And still waiting...

And another email yesterday...we understand that the situation is complicated...but this is just SO hard...it's starting to feeling like we are grasping for straws.

Today I made my cousin Mary some onesies and bibs...her little "Levi" will be arriving in a few weeks.

No news yet...

We only got an email yesterday...saying no decision has been made yet...still waiting and praying and praying and praying...

While I'm waiting...

Well today we will find out BIG news...happy news or sad news...so after taking Avery for a 8:20 vet appointment...we are home...and I finished a quilt for one of Jake's best friends...who's sweet baby girl will be born any day now...


Now I suppose we will drive to the post office and get this in the mail along with a million hair bows and a few onesies I made her...and then I will think of something else to keep me busy!

Soon we will know...

Soon we will know if we were chosen by a birthmom...we will know on Monday, July 25th, 2011. So yes it has been a long week...a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today another Friday of waiting...but we do know we will hear YES or NO on Monday...so we can relax over the weekend and stop jumping every time the phone rings. We were slightly distracted over the last 2 weeks (we found out about this "opportunity" on July 13th)...as we buried a sweet cousin of mine, a hero, a fallen soldier last weekend in Knoxville...and flew to DC with Jake Monday on business and flew home today.

This is not our first adoption "opportunity"...we've had 2 major ones float into focus and float away...and 3 other "opportunities" that we shared our profile with friends who showed them to someone they knew...and 2 others that I felt very strongly about...This one has been the hardest to wait through so far...and the hardest to try and stay separated from emotionally...

Over the last 9 months, since we decided to adopt, we've learned so many things about ourselves and about trusting the Lord. One day our story will be complete with a happy ending...and then I'll share it in full.

Adoption...is not for the faint of heart.

And I'll keep you posted ;)

The Prayer of Faith
Is anyone among you in trouble?
Let them pray.
Is anyone happy?
Let them sing songs of praise.
James 5:13

Close

Close...

Today we are this close...

Close enough to not be able to sleep tonight...

Close enough that I must pack some of this cuteness in my bag...

Close enough to let my mind run away into the future for a minute...

Close enough to know we might be picked...

Tomorrow...

Or close enough to know...that our hearts could be broken tomorrow.

After the party its the after party...

Here in the South we don't have birthDAYs...we have birth festivals.

Jake's started by winning a softball tournament on Saturday...church on Sunday...a nice long nap, meeting friends and fam at our favorite Japanese steakhouse...then splashing about in the pool...









Monday...sleep late...be lazy...make brownies, chocolate chip cookies, buffalo chicken dip...and head out to tailgate and watch fireworks with friends at there church...







Right after this...the black clouds moved in...we packed it all up and ran into the church...the kids watched a movie on the big screen...and then the City of Woodstock postponed the fireworks until Tuesday night. Catch-ya next year fireworks.

Let Freedom Ring...

My little break dancer...

Seriously...my baby boy LOVES to dance! This was a beautiful Southern outdoor wedding for some sweet family friends.

Summer Bows...

Michaels had a ribbon sale a few weeks ago...so I started making a few more bows at mom's...we are home now by the way!...we came home a week ago today. Mom is healing nicely. Mother-in-law is healing nicely! Seriously you two...stay out of the hospitals!!!

Adoption Profile Backpage

Do you like the back cover of our profile?


It's been an adventurous few months to say the least...traveling back and forth to AL caring for my mom who had a thoracotomy (lung surgery: wedge resection)...adoption opportunities floating into focus and floating away...

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

"Father you called us to adopt...and we are trying to wait patiently. Guard our hearts until you reveal our child."
Amen.

Adoption Profile

Expanding our mini adoption profile into a full profile...do you like the new cover? We are phone conferencing with our adoption attorney for the 1st time next week!!! Little steps in a big direction...we are excited!

For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! Corinthians 4:17

It's Fingerprints of God Friday...hop over to The Rusted Chain and check it out.

At the corner of Merrily and Narrow...

Told ya I'd go back for that picture...see Sonogram Tree (on the right) for the rest of the story. More of that story...soon.

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. Ecclesiastes 11:5

Digging Potatoes...

C.J. and I are having to spend a bit of time in Alabama...and making the best of it.

Easter 2011

(Well let me squeeze in an amazing rainbow Jake and I saw up around the sun Saturday...as we sat out at the Auburn baseball game enjoying a little quiet time for our 6 year wedding anniversary)

I couldn't capture it...but at one point the rainbow was almost a full circle around the sun...it was so wild. We were sitting in the sunshine...burning like biscuits...

OK...on to EASTER MORNING...Sunday morning...the bunny had stopped by in the night of course!

"New water balloons..in my favorite color! YELLOW!"

Some how the Easter bunny stopped by the preschool book fair and picked up a few of the books CJ had on his list...including STAR WARS!!! We had to stop and read it!

Then we dashed off to church...the 1st Easter service on the new campus. It was fab...we only had 2 in the wiggle worms nursery...so I was forced to snuggle with a little 6 month old baby boy...so sweet. I know twist my arm right! Then service was on adoption and how we are adopted by Christ...thank goodness my friends warned me that it was a tear jerker...I used a kleenex or 3. Then we dashed off to hunt eggs in Gran Nana's garden...

Made a million silly faces...

and a million more...

The 2011 Easter crew...

Jazmine...such a doll...this was her 1st time hanging out with the fam...
Oh she is so sweet!

Painting eggs...

CJ wanted to sit on Uncle Chuck's motorcycle...

Oh he thought he was so cool!

And CJ wanted me and Jake to sit with him...because "this motorcycle is SO cool"

My hubs is a man of many talents...

Cheese!

Maybe a pic for the adoption profile...(sepia hides my sunburn)

It was a Happy Easter!

one last pic...of My sweet C

Mark 16:1-6
1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”
4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

6 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.

He is Risen! Oh Gracious Father...Thank you for your love!