A Blessed Christmas to You All

A quote from our pastor:

"Wise men still seek Him, and when they seek Him they find Him, and when they find Him they worship Him." May you seek, find, and worship the Lord in the coming days.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

My daughter came upon this in one of her classes-enjoy!



12/18/07-DNA is a match! Praying the Embassy is energized by the holiday spirit! Bring on the Pre-Approval!

Let the Little Children Come

He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Mark 10:14

I am in awe of God's faithfulness. We have friends who are getting ready to travel to Columbia to meet their three children. They have faithfully followed the Lord through this long journey. Three Guatemala adoptive families have recently been released from PGN, their children will soon be coming home.

Thank you Lord for watching over these children as they wait for their families to come to them. May their hearts be open to the spiritual training these families will bring to them. May they come to know you at a tender age and follow you all of their days. Amen.

And Jesus grew in wisdom, and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Luke 2:52

Short update: Our birthmom had to re-take her DNA, the original sample was not large enough to test. This has been done. We are waiting on results which will then go to the embassy to await pre-approval. We were told that we were to be submitted to PGN last week. Thank you for lifting Nathan and our family up in prayer.

Say Cheese!

Each year our Christmas picture is a great adventure. This year we decided to take one on our front porch. The beginnings reminded me of the Christmas picture being taken at the beginning of Cheaper by the Dozen- but then everyone started warming up to the idea. It took us a while-we were using the delay on the camera on a tripod. (Ken wanted to call our good friend and neighbor to take it, but why do it the easy way.) So I thought I would share some for fun, some of them show some of our true personalities. It was really a lot of fun.

Natalie waiting patiently. She is growing up too fast.

Sophie (our dog) thought all the merriment was for her, so she kept trying to get in the picture. When we actually tried to get her to sit for the picture she didn't want any part of it.

Things are starting to get a little crazy, think we better get a good shot quickly.

Celebrating that we are done!

Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! May the Lord bless you greatly in the New Year!

"Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11

December Update

Nathan looks a little bored here with the whole picture-taking thing.

I love to recieve the new pictures each month and see how Nathan's personality is developing. It makes me more ready to get to know him in person.

Here he seems to want to say something.

He's precious to us either way!

He currently weighs 10#5oz. and is 22 inches long. We are continuing to thank the Lord for His hand in Nathan's adoption.

"And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me." Matthew 18:5

News Update

We received some good news today and really an answer to what we have been praying. We heard today that not only has our Social Work interview been completed but that we are out of Family Court. They are planning on submitting us to PGN this week, without pre-approval (so eventually we will get kicked out-this is normal) This is very good news and a much larger step than we had anticipated.

This calls for another short video clip of the cuddliest little boy- we hope to welcome him home soon! Thank you Angel for being such an angel to our family. :)

Nathan Live!

A blogging Angel, and a fellow Gautemama visited the Children's Home in early November. We received some video clips from her. The more I watch him the more my heart is ready to bring him home! He is a beautiful child and we are excited to get to know him and love him!

This past week we were all piling into the van and as I was counting heads I thought, "someone is missing", but there were 6 kiddos there. I have attempted to keep my heart protected through this process, but Nathan is embedding himself there anyway. That's okay, there is room for him, too. :)