I began this blog to chronicle our 3 1/2 year journey toward adoption and building a new house in the meantime!
We began this adoption believing our child was in Russia. We traveled to Russia and met a 13 month old girl named Viktoria. We waited 18 months for a court date to return to adopt her but learned July 23, 2007 that a Russian family adopted her instead while we were waiting. A year later, we were hugely surprised when we got a call that a baby boy was about to be born in the hospital 1.4 miles down the road from our new house and I was able to be in the delivery room when he was born July 29, 2008! If you are interested in reading the first part of our story, you can visit http://RussianAdoptionDva.blogspot.com
Today this blog has become more about our everyday life as a regular everyday family. It took a while to get here, but boy am I glad we're all home now!
Butternut Pumpkin Pie
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*This smooth and creamy made from scratch Butternut Squash Pie tastes even
better than traditional pumpkin pie, filled with brown sugar, cinnamon and
vanil...
Dad.
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I’m extremely blessed to have had the relationship with my dad that I did.
He wasn’t just my father, he was one of my very best friends. I can recall
c...
When God Shuts Down the U.S. Army
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Ian turned 18 in July. He is a senior this year! During the summer he had
the opportunity to serve at Camp Wow in OK. He worked with the cowboy
churches...
Kayla turned 6 years old!
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Kayla turned 6 years old on December 9th 2017. It was a Saturday so we had
a small party for her with some of her good friends. We had pizza and
cupcakes...
I forgot...
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I forgot how much I missed blogging. I forgot how important it is to write
our story. I forgot how much I enjoyed posting our pictures. I want need to
make...
2016 - Hair Changes
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Had an unfortunate incident with scissors that resulted in Flower's first
hair cut.
Tinkerbell loved it so much she asked to get hers cut too. This was th...
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There has been so much go on in the past year. Just in the past few
months, I came out of a major depression that lasted FOUR YEARS! Yes, I
said years- f...
I wish I MAY
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In my continued effort to get caught my life and blog synced back up - here
is a quick recap of May's events. When we left off in April, my mom had
just...
Trying to think of what to say....
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In my head I have all sorts of great blog posts.....but in reality I rarely
put the pen to paper so to speak. So I figure as random as it is - here is
the ...