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Jed and I are high school sweethearts. We met in Las Vegas at Bonanza High School, or at church. Depends on which one of us you ask! We got married and Jed attended BYU. I always wanted to be a stay at home mommy and have a dozen kids. Well after having 7 pregnancies in 5 years with 5 births, two preemies and a failure to thrive child ON birth control we decided we needed to stop having biological children. So we did foster care for about four years until we decided to adopt. We got our girls when Ceaira was almost three, Taryn was 18 months and Taylynne was 6 months. Zane was born during the process. One of the comments that gets to me the most after people ask "Are they ALL yours" and I say yes, they say did you have them all. I always feel that is an insult somehow and am working hard to overcome that. No matter which way we brought our children into our family they are all OURS, our names are on their birth certificates and we wept, had sleepless nights, worried and wondered on the journey to get them all in our family. We will often tell people, "Yes we have adopted children but we can't remember which are which." I have come around a bit trying to remember someone might be interested in adoption or have adopted themselves and so by being more open about talking about it I might influence someone else or them me. Our children are now 19, 17, 16, 15, 14, 11, 9, 8, and 7. They keep us very busy but we love it.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

"Missionary service is not easy, but it is infinitely worth it." - M. Russell Ballard


He is gone, sniff sniff. This has been quite the adventure to send out a son on a mission for two years. Deven was called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in South Carolina. He entered the Missionary Training Center yesterday May 4, 2011. There he will learn how to be a missionary, spend nine hours a day learning. After three weeks at the MTC he will go to South Carolina. From the time he gets to the MTC until the end of his mission he will serve with another Elder and they will be together always. They leave the world behind and do not watch tv, listen to music other than approved church music, read books other than the scriptures, they are not allow to call home except a couple of times a year, Christmas and Mother's Day and those calls can only last about 40 minutes. They communicate through mail and we as his family trust our kids to the Lord for this time. We know it will teach him so much to be on his own and in such a structured environment and we are excited for him but we miss him already.
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