Saturday, April 29, 2017

Our second adoption journey

We are on our way to find our missing piece, again.  We've been thinking about this for a while, our 3 year old, "G", has been very persistent on asking where his "little brother" is, and all our paperwork is signed and complete so here we go! If you have never met us please read our short bio under "Our Adoption Journey." Here is a pictures to recap from when I blogged last to now. I only took 3 years off of blogging, no biggie right? :)

"G" was born December 3, 2013 in Arkansas. We spent 2 and a half weeks there before we were able to come  home. We maintain an open relationship on FB with his birth parents. 
Superbowl Sunday attire. We didn't match any team playing, but we matched each other
First family vacation to St George, Utah to meet Tyler's extended family. 2014
Our little man is 1! December 2014

First Easter hunt 2015



Disneyworld 2015 The 1st of our trips to Orlando. It's our favorite vacation spot so far. 

Epcot 2015 

These boys love their motor cycle rides around the fields by our house August 2015  

Tyler is an entrepreneur and always looks for new ways to benefit our family.  When I met him his dream was to build storage units. This is the location of our second storage unit facility we own and manage. 

Whenever he can Tyler is on the golf course 
Jessica works part time as a Registered nurse in a Specialty clinic and Cancer Care Center  April 2017 

Holidays are just the best. 4th of July if one of our favorites. 2015  

Halloween is Jessica's #1 Holiday and we look forward to dressing up every year. Tyler resisted in the beginning but  now he thinks it's pretty fun too. Halloween 2015 

This little guy changed our world for the better and we are so thankful to be his parents. His smile lights up our world. May 2016 


Smiles and candy, bonus points the candy matches our clothes 

We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  We try and sneak a Sunday family selfie after church whenever we can. April 2016 


So fortunate to live in a location surrounded by such beautiful places to explore. Whenever we can we are outside.
July 2016 

Jessica enjoys running, Tyler tolerates it; but combine it with 10 other people, sleeping in a van and eating lots of food he'd in. This race was a 250 mile over night race we ran together.   August 2016 

3 generation photo with Tyler's Dad "Papa" Summer 2016 

Date night 2016 

Sun, sunglasses and sippy cups 2016 

These 2 have so much fun together 

We spent two weeks in Florida visiting my best friend. It's memories made that we will treasure forever. 

Daytona Beach Florida 2016 

Took him to Harry Potter World and now he's a fan. 

Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter World was G's favorite part 2016


Life can be busy, crazy and unpredictable but with family anything is possible.

Tyler was born to be a dad and this little boy absolutely adores his daddy
We throw a Halloween party every year with friends and family. It's a tradition we started  in 2009 and every year gets better and better.
Halloween 2016  Maleficent and her crow 

Family Halloween costumes 2016 G picked them out  all by himself. We had just watched Finding Dori....


In the winter we try to make the most of the cold weather with sledding, skiing and snowmobiling 


Ski bunnies January 2017 for Jessica's birthday 

Christmas 2016 Matching pjs Elf Style  
January 2017 after attending church 
Tyler's first half marathon, he did awesome! Jessica's ran half marathons before, this one was her first in the rain.
April 2017 





We will celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary this year! 



Here we are waiting to get fingerprinted for our back ground check, part of the home study. We're so excited all our paperwork is finished and we can begin our search. Please feel free to share our story and thank you for all the prayers and well wishes so far, and the ones we know will come in the future.  Love, Tyler, Jessica and G