Ok, so for the last three months this poor blog has been silent of updates. The truth is, we are still waiting. It's been almost 10 months now. We have had several potential referrals/matches for the adoption, but in each case for one reason or another the "potentials" never became more....and that's ok, because we know God's timing is not ours.
In the meantime......We have had a very busy spring.
At the end of March/beginning of April, I was able to begin going horseback riding weekly (a special thank you to my new friend Stephanie A). It has been a lot of fun and I have officially marked something of my unofficial not written down - bucket list. :)
In April our church held their annual Youth Conference and that brought down my favorite Washingtonians from Open Door Baptist Church. They flew down for the conference and the young ladies stayed at our home for a few days! Every time the youth come down, they are such a blessing to us. It was nice to catch up on news from back home and great to see my good friends (and the youth pastor & wife) Jeremy & Kim as well! Sometimes I wish I could just "blink" and be in Washington and "blink" again and be back in Cali! ~ Wishful thinking, I know! LOL!~
May was a busy time too! The weekend before the college graduation, we had the privilege of having one of the college girl's brother stay at our home. Anyways, the stay went really well....other than us scaring him to death the first night he was in our home. You see our cat decided to go under his bed and the only way to get her out from under it was with a laser light......and the only laser light that worked in the house was attached to our BB gun....Do you all see where this is going??? I guess Korry should've warned him first before he walked into the bedroom.. ~Oops~ LOL! Yup, his sister set him up to stay with crazy people! :)
A couple of weeks ago, I took on a new adventure, called training for a 5k race. Not sure which race I'll do yet, but I am wrapping up week two of my training tomorrow. So far, so good, I haven't fallen over and had a heart attack from all the running yet! *Actually, I am kind of enjoying it! *
Korry and I began a new adventure together as well....going riding together on his motorcycle. It's actually been pretty fun! We've taken several rides now all over the valley.
The end of May brought our Anniversary. Eight years already! Boy has time flown since we married in 2004! It's been a couple years since we did anything super special for our Anniversary, so we planned a last minute trip to San Diego. It was our first time in that beautiful, sunny, hardly any wind (that is very significant and my Antelope Valley friends know EXACTLY what I mean when I say that) comfortable temp of low 70's city. AMEN! Our highlights were touring the USS Midway, Old Town and Sea World (we really should've spent 2 days at Sea World)! Lot of fun, lots of photos and a special gift was bestowed upon us called a sun burn (a special thank you to Sea World and my lack of thought for sunscreen. LOL!)
Anyways, all-in-all we have kept pretty busy over the past several months, although, never to far from our minds is the adoption and we are constantly bathing it prayer. Please pray that soon the Lord will bless us with a baby and grow our little family.
Have a great night!
How silently they tumble down
At other times, they wildly fly
Korry was SO excited to hold the scan gun and did 99.9% of the scanning of items. We added baby furniture, bottles, formula, basic onsies and neutral colored blankets etc. It was a lot of fun! Then it happened. So we were standing in the stroller aisle looking at stroller/car seat combos. We really liked the car seat that came with the Chicco stroller, but liked the Baby Trend stroller better….so we tried to see if car seat was compatible with the stroller (which they weren’t). Next we scanned the Baby Trend stroller and were looking up reviews. One review said the stroller was kind of bulky and hard to fit in a car….so I was like, lets fold it up and see how “clunky” it will be and if it will fit in the trunk of our car……(Can you sense some laughter coming?!) Korry took the stroller and folded it up and it seemed like it would fit ok. After we reopened it Korry noticed that the handle folds down too. So we re-folded up the stroller and put the handle down. When we tried to reopen the stroller it was stuck. It wouldn’t open at all. We looked for a button to press. There was none to be found. We layed it on the floor to see if something was stuck on the bottom...nothing. I was laughing so hard! Then, Korry walked over and hit the “call” button for assistance from a store worker, but no one ever came (and I wouldn’t have either! I am SURE the store workers were in the back surveillance room watching us on the cams – rolling on the floor in laughter!) People were walking by and looking at us funny. I was laughing so hard I was almost crying by this time and Korry was just giving me the “look”, which made me laugh harder. I told him to just put the stroller on the shelf (where we had gotten it) and one of the store workers would fix it later – I mean that is their job and they should know how it goes together. I was positive it was something very simple we were doing wrong. Korry was like “no, what if we purchase it and can’t figure out how to open and close it?” and I was like “yes, but at home there are directions inside the box”. So next Korry decides he is going to “wheel” (more like pull/drag) the stroller down the main aisle to find an assistant to help him open the stroller. After going a short ways down the aisle toward the front of the store he came back (no workers in sight, which of course is because they were hiding behind something completely laughing at our inexperience!!!! J). Anyways, he comes back to the stroller aisle and just when he’d given up, he notices a plastic oblong shaped latch on the side of the stroller. Apparently it latched when he folded it up the second time (but hadn’t latched the first time). He flicked it to the side and the stroller opened up normally! Both of us were almost rolling on the floor in laughter for the next 5 minutes! 