What started it all.

This little business card sized piece of paper has banged around here for quite a while.  Why? You ask.  These seven children (really 8, one girl, 6 boys and one unknown) are what started this whole adoption thing.  Well, not really started it, because it got started a LOOOOOOOOOONG time ago.  But this most recent productive foray into the world of adopting began when we heard about these beautiful children who were a family up for adoption in Utah.  Knowing that we wouldn't ever be able to get them (who even knows WHY we wanted them?  7 MORE children-- but they really caught our eye for some reason).  Sure enough they were adopted (or at least in the process) when we were far enough along in our paperwork.  They are what got the ball rolling.  They are what opened our minds and hearts to adopting more than 2. They are what fed the desire to keep a family together.  Where ever they are I hope they are happy, well, and together.  They will never know the change for good they brought into our life, how they played right into Heavenly Father's hands.