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Month of Love

We welcomed the beginning of February with snow and cold temperatures. This month is all about love. I often feel like it is too commercialized and too fake, but it got me thinking the other day. I had spent some time looking at the waiting children on one of the adoption site and I realized […]

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Working Hard

  For Christmas my brother got the boys a red truck that they can drive around the yard and my parents got them matching wheel barrows and garden tools. They couldn’t be happier. Any day that it is decently nice (a term used loosely, basically if I can bundle them warm enough they its deemed […]

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Dear Edric

Dear Edric- Hey sweet boy! We got updated photos of you today and from looking at the photos you got a copy of the photos that we sent in with our file months ago. We’re your new family! I mailed you some photos in your first package but I don’t think you’ve gotten them yet. […]

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Rough Days

I wouldn’t say that there are easy days in the ER, but some days are a whole lot tougher then others, and some will stay in your mind forever. New Years Eve was one of those days, and I even worked the day shift, I wasn’t there for the drama and drunkenness of the night. […]

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Adoption Update

If you guys can please be praying, Korea has not set their quota yet for this year of how many EPs they are going to approve and grant. EPs are Emmigration or Exit Permissions. Typically it has been about 10% fewer then the previous year (although they fell short of their goal by close to […]

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Home on the Range

While we were up at my aunt’s cabin with my family we got the opportunity to go and visit some friends at their family buffalo ranch. They are friends we met through Leighton’s preschool and Leighton and Katherine have already decided that they are going to get married. Leighton told me one day “I could […]

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Lego Fire

For Christmas Leighton got a Lego Firehouse. And not just any Lego Firehouse, a Lego Firehouse that came with 753 pieces to be exact. He was so excited after he opened it Christmas morning he didn’t want to do anything else. It was so fun to watch his little eyes light up. And so he […]

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