busy weekend and rough nights

This was a packed weekend for all of us(well really for mom). Friday night my sweet mom took me to dinner and a musical. We saw A Chorus Line. It was great to spend time with her just the two of us. The blessings stayed home with dad and had a wii and popcorn night. Saturday I went to a tea comitee meeting for our churches woman's tea. I had delicious scones and spent time with some lovely ladies(thanks Joni). Then I went to my girlfriend Lu's house to help throw a shower for our friend Randi who is due with her fourth child next month. I came home for enough time to have dinner with my family and then I was off and running again. This time for another blessing shower for a friend who recently brought home two girls from Ethiopia. This was my fourth shower in one week. I love celebrating these children's lives and thank the Lord for each one of these special ladies. It is a joy to have you all in my life.

We could really appreciate your prayers. The last couple weeks have been hard with Hannah not sleeping well. Last night was our roughest night yet. She was up most of the night crying. Most nights she wakes up and we can give her a bottle and put her back down. She has been having a lot more night terrors and the lack of sleep is wearing on all of us. I'm going to be scheduling an appointment with her doctor to see if the medication may be related or what he thinks might help. We are just concerned because she is not napping very well either. well I'm off to take a much needed sunday afternoon nap.

AWAA Seminar

Jason and I recently took on a position with our adoption agency as Associates. This fancy title just means that twice a year we will hold an AWAA Adoption Seminar. We are in charge of finding the location, advertising for the event, finding speaking families and hosting the event. Well we are doing our first one at our local church Grace E.V.Free of La Mirada on Saturday February 19th from 10-12. We would love for you all to come. It is free and we will even provide child care. Just call 1-800-429-3369 to register. We have a family speaking who has adopted two beautiful girls from ethiopia, a family who adopted from Rawanda and Jason will be sharing our journey. I'm very excited to be doing this. I pray that it would be a way to get more people and churches involved in caring for orphans. I have had many people ask how do you find the time. I just do. It is something that is so important and we are hoping with the small compensation we get that we can use that to help others that want to adopt but don't have all the necessary funds. Some people have a passion for running(wish I did :0) some its cooking, or scrap booking. Mine is being a voice for the voiceless. Please consider coming or telling others about this event.

A Little Nasty Thing Called The Flu

No sleep+sick kiddo=very tired momma. I had a vibrant energetic child yesterday and then boom midnight rolls around and I have one sad lethargic sick baby. I just hate when they are sick. You feel so helpless and want to take away there pain. It was a movie and nap kind of a day around here. we are lysolling like crazy and praying the rest of us don't get attacked. Stay tuned.

Does this weekend have to end?

What an amazing weekend and not one picture to show for it. I have to get better at remembering to take pictures. The weekend started off with a fun date with my little guy. This kid is so easy to please and really did not care what we did. I decided to take him to Ruby's for dinner. We sat at the counter, split a burger and of coarse had a shake. Then we went and saw a movie at the $2 theatre. It was a lot of fun having some one on one time. We try and trade off doing this with each of the kiddos. They are different kids when they are a lone and feel so special. Saturday I spent the day at a blessing shower for a friend who just adopted a baby. She has an amazing story of an unexpected adoption that God orchestrated and it was a pleasure to be celebrating such a great occasion. There were several adoption buddies and we had a great time. Saturday night Jason and I got a date while my parents spent time with the kids. Sunday after church I went to another blessing shower for a good friend who is going to do foster care for babies. She has an incredible heart and love for people and desires to be used by God . It is such a joy to walk along side her in her journey. I was just so touched this weekend to be able to celebrate some incredible things God is doing.

Don't forget to keep up with Noah on www.noahsheart.org

It finally happened

Well it finally happened. Our biggest blessing lost his first tooth. He has been waiting with anticipation for a couple years now as he watched all his buddies loose there teeth. Noah got his first tooth very late at 12 months and his brother was even later at 16 months. I was sad that his other tooth was already popping out so you don't get to see the baby gap :) Is it silly to get emotional over this? I feel like he is growing up before my eyes and this is the last of his babyness. He is growing taller and maturing more and more. He is so sweet with Hannah and she just adores him. Here is a picture of her with Noah while he was doing school. She always wants to be right near him. It melts my heart to see there relationship. I wish he was this patient with Jonah. We are working on it and some days are better than others.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Dinner with Grandpa Great

Last night we had dinner with Jason's grandparents(Grandpa Great and Nana Jean) Grandpa will be 93 this year. It is so precious to see our children with them and we always have a nice time. I always be sure to bring my cameras and try and capture lots of memories. Life is so precious and we don't know how much longer we will get to spend with Grandpa Great. This visit was extra special because we got to spend time with Aunt Janet and Fred who are here visiting from Washington.

I was so excited when I checked the mail and this beautiful camera strap came. One of my blogger friend sharon at http://isntshelovelyshay.blogspot.com makes these fun camera straps and other cute things. Check out her blog I promise you wont be disappointed. Thanks Sharon I just love it.

yeah daddy's home

Yesterday was a very relaxing day. Jason had the day off and had promised the boys they could go under the house. They have been counting down the days. Why they want to go under the house is beyond me. There is nothing but dirt and grime and spiders and who knows what else. YUCK! However boys will be boys and they were excited. I was surprised when hannah started following them and wanted in on the adventure. This mom had to put a stop to her fun in fear that she would get scared and we would have to go in after her :) Sometimes she can be so girly and then the next minute she is grunting and crashing her brothers trucks. I love how all three are so different and special in there own ways. Gods design is so perfect and we are all made unique. I got to do a little shopping with my mom and she even went to the gym with me :) Then we topped off our night at church for Project Hope. Project Hope is our churches adoption ministry. Both Jason and I feel so full when we leave. It is so great to see God doing amazing things in the families of our church body. This year we will welcome 10 children who will be blessed with forever families and a church body who are so excited to love on them.