God's spitt'in?!?

In our part of the country snow is very unpredictable.  Some winters we get none, sometimes an inch or two, and occasionally a foot.  Abby has been so hoping for a good amount of snow to play in.  In the past two weeks we have had 3 different days where snow fell, two times were only an inch or less and once we made it to about two inches, that quickly melted.

Well....

Andrew passed the window one day last week and said, "Oh, it's spitting some snow".  Abby's eyes got really large and looked at me and ran to the window and then looked back at me and said, "God spits snow????"  At first we went with it and said yes, then we explained the saying to her.  But, oh what a wonderful mental picture that provokes and oh the wonderful thoughts of children.

The girls playing while the snow was falling.

So... next time you have a few flurries falling picture God spitting His beauty down on us!

And then the beauty of our region of the country... today we hit 70 degrees and Friday it is suppose to be back in the 30's!!

Happy Birthday Taylor!

I can not believe that Taylor celebrated his 18th birthday this weekend!  It seems like I was just rocking him to sleep and now I look up at him!  Whew, how the time flies.  Some days we laughed and some days, well... I cried, it has not always been easy, but poor thing he was our oldest, our guinea pig :)!  He is protective and cautious, a debater :) and loving.  My prayer is he will always put God first in his life.  I look forward to seeing how the Lord leads and uses him!

Taylor opening his presents, his card tells him to go look in the trailer for his gift.

We had hid his gift in the trailer!

Taylor's pick, a chocolate cheesecake!

We love you Taylor!

LID!

We received notice yesterday that our dossier was logged into the Chinese system on 12/24/12.  Now we wait for the biggest approval yet, the wonderful news of LOA, Letter of Acceptance.  That states that we are approved to be parents to Caleb and Seth!  The LOA can come anywhere from 30-90 days after LID, with the current average being 50-60 days.  So, 10 down only 50ish to go!! :)  After we receive our LOA we will jump through a few more hoops, do some more paperwork and travel about 3 months later! 

So.......we wait!  Can't wait to get to our boys!!