Better late than never...

Sorry it's been awhile, but we've had a lot going on, both in our adoption and personal worlds.

First we want to show you the finished products of our reupholstered couch and new ottoman - we LOVE them!

We feel like we have a new living room. :)

We have been busy getting SML through her last semester of nursing school.  She's on the home stretch now and only has two finals between her and graduation!
I've been really busy at work and trying to balance home life for SML.

With a busy schedule, we've been receiving on average 2 contacts from birthmoms per month.  Some have been scams, of which we only invested about 24 hours into two of them, and all have lead to nothing.  The other contacts have been legit birthmothers that ended communication with us or decided to parent.  We feel like we have been playing a dating game and each result is "it's not you, it's me."

So needless to say we have been emotionally drained and exhausted from being "on" every time we receive a phone call or email.  We needed to take a break from anything that wasn't essential for us to live, hence the break in updates.

We feel like we are starting to get back on our feet, but are still waiting.  We have stopped our Facebook ad, increased our monthly contribution to our google ad, and increased our advertising with Adoptimist.  Adoptimist has actually been a good lead in some of our contacts and displays banner ads online for us, like this:


Our letter count has been pretty consistent; we had letters 8 go out in January, 8 in February, and 10 in March.

We are trying not to focus so much on adoption, since it's been 16 months, and planning things we want to do.  We joined a crossfit gym and will start that in May! We are excited to have a workout routine again and finally be able to get in the shape we once were.  Running has been fun, but we need to add to it.  We just completed a zombie mud run, which was a blast! Check out our pics on our Facebook adoption page.
We are going to go see Jillian Michaels this week...which SML is very excited about!  Since she is on SML's "list," I hope we don't get too close to her...otherwise I'll have to find another ride home.  We bought tickets to see the Lumineers in June.  And the day after SML finishes her exams, we are going to stay at a b&b that we enjoy at Sunset Beach for a couple of nights!

So, stay tuned...we don't have to put our life on hold anymore. :)