I just love listening to this music! Enjoy! And Hannah's birthday!

So maybe I cheated a little bit. There is a blog that I follow of a woman who is just loving God in the moments of chaos, and in the moments of peace, saying yes to life, and enjoying God in the moments of her family activity. What an inspiration to me! She takes some of the neatest pictures of her children and the happenings of them. AND, on her blog, she has some of the most beautiful moving, calming music to listen to. I have enjoyed it to the point of dancing, and crying depending on the moment, or my mood. It is just lovely. I hope that as you read our blog, you will find peace, love, and joy in the walk with us, and as you listen to the music that I have found to be so peaceful on Ann VosKamp's blog. Thank you for your generous thoughts and prayers.

We are keeping on, keeping on, just like everyone really. Our 'keeping on' involves reading the adoption book quite a bit right now in our lives, and waiting for our immigration paperwork to be finalized~~shouldn't be too long from now before we get all of our paperwork together to be shipped to Russia. But in 'keeping on' we are also seeking guidance from the Lord on many things as we grow in our lives. It seems to be all about continuing to grow in our walk with our Lord. He loves us so much! Do you know that? Do you share that with others? I am still learning, but I want to definitely let my light shine for Him. And trying to enjoy all of the music along the way.

We are home from church today with not a lot of busy-ness going on the rest of the day. It is quite a change for us. So I guess you could say we are piddling around here. The girls are working on projects. I am updating the blog, and added music. WOOHOO~~

And Hannah's birthday was yesterday. She and her friend Laurel had made some delicious chocolate chip cheesecake with raspberry sauce topping to share at the sewing class yesterday. I had a taste of it, and it was REALLY good. And then some of my family was here for a chili spaghetti dinner, provided by my sister Anne. We had cake, and enjoyed being together. It was good fellowship and time spent together. Thank you God for answering my prayers! Hannah really enjoyed her day~~

Blessings that we have received!

I was reminded the other day of the fact that we received the blessing of a beautiful hand made quilt and lovely table runner at Christmastime made by, and from my mother-in-law. What a shock and a surprise! I wish I had a picture of my face as I realized what was happening as my husband opened this precious package full of love. He knew about it~~but I did not. It is a donation to us to auction off, and put towards the expense of our adoption. What a blessing to receive to help us out, made with love, to help us get our two boys home!

I have to say we had quite a bit of fun with it when I wanted to get a picture for prosperity's sake. So everyone is holding an edge of the quilt, and then Diester adds some of the cat's balls to the center, which the family starts using the quilt to catapult into the air. Then Dave (brother-in-law) adds a stuffed cat to the mix, and the cat is being catapulted into the air. What a bunch of goofs. We did have a bit of fun with it though!

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. Matthew 7:17

Is this the year? 2010?

Happy New Year to all who venture onto our blog soon! May you see your life as a blessing from the Lord, no matter what your circumstances are. We are excited to be getting things moving, and hope that this year is the year. We are hopeful that before Christmas or even sooner this year, we will have 2 new additions to our family. Please keep us in your prayers. We have gotten our passports and our fingerprinting done. Now we are awaiting immigration approval?? Diester and I are preparing for taking a test on adoption that is part of the final paperwork that is needed~~reading adoption books~~~ I really need to check and make sure of what other things we don't have together, and get those together, so that when we get the approval for the 'immigration' stuff, we are good to go. THEN we will actually be waiting~~once our paperwork gets to Russia and we are registered with them. So, in the meantime, we pray for 2 little boys that we do not know yet, and we pray that God graces us with what we need to handle the additions to our family. We know that God is in control, but sometimes it is hard to live in that understanding!