GRANDPARENTS DAY!

Trayjan had a wonderful day at school. It was Grandparents Day at his school and he was able to have his Grandpa Terry, Grandma Diane and Grandma Susan there. Mom was supposed to head out, but it was just to cute to miss and someone had to run the camera and video camera.

Trayjan sang some songs for all of us, then did a craft with his grandparents, then took them on a tour/scavenger hunt throughout his school. The time together ended with wonderful cookies and lemonade. It was priceless, he truly loved it and had a wonderful time. We are so thankful Grandparents are close and are able to enjoy these special times with our children. What a blessing they are.

A sign from God

Even before we traveled to China to adopt our daughter, I felt the need to add more children to our family. I have the perfect plan which was to have another child, then adopt the child opposite the sex we had. It sounds like the perfect plan to me. Travis thinks I'm crazy to want 4, but is amazing at all the crazy and wonderful thoughts that enter this crazy head of mine. I think my wanting of a big family is mostly due to my wonderful family. I have 3 siblings and couldn't be more thankful for all of them and my parents. We are all so very close and truly love eachother.

Right after we got home from China, I was having feelings of getting started to adopt again. However, with so many adjustments of coming home for Jie and for us, it seemed to stress me out everytime I think about it. However, even with the stress, I continued to push forward thinking God was guiding me in this direction. A close adoption friend of mine who adopted from Guatemala had past on information to me of a young boy in a wheel chair in China that resides in the Philip Hayden foundation. He was about to expire out of the system in June 2009, which means he is turning 13 and will longer be on open for adoption. My heart ached for this boy, who deserves a wonderful family, but I didn't feel was my son. So I have continued to pray for him, he is still waiting for a family to give him a forever home. I felt a great amount of guilt for not adopting him, so I turned to God, to guide me in the right direction as I continue to keep him in my prayers.

I felt like I was being guided to adopt, so the same friend turned me in the direction of WACAP. They have many children who most of the expenses are paid for to bring them home. I looked and immediately found a little boy who was 7 days older then Jie. Although Travis thought I was crazy, he didn't prevent or discourage me from pursuing this beautiful boy. I continued to look at this boy for days without moving forward to viewing his profile. It wasn't until Tuesday of this week that I realized my role in all of these signs from God. Last weekend, I was asked by someone close to me about adoption, so I knew I needed to pass on http://www.wacap.org/ 's website to her, then on Tuesday, I was approached by a mother of one of Trayjan's classmates at school who is aching in her heart to adopt. She needed some advice and ask me how she could adopt with little finances. OH MY GOODNESS! Now I knew for sure the reason I was led to this organization. Although I know the time may come, I don't feel it in my heart to adopt at this time, so I knew my confusion was GOD leading me to this information in hopes to bring children home through others. The amazing thing was as I looked for the boy on the site Thursday morning, he is no longer available. So I know he was not meant to be our son, I know God was just using me as his voice to lead people to WACAP. Our God is so amazing, we just have to listen to him.

These children need homes, and we are all GOD's children. I look at my son and my daughter as my children. I know God led Travis and I to both our children, just in different ways. I pray today and each day for these children. So as I realize and listen to God's signs today, I pray that others will listen and follow his guidance to adopt a child, to give them the loving home they all deserve.

Amazing Trayjan! We are so proud of you!

Well, our wonderful boy won his kindergarten MATH CHALLENGE at school. It had three different levels and he passed each one of them without missing a single problem. The first level was all addition, the second level was all subraction and the final level was mixed problems. He was the only child to not miss any on all 3 levels in his entire class. We are so proud of him. We have been working math problems constantly since last summer and he has done so great. We have a Math Bingo game that Grandma Susan bought us as well that he worked too. He just is so bright and learns so quickly and easily. He truly has made our jobs as parents so simple and joyful.

I got him to pose with his Winning T-shirt on with his best pal, Will after school today!

CONGRATULATIONS TRAYJAN, WE ARE SO VERY PROUD OF YOU.

Happy St. Patricks Day

Oh, how we love a good celebration. Holiday's are the perfect reason to celebrate. The only thing our children know about St. Pats Day is the we wear Green and some people drink Green Beer (of course not us). However, I think what the kids like best is that they get a couple prizes. Yesturday we celebrated with a build a bear trip and Red Lobster for dinner, and this morning they woke up to a little celebration with something fun and full of sugar for breakfast. The kids loved their little presents. Jie got a much needed bike princess helmet (which she should wear all day as much as she falls down) and a Sleeping Beauty pillow book. Trayjan loved his glow in the dark gun with a little lego set (which took no time at all for him to put together). They are so much fun, and it's even more fun when they don't know a holiday is coming!

Pray for Abby

I wanted to add a prayer for a beautiful little girl. I have been following her journey and she is such a little fighter. She is fighting a rare form of Leukemia. Here is her story:

Abby is four years old. She was adopted by the Riggs Family from Guatemala when she was six months old.
In July 2008, three years old, she was diagnosed with a high risk, aggressive form of Leukemia. Over the months, her prognosis has worsened as other complications and conditions became know.
We thank you for taking time to learn more about her, and even more, for your prayers.

Here is her family blogsight so you may visit and see how she is doing. Please pray for her family. http://www.riggsfamilyblog.com

Happy 4th Birthday Tiko

Today Tiko turns 4, she loved her cookie she got after breakfast and the wonderful toy from Trayjan. She just ran around the yard wanting Trayj to chase her to try and take her toy from her. She is such a wonderfully, sweet puppy.

Trayjan also had Friday playing with her this morning, so I added a couple pictures, as Trayjan is loving her and then putting her on Jie's face.

Enjoy!