Special Christmas!!

This Christmas was extra special to our family!We were able to celebrate our first Christmas with my new niece and nephew!I remember last year just waiting and thinking they would be here for Christmas it wasn't Gods timing.I had collected so much stuff for these sweet little children! I had no idea what they looked like let alone if they would be boys or girls or one of each I just new I loved them and couldn't wait for the day they would come into there new forever family and here we were this year with the sweet little pumpkins!YEAH.....to me its like with any new born child and there first Christmas there is just something special about that Christmas!I loved seeing them on this beautiful day:)opening gifts and there sweet smiles and the excitement in them and simply just seeing them!and knowing they were finally here and celebrating with there family!
What I find so neat is that when my sister and her hubby first started the adoption process I seen God changing there hearts and softening them to and I would think to myself wow God sure is working in there hearts and I thought the change was just for them!God has not only been working in my sister and her hubby's and there kids hearts he has been working in my family's hearts as well through there adoption!God has showed us the importance of what adoption truly is and the fact that we were adopted into his family!When you understand the beauty of adoption through His adopting us then you cant help but to know you are called to adopt his orphans weather its through supporting and encouraging a mother who just adopted and needs encouragement,giving money or like our dear sister in Christ at church making quits or adopting children!
How ever God is calling us we are open to what he wants from us in helping serve him!I just feel blessed to be part of my sister and brother in laws adoption and the blessings in fact the many blessings that God has Gaven our whole family through this adoption!
I saying all this we had a blessed day! My mother loves serving and so this is what she did all day long was served her family.My sister and her cozy self made all of us really yummy peppermint lattes and she even showed me how to make them(later to find out she gave me a gift of all the things needed to make theses yummy things)I love family and I love being with them they bless my heart!The kids had alot of fun and its always a joy to see the kids running up and down Nana and papas stairs playing in there nice Christmas outfits!they are making memories that will always be there when they grow up and I think that's always so much fun to look back on.

I want to be like you daddy!!

So Tony has been off on Sundays lately and has been able to attend church with us!On Sundays Tony always gets Anthony ready for church(Its a man thing I guess) I guess I only know how to get him ready everyday but Sundays when Tony is off(one of the 4 days he is off) !I have no idea whats going on there hee hee!So anyway Anthony is always watching his daddy get ready when he is off and for the last week while Tony has been at work Anthony has been getting ready the way daddy gets ready!Anthony has been getting daddy's gel out and has been what Anthony calls it "spicing" his hair like daddy does (spike) would be adult language for this process of doing hair :~) like daddy he gets the blow dryer out and dries the spiked gel hair!Then Anthony has been putting on his daddy's deodorant and after shave as well.I think its so precious it is to see him looking up to his daddy and wanting to be just like him!Anthony wants to be with his daddy every second of the day when he knows his daddy is off ! We have this thing between tony and I because when Tony is off Anthony always says"Iam daddy's baby boy" but when Tony's at work Anthony says " mommy Iam your baby boy" Yeah...... little stinker !


Something I pray is that God will give him the same desire to seek the Lord the same way he seeks his earthly daddy some day!and more so that God will continue to work in our family so that we can be a Godly example for our children to see each and everyday!





I wanted to share this song that is so precious and my sister was the one who had told me about it.I thought it was so precious!Its called " I want to be just like you" by Phillips Craig and Dean.



He climbs in my lap for a goodnight hug
He calls me Dad and I call him Bub
With his faded old pillow and a bear named Pooh
He snuggles up close and says, "I want to be like you"
I tuck him in bed and I kiss him goodnight
Trippin' over the toys as I turn out the light
And I whisper a prayer that someday he'll see
He's got a father in God 'cause he's seen Jesus in me
Lord, I want to be just like You'Cause he wants to be just like me
I want to be a holy example
For his innocent eyes to see
Help me be a living Bible, Lord
That my little boy can read
I want to be just like You 'Cause he wants to be like me
Got to admit I've got so far to go
Make so many mistakes and I'm sure that You know
Sometimes it seems no matter how hard I try
With all the pressures in life I just can't get it all right
But I'm trying so hard to learn from the best
Being patient and kind, filled with Your tenderness'Cause I know that he'll learn from the things that he sees
And the Jesus he finds will be the Jesus in me
Right now from where he stands I may seem mighty tall
But it's only 'cause I'm learning from the best Father of them all


"Fathers,do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4

ADDISON AND HIPPY THE RAT

I think Hippy likes Addison's orange juice lol ! My daughter loves animals with a passion!I do love animals to and totally loved them at Addisons age!My parents always had animal for us when me and my sister were young and I enjoyed having them to play with.I had a rat when I was little and loved him!I do believe we will be putting Addison in 4H in a couple of years!This girl had owned 2 lab mixes and a rabbit and 3 baby chickens and fish that she put in my garbage disposal when she was 2 I never new they were in there until later that day when I had turned it on 3 or 4 times lol and she told me "fishy mama" and pointed to the sink!Ya...... I found where they were after looking everywhere :~) I remember her always getting a chair and if I was in the other room she was in the kitchen putting her snacks in the tank along with pennies or what ever she could find lol! Oh and the best was when she stuck her chicken in a KFC box and wanted it shut!I was very tempted to send the picture of her into KFC.


So now we have 1 doggy(we think she is prego) 1 Guinea pig, 1 fish that killed 10 others, and 2 rats The other animals that I had mentioned had to be given away and well the chickens got ate by our next door neighbors dog.

I thought these pictures were cute and I wanted to share them with you just for fun:)