Yahoo!

Today we received the best surprise! We were chosen to be adoptive parents!! We met Tanya and her parents at their home today and enjoyed getting to know each other. Admittedly, we were a little (perhaps a lot!) nervous, but thankfully, Tanya came prepared with questions for us - I wish we would have written some down too. They were great questions like, "How did you meet?" "What was your favorite date?" "Why would your spouse make a great parent?" She even had me whistle her a tune. It was so much fun. We have quite a few things in common such as a love for horses and BYU football! One of her questions was who we support: BYU or U of U - and she probably would have kicked us out right then if we didn't answer correctly:) I was amazed that we could laugh and cry together and share such a wonderful experience together in such a short amount of time. We have truly seen the hand of the Lord in our lives today. We look forward to meeting her whole family in two weeks!

What do our friends and family think of us adopting?

Well let's see what they reply.

Adoption Paper Work is in!

Jenny turned in our adoption paper work today! We were amazed at how things came together for us. Our case worker was out of town and wanted to approve our photo collage and birth parent letter before we made the 20 copies for the other offices. But amazingly we emailed her everything and she emailed back and only had minor changes. We had a great ward member who did our photo collage on photo shop in exchange for us taking her and her husband out to dinner - there's no way we could have done all of that!Each photo collage page is a 8.5x11 inch picture. We also needed a 4x6 inch picture that represented us so we had our neighbor take this picture a few weeks ago.
I think with projects of this importance one can always find some flaw, but I'm happy with how things came out.
Here is our complete Birth Parent Letter (the online profile is just an adaptation of this document)