Introduction


We've been married for ten years. We love being an aunt and uncle to our nieces and nephews. We have been through the roller coaster of fertility options and are glad we explored those avenues. We now know that our children will come to us through adoption.
The purpose of our blog is for you to get to know us and to get word out that we are looking to adopt in the hope someone we know knows someone who is pregnant and considering
placing the child for adoption, and then refer them to us.
To the expectant parent, I don't know you or how you found yourself looking at this blog, faced with this decision to place or parent your baby. But I do know that you are a strong and amazing person for even considering adoption. God knows you and loves you. With His help and your faith I know you will be guided to make the choices that will be best for you and your baby. Know that we pray for you without yet knowing who you are.
Adoption is such a personal and unique experience for all involved and is different for each case. I believe the specifics of adoption are between the people involved and not for the general public. We do have a letter for you that has more information about us, our ideas on parenting, our families, our open adoption plans, and where you fit in. We want to get to know you and in doing so we can discuss more openly what adoption looks like to each of us.
Thank you for taking the time to look at our blog. I hope you will be able to get to know us through our posts. If you want to read our expectant parent letter please email us at jewelstewart@gmail.com and we will send you a copy.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Disneyland Trip

I know I haven't posted for a while so here ya go....
The first week in May my family went to Disneyland. We took our car that carried Ray, me and my mom, and Jennifer's car had my dad, Kaitlynn, Jen and DeWayne. We stopped in Las Vegas on the way there and stayed at Circus Circus, which is a good place to stay if you have kids or don't gamble. We went to the "Circus" there where Kaitlynn played some carnival type games and won 2 flowers!
We got to California with no "major" problems. Jennifer's car was having some stalling issues so we had to call on our favorite mechanic Uncle Bill. He had it fixed and ready to go in a few days! We stayed at our timeshare which is only 1/2 mile from the entrance to Disneyland.
Disneyland was great. Kaitlynn had a lot of fun seeing all the characters, by the end of the three days she was pretty good at getting them to notice her. She was even able to see the Princesses (which is quite the accomplishment). We spent three days between Disneyland and California Adventure which is the perfect amount of time in my opinion. We were able to let Kaitlynn do all the "kiddie" stuff and have fun with her without feeling like we were waisting our time and missing the good rides. Ray and I have been to Disneyland more recently then the rest of the family so we were kind of the leaders and everyone was asking us where to go next and what would be fun. Our last day at Disneyland Aunt Paula and Jake met me and Ray there and we went on some rides with them. By the 3rd day Ray and I were pretty wore out but Jake kept us going with his energy. That night we went to dinner with Bill, Paula and Jake. It was great to see them and catch up a little. The guys and I also went to an Angels game while we were there (but Ray still hasn't had his caramel corn).
On our way home we stayed in Las Vegas at our timeshare there and had fun swimming, Ray was even able to get his "In-n-Out" fix. We all made it home safe and sound and spent the next few weeks editing the video that Jen and DeWayne took on their video camera. It turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.
DeWayne told Kaitlynn that she had to wait until she is 10-years-old to go to Disneyland again, but my dad said he is not going until he has another grandkid that is 5... so we'll see.
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