Let's start at the very beginning...

David and I have been married 20 yrs. this coming March. We wanted to start a blog to connect with birth families (in the US and across the world) and with our friends and family who are here in Arizona and across the world. I (Mary) am excited to do this online journal! I hope any of you reading this will respond and let me know what's up in your world! Be patient with me as I learn the blogging world and update with current pictures and info....for now we thought we would give a little background.

Engagement picture...1989. I love teal....and now it's in style again ! I met David at a church dance and really got to know him while attending Arizona State University.

We were married March 3rd, 1989 in the Arizona Temple. He was and still is my Prince Charming. We spent the first 9 yrs. of marriage in Sacramento, CA....David worked for Granite Construction as a Civil Engineer (project estimator and project manager). We moved back to AZ in 1998 and haven't regretted it.....it has been great being around cousins, Aunts and Uncles and Grandparents. David works for Woodbine Development as a Project Manager....doing high-end retail projects like Kierland Commons in Scottsdale. Mary teaches Music part-time, helps with Children Performing Groups, Substitute teaches a few times a month for 3 school districts, and mainly keeps 7 people's schedules running.

My brother Paul took this picture...he calls it "Looking Into Eternity

My friend Annette took this picture of us...in preparation to adopt. We have adopted 5 beautiful children: Jessica (14) Brett (almost 13), Jenna (11), Jackson (7) and Vanessa (7). Jessica and Jenna were CA adoptions, Brett was a UT adoption, and Jackson and Vanessa were both adopted at 1-1/2 from Ekaterinburg, Russia.














The kids are sooooo cute here! This is in Sacramento, CA right before we moved back to AZ.














This is our family picture that we used to try to adopt Jackson and Vanessa.