Friday, January 4, 2013
Bringing In the New Year!
This year we decided to go camping with the Hixsons to celebrate New Year's. We went to Rancho Jurupa Regional Campground. This is a great campground with so many fun things to do. We played card games, disc golf, rode bikes, had a campfire, climbed trees, played on the playground, went to the Mission Inn and Spaghetti Factory and had a wonderful time. On New Years Day, Val and I spent the day relaxing in bed, watching tv and planning for the year.
Making Caramel Rolls with Nana
Making caramel rolls with my mom is a yearly Christmas tradition. We make the caramel rolls before Christmas Day so that we can eat them for breakfast on Christmas morning as well as give them away as gifts. It is fun to have the girls learn and join in on a tradition that has been going on since I was a little girl.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
The Long Awaited Call!
Monday, November 19 started out as a normal day. The kids and I went to our homeschool coop and then, unfortunately, we had to go to a funeral of a longtime family friend, Steve Ewalt. After the funeral, Jason noticed that we had missed a phone call from our adoption agency. He quickly called them back as we were standing in the parking lot of First Baptist Church. We were shocked to find out that we were picked by a birth mom to be the adoptive parents of her baby. We had submitted our profile to this particular mom a month before and had given up hope that she was going to choose us. We were told that a call was set up the next day for us to meet her and see if we were a match. Tuesday was a nerve racking day as we anticipated talking to someone that we didn't know and who would sacrificially allow us to raise her baby. After a few minutes of introductions, we felt very at ease with the conversation. The baby will be delivered via C-section on January 14, 2013 and I will get to be in the delivery room. IT"S A BOY and we are going to name him Jackson Lee Baker. Words cannot express our excitement over this new addition to our family. It has been a long 4 year wait and we are ready to have the process behind us.
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