Necklace To Benefit For His Glory Outreach -Haiti
I borrowed much of Sherri's post from today. I blogged about her yesterday and today, she has a tangible way to help as well as adding to your own personal bling collection! This necklace was made my...
View ArticleTHREE MORE....REALLY?
Just a little more than a week to go before our house is full of nine children! We still don't have a vehicle to fit us all but I am leaving that up to the Lord to figure out. Frankly, I am tired of...
View ArticleIntroducing The Yeti..........
6 more days and we are on an airplane going to get the three sweetest kiddos in Ethiopia! Are we ever blessed!And now.....on to the BIG BIG news....the YETI (you have to name something this...
View ArticleOff We Go!
8 months, 2 weeks, and 4 days after starting this journey of faith, we are on our way! 15 bags/boxes/bins are packed (three are the kids staying behind), and our backpacks are jammed full of things for...
View ArticleWe Are Home!
We made it home this morning to 30 inches of snow here in Northern Virginia! We had a great trip and are thankful to be home so that we can begin our journey as a family of 11! Here are a couple of...
View ArticleFun In The Snow
The kids played outside while I attempted to put our house back together. Wow, I am finding that it's a little hard with 8 children all over the house! So now they are all back in thawing. Now I have...
View ArticleFather Daughter Dance
Well, we decided at the VERY last minute to dress up the girls and have Daddy take them to our church's Father Daughter Dance. So we did the mad dash through the house and through my neighbor's house...
View ArticleHome 1 Week!
Wrestling With DaddyPuzzle Time Wow! Even though all of the kiddos were home due to the MASSIVE amounts of snow that we have gotten, the week went by pretty quickly. Our new three are doing so well and...
View ArticleHome 2 Weeks!
Fun At Pump It Up Playing Air Hockey w/ Grampa Dance Dance Revolution Devotional Time With DaddyWow! Two weeks have just flown! This week, all of the other kiddos went back to school so we were able...
View ArticleFirst Day Of School
Silly Faces At The Bus StopSo I didn't do a 3 week home post because I assumed that it would include the first day of school .....well that didn't happen on Monday due to waiting for more lab work...
View ArticleBlessings!
It is hard to believe that we have been home for over a month. Things are going very well; just VERY busy. Grace's class blessed the socks off of our family by surprising us with a gift basket full of...
View ArticleAdoptionFathers.com
Our good friend Pete, who has also adopted from Ethiopia, recognized that in the world of adoption, there is a gap of support for adoptive fathers. And he created AdoptionFathers.com as the ultimate...
View ArticleTwo Months Home!
A Day At The Beach Betel, Samuel, & Eliana Stephan & Eliana Betel, Yadel, Grace, & AbigaelBetel, Grace, & YadelYadel, Stephan, Katie, Cousin Britney, Grace, & BetelAbigael &...
View ArticleKechene T-Shirt Fundraiser
My blogger friend and fellow adoptive parent, Lori, is helping to organize a 5K run in Kansas to help the older girls at Kechene, a government orphanage in Ethiopia, further their education. The money...
View ArticleAdjustment
Well, we know that it was coming, and thank the Lord the adjustment issues are small, but they are here. The honeymoon is over folks. I told this to my husband last night then laughed imagining that...
View ArticleHome 3 Months!
Wow! Three months home just snuck up on me. We are doing very well and staying very busy with 5 in soccer and 2 in lacrosse (one is on JV and Varsity so I am sure that counts as three lacrosse...
View ArticleMean Blog Comments
Dear Mean Blog Commenter, I will no longer give you a platform to spew your hateful, opinionated comments. Feel free to start up your own blog. I have deleted your comments and will now moderate...
View ArticleMay Was Celebration Month
Eliana Turned 3!Daddy/Hubby's BirthdaySilly Faces!Abigael's 10th Birthday!Katie's 13th!Happy June everyone! We had a busy but great May. With Mother's Day, four birthdays, and our 20th wedding...
View Article4 Months Already?!?!?!
I cannot believe that we have all been together for 4 months! The best way that I can sum up my life right now is through two stories about my children:1. Ellie, three years old, said her goodbyes to...
View ArticleHome 5 1/2 Months (JUST POSTED 7/27/10)
Yadel's 5th grade graduationCelebrating with YadelYadel enjoying sparklers!Abigael celebrating the 4th of July!Small Town Parade"Little" boys on the 4th"Little" girls on the 4thThe BoysThe GirlsZoo...
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