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Adoption…chapter three.
The most often asked question we get about adoption is..How did you know when you were suppose to start your adoption?This is the simplest answer that we can give….God birthed adoption in our hearts...
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Choosing to SEE and Chapter four of our Adoption.
Mary Beth Chapman is married to Steven Curtis Chapman, who is a phenomenal Christian music artist. The first song of his that I remember loving was the one he wrote to her called “I will be here.” I...
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Chapter Five….Gotcha Day.
{Lillian, our Lydia, Tabitha, Ellen, & Sienna} It has been a whole four years since they put that little girl sitting second from the left in our arms. In adoption world, they call that day...
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Adoption, Chapter Six…Thankful hearts.
I showed you a picture of Lydia on the famous red sofa in the last post, but I’ve never shown you the first picture we ever received of her. I’ll never forget answering the phone and hearing our...
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Born to be mine.
My sweet friend Kourtney called me the other day, but I couldn’t pick up. A couple seconds later, she texted me… “ASAP plz…David just said the most awesome thing about you!!!” David, also known as...
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Pictures worth a thousand words.
I don’t think I ever showed you some of the other pictures we captured for Lydia’s five year old shots. Our friend, Deven, drove the hour from my hometown to kill two birds with one stone. We needed...
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Ever Present.
Lydia asked for her very own cuff for Christmas,and I think I waited a whole twenty seconds to order it, after she mentioned it to me. I asked her what she would like on hers, and she didn’t even...
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Celebrating Number Six
We got back from China about one month before Lydia’s first birthday, and it was such a gift to us! It was one of the things we asked God for in our adoption. We wanted to be able to celebrate each...
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Seven.
One of my prayers, while we waited for our girl, was that we would be able to celebrate her first birthday with her. We weren’t there when she was born, so it was just one of those things we wanted....
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