Wordless Wednesday

Thank you to the beautiful children of Nepal

First, let me share this link with you to my dear friend Tracie Loux's post that she wrote about these precious children in Nepal. They not only gave money that they had worked hard for, but they also took great time to make these beautiful cards for Liam. If you click and enlarge them, you can see that they took a lot of time to write beautiful letters to Liam. They shared themselves and also Jesus with my little boy. They made these wonderful cards by hand and they are so beautiful! What I really loved is seeing each of their smiling faces that they put on each card.

http://tracieloux.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/the-childrens-mite/

Buddy Walk 2011

Today was our Buddy Walk and we had a great time. Perfect weather and beautiful kiddos with Ds made for an awesome day!

                                                           Jimmy's buddy Brandon.:)

      Our Buddy Walk is held at a beautiful park here in Michigan. It has 69 acres of gorgeous land.

Jimmy had a great time:)

Our Reece's Rainbow table

Afternoon at the park

Today we had perfect weather so we met up with some very special friends and had pizza and played at the park. I just can not wait until Liam comes home and gets to eat pizza and play at the park with us. He has missed so much.......but it will be so rewarding to watch him experience everything for the first time. It will be fun to see what foods and activities become his favorites. I also look forward to seeing his little personality come out and watching him blossom in our family. Oh yea, good times are comin!

 CeCe and Elijah had so much fun playing together. Elijah adores her and has the cutest giggle when they are chasing after each other.:)

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Waiting..........

is such a hard thing to do. I am not so good at it either. You would think that with two previous adoptions behind me that I would learn to be a little more patient when it comes to waiting for a travel date. But with Liam’s adoption, I find myself worrying too. “Liam is older, and he has waited long enough,” I tell God, “I don’t know where he has been transferred. What if he is scared and hungry?” 
I do know that it will happen in God’s perfect timing and I hold onto my faith that God will take care of Liam until I can get to him. But it is still hard to wait.


So this is what we have been doing lately,……
The boys have started back to school and I have gone back to teaching after a much needed and relaxing summer break.

Caleb is now in third grade and was so super excited to go back to school. He is anxiously awaiting his 9th birthday in October. He keeps telling everyone that it’s his turn and his birthday is next.  I just can’t believe how big he has grown and how smart he is! I am so proud of him. I can’t thank God enough for choosing me to be his Mommy!

Elijah is now 5 and is in his last year of the Early Childhood special education program. Next year, it's Kindergarten baby! He knows all of his letters and is quite the artist. He is constantly drawing with his magnadoodle.  He is very independent and dresses himself with just a little help from Mama. And he has grown a couple inches, but he is still Mommy’s little peanut.

Jimmy has begun a new year in the Young Adult program. He works out and swims each morning at the Recreation center before taking the bus to his job at Benito’s pizza. He bowls every Wednesday after school too. He is just as social as ever and just a little while ago took off to spend the night with a friend! And he LOVES Trigger. He has claimed him as his puppy, which I think is pretty awesome:)

Caleb playing after school. He still LOVES this old Fisher Price House.:)

Elijah after school. Please don't mind the messy shirt. I'm sure he was doing something messy and extremely FUN at school.

Giggling with Caleb.

Please pray with us for a travel date soon. I can't wait to hold Liam in my arms and tell him that HIS MAMA is finally here!:)

Elijah's first day back to school

and let me tell you, my little guy was soooooo HAPPY! He loves it:)

Caleb's a Third Grader:)