We received some exciting news today. We had contacted someone that we know in Liberia to ask them if they would like to help our agency look for a baby for us and they were excited about the opportunity! We heard back from them today and they said that they will be traveling to the orphanage early next week! I am so excited to see what God has in store and to see His perfect plan laid out before us. I have been amazed so far of how quickly and smoothly He has made things go and I get chills thinking of what we could hear next week from them. I would like to ask all of you who read this post to please pray for our baby. Please pray that God would have a baby waiting there at the orphanage for us. Pray that his/her needs would be met until we can get to them. Pray for Danny's safety as he travels there, and pray that God's plan will continue to work itself out that we will be in awe of Him! GOD IS SO AWESOME! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!
Friday, April 25, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Adoption News
We are getting more and more excited every day now! Last week we FINALLY got all of our paper work in! Of course the paper work is never finished completely, but for right now we can say we have done our part and are just waiting. Our homestudy will be turned in this afternoon and our agency will send us a power of attourney thing to sign and from there we get put on a referral list! It's becoming more and more of a reality for me that there is a child in Liberia that God is watching over and protecting and has designed just for our family to love. I can't wait to meet him/her! Colten still thinks there is a baby in my belly everytime we try and talk to him about it. Hopefully we'll get him to understand, but he is so excited! I show him pictures of babies in Liberia and try to explain to him that we will have a baby like that soon and he gets all giggly! He is in a phase right now where he loves babies anyone. He'd kiss them to death if I let him I think. Here are a few pictures that I got off one of my favorite blog spots and a cute video of some beautiful baby girls. It makes me even more excited when I see these! (DON'T FORGET TO PAUSE THE MUSIC AT THE BOTTOM SO YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUND ON THE VIDEO)
I couldn't forget the boys!!!!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Missing Spring Break!
I know after the first big snow here at our house I had posted a blog about things I miss about work, since now I am a stay at home mom...and loving it by the way! But there are little things that I really miss. Like in the winter I missed all the snow days. Because it was a time when I actually got off work and had a relaxing day. When you stay at home and the snow comes it is not really relaxing cause you just want to get out of the house! Well I was hit with another realization of what I miss about work...SPRING BREAK! As a teacher you looked forward to spring break the most because it is during those months where you have been cooped up with indoor recess for months and you can see the end in sight. The kids are getting on each other's nerves and fighting constantly. You can't move their seats to fix the problem cause they've already sat by everyone in the class. There is no new way to re-arrange the seating. And usually we would get away for a few days which was always fun. This year, I have no spring break and it really stinks! I was emailing with a friend the other day and realized that this is the first time in 22 years that I haven't had a spring break!!! 22 YEARS!!!! Needless to say I'm having a little withdrawl. And it doesn't help that all my friends have school aged children and are leaving for spring break somewhere with their kids. Matt did stay home for a few days and worked around the house last week which was really nice. We didn't go anywhere special but just having him around was cool cause you get caught up in the business of life and it seems like there are few days that we get to spend together all day as a family! So these are the things I miss about work. You notice it isn't really 'work' that I miss it's all the time off work??? ha ha! That's great!
