Weekend Wrap-Up... Calling all Race Fans

We had another kind of relaxing weekend... Sort of strange for us, but we are not complaining.

Friday night Dan and his fellow Elder's Quorum buddies were in charge of a Ward Party... They choose to have a pinewood derby throw-down! It turned out to be a lot of fun and brought out tons of people. There was a lot of fun and there were races going all evening long. Good times!

Saturday we actually just relaxed in the morning and then hung out with some friends in the evening. Dan did some boxing and I did some scrapbooking. A pretty perfect afternoon, and then we all went out for dinner.

Sunday was Stake Conference and we headed over to mom and dad's for some BBQ to top it off!

Picture Perfect Weekend

We had a great weekend... We started off with a concert poolside at the Hard Rock on Friday night. We headed out and were able to join some friends and just relaxed and listened to some music. I will have to admit the best part was people watching. Concerts, pools, music, and alcohol sometimes bring out some crazy people... and it makes the best kind of people watching. Too FUN!

Saturday morning we headed to Lake Las Vegas for a fun photo shoot. Now... we have not had pictures taken for a LONG time. You just don't take pictures that often when it is just the two of you. A friend and fellow FSA member is building her business (Marissa d photography) and offered to take some pictures for us. It was really fun and we were able to get some cute pictures.


She is still working on the rest of the editing and such (she has her work cut out to help us look fabulous) but I am excited to have some updated pictures finally!

BUTTON?!

So... while we were at the adoption convention and the week to follow I have made a new friend... an amazingly talented new friend who out of the kindness of her heart decided that she wanted to help us on our journey of adoption. She created this new "button" for us to use on our blog and for any of our friends to use as well.

I know I have already called in a huge favor before and asked anyone out there to please post about us or to put a little "snippet" about us on their sidebar but I am here again.... If you would be so kind and just "grab our button" and stick it on your blog that would be awesome! We really are trying to do all that we can to get our name out there and try to reach as many people as possible in hopes of finding our birthmom.

So... go on.... get grabbing!

Thanks for all of your support and thanks to Meka for this great button!

National Adoption Conference

Once again this year we packed up the car and headed out to Utah to learn all we could from those who know at the Families Supporting Adoption National Conference... and let me just say... we were not disappointed. It was a great conference. There is always something that we take away from it, something that we learn, something that hits us, something that we take back to our local chapter.... something!

This year was great because we were able to be there with a few other couples from the Las Vegas chapter and we didn't have to feel like we didn't know anyone. It was awesome.

The only scary part of the whole weekend is that while we were there Brad, our caseworker, asked us to join him for lunch and a little weekend with the other co-chairs from the SW region and the next thing you know we are on the Regional Board and signed up as the outreach chairs! What? I don't know how these things happen but I just hope we do a good job and don't let people down. We thought it would get us out of our current situation as chairs in Las Vegas, but no such luck! We are doing double duty now!!!

One of the highlights of the conference every year is the keynote speaker on Saturday morning and this year was no different. This year we were able to hear from Troy Dunn who is a member of the church, a current bishop, father of a son currently serving in Moscow, Russia on a mission, and well-known from his television show "The Locator" where he reunites many families (some of them adoptees). He talked to us about many situations he has seen but his best story was the one of his own families. He has a younger brother who is adopted and the thing he remembers about it is his mother telling him that they had to pray and someone else would be praying as well. Heavenly Father would then find the right person and they would be able to "trade prayers" and the adoption would be able to take place. I thought that was a great way to explain adoption to little ones, but it also made it seem so simple as well.

I hope that one day we will be able to find the right person to "trade our prayer" with!