Adoption

Dear Friends and Family,

We feel like it is time we update our friends and family concerning our adoption situation. We are still working with LDS Family Services and our profile has been shown to prospective Birth Parents several times. We have also explored other options—Utah State DCFS and international adoption. Due to health conditions that Eric and I are both medicated for, we do not qualify for the majority of international programs. We are still open to a child in state custody should the right child come along. We appreciate all the care and concern we have received from friends and family and feel confident that the Lord has plans we just don’t know about yet!
Should you come into contact with a potential birth parent or become aware of a potential please feel free to contact us. Feel free to give out our phone number, email addresses etc. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! The following is the web address where you can access our profile with LDS Family Services:

http://www.providentliving.org/ses/birthmother/searchprofiles/0,12268,2133-1,00.html

then search for the profile: EricandSharon

Love,

Eric, Sharon & Cedar

New Blog Background

SO, I decided to spruce up the old blog and give it a new template. I was clever enough to find this swanky snail one online (no idea why I picked this one, I just like the snail) but when I changed over it deleted my pics. So, I guess it is high time I got some new ones anyway. So, new pictures forthcoming.

Of Audits, sleep deprivation and other matters

So, I survived audit week. For those of you who don't know (and I'm sure don't care to know) all schools have to undergo and independent audit every year. It is painstaking two-day process preceded by meticulous preparation and a lot of lost sleep and stress. We have always done very well and this year was no exception but the whole concept of an audit causes me to twitch and makes me really need more caffeine. Well, all I want to say is that we survived, we did well and I'm not doing any work until Monday morning. I feel like I'm in college again and I just finished my last final. YIpppeeeeee!

4th of July festivities!

So, we are back from Mexico. It was a good, productive trip and we had a great time but it is nice to be home. Cedar really struggled with the lack of structure the last week in Mexico but he is doing much better now that we are home. We have had a lot of fun the last few days celebrating the 4th. We promised Cedar we would buy lots of fireworks this year but we got back and realized we can't do fireworks at our house. We are in a restricted fire zone (totally understandable--the mountain is so brown it's scary) so we did all our fireworks with our good friends the Fredericksons. Cedar had so much fun watching the fireworks with 7-year-old Bryant. Everytime we set one off the two boys would run around in circles screaming. It was pretty cute. On the fourth we missed the parade (I took benadryl the night before for some bad mosquito bites!) but we got to go to a reptile show. Cedar loved it! That afternoon the Fredericksons set up a giant slip and slide at the park. Cedar's shorts were too big and they kept falling down but he loved it! Last night we watched the Stadium of Fire fireworks from the lawn in front of the Marriott Center. It has been a great holiday weekend. Some parts of the Fourth of July are nauseating to me (I don't dress my child in red white and blue--I just can't do it) but I really do love the holiday. Now it's back to work. 12 days til my audit and counting. If only accountants had a sense of humor...........