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Nadia would like to announce…

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Well at least she WILL BE one day. We are very happy to announce that we are going to adopt from China again. Here are the basics:

  • We hope to have the adoption completed by next summer.
  • It will be a girl because we would like Nadia to have a sister.
  • We will be applying for a waiting child/special need child.
  • What does that mean? We will be accepting a child with a mild to moderate medical need.
  • We are nearly finished fulfilling all the requirements and gathering all the documents that the Department of Homeland Security and China need to adopt from China.
  • Everything now has to comply with the Hauge Treaty for adoption. So each step has been a little bit different than what we went through with Nadia, but not drastically different.
  • We are hoping for a child between 1 and 2 years old.
  • Her first name will be Amelie (pronounced AM-uh-lee) and we will keep her Chinese name as her middle name, like we did with Nadia.
  • Nadia is very excited, but said that we should name her Vulture instead, so that she can say, “Vulture, where aaaaare you? Come heeere Vulture.”
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Father’s Day 2010

Here we are at Pappasito’s. YUM!

Father's Day 2010

I had some photos taken of Nadia and I to surprise Mike for Father’s Day. Nadia did great and didn’t say anything, but she was DYING for him to wake up this morning to open it. She also got him a Toy Story Father’s Day card that played the theme song from the first movie. Here are the 3 poses I choose to have printed.

Father's Day 2010

Father's Day 2010

Father's Day 2010

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Thankful Thursday: 15 years!

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15 years ago today Mike and I were married at 2 in the afternoon in a sweet little ceremony. We had to pay for our wedding and honeymoon and at the time I worked at a fairly low end Mexican restaurant and Mike was delivering pizza. Knowing those details so many people did so many wonderful things to make our day special.

It started with my Aunt Paula on my mom’s side asking me if I would like to wear her wedding dress since she had sons and not daughters. I was just thrilled that there wasn’t a giant bow on the back because those were very popular at the time. Then my Aunt Paula (on my dad’s side) and Uncle Roger hosted our rehearsal dinner at their house. My Aunt Denise decorated the sanctuary and most of the reception hall. My Grammie made home-made candies and punch for us to serve at the reception. Mike and I made some of the decorations and the bird seed packets. We got a grooms cake from Sam’s Club and a group of our friend from church made chocolate dipped strawberries and decorated it for us.

In all the little details God took care of us. On my last night of work before the wedding most of my call parties came in to eat and left me a normal tip and then a check or “a little something extra”. Several of them even came to one of my bridal showers or bought us gifts off our Target registry which they brought up to the restaurant. Those extra tips gave us the money we needed to pay the balance on our cake and have some spending money for our honeymoon in San Antonio. We stayed at a sweet little B&B called the Bullis House Inn that was in our price range. We had to share the bathroom with the other guests, but the owners made each morning so special for us with a little table of our own and delicious breakfast.

I  love being married to Mike and I love the life we have built together. We have been blessed by God not only with each other, but with our sweet girl Nadia.

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Psalm 95:6

Last week the Bible verse for the little kids to learn was Psalm 95:6 “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker!”

It was suggested that we teach it to them as a song to the tune of  ‘are you sleeping?’

Last night about an hour after we put Nadia to sleep we suddenly heard singing over the monitor.

“Come and let us,

bow down,

in worship,

in worship,

let us kneel before,

the Lord our Maker,

Amen,

Amen.”

It brought me to tears to hear her sweet little voice singing that over and over. Life is good and I am blessed beyond belief.