Today was a great day! One year ago today we received our first email from Jenn & Corey! A day that I will never forget. I was having one of the worst days I can remember. I am usually fine with our infertility, but some days it feels like every where you turn someone is pregnant and that ugly little infertility monster rears its ugly head...it was one of those days for me last year...and it hit me hard. I don't think I cried as hard as I did that day, even when the doctor told us we would never be able to conceive ourselves.
When I finally calmed down and was ready to go to bed I decided to check our adoption email. I was in the habit of checking it once a day, usually just in the morning. That way it was a little less painful than checking it constantly waiting for something that wasn't there. Much to my surprise, there was a 'Couple Contact' email. I think I stared at that subject line for a full minute before I dared to open it. How could I have had the kind of day I had and then get an email based on exactly what I needed? Because Heavenly Father loves us...loves me...He knew it was what I needed at that moment.
I opened the email and started reading it with my heart pounding through my chest. I read through it again and then went to tell Brandon about it. At first, I was skeptical thinking maybe it was a scam. (I had read another blog about how her and her husband were scammed by a girl that had also scammed about 6 other couples, so I was a little guarded...please don't take that the wrong way...I love you guys!) The biggest reason I thought it was a scam was because she said her name was Jenn...the exact same name and spelling as Carter's Jenn...and that Corey was still involved and supportive. I thought Carter's Kyle was one of the only birth father's out there that was supportive of adoption. (also from another blog that had just won a contested adoption because the birth father was not supportive.) Well, not necessarily that he was the only supportive birth father, but maybe the only one we would have in our family...because really, how many birth fathers are really out there that support their girlfriend through the most difficult time of their lives? How could we be so lucky as to have 2 amazing birth mother's and 2 amazing birth father's pick us??? US...to be their child's parents??? Well, whatever it is, they did, and we are so grateful for them all!
Jenn and Corey, you guys are amazing and we love you sooooooooo much!!! When I tell you that you really were the answer to our prayers, now you know just how much I mean it! Thank you for everything! Thank you for the amazing little boy you created and have given us the pleasure of being his parents. We love you guys more than you'll ever know! Happy Anniversary!
We went to dinner tonight at the boys' favorite place...Sizzler. It is their favorite mainly because they have a crush on Brandon's friend's wife, Myndi. And probably because there is so much food for them to eat! They were so good the whole time we were there too. We actually had 3 separate people come up to us as they were leaving and tell us how cute all of our boys are. One lady said she just loved watching Skyler try the food and play with his bottle.
On our way home it was snowing pretty hard, and we actually had about an inch on the grass. So of course Gage and Carter wanted to run and play in it, but Skyler wasn't too sure about it. He was sitting in his car seat and Brandon put a little ball of snow on his mouth for him to taste and the above picture is the look Skyler gave him. hahahaha, he is sooooo funny!
The picture below is when Brandon tried to give the snowball to Skyler to hold...he didn't like that even more! LOL, I love him!
Accomplishments: Skyler touched and ate snow for the first time! haha :)
PS ~ I hope the first part of this post even makes sense. My thoughts were all over the place while writing it, I just hope I conveyed how much we love you guys and how thankful we are for you both...for all of our boys' birth parents. I really am fine with our infertility. Afterall, if it weren't for infertility, we would not have been blessed to have these three angels in our home or their birth families in our lives, and for that, for what you have taught me, I am thankful for our infertility.
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"THANK YOU" from us as well.
We have all learned valuable lessons that we would have missed had life been different. And, oh how we love the three sweet angels we are blessed to call members of our family, as well as their birth families. Love from G.ma and G.pa
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