Sorry guys!!!

First of all, I'm sorry that it's been over a month since I've updated my blog. I'm the biggest slacker. Second, I'm sorry for not keeping up with the "blogging times"! I mean look at all your cute wallpapers and scrapbook layouts. I wish I had time for all of that but I don't. It's been great to finally catch up on everyone's lives!

I admit it's been a little crazy emotionally around here. We got news that a birth mom wanted to place her baby with us. It was the best news of my whole life. A baby was coming. It's like when you first get the news you're pregnant you hesitate in telling anyone in fear something may go wrong. Things were going great. It was to be a private adoption and we had our attorney waiting to send the birth mom papers (she lives in Memphis, TN - Sorry Edith we didn't make it, we will). We finally felt confident. We had been to the temple. We knew this was it. We started to make plans for work, finances and colors for a room. For some reason I just couldn't make myself walk through the baby section of the stores for fear I would jinx the situation. We finally felt good about making this known to close family and friends. That's when it happened. We told family and the next few days after we told family we didn't hear anything from our case worker. I remember it was a Tuesday night. I was extremely emotional. I knew something wasn't right. The next day we got a call form our case worker informing us that the birth mom had gone with another family. The birth mom had placed two previous children with a family in Springville. When she found out she was pregnant she called them right away and asked them if they would take her third. They declined stating they only wanted the two. In the end, they decided to go ahead and take her third child. So that's the story. When I got the call and everything was explained I wasn't mad at anyone. No one had done anything wrong. But it was hard to go through the heartache. We're good though and know that if we keep plugging along we'll be just fine. So there you have it.

Work is good, Young Women's is fantastic and in a big way a saving grace, and Scott and I are enjoying having Kelly and Andrew living with us.

Last week was Kelly's birthday. We decided it would be fun to go and stay the night in Eureka, UT (this is where both my parents are from and where my grandparents and grandma live) It had snowed pretty good up there and we knew Granny Franny needed us to get up there and get some snow off her roof. When we arrived we were pleasantly surprised with how much there really was. We played a little and enjoyed visiting the grandparents.

Birthday cake for breakfast is truly the breakfast of champions!

Scott's favorite breakfast beverage!

Grandma and Grandpa Sanderson's home....look at the roof.

Grandma and Grandpa.

Dad and Grandpa in the backyard after shoveling.

Granny Franny's roof...Holy icicles Batman!

Dad with Eureka in the background (See Brett, this town does exist!)

Scott being my HERO! You dare devil

Can you spot the fence.

Got to love the snow, especially after the storm and the sun is shining!