GRREEEEEN!

The exciting process has started of rearranging bedrooms and preparing our house for two new little guys!  Two weeks ago we painted what was our guest bedroom and is now Andrew's room. 

Well... we let Andrew pick his color, he choose bright, limey green and then I proposed a couple of shades lighter than the color he choose, explaining it would look darker and brighter once the whole room was that color.  He took my advice and I'm now wishing I had toned it down a bit more!!

My wonderful sister is a realtor and I know if she were selling our house she would walk in and sweetly recommend we paint that room before we listed it for sale!!

But...Andrew loves it!!  It screams Andrew!  

Then, last weekend H.O. built Andrew a loft/floating type bed.  Andrew had put much thought into the design of this bed, he could not be happier with the results.  

He thinks he has the coolest room in the house!!

LOA!! Woo Hoo!

L

O

A

What is LOA??

                    L =Letter          O =Of          A =Acceptance

Oh Yeah!!

This is the official approval stating that we may adopt Caleb and Seth!!  We are praising God at our house!!!  We received the wonderful news late yesterday afternoon.  The girls and I were grocery shopping when my phone showed a call from Alabama, I was so hoping it was wonderful news and not stating there was a problem.  Oh, and wonderful news it was!!  

We have some immigration hoops to jump through so that our sweet boys will be U.S. citizens when our plane lands in the good ole U.S.A. and then we will be China bound!  Our agency is estimating we should travel in about 2 1/2 months.  It is so exciting to get emails talking about obtaining visas and travel plans.

          

Getting closer to these precious faces!

Caleb Joseph

Seth Curtis

Tight-rope Walking

Abby is often walking a tight rope, balancing between silly/giggly and over the top silly!  Her smile and laugh are contagious!  

Last night she played the offertory for the first time on the piano at church.  She practiced her song hundreds of times!!  When they called her out of Awana, we walked to the main church building, as we approached the doors of the sanctuary she had a mix of silliness and nerves and started to giggle!  Well, as Andrew used to tell me, "Mommy, I have a laughing disease, I can't help it!"  Abby had a laughing disease, it was time to walk in and she could. not. stop. laughing!!  I just did not look at her, because if I did she would start to laugh again.  Finally, she got it together and she walked in, her and another sweet little guy played their songs and out they ran, smiles from cheek to cheek!  

She did a great job, but it really would not have mattered because the folks at our church love children so much they would say "AMEN" and praise them for having the nerve to play the piano, good or bad!

After being so nervous as she ran out (of course after getting candy from Papa Jack) she looked up at me and asked how did I do?  I responded, Great job Sweetie!  She smiled and asked when do I get to play again?  So, I guess it wasn't as bad as she thought!!