Just wanted to share some cute pics from Halloween!!! We had a great time. We went over to my mom and dad's house, it was great for all the kiddos to see each other dressed up! My kiddos trick-or-treat every year, but my parents and my sister let their kids do it for the first time ever this year!!! We had so much fun, despite the cold, rainy weather!! We only went to about 15 houses, but they are loaded up on candy!! After t-or-t we roasted marshmallows at my parents house!! It was great. I know the kiddos loved it!!! Carlos wouldn't let anyone touch his bucket of "googies" (aka..food, of any sort!!!). If you tried to hold it for him, he would flip out!! Sooo, funny!! We had a great time...here are a few pics...
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Oh, and Happy Anniversary to me!!!
Look what my hubby got me for my anniversary!!!!
Now what do I name the little booger??? My mom says "Ditto" because he is tri-colored just like Winston and Thor.
Emory says Speck, b/c he is 1.5 lbs now, and will only be 4-5 at maturity!!!
I like Roscoe, Aidan likes Pumpkin, Mina like Pickle and Michel likes Taco!!!
Hmmmm, this poor animal is never gonna have a name!!
Suggestions, please!!!!
Now what do I name the little booger??? My mom says "Ditto" because he is tri-colored just like Winston and Thor.
Emory says Speck, b/c he is 1.5 lbs now, and will only be 4-5 at maturity!!!
I like Roscoe, Aidan likes Pumpkin, Mina like Pickle and Michel likes Taco!!!
Hmmmm, this poor animal is never gonna have a name!!
Suggestions, please!!!!
Charleston!!!
Well, we spent a short, but great weekend in Charleston with my best friend and her family. We had a great time. My best friend just moved last month, and my kiddos have been begging her for a map to get to her house. It was really cute, they really wanted a physical map, so they could see where she lived. We literally pulled out the globe to show them where she was in relation to us. You have to know, that Stacey has been in their lives forever. She was there for Aidan's birth, met Mina before any of our families did, she met the boys right off the bat as well! They don't know life without her being 4 houses up! We are very sad that they moved 5.5 hours away, but we are so happy we have a FREE place to stay at the beach!! Anyway, we got to spend time with Stace, Dede (her hubby, our kids call him DeDe), Ava and Landry Kate!!! We also got to visit with her sweet father-in-law!!! My kids love him, they also loving referred to him as "Grandpa". We had a great time, and cannot wait to go back!! Here are some of the pics from our fun weekend away!!!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Visit Faithful Adoption Consultants...
Please jump over to our Faithful Adoption Consultants page. I just put a new post about the Harman Family. They matched last week, and were able to go and get their sweet baby the same day!! Praise the Lord!!
www.faithfuladoptionconsultants.blogspot.com
www.faithfuladoptionconsultants.blogspot.com
Thursday, October 15, 2009
NOTICE!!!
As you all know, Emory and I are foster parents and we have been told that we can no longer have pictures of our children on a public blog. So, my options are to remove MY children from my public blog or to make this blog private. Naturally, you cannot have a "family" blog without pictures of the WHOLE family. It is not an option to take their pictures off! So, I am going to set this blog to private on Oct. 23. That was the day that I was told I had to have the pictures removed by, so if you are a follower of this blog, and would like to continue viewing it, please send me an email: CSL3281@hotmail.com
I would love for you to keep up with my blog, so please email me as soon as you can! Oct.23rd this blog will be PRIVATE!!!!
I would love for you to keep up with my blog, so please email me as soon as you can! Oct.23rd this blog will be PRIVATE!!!!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Faithful Adoption Consultants
I just wanted to let all my readers know that I have another blog dedicated to adoption, and to to our company Faithful Adoption Consultants. If you haven't already, please visit and pass it on to friends. You never know who might be considering adoption, and they just aren't sure where to start!!!!
