2 gold stars to sarah for uploading videos on youtube!!

a challenge for sarah

time to update your blog all by yourself! I'm too busy doing my own now ;-)

post some pics and video clips on HERE!!!

maybe if everyone else "encourages" her too.......

teehee hee

pictures

anyone who knows me in the slightest knows I love to take pics!
here is the album from the afternoon of dec 1st!
I have yet to edit but feel free to take a look!

going for a walk with baby noah and 18 goats!
and a few ducks thrown in the mix as well!
you may as well throw it into slide show mode, there are 130 pictures!

I will post video clips of noah toddling and goats herding after you recover from the overload of looking at these pics! haha!

here's a sample of what's in the album!
~desha

go yell it on a mtn

sometimes you just need to go to the middle of no where with someone you love and just YELL

YAY for my very special baby goat loving friends ; )

Congratulations!!!

The call came from the lawyer 11-5-08 that it was final!

Sorry lil pokepoke but you are stuck, with the most perfect family that your birthmom could find for you, you are so loved, forever and always!
~sarah, spencer, and baby noah

pictures soon - we can hope!

noah was a lil superman who says " doodledo, doodledo" ...
he had been practicing for his rooster costume, which turned out to be too small!!

sarahs ionic cleanse footbath came in the mail so stay tuned for sludge pics!!

kudos for needing a smaller pair of pants sarah - keep up the awesome weight loss!! post a pic if you dare!

White Ribbon for National Adoption Month

Someone important to me placed her baby for adoption!



November is National Adoption Month and November 15, 2008 is National Adoption Day. The white ribbon is symbolic for adoption.

Please spread the word, pass on the ribbon, even wear one this month if you want to - I will be! ... and when some asks 'why a white ribbon?', you can tell them: someone important to me ____________ (fill in the blank as it pertains to you) placed a baby for adoption OR adopted a child(ren) OR is adopted.

Spread the love and joy that is adoption!!

***in case you are wondering what my personal connection is to adoption - my bestest friend in Portland (Desha) placed her baby boy for adoption this past July***

some best friend

apparently noah can walk now, and has been able to for a week.

Baby Noah Feeties

Sarah - here is your bday present I made for you. The printer ran out of red ink though, hence the greenish stripes. One day, but honestly prob not till after fall Q is over, I will get more ink and perhaps even a frame and send it to you! I can change the purple daisy too if you don't like it, I chose purple cuz it's your favorite!! Love tons, Desha

an update

sarah is sick, so is noah.

sarah is very excited about the ionic cleanse foot bath she just bought! She has even been dreaming of sludge! (click for pics) YAY for detox!!

Noah is going to be a rooster for halloween, maybe if sarah gets bugged enough she will actually post some pics for us to see!

Sarah misses portland, for very good reasons... here are some of them:

touching starfish at the
beach sept 2008





Keeping the sea god
happy



being a starfish superhero






Finding treasure
at the beach




Finding a crab
at the tidepools

seeing the baby elephant that was born in aug 2008 at portland zoo

Feeding the larakeets at the zoo

making friends
with the sea lions











sunsets at
THE OCEAN

and best of all..... goofing off with DeshaLou!!!

happy birthday sarah, I love you!!

adoption? a miracle!

As most of you may know, Sarah's trips to Portland were two fold, ok maybe three fold when you add the ocean into the equation, she came to have a break "getaway from it all" for a few days, she came to see the ocean, but really she came to be with me at a time when I probably needed her the most. She came in may to visit my pregnant belly and to share in the fun and excitement that is pregnancy - i needed that element of "fun". She came in september to be with me postpartum and to host a party in my honor... not a baby shower as would be expected but a birthmom shower. I placed my son for adoption through LDS family services two days after he was born, this past July. She also took care of me in August when I came to stay at mother wendy's goat farm for a week, I needed something to love and 7 baby goats sounded pretty good, loving on baby noah was much fun too! Anyways, sarah got to meet my adoptive family, she got to feel my baby kick and she got to cry a river of tears with me as we drove to the healing powers of the ocean. But she never met my son, she never held him the way I held her son and loved him the way I loved noah when he was first born. She has to love my baby from afar, like the rest of us who love him, but I appreciate her willingness to do that, to love me first and be there for me and let me vicariously experience parenthood thru noah growing up. Our boys are one year one month and 4 days apart! what fun that would have been- raising them together, but that wasn't what was meant to be, a greater miracle was waiting, the miracle of adoption, and what a miracle it has been. And I couldn't have experienced it without her. I love that she loves my baby, I love that she loves the adoptive family I found for him, I love that she loves me, I love that she never did anything but support me 110% even when I called her 32 times in the middle of the night mere hours before boarding a plane to thailand to tell her that I was pregnant, and I love that she supported my adoption- even in the slight wavering moments when I doubted some of the details she kept me grounded... keeping in mind that if I had been pregnant with a girl baby that that would have been a whole nother story for a whole nother post...

anywhoo, click here for my adoption story in a nutshell!

new posts

sarah is deficient in blog postings so she has added me as an author to help remedy the situation. I can report she is alive and well. Noah is a very happy, independant little ball of ham and cheese, he refuses to walk even though he is quite capable. he loves animals and singing "ee ii ee ii ee ii O!!" he is very dextrous and likes to talk to his aunt desha on the phone even when it's mom's turn! I have some pics of him from my visit in august but I need to download them off picasa, school starts tomorrow for me so be patient!

Sarah is my bestest friend and has been such a gift to me the past year, thank you sarah for your love and friendship and taking care of me so well. I love you!! ~desha

More Beautiful Oregon

Beautiful Oregon

me and desha may 2008

it's been awhile

pics from my may 2008 visit to Portland OR to see desha lou.... yes I'm getting washed away by the pacific ocean - thank goodness there was a drunk surfer there to save me!





There are lots of big trees in OR, hence I felt the need to stand inside of one.





I loved this statue at the womans clinic where desha sees the midwives.











oh look - a volcano - mt st helens to be exact! (the little white bump on the horizon!)

O-R-E-O

Guess what Noah ate?? An Oreo!!! One of Life simple pleasures!!!

We tried really hard!!

So the top picture is what we ended up with. But, to get there was an adventure. We put the camera on two piano books then on a ladder, set the timer, and then posed as quickly as possible. We tried really hard. This was the best we could. LOL....I guess this is what memories are made of!!!

I'm too sexy for my hat

So...anyone that knows Spencer knows that he would always have a baseball hat on if he could. I came home and noticed that Noah all of the sudden had 3 hats. Please note they are still little big. So I turned on my camera and this is what I found. My men are too funny. D-these are for you.