HAPPY GOTCHA DAY!

    In June of 2005, while searching online waiting child pages,  I clicked on this page of children waiting for families in Oregon....

And then I clicked on these little faces.....

I contacted our adoption social worker and told her that we would like more information on them.  A few months later,  I was finally able to talk with their foster mother and social worker, and we decided they might just be our children.  In early October, a committee in Oregon chose us as their new parents (a decision that God had already made).

We were able to speak to them on the phone several times, but this was the only photo we ever saw before we met them in person.


Then, 4 years ago today, on November 2, 2005 (and my birthday) we got to hug our nine year old daughter and 10 year old son for the very first time!

 

Two days later, on November 4, 2005, they came home with us forever!

It hasn't always been as easy road, but it was the right one!

 WE LOVE YOU GUYS!

                                             Look how they've grown!



Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.  James 1:27 

Once our eyes are opened we can't pretend we don't know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act.
Proverbs 24:12

Our eyes have been opened. It's time to start looking for more little faces.........................  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID CONNOR!

Today (October 30th) is the 14th birthday of our handsome, smart, Lego building, video game loving, violin playing ,book reading son, David Connor!

 

 

 

 

We love you, David!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVONNE HANNAH!

     Today is the 13th birthday of our beautiful, dramatic, creative, talented, writing, singing, dancing, sewing, piano playing daughter, Evonne Hannah!

 

 

 

This is Evonne's letter to us from camp this summer.  The typical, "How are you? I am fine." Letter is just not Evonne's style.

 

We love you, too, Evonne!

A Field Trip to Remember!

   It has been so long since I posted anything that I had to look up my password!
  Yesterday we went on our 3rd field trip of the year.  We visited a farm with a pumpkin patch and corn maze.


  So we walked, in the pouring rain, through a less than impressive corn maze,

 chose a tiny pumpkin to take home,

                                  

and posed for pictures in the rain with our tiny pumpkins.

But the part the kids will remember most is that our cars got stuck in the muddy parking lot and they got to watch all the parents work together and help each other to get them out!   So I guess you'd call that a successful field trip.

 Preview

     There is something to be said for paved parking lots, though!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANDY!

27 (yes, 27!) years ago, today, Amanda Elisabeth (aka, Mandy) put in her first appearance! She is a young women who truly shows, "The Fingerprints of God" at work!

Sparklers

I put these pictures of David and Evonne, holding sparklers last year, on the blog I made for the birth parents. When Scott saw them he asked me why there wasn't a picture of him with a sparkler. I reminded him that he was afraid to hold one last year. He told me that he won't be afraid this year, and he mentioned, several times, that he is going to hold a sparkler this year. Being the brave little man that he is, I'm sure he will, but I won't be there to take a picture of it. There is a big spark missing in our lives now, and we sure miss him!