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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Our Adoption Journey Begins...

It is so amazing to even be typing that we have begun the process to bring our daughter home from Ethiopia! We will be using Christian World Adoption and have just turned in our paperwork for the home study to start in a couple of weeks. There are so many risks, what ifs, and unknowns. You can stay up all night worrying about them but we know God is behind us, in front of us, and all around us. We have already seen Him work in many financial ways as we took this leap of faith. I can't wait to see the amazing adventure that God has laid before us. Our kids are excited and eager to meet their sister. They want us to adopt more than one, of course the boys were really wanting another brother. I think they are past that now. We started talking about all the fun things that you can make believe with two sisters and two brothers. (that's all they do all day long is imaginative play.) Dason said excitedly one day, "That means when me and Caden are both Peter Pan we can each have our own Tinker Bell!" Please pray for us throughout the next year and beyond. It will take anywhere from 9-15 months from now to have her in our arms. Which means she is probably growing in her birth mom's tummy now. Please pray for her health and protection.

PS Brett's achichilles tendon is healing good but slow, as we expected. He still can't run and walks with a limp. He tried running once but it didn't feel good at all. Of course part of that was just not being able to run for months, he said his whole body hurt. ( :

Maybe we need a bigger pool...

Maybe we need a bigger pool...

My big guy

My big guy

Daddy and Ky in the snow

Daddy and Ky in the snow

Nana and Cade Cade

Nana and Cade Cade

Dason loves sledding

Dason loves sledding
He was going the whole time, loved it!

Catch a glimpse of our crazy family!!!

Thanks for stopping by. Wish we could share a cup of mocha together and just talk. It's hard when everyone decides to move away and start their only family after college. What's up with that? Me and Brett are working on buying our own island and then everyone we know and love could come live there and we would never be apart again. Until then, we will communicate through technology like the rest of the world. If you know Jesus we will all be reunited in heaven anyway and that's way better than the whole island plan because those cost a lot of money and Brett isn't good at saving it. I am always trying to get him to save money and not spend it but he always blows it on frivolous things. (if you know Brett, you know that's a total joke; the man could be in the middle of the desert parched and not spring for a glass of water)

All Packed up

All Packed up
Loaded down with kids and gear

Sitting around the Campfire

Sitting around the Campfire
All the boys

Kylin

Kylin
I love dirt!

Camping at Bodega Bay

Camping at Bodega Bay
DeVries and Reeds
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