Updates.....:)

So, I have been waiting to update everyone about whats going on in my life, but I can't hold it in any longer. I am PREGNANT!! Yep! Sure enough. I found out on October 4, and its still not real to me. I go to the dr. for my first appointment on the 31, and we will get the ultrasound, and everything. I am super excited, and shocked, and scared, and worried, and sick. Its lovely!! :)
  So, thanks to all of you that have kept me in your prayers, and loved, and supported me throughout the years. After 6 1/2 years filled with joy, but also sorrow, pain, longing...etc its all coming together and we get to experience it for ourselves. I am so grateful for this opportunity, and for the lessons I have learned throughout the years.
Please continue to keep me and our little one in your prayers.
 Love you all, Keira

Rascal Flatts - Stand

Still alive....just feeling like I have dropped off the side of the planet

Hello all!!!
 Sorry it has been so incredibly long since I have gotten on here to write. I am alive and well, but very busy and tired. Life continues on. Hope all is well with everyone. There has been a song that has been in my head for several months now that kinda has hit me differently with the challenges that my life has brought me. Its by Rascal Flatts and its called Stand. Check it out. Its a keeper! I love country music and one of my very faves is Rascal Flatts! Anyhow, in the song it talks about how you basically get knocked down and you have to get up, dust yourself off, and stand back up. You will see how strong you really are. I promise its a lot better than the way I just described it, but ya know....
  I feel like it fits with all of us and the different struggles that we go through. Only a loving Heavenly Father knows where we are at and where we need to be and exactly what needs to happen to get us there. Unfortunately it is most often accompanied by trials. We just gotta keep on standing back up.
  Love you all. Thanks for your continued prayers, love and support.
Love, Keira

More than one kind of missionary work

This morning I found out that a senior missionary couple is now working with LDSFS to help us hopeful adoptive couples here in northern Nevada. That is their mission. They are from Nevada and are able to do their mission in their own home. I don't know all the details but part of what they will be doing is getting our profiles to hospitals, talking to bishops, and basically getting our names out there. I'm so excited about this and hoping their help will help us. So this means it is time to update our profile, which I've been meaning to do for a couple months now. The missionary couple actually has a daughter who adopted their first child through LDSFS and a few other children through the state, and they have another daughter who is going through LDSFS as well. They think this might be why they were called to do this mission. At least I think that's what I heard. I was told all this second hand. That's all the info I have and thought I'd share since I'm excited about this. And I know I already said that. Give me a break, this makes me happy.
~Candice

There hasn't been much activity on here from Keira and I, although I can't speak for Keira but the reason behind my inactivity is because there really hasn't been anything new. Still going through ups and downs. Always going through them. But there's nothing new in that. Still trying to get our name out there in hopes of adopting. Going to be doing more infertility procedures. Not looking forward to that, but if it gets us a baby, I'm more than willing.
Watched General Conference this last weekend. Really enjoyed it. Got me motivated to read the Book of Mormon more often. I get in phases where I read it all the time and then there are lulls in my reading. Then there was one talk that made mention of different sorts of people, couples with children, people who are single and childless, couples who are childless. To be quite frank, I don't remember much of his talk because I was just crying through it. Then there was another talk about fathers raising daughters, and Shalum couldn't listen to it and left the room for that one. But for the most part I enjoyed the conference. I love listening to our prophet, Thomas S. Monson. I have always enjoyed listening to his talks. You can feel his love for all of us when you listen to him.
In a week and a half I'll be spending an evening with two other couples who live here in Elko, who are also part of the LDS Family Services Las Vegas adoption agency. We're really good friends with one of the couples, the other we have yet to meet. Dinner and games. I'm looking forward to it. But other than that. There's been nothing new.
Oh, the twins are doing good. Taylor was moved to a big girl crib a couple days ago. They're both growing and gaining weight.
~Candice