GREAT NEWS: We have had 2 matches in 2 days!! Stop by our blog or our FB page to get details!!! PRAISE THE LORD!! To God be the Glory. Every detail has fallen into place perfectly, only God could be at work in these matches! Thank you Lord for allowing us to be a part of your plan!!!!!!
www.faithfuladoptionconsultants.blogspot.com
GREAT NEWS: We have had 2 matches in 2 days!! Stop by our blog or our FB page to get details!!! PRAISE THE LORD!! To God be the Glory. Every detail has fallen into place perfectly, only God could be at work in these matches! Thank you Lord for allowing us to be a part of your plan!!!!!!
www.faithfuladoptionconsultants.blogspot.com
Monday, October 12, 2009
Faithful Adoption Consultants: A Happy Beginning
If you are a fan on our Facebook Page, or if you read my FAC blog, then this will be quite redundant! But, if you haven't seen either of those, then I wanted to share this with you! This was written by a client, they just adopted their daughter through us, they are our 2nd match, and 1st placement!!! YAY!! Praise the Lord for this sweet baby girl! I'll have to share all the details of this match later, but God's hand was all over this! He lined up every detail, including a very creative financial plan to make this adoption happen!!! HE IS GOOD!!!!!
We feel so blessed to have found Courtney with Faithful Adoption Consultants. Our journey to our daughter was our second adoption and while we knew it would be different than our son’s adoption (international)…we did not anticipate the bumpy rollercoaster of emotions that it would be. We felt completely confident with the agency that we had chosen, and they represented us well…but after months of waiting we prayed about ‘branching out’ a bit.
In August 2009, I ran across the blog for Faithful Adoption Consultants. I was immediately interested in learning more as they seemed to truly have a passion for adoption. We prayed and God gave us a clear sign that this was in His plan. Within a matter of a couple of days, Courtney presented a situation to us about a baby girl…due in a few short weeks. For the first time in months, I was at complete peace. We sent our profile and waited…and prayed. The events that happened over the next few weeks could only be explained by the fact that this was God’s plan for our family and this beautiful baby girl…our daughter. We met our daughter when she was discharged from the hospital to us! It was amazing! God has blessed us beyond measure!
We will be forever thankful to Courtney for all that she has done for us….for being a friend….for understanding the emotions and trials of adoption…and for being a prayer warrior for birth mothers and adoptive families. We truly believe that God placed Courtney in our path because she was in His plan for our family. Her compassion, understanding and knowledge of adoption is remarkable and I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone. I pray that God continues to use her to reach more mothers and families. Courtney…THANK YOU!
Jamey & Sabrina
We feel so blessed to have found Courtney with Faithful Adoption Consultants. Our journey to our daughter was our second adoption and while we knew it would be different than our son’s adoption (international)…we did not anticipate the bumpy rollercoaster of emotions that it would be. We felt completely confident with the agency that we had chosen, and they represented us well…but after months of waiting we prayed about ‘branching out’ a bit.
In August 2009, I ran across the blog for Faithful Adoption Consultants. I was immediately interested in learning more as they seemed to truly have a passion for adoption. We prayed and God gave us a clear sign that this was in His plan. Within a matter of a couple of days, Courtney presented a situation to us about a baby girl…due in a few short weeks. For the first time in months, I was at complete peace. We sent our profile and waited…and prayed. The events that happened over the next few weeks could only be explained by the fact that this was God’s plan for our family and this beautiful baby girl…our daughter. We met our daughter when she was discharged from the hospital to us! It was amazing! God has blessed us beyond measure!
We will be forever thankful to Courtney for all that she has done for us….for being a friend….for understanding the emotions and trials of adoption…and for being a prayer warrior for birth mothers and adoptive families. We truly believe that God placed Courtney in our path because she was in His plan for our family. Her compassion, understanding and knowledge of adoption is remarkable and I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone. I pray that God continues to use her to reach more mothers and families. Courtney…THANK YOU!
Jamey & Sabrina
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Lots of Pictures!
Lots of pictures of the kiddos!
P.S. Darlene: I put some new ones of Mina on here, JUST FOR YOU!!! Enjoy!!
P.S. Darlene: I put some new ones of Mina on here, JUST FOR YOU!!! Enjoy!!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Jerash
These are the pictures from Jerash. THis is ruins from an ancient Roman city! It was very cool!!
Friday, October 2, 2009
It's been an interesting day...
Day? Week! It's been an interesting week! When I got home on Monday, I literally hit the ground running. I am worn out. I have had several clients being presented to birth moms this week, and had to make a 100 agency and attorney calls. That is just work stuff, I also have 4 kids, 2 dogs and a hubby to take care of. Of course, I jumped right back into our daily activities, school, church, gymnastics, soccer, etc. So, I am very tired. I intend to catch up on sleep this weekend.
