Trying something new

Blogging is a new thing we are trying. As many of our friends and family already know, we have filed for adoption. Justin and I have been married for thirteen and a half years, and we have been trying to start our family for eleven and a half. It has been a long road for us, but we are staying positive.

We love spending time with our nieces and nephews; we don't get to see them too often, but when we do, Justin is the instigator of the horse play. We have had the opportunity to tend our neices and nephews overnight for several days through the years. It was always a bit sad for us when we had to send the kiddos home with their parents. Even if one did lock us out of the house on accident. :)

 And without sounding too creepy, we also enjoy the company of our neighbors' children. We go to visit and while I am chatting it up with the ladies, Justin is again playing with the kids.

We appreciate all the opportunities we have to be around children. It makes us happy to hear all of their laughter and sounds of playing.

Becky is a High School Teacher and I am a government lacky working for the State of Utah doing top secret work as a paper pusher. In my spare time I putter around in my garage working on my jeep or doing any sundry of projects around the house.  The Neighbors like to joke that I have every power tool known to man, which they are clearly wrong because the garage is too small for that and I am always looking for the newest tool at the hardware store.  I am very good at starting projects that are a bit to big for my own good, however amazingly Becky takes it all in stride and as of this writing has not banished me to sleeping on the couch.  My current big project is trying to build up a replacment jeep to ride the back country trails in as my current Jeep is a bit tired and beat up.  Four wheeling is big passion for us and we love to travel to Moab to ride on trails.  We would probably have a few more pictures and videos of the jeep on the trail but Becky doesn't like getting out of the Jeep and when she does she seems to take more pictures of the ground than of the actual Jeep....Just nervous about scratching the "wonderful" paint job I guess.....