Looking back on 2010, that is the verse that I keep thinking about. "He who promised if faithful". That describes the last year of our lives. He has been so faithful and I always want to remember how faithful He was and how faithful He always will be!
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| We survived the first two years!!! The boys turned 2!! |
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| More breathing issues and another hospitalization for Connor. BUT the Lord is faithful!! |
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| First time sledding for the boys |
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| His grace is sufficient even on these days |
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| blessed with getting to know new friends better |
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| They also survived each other |
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| blessed with good friends |
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| There's the love :) (melt my heart!) |
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| Twin tornadoes strike again! Much grace needed! |
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| SO many, seemingly impossible, challenges to overcome with the adoption |
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| waiting, waiting, waiting. The waiting was so hard, but so thankful for all the pictures and updates I received from people at Sanyu. |
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| Breathing treatments for Zander (and Connor). Thank you Lord that I was still in Charlotte. The adoption delay made it so I was home to care for my children during some difficult health issues. |
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| Ellie finished pre-school. |
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| Zander learns to vacuum up his own messes (well, sort of) |
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| spending time with friends. Such a blessing! |
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| The Lord laid it on our hearts that it was time to go and fight to bring our daughter home. |
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| So thankful for awesome friends that encouraged me everyday with these wonderful letters! |
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| yeah, she pretty much hated me for the first 6 weeks but thankfully our court date wasn't until after that :) |
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| New friends and new experiences (and by the way, the Lord has PERFECT timing and always knows what we need!) |
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| COURT DATE!!! |
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| Missing my family back home, but they were being well cared for. Such a blessing! |
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| We got the ruling!! Yes!!!!! |
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| The day before the embassy appointment the judge changed her mind and we have our ADOPTION decree (instead of guardianship!) PRAISE GOD! |
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| After exactly 70 days we are going home! |
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| A beautiful sight!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Our children are all together! |
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| Ellie started kindergarten. Such a big girl! |
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| Ellie turns 6 |
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| We were finally able to go on a family vacation with some awesome friends :) |
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| Spending Christmas as a family of 6 and having the grandparents with us was such a blessing! |
2010 was a roller coaster year! So many ups and downs with the adoption, so many emotional ups and downs, but looking back I can see it has been a year of such perfect timing. I mean everything! PERFECT timing! If I would have just trusted that the Lord's timing is perfect and His plan is perfect, maybe it would have been less roller coaster and more ups. But, what a year it was and like I said "He who promised is faithful"!!!!!!
