Spiritual Experience

Hello!  Welcome to our blog!  Thanks for visiting us.  I felt strongly I was supposed to tell you about a spiritual experience I had last night.  I was dead asleep when all of a sudden I woke to a girl's voice saying mom.  I woke up and put my arm out for one of my girls to climb into bed with me but no one was there.  I was so surprised.  I'm crying right now thinking about it.  Both Mike and I have felt a little girl's presence many times.  I know we are supposed to have another girl in our family.  Whether we have more out there than her, I do not know.  I think maybe she is trying to tell us to be patient.  This process can be very emotional.  It was not until I had another very spiritual experience telling me we were supposed to adopt to have our next child that I really started considering adoption as a possibility.  It always seemed so scary to me.  Now, Mike and I know there is another girl that is supposed to come to our family through adoption. 

We have a family member, through marriage, that is an adoption attorney in Utah.  He has been through it himself three times so he knows what he is doing.  We are hoping to make this process as wonderful and easy as we can.  If you are feeling like we might be a good match, please email me at sharenew@hotmail.com.  I felt very strongly I should get up and post this this morning.  If you feel like maybe this is speaking to you, I would love to talk with you!

 

Here is a picture of our oldest daughter when she was a baby.  

Favorite pair of shoes

I'm sorry to say I strongly dislike shoes!  I only wear them because I have to.  If I'm home, my shoes are never on, and even in my yard a lot, I don't have shoes on.  If I could create my own world, I would not have shoes.  I know a lot of women love shoes and have many pairs.  I know this is weird but honestly, usually Mike buys my shoes.  I just don't love them.  If I had to pick a pair, I would probably just choose some newer shoes I have which have memory foam in them. 

Favorite Smell

Smells are very important to me.  I love, love, love great smells.  I love to have candles going or smell good food.  If we had unlimited money, I would have fresh flowers on my table every week.  I think my favorite smells are orange and vanilla.  My grandma used to have an orange air freshener in her bathroom so orange reminds me of my grandma who passed away just before I got married.  I think that is why I love smells, because they bring up special memories. 

My Collection

As a child, I loved to collect rocks.  As I would walk home from school, I would kick the rock and see how many times it took me to kick it all the way home.  I loved beautiful rocks and have passed that onto my girls.  They also love rocks.  Now as an adult I collect snow globes.  I love the beauty  of them.  As we go on vacation, that is what I choose to bring home to remember our trip.  We also love to collect Christmas ornaments for the girls.  My parents did this and I loved the tradition so we have passed it onto our kids.  Each year they get an ornament so when they go off and get married, they will have a whole box of ornaments that are theirs to decorate their trees with.  They love finding the perfect ornament to help them remember something fun they did that year. 

Favorite Movie

Mike: 

Sharene:  I have lots of favorite movies.  The one that comes to mind first is Ever After.  I have probably watched this movie more than any others.  The movie I saw most in the theater was The Greatest Showman.  I pretty much love everything about this movie.  I really love classics like The Princess Bride, Groundhog Day and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  I also really love watching all the Avenger Series (especially Thor.  I may or may not have a celebrity crush on him 😀).  I also love Disney movies.  I loved them as a kid and love them as an adult.  I think they did a really good job with the new Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast live action movies.  My favorite Disney movie growing up was Aladdin.  The Genie was my favorite. 

Brielle:  Her favorite movies are The Greatest Showman and Coco.  She loves Hocus Pocus which we watch every year while we are carving pumpkins.  She also really loves the new live action Beauty and the Beast.

Brooklyn:  She loves Mulan, Sing and the live action Cinderella.  She also really likes Enchanted. 

I believe

I believe in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  My religion and my relationship with my Savior influence every aspect of my life.  I could go on and on about my faith and religion.  I love the 13th article of faith which reads in part....

We believe in being honest, true chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men.... We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

My goal is to seek after good things, to love others and treat them with love and respect.  Three of my biggest goals to teach my children are:

1.  To love the our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, our Savior, and develop a close relationship with them.
2.  Be kind to everyone.
3.  Work hard. 

I believe these are three of the most important traits a person can have.  I'm so grateful for the testimony I have.  It is so precious to me and an integral part of my life.  

Our ride

I have never been one to love cars (Mike on the other hand loves them and is always searching for new cars).  I just want them to work and other than that, I don't care much.  The only car I ever thought looked really nice was a Cadillac Escalade.  My husband knew this and so when an older one became available that we could afford, he jumped at the chance to get it for me.  I love that he did that.  I did realize though that again it doesn't mean anything to me other than I just want it to work properly.  It is nice having a third row though as our previous vehicle did not.  I'm grateful for a car that works so I can get where I need to go!