This handsome man is my best friend, my heart-throb, my eternal love. I met him thirteen years ago this month. He told his sister the next morning that he had "met the ONE". He told me that he had "some loose ends to tie up", which meant he needed to dump his girlfriend. He proposed to me three and half weeks after we met. We were married in the Mt. Timpanogos temple three and half months later. I have never regretted that choice. We are not perfect, but we have a pretty dang good marriage!
This kiddo wouldn't stop taking his Earth-prep classes in heaven until his Great Grandma Erma came up there and said, "Enough already!! Your parents have been hoping and praying for you to come for four years now! Get down there you wonderful little soul!"
He will be eight, EIGHT, this week! His baptism is scheduled for next week! He is amazing and wonderful, and incredibly complex! He will also likely start counseling this week to help him learn to deal with his anger and anxiety in appropriate ways (i.e., not throwing and breaking furniture, not choking sister, and not physically fighting mom.)
This little munchkin joined us another four years after Ben. There was much praying and trying, and hoping and charity that brought her to us! We will FOREVER be grateful to her birthmom for having the courage, strength, and faith to give Brianna to our family to be adopted!
I just bought her some summer clothes and I had to buy her size 5T!! What the?? She's only 3! O.k., almost 4, but still! I guess all that praying I did that she'd grow quickly so she could ride the rides at Disneyland are being answered. She used to be in the 5th percentile for height and weight. I wonder where she'll be now.
She is a very literal-minded child. I was telling her all the things that I love about her the other day, and I said, "Brianna, I think your laugh makes the sun shine!" She thought about that and sincerely asked, "really?"
I am so blessed to be livin' the dream!
