Today She Turned Three
My Dear, Sweet Annabella Love, Your beautiful eyes lit up when you realized that today was the day you’ve been waiting for. For it was your special Birthday day! Today you turned THREE! You were so...
View ArticleBack to School Pictures 2012-2013
We’re on our fourth “official” week of school (with some breaks in between – no, we didn’t need the breaks yet – but we were just so excited to start even knowing we’d be traveling to visit Grandma and...
View ArticleWill You Pray for Our Family?
{So many of you have been praying us through this journey that our family has been on- some from the very beginning. It’s from your loving words and questions of concern that this post stems. Thank...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to My Miracle Babies
My Precious Beautiful Girls~ Tears stream down my face as I see the beautiful girls you are becoming- the beautiful girls that God has created you to be. I still remember the day when I found out we...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Merry Christmas – from our family to yours! Here is our Christmas picture this year. But please don’t let the sweet smiles on my children’s faces fool you. This was picture twenty-seven out of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to My Passionate Boy!
Isaiah Gabriel – the boy with the bright blue eyes and the incredible smile… the boy whose passion and honor flood my days… the boy who can now chew gum and drink pop, and is stronger than me in so...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Beautiful Girl!
Dear Sweet Kayla Ann, The girl with the big blue eyes and the smile that lights up a room – The girl who seven years ago taught me to breathe through grief and find joy in sorrow – You will always be a...
View ArticleFor Fathers’ Day
I see in the reflection of the eyes bright and shining. This five year-old boy gazing in awe and honor at his first real-life hero. And the girls – How they’ve been swept off their feet....
View ArticleTwo Words That Changed Our Lives Forever
It has been exactly eleven years {four thousand and eighteen days if I’m counting correctly} since we spoke those two little words that would change our lives forever. I do. It was the night before...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Precious Girl
Dear Precious Ariya Faith, The girl with the sweetest smiles and the adorable giggles and the charming personality. The girl who two years ago gazed into my eyes – though body all wrinkled and blue –...
View ArticleWhen I Ask You to Pray
Words written over twenty-four hours ago – but our hosting service was down most of the day, and now is the first chance I’ve had to connect to the internet – today we are in the thick of things and...
View ArticleOur BIG News!! – to God be the Glory!
So, there was this family that was waiting on God. And they wondered if they’d never move on. Past the hurt. Past the tears. Past the suffocating feeling of being tied down tight. Yet, deep in their...
View ArticleWhat Love Looks Like
How do you know when you’re in love? The black and white screen rolls love as a crazy romantic race through traffic. Cars and semi-trucks screech to a halt as a mad dash is made for a final chance at...
View ArticleIt’s Moving Day!
My heart is full and tears are overflowing as today we loaded the truck. This mind of mine is a swirling mess and my feet are aching, but I don’t think I’ll ever forget the many, many friends and...
View ArticleWhen You Start Your Life Right Over
It’s been ten days since we packed our lives in a truck and drove for miles to our new home. And in this week and a half I’ve seen the world in all new shades of color. Tears still glisten and...
View ArticleBack to School Pictures 2013-2014
Almost a month after adorable back to school pictures were posted by seemingly everyone else around the world, and we are just now peeling off the final remains of packaging tape and crawling out from...
View ArticleA Birthday Full of Beauty (and Mamma’s Tears)
This mamma’s all teary knowing that these girls so beautiful have lived and breathed and walked half way to their eighteenth birthday. And these nine years have been the most precious in my life. I...
View ArticleMerry Christmas! from our family to yours
Merry Christmas! Today as you tie that last bow or snap pictures by the tree. As you breathe in the time slipping or eat Christmas treats. As you hold a sick child or drive for miles. As you scrub...
View ArticleThe Day He Turned Six
And then it happened – The day you woke up and one hand was no longer enough to show the entirety of your little boy years. And you were all big smiles and excitement bursting. And I breathed it all...
View ArticleAnd Then She Turned Eight
It happened in a blink – The day you woke up before the sun with beautiful bright smiles and eyes all sparkling. And I breathed it all in, trying to capture it for just a moment – my baby girl that...
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