Friday, May 4, 2012
Happy Birthday Cleo
When Ruby realized it was Cleo's Birthday, her party planning DNA kicked in full throttle. She started immediately on creating a birthday banner, then a homemade card, planned a party activity (she read "Go Dog Go" to Cleo on the backyard bench), and asked if we could get Cleo the biggest bone we could find. Gavin happily followed her along on the ride.
This is the Place
The weather was perfect today. It wasn't hot. It wasn't cold. I fear an unbearable summer so I am trying to fit in as much outdoor fun as possible before I am forced to hide in well air conditioned buildings for a few months. Today the kids and I went to the This is the Place Heritage Park, where we spent four perfect hours.
Clockwise from top left: Ruby wandering through the grass of the orchard, Gavin climbing an apple tree, a log train in the park playground (Gavin can't resist trains, just like his daddy!), Ruby spelling her name in the Deseret Alphabet-- printed very small under her name on the slate), the miniature firehouse, Gavin doing the laundry in the pioneer chores cabin, and Ruby plowing the field (we clearly support non-stereotypical gender roles in our home!)We happened to go during Baby Animal Days, which meant there were plenty of adorable animals to pet and feed and hold and wish you had a farm (that other people cleaned!). Ruby loved being able to hold the animals and was able to get them with total ease (no chasing or choke holds). We were also lucky enough to be the only people in the stables when it was time to feed the lambs. The kids were in heaven.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
A New Journey
Dear Family and Friends,
We need your help! If you know us well at all, you know how much we love our kids. They mean everything to us, and we probably wear you out with stories about their exploits. We’ve always wanted to have more, but we’ve run into a little roadblock. As most of you know, I had a short but very successful battle with testicular cancer some three years back. Since then I’ve been short a player on a two-player team, and we just learned that the other player is, well, all kick and no goals. We’ve both always felt like adoption might be a wonderful way to build our family, and now it seems that possibility has taken on a new importance.
That’s where you all come in. Adoption has been transformed over the past several decades, mostly for good. Birth mothers have a much greater role in choosing the family their baby goes to, and often have much more access to the child as they grow up, based on plans set up with the adoptive parents. Matching up birth mothers with adoptive parents has become a much more active and interactive process. It turns out that the vast majority of adoption placements occur because friends and family hear about or know personally of a birth mother who is considering adoption. As the birth mother decides on an adoptive couple, they then work through an adoption agency or adoption lawyers to ensure a proper agreement is arranged.
To put it simply, we’re asking you all to please keep us in mind. If you know of or hear of someone who is considering placing a baby for adoption, please tell them about us. We’ve set up a website to help people get to know us and hope you will share it with people you know – it’s at www.nateandsinaadopt.com. This is a bit scary for us, putting our lives out there for anyone to see, but we know that the internet can be a powerful tool for sharing news and information. Facebook, blogs, and email provide several simple methods which you can use to help:
1- You could post our web link in your Facebook status feed, sharing our story and request with your friends.
2- We’ve also set up a community on Facebook, Nate and Sina Adopt, we invite you to join and “like” our feeds, which also help share our family hope with a wider network
3- If you have a blog, please consider posting about our family, our desire to adopt, and share our website.
4- You could also add a link to our adoption website to your own blog.
5- Finally, feel free our blog on to any of your friends and family who may be interested in hearing our story.
If you do try any of these, please exclude our last name and also consider adding a couple personal comments to your messages to help your friends and family know we are real people who really hope for another child to add to the love and laughter in our home.
Thank you in advance for all of your love and support.
Love, Nate, Sina, Ruby, and Gavin.
We need your help! If you know us well at all, you know how much we love our kids. They mean everything to us, and we probably wear you out with stories about their exploits. We’ve always wanted to have more, but we’ve run into a little roadblock. As most of you know, I had a short but very successful battle with testicular cancer some three years back. Since then I’ve been short a player on a two-player team, and we just learned that the other player is, well, all kick and no goals. We’ve both always felt like adoption might be a wonderful way to build our family, and now it seems that possibility has taken on a new importance.
That’s where you all come in. Adoption has been transformed over the past several decades, mostly for good. Birth mothers have a much greater role in choosing the family their baby goes to, and often have much more access to the child as they grow up, based on plans set up with the adoptive parents. Matching up birth mothers with adoptive parents has become a much more active and interactive process. It turns out that the vast majority of adoption placements occur because friends and family hear about or know personally of a birth mother who is considering adoption. As the birth mother decides on an adoptive couple, they then work through an adoption agency or adoption lawyers to ensure a proper agreement is arranged.
To put it simply, we’re asking you all to please keep us in mind. If you know of or hear of someone who is considering placing a baby for adoption, please tell them about us. We’ve set up a website to help people get to know us and hope you will share it with people you know – it’s at www.nateandsinaadopt.com. This is a bit scary for us, putting our lives out there for anyone to see, but we know that the internet can be a powerful tool for sharing news and information. Facebook, blogs, and email provide several simple methods which you can use to help:
1- You could post our web link in your Facebook status feed, sharing our story and request with your friends.
2- We’ve also set up a community on Facebook, Nate and Sina Adopt, we invite you to join and “like” our feeds, which also help share our family hope with a wider network
3- If you have a blog, please consider posting about our family, our desire to adopt, and share our website.
4- You could also add a link to our adoption website to your own blog.
5- Finally, feel free our blog on to any of your friends and family who may be interested in hearing our story.
If you do try any of these, please exclude our last name and also consider adding a couple personal comments to your messages to help your friends and family know we are real people who really hope for another child to add to the love and laughter in our home.
Thank you in advance for all of your love and support.
Love, Nate, Sina, Ruby, and Gavin.
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