Anyway, we had visitation today. It went well, I think! M & C's birth mom was about 17 minutes late, which means we didn't have to wait any longer. After 15 minutes, we can leave per DFCS rules! So, we stayed an extra 2 minutes, and she showed up. She was excited to see the boys, and M was very happy to see her. C still isn't sure, he has been with us for the majority of his life, he doesn't remember her like M does. I know it disappoints her, but it's not his fault, he is still a baby! So, Emory and I were eating lunch, when we got a text that she would like to talk with us. So, I very quickly(I left Emory)made my way over to them. I sat down right next to her, she was holding M, and C was sitting with our social worker. She really just wanted to talk. IT went really well. Anyone who knows anything about this situation knows how UNUSUAL this is. She really hasn't had much to do with me, but what an answer to prayer. I am glad that the boys were able to see what looked like unification! We talked about how badly she wants them back, and I told her how badly we wanted to keep them, I told her that we loved them so much, and I wanted her to know that they are loved more than she could ever imagine. We cried together, and I think we BONDED! :) Seriously, I think we bonded. I told her that we are trusting God, trusting his perfect plan. I told her that I know that God will prepare my heart for His plan, no matter what that is, I told her that no matter what, God loves her, and that HE has a perfect plan for her life. It was the 1st time I was able to tell her about Jesus Christ. I told her that M has accepted Jesus has is personal Lord and Savior. I believe this was God opening a door to much, much more. For the first time in a year, I am more relaxed. I don't know what this means, I don't know if we will keep the boys, but for the first time today, I feel like God just really showed me the importance of one day at a time. I also feel like God reminded me that we are not promised tomorrow with our own biological or adopted children, you never know what tomorrow holds, and foster care is much the same way. I feel like we live court date to court date, that is silly. I am not doing myself or my family any good that way. Please continue to pray for me, pray that God will continue building this relationship between M and C's mom and Emory and I, pray that He would continue opening doors for me to witness to her, how great would it be to see her life transformed by Jesus Christ. That is my prayer, that she would come to know Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior!!!
I guess that is all for now. I feel so silly for being so worked up about this visitation today, I have stressed and stressed about it. God took care of it all, and gave me more peace than I could have ever hoped for! Today was good, very very GOOD!!!
Anyway, we had visitation today. It went well, I think! M & C's birth mom was about 17 minutes late, which means we didn't have to wait any longer. After 15 minutes, we can leave per DFCS rules! So, we stayed an extra 2 minutes, and she showed up. She was excited to see the boys, and M was very happy to see her. C still isn't sure, he has been with us for the majority of his life, he doesn't remember her like M does. I know it disappoints her, but it's not his fault, he is still a baby! So, Emory and I were eating lunch, when we got a text that she would like to talk with us. So, I very quickly(I left Emory)made my way over to them. I sat down right next to her, she was holding M, and C was sitting with our social worker. She really just wanted to talk. IT went really well. Anyone who knows anything about this situation knows how UNUSUAL this is. She really hasn't had much to do with me, but what an answer to prayer. I am glad that the boys were able to see what looked like unification! We talked about how badly she wants them back, and I told her how badly we wanted to keep them, I told her that we loved them so much, and I wanted her to know that they are loved more than she could ever imagine. We cried together, and I think we BONDED! :) Seriously, I think we bonded. I told her that we are trusting God, trusting his perfect plan. I told her that I know that God will prepare my heart for His plan, no matter what that is, I told her that no matter what, God loves her, and that HE has a perfect plan for her life. It was the 1st time I was able to tell her about Jesus Christ. I told her that M has accepted Jesus has is personal Lord and Savior. I believe this was God opening a door to much, much more. For the first time in a year, I am more relaxed. I don't know what this means, I don't know if we will keep the boys, but for the first time today, I feel like God just really showed me the importance of one day at a time. I also feel like God reminded me that we are not promised tomorrow with our own biological or adopted children, you never know what tomorrow holds, and foster care is much the same way. I feel like we live court date to court date, that is silly. I am not doing myself or my family any good that way. Please continue to pray for me, pray that God will continue building this relationship between M and C's mom and Emory and I, pray that He would continue opening doors for me to witness to her, how great would it be to see her life transformed by Jesus Christ. That is my prayer, that she would come to know Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior!!!
I guess that is all for now. I feel so silly for being so worked up about this visitation today, I have stressed and stressed about it. God took care of it all, and gave me more peace than I could have ever hoped for! Today was good, very very GOOD!!!
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