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Wow, I finally updated our profile. I have just been waiting for Makayla's birthday in order to update it but now we are set. So Makayla was so excited for her birthday. She knew that she was turning 3 years old and she would tell anybody and everybody who would listen. For about two weeks prior to her birthday she would talk about it. Her favorite thing was that we made her a Dora's backpack cake. She loved it!!! I can't believe that she is three years old. Time has gone by so fast. It seems just like yesterday that we were bringing her home with us as a little baby. Life has been wonderful and still is. We are so happy. We have been able to go on a few trips this summer as our pictures reflect. It has been great. Makayla is such a sweet little girl. Right now she always tells us that there is a baby in her tummy. I am not quite sure where she got that from but it is sure cute. Every time her tummy hurts she says it is the baby. She got a play kitchen and play food for her birthday and she loves it. She is always making Ben and me dinner or snack or something. She loves it.

Ben is doing great. He loves his job and he loves coming home each night to his family. It is the perfect combination. We are still loving our home. We love that it is ours and we can do anything we want to it. We have painted the whole house now and recently we just put a fan in Makayla's room. As Ben says it was quite the accomplishment for him.

I am also doing great. I love love love being a mom. I have recently started making little baby shoes that I am selling online. I love it. It is something I can do in my spare time when Makayla is sleeping or playing with her daddy. It's great.

We still want a new baby in our home more than anything in the world. We know that the time will come we just have to be patient. I know I keep saying that but mostly we just have to keep reminding ourselves. We can't wait for that wonderful blessing to come to pass.

Happy Fourth of July!!! I hope you all had a great day. We went up to Reno and had a fun day up there. We went to the park and watched the firework show. Makayla loved it. She loved how the fireworks went "boom boom." We also got back from San Diego a couple weeks ago. It was so much fun. Makayla loved it!!! When you ask her what she saw at Sea World she will tell you, "Dolphins, Pony Horsies and Shamu Shamu." It is pretty cute. She also will tell you all about the beach and how she played in the water and built a sand castle. It was our first vacation as a family since we got Makayla almost three years ago. We decided it was time to take her somewhere fun just mommy, daddy and Makayla. We got a hotel right by the water so each night we could walk down on the beach. It was wonderful!!! Makayla did great and I think we all had a lot of fun.

Ben is loving his job. He loves to go to work each day which is great. And he loves to come home to his family each night which is even better. We enjoy spending time out in our backyard each night. As the sun starts to set we love to work in the yard or jump on our trampoline. Makayla loves to show us her "tricks" that she does on the tramp. It is so cute. Most nights you will see Makayla and her daddy jumping on the tramp chasing each other and having fun.

Makayla will be three in a couple months. It is crazy!!! She is getting so big. She wants to have a brother or sister so much. Her friend's are starting to all have brothers or sisters and she just can't understand why she can't have one too. It makes Ben and I a little sad. We tell her we are doing everything we can to make that happen but of course she can only understand so much. Hopefully our time is coming near. Hopefully Makayla will be a big sister and Ben and I will be parents again here very soon. All we can do is keep praying that this will come to pass.

I can't believe summer is almost here!!! Although you wouldn't know it by the 40 and 50 degrees it has been the last couple days. I guess I should enjoy the cool weather while it lasts though right?We are busy getting ready for the summer. We bought a trampoline and it just came in today. I am so excited to set it up. I know that Makayla is going to love it!!! It will be good for Ben and I because we will be able to have fun and use it too. We are going to take a couple fun trip this summer. Ben, Makayla, and I are going to go to Sea World. I can't wait!!! We are going to stay in a hotel right on the beach. Makayla has never seen anything like Sea World so I know she is going to like it. Then later on in the summer my family is going to go to San Francisco. They are all coming from Utah so they will drive here and we will spend the night here and then all head on to San Francisco. Everyone is excited about that and I am sure it will be fun.

Makayla is growing up so fast. Every day she seems to be more and more a child and less and less a baby. I love her growing up and it is so much fun but I do miss our little baby girl. Makayla loves to sing and dance. We like to make up songs together and sing them. She is a beautiful singer and dancer!!! The other day we were at the park playing. It was time to go and as we walked to our car we passed a bunch of school children on a field trip to the park. I told Makayla that those children were in school. Then I said, "And when you get a little older you will go to school too." She looked up and me and said, "Go to school like Elmo?" It was so adorable. I can't believe how much she understands.

Ben's job is going well. He loves what he does and he loves coming home every night and spending time with his little girl. It is so wonderful what a great dad he is. Makayla is quite the daddy's little girl right now. She always wants to be with her daddy.

Well that is about all that is going on in our lives. We are still praying that our special birth mother will come into our lives and give us another child. Makayla needs a brother or sister so much and Ben and I want to be parents again.

