Reservations made...check.

Need to finish cleaning & organizing..

Lights are up, tree is up..stockings hung..even Hopee's..


P.S. Just wanted to pass along that most of LIGHTHOUSE families in the Moscow program have or should have travel dates between now and Feb/March. That means - they'll have very quick referral times for families joining now for late winter/early spring!! Families looking specifically for:
- Asian/Eurasian boys, 0-2yo
- Caucasian boys, 0-2yo
- Asian/Eurasian girls, 0-2yo

Also currently, there are available children waiting: 2 sib groups of 3 children (both 2 girls, 1 boy) - under 10yo, and a few older sib groups of 2 children. Plus, a few "special" children that need good homes, a 2yo boy (small head circ), and a 3yo girl with shortened arms.

If you are a family that would benefit from Lighthouse's Moscow program

Then contact them A.S.A.P. ..I can't say enough good things about them;)
Contact me if you wanna hear more!

A Non-Profit, 501(c)(3) Child Placing Agency
Guiding children to a new beginning
www.lighthouseadoptions.net
(734) 418-2493

My Middle Child;)

Mackenzie turns 6 December 2nd...but we celebrated it Thanksgiving weekend. Daddy has to work out of town next week before we travel to Russia.

He was thrilled of course, that his birthday party came sooner.

We went to the zoo, and he picked out his cake (they already had removed the G.I. Joe men off the cake).. theme & toys!

(Gotta let him know he's still one of a kind...and its the truth;)

Keeping the kids Busy...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Be sure to give your 'Thank yous' to the Good LORD;)

J.
XOX

CHANGE OF TRAVEL PLANS....

Our travel dates have been changed to DECEMBER 22nd!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I almost fainted, when the Director told me..like the holidays are not hard enough! This year has been an unbelievable load! God Bless 2009,..and only HE knows what's to come in 2010..I'm SCARED! All the things we gotta run around and do...including celebrating..AGAIN!

Hopefully we will hurry and make it home in time for Christmas with our boys...and don't know if Paris will be in the cards for our first trip (this is an expensive month to travel eeeek)...but Hopee gets to have her first presents and first Christmas dress, so that makes the stress all worth it;)

Hallelujah! GOD IS GOOD!

Hope Waits...

but God will bring us together....

Looking Back on Our 3 BOYS!

These are pics of the boys each on their day of Baptism.

The day we dedicated them to our Lord.

Hopee too, will have this day God willing...

Right now, we look back on her brothers, when they were tiny (6mths-12mths).


Frederick John

Mackenzie Jack

Noah David

GOD BLESS THEM! THEY ARE AN ABSOLUTE JOY TO OUR LIVES...WE JUST CANNOT GET ENOUGH..