Haiti adoption

After watching all of the news stories, I thought it may be refreshing to read about an adoption. I am posting the link of a family who we follow each others blogs(If you are reading...Congrats again Cassel family). They have been in the Haiti adoption process for twins for a long time and due to the earthquake was recently able to have the twins come home to their new family. She blogs about it here....
http://casselcrew.blogspot.com/
go back to about Jan 17th post. God bless this family!

Well, the time has come to wrap up regular posting on our adoption blog. I will come and post again if I have something significant to post regarding adoption, but I have been thinking about it and have decided to take a (hopefully) short break from blogging and then probably will start a family blog and keep this one forever as the blog of our journey of adoption. I have been thinking about how thankful I am that I have this journal & pics of the last year and a half and so glad that I took the time to do it. I will definitely put our new blog address link on here and hope that those of you that follow along will continue to do so. We have met SOOOOO many wonderful people and adoptive families through the blog! We have been contacted by adoptive families while they are in Ukraine, friends/fam of adoptive families who were concerned for their friend/fam in Ukraine, adoptive families who share similar stories or who have adopted for our children's orphanages, adoptive families with special needs children, and those hoping to adopt.....it is hard to believe the friendships we have made through just blogging. I really want to make a point to say PLEASE continue to contact us at anytime...we love to know other adoptive families or help anyone we can, or just to be praying with you as we have been blessed with great support too!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU to those of you who followed along during our time in Ukraine and supported us, prayed for us, and send words of encouragement through the blog. I dont know what we would have done without being so far from home for so long. We feel that you are apart of this journey we have been on. Thank you to the friends we have made along the way...what a blessing!!!

GOD IS SO FAITHFUL!

Catch up from Christmas

It has been a while since I posted. I actually had a computer go out and am now typing from my new computer...still do not have email up if you have sent one lately. Hopefully, by tomorrow it will be running again.

We had a very blessed and peaceful Christmas!
This year we had a live nativity in our yard for one night of Christmas week. I have wanted to do this for several years and this year I mentioned it to a friend who loved the idea and also loves power tools, so she whipped up a little nativity set and I made a sign and then we dressed all our kids up and brought out the Kareoke machine for them to read Luke 2 and sing Christmas songs. They were all so cute and had a blast! We had an outside heater, hot chocolate, and cookies set out for people who stopped by. I expected people to drive by in cars, but had not thought of how many people might walk from around the neighborhood to come watch. Many elderly from around the neighborhood walked over and they made a point to come up to us and say "Thank you so much for doing this" and they would share how much it meant to them...some even with tears in their eyes. One neighbor actually stood on the sidewalk the entire time and just watched the kids and sang with them...it was so sweet. It really made me realize how hungry people really are to see Christ publicly celebrated during Christmas. Grant and Inna asked if it can be a tradition for us and I hope so too! Vitali was a shepherd for about 5 minutes and then just wanted to hang out by the snacks the rest of the time.



I am working on the video of our adoption pictures (the one I had hoped to have by the time the kids were home for a year). Hopefully, I will have it done by next post.