Of Adoptions and Sealings

Sometime ago, I read an article by Dr. James Dobson about adopting children and how there are times when the child feels that he or she is not really a part of the family since they were not born into the family. Dr. Dobson suggested that the family not only celebrate the child's birthday, but also they should celebrate on the anniversary of the adoption. Deb and I decided to incorporate that into our family.


On June 29, 2005 Angie was declared by the judge to be ours legally and later that day, a temple sealer declared Angie to be ours for eternity. So, on Sunday we made a big point to have Angie understand what a special day it was. We asked her what she wanted to do, and she said she wanted to go swimming. So we told her we would do that on Monday. The video is of us right after the judge made Angie officially ours.

On Monday, we had both grandmothers for dinner. However, thundering and lightening scared us off from swimming. So we gave Angie her presents (a doll stroller and a doll play pen). She loves them both.