Leaving in 24 hours

John and I want to thank you all for praying and supporting us through this journey. In some ways it feels like it’s just beginning. Kind of like when you’ve been pregnant for 9 months, your water breaks, and you get the sense “Oh, my gosh, I’m really having a baby!”
Well, we’re REALLY doing this. [...]

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RE: “Getting to Know You…” Post

Some of you have yet to introduce yourselves on this POST
Now before I embarrass you all, and make a list of all the “non-commenters”, get busy and introduce yourself!
Even YOU Mom and Dad!!!!

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This Is the Last Time Our Family Portrait Will Look Like This

Nicholas, Taylor, Momma, Elia, Daddy, and Isabelle
READY FOR TWO MORE!!!
Aiden and “Little Loux #6″ HERE WE COME!
We fly out Sunday morning!
(photo courtesy of Aaron James, Thanks Aaron! and Thank you to the Lovely Jennifer James for making us dinner last night)

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Isabelle’s Birthday

Isabelle’s 11th Birthday!  Something worth CELEBRATING.

Elia and Cousin Silas at the party! She thinks he’s a baby and wanted to hold him. He wasn’t real wild about that.

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Our Chicken Pox Boy

Here’s our boy at the going away party for Silas, Ethan, and Sasha! The marker is some kind of funky medicated marker that they put on all the pox! I’ll post more tomorrow, this will have to hold you all over for now.
We had an amazing dinner tonight as a family to welcome our nephews [...]

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Happy Birthday Isabelle

Yesterday was my beautiful girl’s birthday.  What can I say about an 11 year old girl that is over the top excited that ON HER BIRTHDAY, her 3 new cousins were coming HOME. She never once even hinted at being bothered that her birthday might be overshadowed by this amazing homecoming. In fact, she reveled [...]

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“The Check’s in the Mail”

I’ve said these words to bill collectors before. But today these words were the sweetest sound to my ears!
Today we received an email with those exact words in regards to “Little Loux #6″
“THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL!” It’s a done deal.
HE WHO PROMISED IS FAITHFUL! WE ARE BLOWN AWAY AT THE GOODNESS OF GOD!
Any [...]

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John and Trac Plus Five (or Six)

It’s hard to believe, but we leave for Ukraine in 8 days to get our precious boy! As of today, we have everything that is needed to bring our son home.  The Lord has miraculously provided all that has been needed financially, and we are so grateful. We are thankful to each of you who [...]

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“Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You”

Here’s the deal, there are so many of you following this little journey of ours, and many of you are new friends through Reece’s Rainbow or just “adoption friends. And some of you have really funny user names so when and if you ever leave a comment, I won’t know who you are!
Just for fun [...]

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11 Days and Counting

We leave in 11 days! ELEVEN DAYS!  I’m feeling the need to just pack my bag, zip it closed and call it FINISHED.
Knowing that Aiden’s Nana got to hold him, blow bubbles for him and play with him today is almost more than my heart can take.  Knowing that when Derek and Renee got there [...]

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