The weather has been pretty nice the past two days, so Mike finally had a chance to build Lilly's swingset! A few weeks ago Toys-r-us had one of the swingsets we were considering buying on sale, so we decided to go for it and just keep the boxes in the shed until the weather got nice enough to build it. Most of the reviews for the swingset said that it would take 8-12 hours to build, well Mike being the craftsman he is built it in 6 hours!!! Lilly is EXCITED (to say the least) she LOVES her swingset! She also got to help with the build and is pretty proud of their acomplishment.

I am so thankful that we are able to own our home and not rent. It's been a blessing for our family. Even though our home is small and is old with old house issues, we enjoy it. It's so nice to be able to have a swingset in our backyard for Lilly to have a safe place to play and be a kid. Also we got to keep our dog, Bryn. Mike probably could of gotten through school sooner if we would of just used the equity from our home in Washington for school and rent, but we wouldn't have the joys of our home and our backyard oasis. Also, if we do move when Mike's done with school we will still have our equity :) So we will be able to buy another home were ever we end up. Pretty awesome and worth the sacrifice of time.

This video is of Lilly playing on her swingset, and introducing Goaty Goat (her BFF) and Bryn. We don't have the swings on yet, we are missing a couple of bolts so Mike just left to go to Home Depot to get the things he needs to finish everything.


Thanks to everyone who looked at our website last month, we had our most hits ever - 849! February we had 773, our 2nd biggest month. Also thank you to everyone who added our adoption button to your blogs, it's so nice to know that we have friends and family that are helping in all sorts of ways to bring our next baby home. If you still want to add our button there are directions on our side bar, or you can click here We are still waiting for a birthmother and birthfather to choose us to parent their baby. We pray every night for them and also for Lilly's birthparents. If you want to we would really appriciate your prayers too. When we are choosen, and when we are blessed with another sweet child is all up to Heavenly Father - so prayers are helpful to us. I know I pray every day for patients. One of the many things that adoption is teaching me is to endure and to have faith in Heavenly Father's plan. It's hard for me to have to wait, but having Lilly as my daughter was worth the wait and pain of infertillity. So I know that it will be all worth it, and our family will be blessed, hopefully soon :) (I Know, I'm still working on the patient part) :) Oh, and if you would like to watch the adoption profile video I made you can see it here. Thanks for all your love and support! Now come and play with us on our new swingset :)

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