Unexpected Events happening in our lives!

So, here we are walking the road of a South Korean adoption and BAM...things look like they are changing. The short story is.... Dave and I worked overseas in China at a foster home our wonderful friends operate. A little boy from their foster home was adopted 16 months ago and recently his father contacted our friends and asked if they knew of someone that would adopt him. The family has gone through a very stressful and trying time since returning to the States. And it doesn't seem like there has been much, if any, attachment to this little guy at all. We were contacted and to us there is only one answer, "yes!". Did we have it in our thinking that we were going to adopt a 5yr old....no. But we have decided to say yes to this little guy, walk it out, and trust God for a baby. We are retaining the attorney today and will be walking this process out over the next few weeks. The good news for this little guy is that we have a number of people around us that already know him, because of either traveling to China while he lived there or simply through connection of our friend's ministry.

We have chosen to trust the Lord, as we will all the days of our lives! He knows!

As we walk this out, I will continue to post. As soon as I know we are moving towards him definitely coming home to us, I will post a picture. He is handsome!!

I need some help...

Does anyone out in blog land know how to create a personalized blog page or where I can find templates? I see several blogs I follow personalized and I would like to do that. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you fellow bloggers!

Taking ALL of my spare time...

I haven't procrastinated on something in a very long time. Here's the deal, I have an online class that was basically at your own pace. I figured I would go to China in February and get back and take care of this class. Well, life gets in the way and here I am a slave to my computer until Monday. Why Monday? Because, either I will finish everything or not, it is my last day to submit my work. Even at 30 I am still learning. On top of this nonsense, I am sick once again. I am now attacking my immune system with many vitamins and plan to stay on them well after I recover.

On the baby road, things are rolling along. We still need about $9,200, but like I always write, we trust God and He is faithful.

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Spring. Maybe I'll be able to hit the beach next week!

... The ride of adoption.....

Life has been crazy busy. I finally feel like I have my head above water. After coming home from China, I just haven't felt like I was making any progress with anything. I shot my first wedding the day after I returned and have been working on those photographs. Just gave them to the bride and groom the other day, sure hope they like them! Weddings are high pressure. Not sure if that will be my area of interest... ;)

So, with all that going on I felt like things weren't moving along with our adoption. Which it is just a feeling, because God is always working on our behalf. As I wrote a few entries back we were pulled off the waiting list for Korea, because we didn't have all the finances to receive a referral (that was back in December). Since then we have been approved for 2 grants....and all the glory and praise goes to God. We still need about $8,500. However, we are stepping out in faith (because we are faith people and trust God in ALL things) and have asked for our names to be put back on the waiting list. The time frame is unknown and we need the $8,500 to accept a match....but it's just money and we serve a mighty God. My husband and I are very excited!!

I will not worry, nor have any fear. Fear not, only believe....this is what I choose.

Back from China!!

I just spent most of the month of February in China. I loved every moment of it, yes...even the difficult moments. I took a team over to the foster home our friends run to help out during Chinese New Year. This helped our friends give their staff some much needed time off. After a busy schedule upon returning from China, today I am feeling almost back to normal. It would be nice to rest one more day, but it is off to the office in the AM.

Things are progressing with our matching grant, as of tomorrow we have 15 days until our deadline. We did get a "no" on another matching grants, but we aren't moved. We put all our trust in God, not the grants. The grants are just avenues, not our source.

I can't wait to meet our son this year.