TX tamales for adopion

I must say I am continually blown away by the generosity of people that I don’t even know stepping up to help us out financially on our journey to our son.
Some friends of ours Deb & Ernest (whom I have never met), have been so supportive of us during this time. I have actually [...]

our little boy’s mommy

Tonight as my mom and I were driving with the boys, Big Boy yelled for me from the back seat. Out of nowhere, he said, “mommy, are you going to be D’s mommy?”. I said yes I will and you’ll be his brother, and then he said “okay”. That was it. [...]

A-moose

I got a great email from Licia tonight about our little boy’s new name – Amos. I’m going to just copy what she said because it is so funny and so wonderful. Funny how the ladies are saying his name, and wonderful with how she tells us once again that he is changing in his [...]

his name is ….

After much discussion we have come to the conclusion about D’s name. We have a few that we love and a few that everyone else loves too. The winner for the survey was Jax followed by Grayson and Ryland. Funny thing about that is that we always knew that the name [...]

my boy and his buddies

Go check out Licia’s blog again to see pictures of my boy and his buddies Clebert and Jacob. I love him!

side walk chalk

Tonight I went for a run.
Finally.
If you remember, I have a half marathon this Saturday. Yeap in five days I’ll be running 13 miles. Oh my goodness. The thought of that makes my legs hurt! I have run a 5k and 10k in the past two months, and ran my first [...]

I600-A

Today we sent off two important pieces of paper concerning our adoption.
Paper #1 was our I600-A form. This is a petition to the US Citizenship and Immigration services. The form is an application for advance processing of orphan petition. All that to say that this form qualifies us as an adoptive family [...]

Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who has donated to the ladies in Haiti. Steven and Clay will be driving the stuff for them up to Anderson, IN tomorrow. I am so thankful that Steven put this together and is taking a day out of his life at home to do this. Thanks to [...]

August Favorite pictures

August was a great month. We had LOTS of family time since Aaron was home for about 4 weeks from July to August. We loved every minute of it and are such family oriented people, especially if daddy is home to hang out!
So, here they are …..
Daddy and Little Boy – LOVE this [...]

getting uncomfortable

Tonight I had a fabulous conversation with a friend of mine. This friend and I have been friends since our 9th grade basketball season! We have been through many ups and downs and she is to this day one of my best friends. I can talk to her about anything and we [...]