September 2013- Making room for baby

Matt and I celebrated our 9th Anniversary on Sept. 4th. We gave some thoughts about what we really wanted to do to celebrate. This year, we were just so excited to be approved for adoption and we didn't really need anything for ourselves. We believe that the best way to attract positive things into our lives is to keep a positive attitude. We want to keep the idea of a baby coming soon in our minds and hearts. So we decided to spend our anniversary shopping for our first big baby purchase. We headed to Babies R Us (only because they had a good price on what we wanted) and they had a free giveaway for spending a certain amount! We were so excited to bring home and set up our new infant seat and stroller set.

 We got a free video monitor with our purchase. We spent about an hour watching the animals in the hallway to see what they would do.

Matt got to set up the stroller/jogger with instructions.




It was hilarious, if only you could have seen us trying out different strollers in the store. We snapped and unsnapped every button and clamp, walked up and down the aisle with two hands, one hand, picked it up, collapsed it and set each one up. New parents, pshshshsh.

 





 After our anniversary, we got a special visit from Matt's cousin's wife and daughter. It's much easier and more accurate description to just call them our close friends. We are always so excited to have visitors. We took them to the Children's Museum for an hour or two. I so wish the visit could have been longer! Here is Jordis scooping up ice cream for us:


After Jena's visit, she and Jordis flew home on the same flight we took to Utah. Matt and I took an extra long weekend off from work and got out of town. We try to make it home to our hometown of Brigham City at least every other year at Peach Days time. Of course, we make it back for visits a few times a year, but Peach Days is always a special treat. It is the 2nd weekend in September and it is a tradition that only a Brigham City-ite could understand. Matt hates flying so he had to get some prescription anti-anxiety medicine for the 1 hour flights. It made him a little loopy but he seemed normal until later he admitted that he lost his memory of almost the entire flight.
Well we had a great time visiting with our good friends, family, watching the parade, visiting booths, riding rides with our nephew, and trying some peach cobbler. The weather was beautiful (even despite a little rain) and the company was even better. Enjoy these pictures from our visit:

 The Reeder family tradition is to sit on Main street close to our old family home and watch the parade on Saturday morning. My aunt Julene, Linda, Uncle Clark and his family, and there is my Grandma and Mom in the background. My Dad is making quite a reputation for wearing his pharaoh hat around town.

 The Peach Days car show is the largest in the northwester US. (Yes, bigger than the Cache Valley Crusin!) We always take a walk down to see the cars and hopefully run into more friends. As luck would have it, we ran into our friends Ashton and Megan Young and their cute kiddos!

 My sister and her honey-bunny, Jared are enjoying some dinner at 'the wall.' We always get together at the wall in front of the courthouse since it was the hangout for Matt and his friends in High School.

We are so lucky to have such great friends that can all get together from different parts of the country at Peach Days. When we were hanging out with other friends at my High School reunion and Matt got off the phone to say "Braden's going to meet us at The Wall.", it blew them away like a flashback from the old days!
Here is Chris, Braden, and Matt sharing brotherly love.


Our view from The Wall on Main Street is looking down Forest Street at the carnival. Everyone comes home for Peach Days!




We had so much fun we didn't want to say goodbye. One of the best things about going home was to hand out a lot of contact cards to everyone we came in contact with. With a lot of hard work, faith, hope, and getting the word out there, our baby will find its way to us soon. Even if it means bugging everyone we know for a little while longer.