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I love Brian's smile! He's looking carefree after a long day.

Annual visit to our favorite apple orchard. We also like to stop at the cheese factory across the river.

Carina, just outside our door

Laughing...one of our favorite past times

Carina's kindergarten photo. Isn't she so cute?!

Carina with her mom and brothers at Christmastime

Carina took this train ride on the 4th of July with her brother and his family in Ohio.

Carina with her mom who is so excited for us to adopt.

Brian's kindergarten photo. I can't resist those sweet little cheeks!

Brian's family reunion a few years ago in Nauvoo, Illinois: 2 parents,
7 kids,
5 spouses,
9 grandkids

Brian with his sister and her family relaxing at IKEA

Brian and Carina with our nephew. We love sharing time with our families.

We're on our way to a picnic in Rome.

Carina's blowing me a kiss on Via dell' Amore (or "Street of Love") in Pienza, Italy. We were celebrating our 5 year anniversary.

Carina enjoying our Italian-themed anniversary picnic last summer at a favorite lake near our home. She surprised me with a beautiful photo album of our trip to Italy.

Brian making cuttings of our favorite plant. We have given away about 15 new plant starts like this one.

Carina and her little friend in Europe

Brian and Carina visiting some young European friends

Carina in England holding her friend's brand new baby

We are working on our baby room and Brian takes a break to be silly.

I always say Carina's smile should be in a toothpaste ad.

Brian's our master pie baker. Friends always volunteer to taste test. Each pie is from scratch. This beauty is a S'more Pie. It starts with a graham cracker crust followed by luscious chocolate pudding and is topped with toasted marshmallow. MMM

At a park near our home. Just across this bridge is the farmers' market where we like to buy extra vegetables in the summer.

This is a view of the marshy lake at the end of our little street. Last summer there were hundreds of adorable little frogs hopping around here! We rescued many of them from certain death on the street when they couldn't hop back up the curb.