GARAGE SALE IS ON!!!

WE GOT LOTS AND LOTS OF STUFF!

This wedding dress is in great condition.... no stains:

We got baby stuff (cloths, toys, jumpers, strollers, and much much more)

TVs:

Lots of clothes:

Baby/toddler bed, co-sleeper

Stove in great condition (very clean, looks new)

Bikes, fold out bed couch, etc...

Lots of shoes of alot of different styles:

It is a beautiful morning out right now so come visit us and help with our adoption fees :)

All DFW peeps there will be a HUGE Garage sale benefiting Baby A's adoption this Saturday.

Our church, Sovereign Joy Community Church in Dallas/ Fort Worth area is holding a HUGE garage sale this Saturday, July 9, to help raise funds for Baby A's adoption.

When: Saturday, July 9, from 7am until people stop coming

What: toddler bed, stroller, stove, couch with a pull out sleeper, lots of clothes, toys and many many more things you just can't live without

All proceeds from the sale will go into Baby A's adoption fund.

Even if you don't live in DFW area, please share the details of the garage sale on your Facebook page or blog.

Thank you!

(Picture taken from bing images)

Flash Back Friday/ engagement- now

Today we shall flash back to the year of 2004 and the month of July when Jason asked me to be his wife.

Jason and I always had all these crazy ideas about the dating process and being engaged. We had decided that we would have to date for a year before becoming engaged and then be engaged for a year before getting married to make sure we weren't making an emotional decision. We laugh about it now because we ended up dating for three months before we got engaged and we were engaged for seven months before we got married. You can read the whole story HERE but I will sum the engagement for you now.

Jason and I drove to El Paso to spend time with his family We had a blast and really got a chance to know each other on the 10 hour drive there and back. Jason was dropping me off at my apartment and we were both so sad about having to leave each other.  We were talking about how we hated to leave each other and Jason finally said well the only way we won't have to leave each other is if we get married. I agreed  then he asked if I would be his wife and I of course said yes! So much for that whole "date for a year and be engaged for a year" thing. The next weekend we went shopping for my ring and then he "officially" proposed down on one knee in the park under a tree. We couldn't wait to tell our family and friends.

This is us the day after we got engaged showing my ring off to my Mom and Dad.

We went to my Dad's apartment and called my Mom to come see too!

Then we had bologna sandwiches to celebrate :) 

This is me telling Jason's Mom the good news.

Telling my sisters!!!

Telling Jason's Aunt's, Uncle and cousins that live close.

We were so EXCITED! 

And here we are March 5th 2005 at our wedding!

This is one of my very favorite pictures that a friend took.

One of my very favorite pictures from our wedding! 

Here we are October 16, 2006 welcoming little Ms. Kenya into our family.

 November 11, 2008 welcoming Melody and Madison into our family and saying goodbye that very same day.

January 16, 2010 welcoming Judah into our family.

And here we are now. 

I am so thankful that Jason is my husband. 

We have been through a lot together and God has been so faithful to us!

I look forward to seeing where the Lord brings us in the next few years as well!

(Photo credits go to a friend at our wedding, Margaret Lake and Michelle Monk.)

Judah and Baby A's room/ Judah is now in a big boy bed!

I posted this on our Adoption Blog but I just had to share here as well.

Judah and Baby A's room! I still get so excited when I walk in this room and see two cribs. I can't wait to bring Baby A home!

Baby A's crib and his adoption creed, it says 

"Not flesh of my flesh 

nor bone of my bone

 but still MIRACULOUSLY my own.

Never forget for a single minute,

 you didn't grow under my heart but in it."

Judah's crib.

Those pictures were taken last week but a lot has changed since then. Judah has decided he doesn't need to stay in his crib or pac n play for that matter and will climb out whenever he wants. We talked about getting a crib tent so he couldn't climb out but instead we turned his crib into a toddler bed. The first night I sat beside his bed and played with his hair for a very long time then when it was time for me to leave the room he flipped out and would not stop crying so back in the pac in play he went. Then the second night the exact same thing happened so I gave up and I was going to put him in the pac n play to sleep for the third night (I still needed to turn the bed back into a crib) but when we walked in his room he dove into his big boy bed. He slept in his bed all night. Then the next day he took a nap in there and went to bed for the night with no problems. This is the fifth night and he is still doing great. I think we can now officially say Judah no longer sleeps in a crib. It is sad for me because I wanted him to stay a baby forever but also exciting because he is getting bigger. 

Here he is his very first night of staying in his bed.

And the next night.

I love Judah so much and I can't believe he is almost 18 months old. He is asleep but I am now missing him after writing this so I am going to go hold him while he sleeps. They are only little once so I don't feel bad about it :)

Have a great night!

