Gotcha Day 2007!!!

Happy Gotcha Day to our precious Malia and Cole!!!



I CANNOT believe how fast time has flown by. It was just 5 years ago today that we brought our beautiful daughter home from Korea and 2 years ago today that my mom and I brought home our handsome - sweetie pie Cole home from Korea! Chad and I feel so humbled and blessed that these two miracles call us mommy and daddy.

Today we started the day off with our anual family portrait. This year we decided to try Picture People. I have to admit, I'm one of THOSE people who want every hair in place and all the clothes to match. Every year I hope for that "just right" photo...you know the one where everyone is genuinely smiling, looking at the camera, no blinking etc...The one where I am compelled to buy the huge wall portrait to hang over my fireplace..you know THE ONE! Well...in the 5 years we've had our family portrait taken on this day I've not been compelled ONCE to splurge on the Big One! Chad had to convince me that they are good (and he is right - now that I'm home and not so critical...I'm happy with them!) and not to get uptight but alas...there I was, a bit down that I didn't get the one great shot and beginning to look forward to next years shot...can anyone say therapy???!!! I know many years from now I am going to look back on all those photos and I won't see the imperfections...just the beauty of the moment and feel so blessed that I got to be apart of these precious lifes.

Once I got over that :-) we headed to Famous Dave's BBQ for lunch and had a great time. Malia has dance class tonight so I believe we'll be caping off the night at Cold Stone Creamery for some sinful decadence! Yum.

Happy gotcha day to my two amazing kids. We love you so much and we give thanks to God for the opportunity to know you. ~ Your mommy and daddy

Howdy!

Well, we thought this would be a good a time as any to start o-pining on the ups and downs of our daily lives. Today has been a good day. We met with the pastor of our church at lunch to discuss the new adoption ministry that we (as a church body) will be carving out soon. Man, we are stoked! We cannot wait to watch it unfold and see the amazing hand of God touch lives for adoption. We are praying that the right people step forward and prepare a way for this ground breaking ministry in our church. Chad and I will be starting a community group this summer for couples interested in adoption. Again...did I mention we are stoked?! Man, I feel so amazingly blessed to be in the middle of all God is doing and getting ready to do...Woohoo God!