Update

its been awhile since i have last posted on here. i do post alot on my birthmother blog. Not much has been going on lately with us. We both have been working alot. Trying to get back into school. I have been going back to my support group after i took a bit  of time off, i am glad to be back. cant wait for this week. we are going to be planning our service activity. Thanks to this blog birthmotherbaskets.blogspot.com. she has inspired The mesa LDS family service office to start their own. I am excited to get this going. I really hope it turns into something big.

We are creating Birthmother baskets to send home with each birthmother  when they leave the hospital. it will have lots of self care items and other fun needed items to help support after placement. We will be planning fundraiser and how to collect donations. i will be creating a blog for th blaskets with a paypal link for donations as well as and address to mail dontations. this is a good cause so please spread the word on this. I am excited to get this rolling.

Braden and I are doing wonderful. the house is still coming along... his brother gets home from his mission on march 26th and my sister comes home from her mission on march 6th i cant wait to see her and meet straton.we find it funny that we havent meet eachother brother and sister, maybe they will date. :) well this is all for now i will post  new pictures when i take more..

Our First Christmas

We spent our first Christmas in Arizona, unfortunatly i was unable to get time off and Bradens new banker decided to have her baby 2 weeks early which meant he worked dec 26th and so did I. It was stilla great Christmas even though we were unable to spend it with our families. We did make a quick overnight trip to Holbrook sat night arriving really late and leaving sunday afternoon.We went for his best friends borthers mission homecoming and our friends baby blessing, it was a quick trip though.

Christmas Pictures of Evelyn--she is 14 months old

New additions

the new entertainment center and 54" Plasma

Braden's office desk and new leather futon

the king size bed :)

we need to paint the house, put up pictures then it should be complete

Hard Times

This month has been a fairly hard one for me... it has to do with my year anniversary of my placement coming up next week... My husband has been very patient with me... the other day was a rater rough one and he brought me home red roses and a starbucks hot chocolate. I love my husband this little treat definitly made my day better.... i love him so much and i am grateful i have him thru this process and had him there after i placed my little angel...

another blog

i have created a blog to follow my journey thru open adoption..

abirthmothersgift.blogspot.com



i decided that i post alot of adoption and family and wanted to spilit it up

Happy 26th Birthday!!!

Oct 10th was my 26th birthday, thanks to my wonderful husband I had an AWESOME birthday.
Timeline of the day
~wake up at 10am- Crepes for breakfast in bed
~ open presents
~3pm special visitors- The Allens, suprise set up by Braden for a special visit
~ Birthday dinner at Firebirds Steakhouse
~8pm home- get scared to death by my friends who were waiting in the dark, Malise made an awesome cake

I LOVE FALL !!!

Loni took us to a pumpkin patch in Snowflake, Az... it was my birthday present it was so much fun too many pumpkins to choose from... my pumpkin weighed 30 pounds lol

happy 11 months Miss Evelyn Allen

I cant believe it has been 11 months, it seems like it was yesterday that i found out i was pregnant. here are the most recent pictures, she is definitly looking like a Warner girl

wedding pics

sorry guys we are still waiting on our wedding pictures from our photographer they are almost done.. the one i have posted my aunt took and sister edited it... i will post wedding pictures as soon as i have them.

Thank you to everyone who attended and made it a fun wedding.. it was exactly what i dreamed and the food was amazing, thanks to my new father.. everything was beautiful ... more to come

Eternal Famiy

these are a little late, but its still the same....

this was such a beautiful day, i was so blessed along with my family to share in the blessings of this day.. I am grateful for eternal families. i have a true testimony of eternal families.

scrapbooking

wow i have done alot in a little time, still not done about 14 more pages to complete before the wedding....

Random stuff

Football Cake

My Managers birthday was last week.... He loves the NY Giants and Hates the Cowboys so i made this cake for him.. it was a 2 layer chocolate fudge with a raspberry filling.. the footballs were dark chocolate brownies





My 4th of July cupcakes

Evelyn Gisele Allen 8 Months Old

Here are some new pictures from Daniel and Lynzie... Some are from my bridal shower and the rest are 4th of July Weekend in Pinetop