HI and Thank you for checking out our blog! We appreciate that you are considering adoption. We hope this blog gives you information about who we are and what we are like as a family to help you know if we could be a good adoption match for you. We have an open adoption with our daughter, Nicole, and welcome an open adoption with you if that is what you are comfortable with. Feel free to contact us with any questions.














































Monday, February 15, 2010

Picture Gallery

Nicole playing soccer.

We have two shih tzus named Bruiser and Katie. Kaila and Nicole each sleep with one of the dogs at night.



Family trampoline time.



Marla loves snuggles from Nicole!



Kaila gives Nicole a ride on her scooter. The two sisters do lots of things together. Nicole wants to be just like her big sister!



Nothing like a family Rock Band tournament!



Family sledding trip. It was fun until we popped the tube!



Jared helps Nicole at the bowling ally.



Nicole gets a piggy-back ride during a family hike.



Both sets of grandparents have 4-wheelers so we get lots of opportunity to ride them. 4-wheeling is one of Kaila's favorite things. She can ride for hours!



Jared and "his girls" watch a movie together.



We have a boat and we take it out as much as we can throughout the summer. Our favorite thing is to ride the tube!



The little cousins are waiting their turn to ride on the tube. They don't like their eyes getting splashed so they wear goggles. It looks so hillarious!



Nicole is proud of her bravery to jump into the water with Daddy.



Every year Grandma has an Easter Egg hunt at her house. We get together with all the cousins at Grandpa and Grandma's house often. We love time spent playing with cousins at Grandma's adventurous house.



Marla and Nicole attend a childrens play, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". It was so fun to see Nicole laugh hysterically at the silly mouse.



We love going on trips with cousins. Here we are visiting Indian ruins at Mesa Verde, CO.



I wanna be a cowgirl! We love to visit Great-grandpa's farm and ride horses, gather chicken eggs, chase peacocks and have good old fashion fun!



Kaila takes Nicole to preschool day at school. Kaila is such a great big sister!

Marla and Nicole visit a museum with a preschool field trip



Kaila skis with her cousin




Kaila competes in Dancesport competitions.
She is quite accomplished.




Kaila shoots a basket at her Young Womens basketball game.



Jared helps Nicole shoot a basket.






Jared reads scripture stories with Nicole.