Going to speak a bit about the reasons for us adoption, how we adopted, and just a bit of info.

Brent and I learned in 2009 that biological children were out of the question for us. We did try, in fact we tried for 1 1/2 years, saw numerous doctors, and had a couple of procedures done before we were told "nope, not happening". We were devastated at first. Crying, sobbing, throwing things, in fact, I took my frustration out on the lawn and mowed the yard (it was all I could think of at the time). After telling the parents and having a few beers to mend our broke hearts (yes, even I drank at like noon, on a weekday) we decided to move on.

First, we planned a spur of the moment wonderful vacation. We didn't care where we were going, we just wanted to go. We wanted to pack up and not think about the next doctors visit, timed sex (yes, you read that right), or pee stick. We wanted to go away just the two of us and do absolutely nothing. Thanks to my wonderful mother and grandmother we found a fabulous deal to go to Aruba for an entire week. And the best part was that we were leaving in less than a month and we were going somewhere warm during the cold season. We had promised ourselves that we wouldn't talk about children, our next steps, or anything baby related for the entire week. But what did we end up doing? We took the adoption book with us and sat at the baby pool all day long. We are such losers! But I digress. In hind sight it was a great thing to do. We were actually able to talk about the next step being at peace.

So we moved on to adoption. When we got home from our wonderful vacation I called up an adoption agency in our state and got the info. We planned to meet with them after the new year and get the ball going. So once again we went through another Christmas childless but for the first time we felt like there was hope. A light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. And we couldn't wait for our new adventure to begin.