Jaz Video

I posted a video of Jasmine at my Facebook site:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=103309140696

My Complete Scanned Artworks

I have a Facebook profile now. I've posted all my artwork to this site:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=167633&id=904680696

Due Credit

We adopted Jasmine in Thailand. However, it should be known that her discovery was made by my wonderful parents who are currently serving an LDS mission in Bangkok, Thailand. Only a month and a half after arriving in Thailand, they met the Burkes, who were the foster family of Jasmine (then, she was known as Tara or Tararath). When the Burkes needed to leave Thailand in December 2007, my parents were allowed to care for Jasmine until we were able to arrive in June 2008. Their Mission President was very gracious in allowing this unprecedented event to happen

Here we are at a Mexican-style restaurant with President and Sister Dodge on the left, Kindra, Jasmine, me, and my parents on the right.


Here's a photo of us and my Mom and Dad, JoAnn and Richard Laing. (I don't think my folks ever got accustomed to Thai food).




This was the day of our Orientation at the Amari Hotel in Bangkok. There was a Norwegian family there, too, that was meeting their little boy for the first time.

And then there's the wonderful first foster family for Jasmine, Claudean Burke and her family. Claudean wanted to adopt a little girl, but felt prompted by the Spirit that our little Jasmine was meant for another family. She lovingly took care of Jasmine from when she was just a month old until just after her first birthday when my parents took over the foster care of Jasmine. We have a lot of love and respect for the Burkes in being instrumental in bringing Jasmine into our lives.

We thank Heavenly Father for all the wonderful and instrumental people that have been involved in helping us adopt our little girl. There are many more people that have been there along the way to help us.

More Pics to Share

Kindra's sister, Lisa Fawcett and her daughter Zoe came up to visit last night. I snapped a shot of Jasmine and Zoe sitting on a banana chair together. Zoe's 3 years old.

Here's another shot of the two.

Jasmine sure loves to play with phones, especially our cell phones. I have a bad premonition of the future when she's 16. Yikes! :)

Jasmine sure loves watching her favorite, Elmo.

Some pics of our favorite little one!

Enjoy!

My Artwork (Part 2)

Here are some more of my favorites.

/sigh/ I have more, but I think this will all I will post for now. (Again, respect my copyright, please!)

Dan (my brother) & Sharee

Grandpa Joe during WWI
Eric (my brother) & Nancy
My Folks - Richard & JoAnn
Glass Slipper

My Artwork

Einstein
My Grandma & Grandpa Laing
Darth Vader
My Granpa & Grandma Logan
My wife, Kindra

This is some of my best artwork I've drawn. I have many others that I'm proud of, but this is all for now. :)

- Please note this is my personal work and I own the copyright. Be smart in how you use it. Thanks.

Just an update

Hi everyone! I don't have much time to write, but I just thought I'd write you all a quick update. I have Jasmine's Halloween costume. I haven't put it on her yet, but when I do, I will take lots of pics and put them on here. It was so cute when we got it because I held up two: a tigger and a black kitty with a pink belly and pink ears. She picked the kitty costume. I've come to the conclusion that her favorite color is pink. Whenever she has a choice that involves pink, that is what she picks. She's our girly-girl! It's kind of ironic for me, because, personally, I hate pink. It's just not my color. That's alright though. She is so cute, no matter what she is wearing. She loves to scribble on any surface! She finds pens and things and I have to constantly watch her with them, or she will draw on the furniture! (I'm sure you've all been there, done that!) She will be 2 in less than 3 weeks! (She is still about the size of a 6 month old!) She is healthy though. That's what matters. She is starting to ask "Why?" but not very often yet. I expect that will get more frequent soon. She is very curious and likes to know what we are doing at all times. She loves to get into things and then she comes and tattles on herself. It's rather funny. She will do something and come up to me and say, "Oh No!" One time it was because she found a bottle of lotion and poured at least half the bottle onto the floor and all down her dress! That was a mess to clean up, unfortunately, I didn't have the mind to take a picture of it. I was too upset to think of that! I laugh now about it though. I got her a book a few weeks ago. The pages are magnetic and it came with 15 animal magnets. She has maybe 4 now. She's stuffed the rest of them into a diskette drive on Johnny's computer! (Fortunately, he has it disabled, so it's not ruining anything.) Usually when she comes to me and says, "Oh No!" I tell her to show me "Oh No." Sometimes it's not obvious. Sometimes she does it to get attention. There have been a couple of times that she's done that and when she shows me, it's just a sippy cup set on the floor. She's a funny girl. Well, I'd better go and tend to her before she turns my house upside down. Talk to you all later!

First Snow

Saturday (10-11-08), we had our first snow for the season, and the first ever for Jasmine. It was hilarious! She stood at the threshold of our door and had a very apprehensive look on her face as if to say, "What the heck is this??!!!" It took a lot of coaxing for Kindra and me to get her out of the apartment. When she finally did, she frantically batted her little arm at the flakes falling around her trying to keep them off. She also exclaimed, "Oh, no!!" when she saw them resting on me and Kindra. Kindra and I had a good laugh on this.

In the beginning...

I wanted to create a way that anyone can view pictures of us, particularly of Jasmine. I'll keep this posted of any other news and items of interest as we see fit.