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Look to your right.

Notice anything?

We have a button! Click on it and it will take us to our LDSFS adoption profile.

If you want to put it on your blog, I'd totally be ok with that. :)

Thanks Julie M. for designing it!

TiMbErS

Nic was blessed with 4 tickets to a Timbers game (professional soccer).

We headed up to Salem/Portland on May 4-6. 

Beautiful drive up on Friday. 

 We stopped at Build-A-Bear workshop. It is something I have always wanted to do.

Nic bought me a gift card so we made a cute little bear for future Baby Phair.

 The stuffing station.

 We did a session at the beautiful Portland Temple.

Mahogany wood. Marble. Ginormous. So pretty.

 Walking around on temple grounds.

 Saturday morning we did a little geocaching. This was my first Geocahe find. 

 Before the game on Saturday night, we met up with my mom, Ben and Sharon and their boys for lunch/dinner (they were on their way home from Disneyland).

Yummy burgers and fries! They also had the coolest drink machine.

 Riding on up to the game. 

Welcome to Jeld Wen Field!

Me and my honey :)

Cute Stewart couple!

 What a huge arena and we had great seats!

 Row 5.

Kick off. 

 Sisters, sisters!

When I root, I root for the Timbers!

 This was the CRAZY cheering section! They never stopped. 

They had one cheer after another.

 I had no idea the professional soccer team was such a HUGE thing in Portland. It was packed. 

It was a fun game. 0-0. Tie game.

We went to church with Ben and Sharon on Sunday and then made our way home.

We stopped along the way to this little place.

It was a nice little vaca and we had a great time with the Stewarts!

Thank you Ben and Sharon!

*LiVe*

It's time to announce that our adoption profile officially went live on April 27!

View our profile here.

After many months of interviews, answering questions, patience, and answering more questions it's live. Can not believe this time has come!

Nic e-mailed me at work when I was leaving and I stopped in the middle of the hallway and started crying. I couldn't believe it! It took everything in me to not start jumping and screaming.

We know that the waiting is only beginning, but we know that there is a plan.

Somewhere out there we know there will be a birthmom who will choose us. 

Here we go!

Phase 3. Complete.

Our case managers are working on doing their write up.

Once that is complete it goes off to a committee for review.

We are praying and hoping that our profile is "live" very soon.

Keep our little family in your thoughts and prayers! :)

Once we are "live," you will know.

*Patience is heavenly*

BaNaNa BrEaD

Thank goodness for nurses who work at the hospital and are married to men who are GF.

If there weren't any, I wouldn't have made this beauty: 

Don't you want to eat this picture?

You know you do.

Who knew a GF bread could taste so good?

a FiRsT

I debated whether or not I should even share this experience, but then I said "what the heck." This was a first for me and a huge step forward.
I opened up a card from one of my beautiful sisters (I have 4 beautiful sisters :) and it was an announcement that she was pregnant (yay!). I paused for a moment and for the first time in a long time I didn't feel sad. I am always genuinely excited for people who announce they're pregnant but there has always been a moment of envy and feeling sad for myself. For the first time though, I didn't feel sad. All I felt was pure excitement for my sister and pure happiness for myself.
Would I love to experience pregnancy? Of course. Honestly though, I wouldn't have it any other way with my family. I am so thrilled to adopt. This has been one amazing journey for me and Nic - I wouldn't trade it for the world. I can't help but feel so happy for myself (sorry that sounded selfish). At the end, we will have one amazing story to share with our kids. Each one will be so individual and unique to them.
I love how the Lord has taken 2 wrongs (Nic's infertility and mine) and made a right out of it. I know the Lord has seen our flawed mortal bodies and made it so we are joined with the spirits that are supposed to be in the Phair family. :)