Thursday, November 20, 2008

Signs






I love signs!  I'm weird I know.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

National Adoption Day

Amari, Ava and me driving at the Children's Museum 

Mar and her birth mom at the CSI chili feed.

This year my birthday falls on a very important day.  National Adoption Day.  This is a day to reflect on how adoption has touched all of us in one way or another.  For us adoption is how we were meant to build our family.  Donnie and I were chosen for Nay and Mar.  Their birth mothers picked us to love and care for their children.  Now their birth mothers are just an extend part of our family.  We have a very big family!  The girls have so many people that love them, it's a wonderful feeling.  So today think about your friends that are adopted, the birth parents that have placed their children, and the families that have opened their homes to a child in need.  There are over 200 waiting children in Nebraska.   Pray for them today.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Ready for change


I have spent the last month trying to explain the voting process to Ava.  I think she gets it for the most part.  She watched me fill out my ballot then drop it off.  I told her who was running and showed her pictures.  I asked her who she would vote for she said Obama when I asked why she said "because he is brown like me".  Yeah.  Well that is not how you choose our next president but I guess at 4 that is the only thing she can identify with.  I told her this morning that Obama will be our new president.  Yea! she said I voted right.  I then asked her if she knew who our old president was.  She said John McCain? 

Maybe the next election will be easier to explain.