While in Salt Lake, we had a photo shoot in the snow by Highlight Photography with cousin Alyvia! Above are the take-aways! Vienna was upset 99.9% of the shoot. (She had 8 teeth coming in at the time!) So the photographers kept saying that she was sporting the Gap runway baby model look. Ethan on the other hand was very protective of his little sister. He told Vienna while in the snow, “Don’t fall, Enna. Don’t fall.” You can just see in the photos how protective and sweet he is over “his girls.” I am so proud of my little gentleman.
Next week I go in for yet another little surgery. I’m not pumped about it. But the great thing is that Nana Anderson is coming into town to help for a week! My house is so shiny for weeks after she leaves! She is basically my personal Mary Poppins/Martha Stewart. I really lucked out in the mom department that way. She is a master at way too many things. So I am looking forward to that.
For those of you that have asked (or who haven’t): Yes, Lee and I were trying to adopt a special little boy between Ethan and Vienna’s age during Christmas. Unfortunately it did not work out. But the great part is that it has opened our hearts to expanding our family. I think it is so interesting how the Lord works. God puts these little ideas into women’s hearts and they start getting these little itches for a child and then He just lets it grow and grow and grow until it is the exact right time. How and when (or even if) our family grows is an exciting adventure for me. I feel so lucky. Some girls seem sad by fertility issues, but that has never been me. I guess it is a gift God’s given me. I have just seen it as an adventure. I’ve never felt like it was a curse or even much of a challenge. At times, I have even felt bad that I didn’t feel worse about it. But I think God gives us challenges that fit our hearts. I believe that I may one day still have a baby “naturally” but there is no doubt that those children would be any more mine than the ones I have now. They were fit for my heart and the love there can never be equalled. I just want to give them everything in the world I can.
My little snow angels – You deserve nothing less than Heaven itself here on Earth.
My little snow angels – You deserve nothing less than Heaven itself here on Earth.
