Happy Birthday Love!!

Today is my sweet hubbies birthday. I feel so blessed and honored to have him in my life. My husband is such a kind, loving, and compassionate person. He has taught me so much since I met him WAY back when he was just 20 years old. Happy Birthday Love, I hope you have a wonderful day and that this next year of life if full of God's blessings! Love, Love, Love!!!

Here are a few of the reason I love him.... He loves to take self portraits by holding the camera at arms length. I have hundred of pictures like this. And he loves his friends, he is such a great friend.He loves his family... here is another self portrait of him and our nephew Hunter. He is such a good Papa. Our boys love him so much and have so much fun with him. He brings so much fun and joy into our home.Here is an example of the fun he brings... Our friend is a firefighter and Kevin asked him if we could come out and take a ride in his fire truck. So he let Kevin drive it and Kaden run the siren. it was so much fun.Need I say more...

I love you so much!!!

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The worst part about me being a horrible blogger is that I am pretty sure I haven't even mentioned our adoption since maybe July! Seriously! Well, a few months ago a sibling group was brought to our attention, a four year old girl and a 9 month old girl. They had just been dropped off at one of the orphanages that our agency works with, and the baby was really sick. So we began praying for her, praying that her little body would be healed and praying about the possibility of adopting them. I have been hounding my social worker to see if they were adoptable yet, and to see what we could do to make sure all of our paperwork would be in order to adopt two instead of one. Well, we found out yesterday that the baby has passed away. We are so sad about this, we are sad that she had to suffer so much in her short little life and we are especially sad for her sweet sister who has now lost all of her family. I know that she is in a better place, I know that sounds so cliche, but I know it is true. I am also thankful to know that all of the caretakers at the orphanage loved her so much and did everything they could to save her. I know that God had a purpose for her life, she touched so many lives without ever knowing it.

I know that we were never officially referred these girls, but it is still hard because I spent so much time picturing our family with these sweet girls in it. So now, we are pretty sure that the sister is healthy and will go on to be a healthy referral, which we would not receive because we are not next on the referral list. We are now praying that God would bring her to a family that would love her exactly how she needs to be loved.

So unless something else happens we are back to the waiting list, and my best guess is that we are 12 to 16 on the waiting list. I really have no idea what that means, maybe we would get a referral in the next 3 to 6 months? This adoption process really isn't for the faint of heart and definitely isn't something you do on a whim. Oh and my blog isn't private anymore, not sure if I ever mentioned that either.

I am a ....

HORRIBLE blogger. I admit it, I am. I would like to say that in 2009 I will be a better blogger, but I would be lying. One of the things that I want to work on is actually spending less time on the computer, so this will only lead to me being a worse blogger then I already am. So I apologize to all of my faithful readers, all 2 of you :)

Kaden got a camera for Christmas this year and I love to look through the pictures that he has taken, it is so fun to see the world through his eyes and to see the things that he thinks are worthy of a photograph. I thought I would share some of his masterpiece photos with you all, enjoy!

Here is his first picture, Oliver watching Wall-E.

Papa and Oliver.Kevin and I driving to the zoo. His toy giraffe he got at the zoo.