It's another year and time just flies by! Since the last post we haven't been able to finish up the paperwork for the next adoption. Man it sure takes a lot to get all of that done. We should be finished within the next couple of weeks and then the actual waiting begins. I wish that it would just happen over night. We need another baby in our family and I can't wait for it to happen again! Cross your fingers and spread the word.

Adoption Trail

Daven and I are on another adoption trail in search of another child to come into our family. We are looking to add more to our family with adoption. It's the only way. We know Kaub needs a brother or sister to learn to share. That is Kaub's favorite word lately. "share". He doesn't quite know what it means but he likes to say it. We know that a lot of adoptions happen from someone knows someone knows someone. So please keep us in your thoughts again as we search for a child to add to the Farr family.

Easter 2010

We took a buggy ride out into the New Mexico desert and hunted for eggs in the bushes. The kids loved it. There's Porter, Payson (Kaub's cousins) and Ivy our friend. I know there baskets are a ittle funky but they didn't care. Kaub only cared about the candy inside!!!

Christmas 2009

Christmas was really fun this year. Mostly because Kaub is so fun. He loves it all. He didn't understand the opening of presents. We couldn't get him to tear the paper. In one present was a truck and dad couldn't open it fast enough for him. He knows his trucks. We spent the weekend with Daven's family. Which was really fun. There are eleven little cousins running around for Kaub to play with. Lots of yelling and banging around. I only saw Kaub if he was hungry, thirsty or tired. He loves the kids. We hope that everyone had a great Christmas and may the Lord bless you.

We had family pictures with the Johnson family Thanksgiving weekend and these pictures are the boys goofing around. They were so handsome don't cha think!!

National Adoption Month

The month of November is National Adoption Month. Everyone needs to be more informed about adoption. I found these common thoughts posted on the Families Supporting Adoption link and thought I should do a little spreading of them myself. Be more informed!

Old Think vs. New Think
*The OLD think is in BLUE.
If I find myself unexpectedly pregnant, abortion and single parenting are my only choices.
There is a third choice, one that has proven to be a success for birth mothers and children–the adoption option.
I would never consider adoption–it would be too hard.
Which ever choice you make will present many hardships–adoption may be no more difficult than abortion or single parenting.
My friends and family will think I'm terrible giving up my own flesh and blood.
Adoption is not "giving up," it is giving to–a decision you have carefully made out of love for the future of your child and yourself.
I'll never know what happened to my baby. I simply couldn't live that way.
The old way of doing adoptions (secrecy and no control) is out. The new way–open adoption–allows you to make the decisions regarding the future of your child and yourself.
Why adoption? Isn't it just for people who can't have their own kids?
Not necessarily true. Yes, some people cannot biologically conceive, but adoption provides a family for a child, not a child for a family.
Kids who are adopted have lots of problems.
Not founded in fact. Refer to the Search Institute Study. Children who are adopted have, among other characteristics, high self-esteem and positive identity concerns at rates as high or higher than their peers.
What about me? I feel it's my responsibility to raise my child.
Your responsibility is to make the very best and informed decision that you can for your child. Studies show that birth mothers who make an adoption plan typically move on with their life, finish their education, have a career, and eventually marry.

It's Autumn Time!

Can you believe it's already fall that means cold weather and bundling up. For the Farr family it means cutting down trees for firewood.

Here's Kaub checking the tires on the trailor. We went to the woods in Show Low with the family. All of this wood went to New Mexico to share with Orrin and KiLeigh. I think there's enough!

It also means the leaves are falling. This is Kaub playing in the leaves with his cousin Tyson in Moab, UT. We went on a little trip for Daven's 33 birthday to Moab. Daven rode his bike on the trails with my brother and friends while the girls took the kids to the park and played.

And of course it means you have to wear jackets, hats, and gloves. Here's us at the shop just hanging out together as a family.