its official

It is my pleasure to announce that as of 2:43:54 on Wednesday December the 5th 2007, Lindsay and I are the proud LEGAL parents of Kenna Allie Mae Wyatt. This day is something we have been looking forward to for years.



The day started as any normal Wednesday I woke up got ready for work, and went to work. Only today I went in for a few hours. EXAIR graciously allowed me to leave early today. I came home and helped get Ayden and Kenna -the lady of the day- ready to go. After loading them up we were off, before we even hit the free-way both were asleep. After arriving downtown at the courthouse we unloaded the kiddies Kenna woke up immediately Ayden decided to stay asleep. We quickly made our way up to the ninth floor of the William Howard Taft building. Once there we checked in and then proceeded to go to the tenth floor into Courtroom C. Adoption cases in Hamilton County are overseen by Magistrates, ours was a gentleman by the name of Kendal M. Coes. Originally we were going to have the same magistrate that he had for Ayden but at the last minute it was switched, This turned out nicely I believe. We were the first one other than the magistrate in the courtroom soon we were joined by many of the people who helped us along the way. We had Kenna's caseworkers, our adoption support worker, our foster care support worker and Kenna's Guardian ad litem. It was really nice to have all these people go out of their way to come and support us.

Now that the legal aspect is done it's time for the temple and her blessing.

todays the day

Finally the day has come. This morning Lindsay and I woke up to a couple inches of snow. A beautiful way to start a day for a wonderful event. Kenna is getting adopted today. While the actual adoption is still a few hours away the feeling of excitement is still there. It really seams like yesterday that we were able to finalize Ayden's adoption. the funny thing about the adoption is that this is just the legal aspect. Lindsay and I felt she was a permeant member of the family long ago. I figured I give a run down of her name as several people have asked where we came up with Kenna Allie Mae Wyatt.

Kenna — Kenna is because of me, and my side of the family. Kenna is the name of a wonderful friend of our family. She and my Father met I long ago (actually doesn't seam like that long) when they worked for Que, a book publisher. Then latter my dad worked with her again in California, when they worked with Osborn McGraw-Hill in there computer book publisher division. She has always been a kind and open to my brothers and I. To me she has always been an example that a woman can be strong independent successful and well educated. All qualities that any father would want for his daughter.

Allie — Allie comes from Lindsay's Grand Mother's Name. I never got the chance to meet her. Every-time lindsay talks about her you can hear the love she showed to her family. I think that is where the name at least for me fits for Kenna. You look at her and cannot help but feel love for her.

Mae — Mae is actually a double dip name. It is both of our mothers middle names. It's one of those weird coincidences life throws at you. The choice was simple. Lindsay and I decided long ago that we wanted our kids to have part of there names be family names. Names we felt would honored those that we cared about. That is why Ayden has Allen Colin as his middle names (named after our fathers), and that is why Kenna has Mae.

Wyatt — Well thats our families last name - duh.

arose such a clatter

We'll as you know we put our tree up this week end all was good and dandy. The tree with its decorations; ornaments, lights nicknacks and so forth. We even purchased a position-able fence and positioned it so the kiddies can't get to the tree. Tree goes up Saturday - Late Saturday, but Saturday non the less - no problems. Sunday Kids love the tree, they sit there and love the lights. Go to bed everything good. 5:30 - 6:00 am this morning. laying in bed awaiting the dreadful alarm clock and then it happens a large crash. Lindsay and I get up to see what happened and there it was. Our tree decided it wanted to sleep as well I guess. With ornaments and pine needles everywhere we rubbed our eyes and began "redecorating" the tree and picking up the debris. It took a little bit of work to get the tree back in the stand and all. We also had tiny ornament hooks to look for, as they fell off of the ornaments upon hitting the fence, and all sorts of mess. The good news though our fence thing held up, it actually stopped the tree from hitting the ground. Make sure your tree is positioned good and secure so you and yours don't have to hear any loud crash during the night.

trim the tree

Tis the Season, Deck the Halls, and Trim the Tree. Now that December has finally come its time to get "ready" for Christmas. This time of year I really have to give it to my wife. Lindsay is one of the people who gets into the Christmas Spirit early if she could - or had her way - the tree would be up at the end of the day on Thanksgiving. I on the other hand have no problem waiting. I guess I'm one of those that feels the there should be a little lag time or delay between those two holidays. So in the past Lindsay has graciously waited while anxiously awaiting the time we can get a tree. This year though with the little ones and family soon coming to town we agreed that we would go green. So yesterday (saturday) with kiddies in tow we headed out and soon acquired our tree.

Since the kids are really interested in providing help we made the choice of waiting for them to go to bed @ 8. Once in bed the we began the process of moving furniture digging out christmas decorations. Upon completion the tree looked great and the "spirit" of the season was starting to be felt - all due to Linny. During our decorating I sorta got out of the spirit frequently. Hopefully I can get myself in line and enjoy the holiday with my family and friends. I encourage all of us to keep the purpose of the season in mind as we approach Christmas. So to you and your enjoy the season of what ever you might celebrate.