wonderful saturday –<\/p>\n
today was a gorgeous start to the weekend.\u00a0 we got up and headed to cary to meet cathy, steve, and gus (some friends we found through yelp who’ve recently adopted a little miracle of their own.)\u00a0 it was great to finally meet some folks who had been through the process, been where we are now, and have ended up in such a good place with their sweet baby boy.\u00a0 cathy brought us a copy of their profile book so we can get a feel for the layout and the contents in what we can prepare to create for our own.\u00a0 she also brought us a book about birthmothers and even a baby einstein book for our future little one!\u00a0 how sweet!<\/p>\n
after lunch we decided it was a great day to be a tourist in our own town.\u00a0 we headed to downtown wake forest to tour the musem of the birth place of wake forest university.\u00a0 we pulled up and admired the lawn, the gardens, the fountain, the setting – and then we waltzed up to the porch to find a note that said it was closed for remodel, but was set to open again on november 14th.\u00a0 drat the luck!\u00a0 oh well – c’est la vie!\u00a0 so we continued to tour the outside, pose for photos, and just enjoy the amazing weather.\u00a0 we learned that the town used to be called “the forest of wake” because it was in wake county and there were an abundance of hardwood trees.\u00a0 we both loved the story of this.\u00a0 we strolled down main street admiring the old homes and trees and then had to partake in our usual saturday shopping (just to support local businesses of course.)<\/p>\n
for dinner we decided to head south towards down town raleigh for some pho noodle soup.\u00a0 we made our way to pho cali and had some great vietnamese soup and sammies!\u00a0 delish!\u00a0 while we were there we saw a family come in for their dinner.\u00a0 it was a father with 4 pre-teen children of multiple ethnicities.\u00a0 they laughed and giggled together as the father explained to them what pho noodle soup was and how the\u00a0broth was prepared.\u00a0 two of the boys had mohawks and will and i both joked with each other that this would be him with our kids one day.\u00a0 i loved hearing all of those little cuties call the father “daddy”.\u00a0 \u00a0too sweet.<\/p>\n
we’d\u00a0 picked up a flyer at a local popcorn store last night and decided to go to “anchorsoul” at faith baptist church in youngsville.\u00a0 after reading about the event on their website we learned that local adoption agencies and foster care services would be on site to provide information.\u00a0 the event is a haunted house alternative and proved to\u00a0give us\u00a0something further for us to think about on our faith journeys.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.faithnc.org\/anchorsoul<\/a>\u00a0 we both really enjoyed the production and the services offered by this very large baptist church.\u00a0 looks like they are doing some good work!\u00a0 the entire thing just reiterated that the path we are on is exactly where we’re supposed to be.<\/p>\n\n\t\t