Flash Back Friday

I became Marisa and Natalie's nanny when I was five months pregnant with Kenya. I watched them until Kenya was over a year old and I LOVED every bit of it. I opened an in home daycare in 2008 and we lived too far for me to keep watching them. We remained friends with their parents and I have watched them from time to time. They came and spent Easter weekend with us and we had a blast! Here are a few picture of the girls from the past few years.

Kenya 6 months, Natalie 4 years old.


Marisa 6 years old Kenya six months old.


Marisa 5 years old, Natalie 3 years old and Kenya 2 weeks old.

Kenya 4 years old, Natalie 7 years old and Marisa 9 years old.

Natalie 4 years old Marisa 6 years old.

Kenya 3 months old, Marisa 5 years old and Natalie 3 years old.

Kenya 4 years old, Natalie 7 years old and Marisa 9 years old.

I love you girls!!!!

Fun Weekend

Jason's parents, brother and brother's girlfriend came in town this past weekend to celebrate a super close family friends college graduation and we had such a great time!

Hilary's graduation dinner was at Texas De Brazil it was sooooo yummy! If you have never been there before and like to eat meat you would love this place. You have a card with a green side and a red side on it when you want to eat eat you flip it over to the green side and they come by with these HUGE swords (they weren't really swords but that's what we called them) of meat and you get to pick and choose what you want. Kenya started having fun with it after awhile and she would decide when she wanted more meat.

Then they would come and she would get super shy it was so funny.

We were waiting for the car outside and Miss. Kenya was being a ham.

This picture makes her look like she has hobbit feet ha

My Mom watched Judah for us because he is at a stage in his life where he can not sit through a long dinner at a restaurant. 

Kenya and her Daddy. 

Kenya, Uncle Toe Toe and Tiff Tiff ;)

This is the first time we got to met Tiff Tiff we all loved her and Kenya asked if Tiffany could stay the night for 2 weeks :)

I love my son but at this point in his life he is a HAND FULL so I was really enjoying the break and not quite wanting to go home yet so we took a detour and went and played at IT'Z. 

We had never been there before and from the second we walked in until we left it was non stop fun for all. I have really been enjoying Kenya at the age she is it amazes me how much she is learning and how much she can do now. We had so much fun spending time with her and watching her run around and play video games, have a dance party, play laser tag (she was scared of it so she didn't play long) and ride go karts.

For some reason Kenya bonded with this employee and only wanted to dance if she was there.

Uncle Toe Toe :)

My daughter is a mess she posed like this by herself.

lovely 

Kenya playing games

We had a blast riding go Karts. Jason's Dad Papa T is the closest to me then Jason is beside him and Uncle Toe Toe is by Jason. I didn't stand a chance at winning against these guys.

Uncle Toe Toe is in the lead and Jason is a close second.

We didn't even realize we were racing against Wita because she was behind us the whole time.

Kenya wanted to ride with Tiffany (sorry I don't have a close picture but it was so cute watching her just talk and talk to Tiffany oh and hold on for dear life.)

They had mini bowling which Kenya loved. The look of her face cracks me up in this picture.

My husband with his own little "School of Rock"... these kids thought he was great. Well all of them but the girl in pink.

We were so busy last weekend but it was so much fun.

We are still not on a schedule round these parts but I am hoping to start the new schedule tomorrow. Judah has an ear infection and had a really hard day today so we will see how tomorrow goes. I just have to say I LOVE baby sign language  Judah woke up from his nap yesterday with a temp of 103. I picked him up gave him medicine and as he was pulling on his ear I said does it hurt and he started signing hurt. I was pretty sure at that point he had an ear infection. I took him to the doctor today and sure enough it is infected. I was so glad he was able to tell me what was wrong. When I put him drops in his ear he freaks out and signs hurt, hurt, hurt it is so sad but so cute all at the same time.

We are moving right along with the adoption stuff. It is so hard at this point because a lot of it is a waiting game. I am still hoping to finish up our dossier this week but we can't move forward until we get our USCIS approval better known as the golden ticket! We may not know for months when we will get to travel for the first time but let's be praying if it is God's will this part of it will go SUPER quick. We are doing some fundraising on Baby A's adoption blog to help cover the costs of the adoption and to be more precise the dossier preparation fees. We have a Thirty- One gifts fundraiser going on right now and 20 percent of all sales using this link  http://www.mythirtyone.com/shop/catalog.aspx will go toward Baby A's adoption. If you haven't checked out Thirty- One gifts before now is the time they have totes, wallets, organizers all kinds of cute stuff! You can order now through the 29th!


I was hoping to start blogging on a regular basis but I just can't seem to find the time to keep up with it. I wrote this blog a few days ago and I am just now finishing it up... my bad. I hope you all have a great Friday and enjoy your weekend!