We are incredibly grateful that most of you have been journeying with us for the past several years. As Betty likes to say, we have become family!
Yet we also know that there are many new visitors. So for those of you who are newer to the site or perhaps missed this the first time around, please watch the following video. It summarizes our adoption story, which was the catalyst for this site.
Without getting too preachy here, I want to encourage you to throw your burdens on God and let Him do miracles in your life. He won’t let you down! He won’t leave you! He won’t let you go!
Short film about a budding photographer who is just six and, as such, eventually just wanted to play!
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Carmen update: Carmen’s eye is not healing. We have been putting antibiotic eye drops in her left eye 4 times per day for a week. Yesterday, we started a new antibiotic drop that we hope works. Her eye is still red and watery. Hopefully it looks worse than it feels. Please pray that we find something that works!
Nine days ago, you arrived in this world in a flash! This first week with you seems to have gone by just as quickly. You are changing before our very eyes and it’s so exciting to watch you grow.
I know you can’t read yet but I don’t want to miss this opportunity to tell you a few things. These are things I tell your sisters often. You need to know them as well:
I love you bigger than the entire universe! I will never be a perfect father but please know that I really do love you and am working really hard to be the best dad possible.
Your mom and I are the luckiest people in the entire world because we get to be your mommy and daddy and your sisters’ mommy and daddy. Sometimes I pinch myself just to make sure I’m not simply dreaming.
God has an amazing plan for your life. It may or may not be the plan you have for your own life but I promise you that His plan is good. You don’t want to miss it!
Here is a short film I made especially for you. I’m pretty sure that you’ll be embarrassed by it long before you appreciate it. But I do hope that you appreciate it someday. I plan on making a bunch of these to help capture your life story.
We gave Lauren a beautiful doll house for Christmas that Lana found on Craiglist. Great deal!!! As I was putting together the rough clips to make a short video, Lana came over and said it looked creepy. So I went with it.
We had hoped to have a better post ready for Christmas morning. However, with all that’s been going on over the past few months, we didn’t get around to preparing one ahead of time. Instead, here is a short little video of Lauren singing “Twelve Days of Christmas.” It’s actually from last year but we never posted it. We hope it makes you laugh on this Christmas Eve/Day!
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