one step closer to sleepless nights

Today I turned in the last little form needed for us to be approved for adoption.

CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH?

Thanks.

Now, we just wait two weeks for the agency board to meet and formally approve us as an adoptive couple, and then we will go into a nation-wide database and people can look us up and stuff.

So....more waiting. But it's a different kind of waiting. A good kind of waiting.

YIPPEE!!

On The Rocks - Bad Romance - 4/23/10

Okay, watch this video.

NOW.

Did you watch it? DID YOU?

I love it. I love it because it combines my love for nerdy drama-class-ish stuff with, well, Lady Gaga.

One time I was talking to my little brother and I was all "I love Lady Gaga" and he laughed and then was like "Oh...you were serious..." and I was like "YOU BETCHA I'M SERIOUS BECAUSE SHE'S CRAZY AWESOME".

So, I think what I'm saying is WATCH THIS VIDEO.

NOW.

P.S. Big thank you to my friend Leslie for sending me this link. Watching this video turns me into a three year old. Serious. I laugh and clap and then I'm like "AGAIN!!!"

sunday looks like this (when paul is there)

 

 

 

 

I think the real showstopper here is sweet little Addi mining for gold while holding a little red firetruck. Addi is the mom of the bunch, always sharing, helping clean up...this kid is a gem!

She's on vacay right now and I think she knew we would miss her times fifty, so she wrote us what I am quite confident is THE CUTEST LETTER EVER WRITTEN (dictation taken by mom):

Paul and Andrea-

Bye. I'm visiting my grandma this summer and will miss you. I have fun playing, dancing, jumping, blowing bubbles, playing with toys, playing games, duck duck goose, playing jump inside the circle, singing, and learning about Jesus in Nursery. Andrea I like when you read me stories. Paul I like to climb on you. And I like to snuggle with Paul and Andrea. I like to give big snuggles. Thank you for being my best teachers and my good teachers. I like to hold babies and play at the park. I like to paint and color in Nursery. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will see you when I get back from my grandma's house.

Love,

Addi

Okay, did you melt? Are you a puddle? If you didn't melt, you're probably the Ice Queen from Narnia, FYI.

BECAUSE THAT IS CUTE.

this is where i post more pictures

 

 

 

 

Okay, so, more bridal shower pics. See the one of my mom (in the middle) with my Aunt Cindy and her BFF Debbie? Aren't they cute? Don't you just want to wrap them up in a Nutella covered pancake and eat them for a snack? No? Just me?

You will of course note the pic of my sister, the stunningly beautiful brunette having a ribbon-covered plate attached to her head. Lovely, no?

And then there's Paul and myself posing in front of the muscle car. You're probably looking at that picture and thinking "Wow, she totally doesn't look like she's about to have a full-blown hormonal meltdown in a public place because Paul didn't follow her dad on the drive like he was supposed to", and you'd be right. I don't look like that at all. More on that later.

Also, Paul? You there? I love you forever times fifty and thanks for still liking me even after I throw a public tantrum.

Really, thanks. (That tantrum was a baddie.)

i return triumphant

 

 

 

 

I have returned.

Triumphant.

Why? Because I, Andrea Boerem, threw a bridal shower for my sister Miriam, and IT WAS CUTE. My super-talented friend Nicole helped me, so that's probably why it was so cute. I swear, it's like everything she touches turns cute. Like you'd pick up some crazy ugly vase and be all "this vase is ugly" and then Nicole would pick it up and you'd be all "nope, it just turned cute..."

And, completely unrelated to cuteness, is the car that Paul rented. A bright blue mustang. There's just something about a mustang that makes you want to drape yourself all over the hood and pose sexy-like, so I had to restrain myself. Also I may or may not have a picture of me riding a Segway. More pics to follow.

I think that about covers it: cuteness, mustang, Segway, we're back.

Hiya.

Harriet's Pet Pea

Smories - new stories for children, read by children


Yay! Here's my story!

If you read it and it doesn't make you puke or anything then maybe you could send it to more peoples and then maybe I'll win something and I can finally buy that industrial size life raft I've been saving up for.

Also I heart you guys.

Also that.

hello, utah

Hello, Utah.

We're going to visit you this week. If you could please make sure that you are not humid in the slightest (and that should not be a problem) I would greatly appreciate it.

Also if you could tell everyone to be extra nice (and that should not be a problem) we will come back to the big city and tell everyone how nice all your people are and who doesn't like a little good PR?

Thanks for having pretty mountains and also for being a home to some of my favorite people.

Tell American Fork I say hi. I was born there, so I think she knows me.