Cute song by Jewel

I think this song is fun. Click on link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsQqiW1cTkE

Back to High School with UAC

Yesterday morning I went to Alta High School to a Child Development class with a social worker and a birth mom and gave a presentation about adoption representing the Utah Adoption Council. We talked about being educated on ALL of our options before making an informed decisions about an unplanned pregnancy and did some exercises that the social workers do with Birth parents as they weigh their options.
When it was my turn, I just shared our adoption story from an adoptive parents' perspective and answered questions. I also brought pictures which they LOVED. It was way fun! I loved all the energy being in the High SChool and they asked some really great, smart questions- I was so impressed! I was just filling in for someone else last minute, but I hope to do it again!
It's kind of ironic, because I remember when they came and did that presentation to my health class when I was in high school, it really, really touched me. I think it sort of helped to prepare me to be excited when my life lead me to adoption. Sometimes for people dealing with infertility, it's easy to get stuck in the mode of unsuccessfully trying to conieve and not want to move on from there. Luckily it didn't take us too long to realize our goal was to become parents, not to become pregnant. And that's how adoption changed our life and made our dreams come true. It was a wonderful experience I wouldn't trade for anything because there was so much growth involved.
We also stress that birhtparents don't place their babies for adoption because they are bad people or because they don't want them. That seems to be a common misconception. On the contrary, they're usually really great people who LOVE their babies so much that they are willing to surrender their own feelings in order to give their child a better chance at life than their current circumstances permit.

My 1st Mother's Day as a MOTHER!

Let me just say I had the best weekend ever. Brett finished all of his finals so the weekend was ours all ours. CONGRATS on another semester down, baby!!
Thursday, we got a babysitter and went to see a movie. It's been a while since we've gotten a babysitter, so it was nice. We watched Push with Dakota Fanning. It was pretty good except we thought too many people get killed. Weston also had fun with Grandpa.
We had some friends over, went to the Engineers without borders carnival at Sugarhouse Park where we rode a mechanical bull & went through those blow up obstacle courses, then had friends over again. The mechanical bull is way fun, but harder than it looks. Okay, I'll admit it, I kind of sucked, but it was sooo fun! I had that "Live like you were dying' song in my head that says, 'I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named foo man chew."
THEN, we went to see Desert Star's "American Fork Idol" spoof. Oh my gosh, it was so funny! You've gotta go see it! We have season tickets and that was my favorite of all of the shows! Although Brett didn't think it was as great as I did. I think it must be because he's never watched American Idol on a regular basis?? I don't know, but all of the girls thought it was one of the best shows they've ever done, if not the best. (We get season passes with the couples in Brett's family.)
Sunday was Mother's Day. This week Weston has introduced MA-MA MOM-A MOM to his vocabulary! (Happy Mother's Day to me!) Church was absolutely wonderful and Weston was an angel. I am so impressed at him how he is so attentive and pays attention to the teachers, or whoever else is speaking at church. He's just so good! I bore my testimony and got all emotional about being thankful for my mom, and how greatful I was to be a Mom and how we were able to adopt Weston and go to the temple and be a forever family. I also mentioned how greatful I am to Weston's birthmom on Mother's Day. Like one guy said though, "I take comfort in the fact that most of you will leave here and forget everything I've said." Ha,ha. I also hope that everyone forgets how I was crying! My heart was so full though, I just couldn't help it.
One of our favorite families in our ward was holding our baby during sacrament and it was really cute to watch him. I got gifted from all sorts of unexpected people! Our church gave us an instrumental CD and Relief Society gave us a rose, as well as my sister in law. My visiting teacher is SO sweet! She wrote me a nice card and gave me a CD, also about motherhood. My mom got me a white hankerchief.
Brett didn't get the chance to get me a gift for Mother's Day, because we were together the whole busy weekend, but as you can tell I got plenty of recognition. Brett was so great though- he cooked me dinner, he did the dishes, he took the lion's share of Weston's cares, we went out, we got the house clean, he gave me a massage, he took the day off- so I was MORE than happy with the weekend exactly as it was. Too bad it's over!

Families Can Be Together Forever

On April 11th, we went to the new LDS Draper temple and got sealed together as an eternal family!

Weston was such an angel. Everyone commented on how he seemed to know what was going on as he seemed to listen to every word of the ceremony. When it was over, he let out a happy squeal and was in a good mood. He was so cute! Here's a little video talking a bit about temples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULrlf78GSacv=ULrlf78GSac