I don't even really know how to start this entry. We have had our profile off for two months because we had a birthmother that picked us. We were so excited. We were going to have a little baby boy. Well our little boy was born on April 10th. We were all ready to go and pick him up and then we got a call that the birthmother changed her mind. We were devastated but now we are back. We know that there is a baby boy or girl that is supposed to be ours. And there is a birthmother who wants to be a part of our family by giving us what we can't get ourselves. Hopefully someone who is reading this right now has that feeling that they know that they are our birthmother. We want a child so much and are just waiting for some special girl to make that happen.

Christmas was yesterday and what a fun day that was. I guess I will first start with Christmas Eve. We spent the holidays with our families which is the best way to do it in my opinion. Christmas Eve was with Ben's family. We had our fun Christmas Eve dinner which includes a fun variety of finger foods and cookies. Then we had the annual grandchildren nativity story where our little Makayla was an angel. I have to say that she was a very cute little angel. Then we had the program where anyone who wanted to could do a musical number. We had singing, violin playing, and even bell playing. It was a lot of fun. Then all the grand kids got to open one present. Makayla's was a pair of brand new pink fuzzy reindeer pj's. After the party we came back to my parents house because that is where we were staying.

We went to sleep and before we knew it it was Christmas day!!! Makayla woke up and the first thing she said was, "Santa?" So grandma, grandpa, Makayla, and me all waited while Ben went to go check to see if Santa came. He came back and told Makayla that yes Santa had come! We walked into the family room and there waiting in the middle of the room was a brand new tent and sleeping back for Makayla. She was so excited. She calls it her house. She also loved her stocking where she proceeded to take everything out one by one and inspect it very thoroughly. Afterward she opened all the rest of her presents from us. She had so much fun. I think she was very impressed with Santa's choice of gift for her.

Later that night all my brothers and sister and their spouses came over to the house for Christmas dinner. We ate and opened more presents and played games and just enjoyed our time together. It was a lot of fun. It is the greatest thing to be able to spend the holidays with our family.

I had so much fun with Makayla, Ben, and all the wonderful aspects of Christmas but it was a little weird. I felt like someone was missing from our family. I hope that by this time next year we will have another little child to share our love with.

P.S. - this is a picture of Lori's family December 2007.

It is October!!! I just can't believe how fast time flies by. Well I guess the saying is correct. Time flies when you are having fun. Life is so busy right now but good. Makayla is now officially two years old. She is so much fun. She is getting so big and so grown up. She is talking all the time now. We love it. It is so nice being able to understand what she wants or is upset about. It is pretty funny when she is upset and crying I ask her what is wrong and why is she crying. She answers me with , "SAD." She can't explain anymore than that just that she is sad. But that works. Ben's job is going well. He loves working at the District Attorney's office. He has had several trials this summer and I am proud to say that he has won more that he has lost. Go Ben!!! I love being at home with Makayla. We are starting to make Halloween decorations for the house. I can't believe how much she can help me. She loves to color and she loves to help put the glue on. This week we are headed back to Utah to go to my brother's wedding. We are so excited to have an excuse to go visit our families. It will be a short trip but good. I can't wait to show Makayla off to everyone. They won't believe how much she is talking. My sister and my two sisters-in-law are pregnant right now. I am extremely happy for them but it is still a little hard too. But that is okay. I know that there is a wonderful birth mother out there somewhere who is just waiting for us to come into her life. I can't wait to bring another child into our home and love him or her just like I love Makayla. I never realized how much a mother can love her child until we got Makayla. Now I know. I can't wait to open my heart to the next beautiful little baby who comes to us.

Wow, I can't believe that we are finally approved for adoption. I had forgotten how long that process takes. Paperwork, paperwork, and more paperwork. but we are finally there and we are ready to bring another child into our home as our own. Now the next step is finding a wonderful birth mother or birth parents and then bringing our baby home. I hope that it will happen fast. With Makayla it took three years and although she was worth the wait I hope that this baby will be a little faster. I want Makayla and this baby to be good friends. I know they will be. Makayla is so sweet and she loves babies. She will be so excited to finally have her very own baby. I can't wait. Ben is so excited about this too. He is such a good father and he can't wait to have another baby. He was so good with Makayla and I know he will be even better with this next child. When we first got married and started planning our family we never thought that it would take so long to bring each child into our home. But I am so glad that Heavenly Father gave us this trial. It is hard but there is nothing better than adoption. Very few people get to experience that wonderful feeling of having one mother put her baby into your arms to take care of her child and make her child yours. I can't wait for that opportunity again. We are praying very hard that our birth mother will come into our lives very soon.