Twenty one years ago our beautiful, precious daughter was born! The tail end of a remarkable story beginning many years prior to her birth is that our son, her darling five year old brother, insisted that we needed to wish on a star for his baby sister. He was adamant as he had just watched the Flintstones cartoon program on TV and Barny and Betty Rubble wished on a star and baby Bam-Bam was awaiting their surprise discovery on their doorstep the following day.
We did, indeed, wish on a star that evening but more so to humor our sweet son; after all what could it hurt?! (grin) ... guess what ... literally two days later we received a call from our adoption agency asking if we would like to come and bring our new baby daughter home; we were totally surprised and in a great deal of shock!!!! Of course a little fasting and prayer (actually a lot) did not hurt either :) How blessed our family has been to have our incredible daughter bless our lives! Heavenly Father gets the correct spirit to the correct home one way or another!
Now twenty-one years later, our incredibly intelligent, talented, inquisitive, spiritual, beautiful, kind, loving, devoted, comical co-ed continues to brighten the lives of all in whom she comes to know. A breath of fresh air, living at the speed of light she continues to leave her unique mark on life. We are excited to see what lies in store for her in the years to come; we know what ever challenges and joys await her she will be up to the task of living a life worthy of the experiences, tests, and blessings our Heavenly Father will continue to bestow upon her.
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight ... I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. We wished on a star and our Ashley babe came true! We are definitely a family who will forever believe in the magic of wishing on stars! Happy birthday sweetheart! xoxo
And by the way - our son and daughter continue to share a most delightful, loving, brother-sister relationship to this day; they are the very best of friends!
And WHY do I post all of the zany photos, thoughts and memories on my blog? As a family legacy for our children and grandchildren to read and reflect upon in the years to come!
ReplyDeleteThis blog serves as a portion of my family history and hopefully will help our posterity come to know us better; as well as inspire them to record their own histories as our prophets have counseled us to do :)