and does not take to many people quickly but she loved sarah right away, it just goes to show that babies really know about people and their goodness inside. She was scared of Allen but she started to warm up a little by the end, she is still scared of most men. We did so many fun things like go to the smokey mountains, we looked at the lights at teh racecare track, but the funnest of all was just hanging out with each other. This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my brother and his beautiful family. I am thankful for the faith he has always had, for his strenght for his love, for being a good husband, as I saw him joke with Sarah and hug her I thought he was a lucky man and she is a lucky woman and their kids are lucky too, to have such a wonderful family. My brother is a brave man with a feirce patriatism to his country and for justice. He is noble, intelligent, and full of courage, and all those things impress me, but he is to me even greater than allt these things a good husband and father. Thankyou Paul for yoru good example, Thankyou Sarah for your good example. I love you both!
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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