This really touched my heart today. Please watch, it's powerful!

An awesome way to look at adoption and God!

Archbold school basketball

These past couple months have been crazy full with basketball for both the boys. They played for Upwards and for Archbold this year. It was exhausting for me but they had lots of fun!
Gavin was #1 on his team (you can see his crazy socks in this game).

Brodie was #6 on his team....notice the tongue when he shoots. :)

February Number!

Upwards Basketball this year. This is the first year for our church and the boys have loved it!

Here it is February and I'm finally posting Christmas pics!

                                                    Our annual gingerbread house decorating.

                                                   The Christmas Eve program at church.

 Throwing "reindoor food" on the lawn this year. (if you look closely to the right you can see it shimmering)

                                                          Their FAVORITE gift this year.

                                                      Christmas morning ready for church.

Finally our January Number!

Melkam Ganna! Merry Christmas!

January 7th is the Ethiopian Christmas!

Things I've discovered!

I haven't posted for quite awhile on here because frankly things have been hard for me and I'm not sure how to express myself. So I came up with a list of things that I've discovered about myself and my family lately.

*I miss my dear mother like crazy. (No one loves you like your Mom!)
*I would not be a very good single mom/ I'm just not good on my own (thank you God for my hubby)
*I'm a crier! (that's putting it mildly)
*For some reason my boys do not like wearing jeans.....strange I know.
*I have a very weird almost crazy hatred for misplacing or losing things/ I know no one likes to but I have to really talk myself down when this happens.
*I am trying to be more conscious about my purchasing habits (fair trade or something that will directly profit someone that is using it for a great cause)
*I'm really not used to others helping me in any way.
*I have a lot to work on spiritually, emotionally, & physically.....I know it's quite a shock to me, too! :)
*I really dislike clutter!
*I've lost a sense of my "style" over the years and am enjoying finding it again.
*That I so really hate to wait on something that I yearn for and to not have any sense of a schedule when it might happen (hence adoption) I think God might be working there.
Well, that's just a few things that have popped into my head lately. Life has been a constant adaptation lately with Joel's changing work schedule so I feel like my emotions and head are all over the place. Please Lord keep me on the "path" and don't let me straggle too far.

We finally have our December Number!

I also know that this is even out of date already since there's been two more referrals so we "unofficially" are at #89!