Saturday Morning, March 24th

Spring is here and everything is coming to life again with beautiful colors all around.  I sit back and think about the day when we will have Sholey and she will be running and playing around in the backyard and I'll be sharing with her "that all this beauty, especially her, God has made"!  I can't wait to share with her about Jesus and how much He loves her.  Oh how she's gonna love it here~
We still wait with JOY in our hearts for the day we get a referral of our "Sholey Joy", but the news this time around was a little different (which took place this past Monday the 19th).  We did not get an email just saying "NO MATCH", we received a email explaining that they (Bethany Christian Service & other U.S. Agency's) were having technical difficulties signing into the CCCWA website to do the matching.  The CCCWA was even saying they were having problems too and would extend the band-with next go round.  So with all this said we did not get a match, but not because Sholey wasn't on the list.  Now, we wait with great expectations for April and pray, pray, pray that this will be the month we will be able to meet our little girl.  

Monday, March 5th

I'm so excited! Ashley & I started a new Beth Moore Bible study tonight at church. It's gonna be GOOD!

I'm ready for God to move in me and continue to shape me into who he wants me to be.  

February 27th...

NO MATCH this time around again, we are a little discouraged, but we know it will come and when it does there's gonna be a CELEBRATION!  So we just continue to pray and we want to thank all our family and friends for the steadfast prayers.  We love all of you and are so thankful for how God has blessed us with genuine love~  

Love on Valentine's Day

Wow! We have had a Valentine's we will never forget...
     Our hearts are filled with so much love and we are so thankful to God for allowing us to be so blessed.
     Life is gonna be so different for all of our family.  First we are still waiting on a referral of our "Sholey Joy" which could come Monday, February 27th (we are praying that it will), we have had a great-nephew turn 1, and our son (Colby) had his Senior day at his last basketball game (on home court) at his college, Colby is also getting married in August,  our adoption agency called us on Valentine's Day and wanted to know if we would be interim adoptive parents for three days to a 15 day old little baby boy (we of course said YES and oh what joy this was), and last but surely not least our daughter (Ashley and her husband Shane) told us we are gonna be GRANDPARENTS come this October!!!  Oh how EXCITED we are.  Here are some pictures to share the joy: 


Our son's last home court game...

Colby's Senior Day (last game on home court)

Oh how I love to watch him play,

but one day we will get to see him coach and lead young men in this game of life~

Here's a great article on my son, the love of the game is in his heart and that's how he plays:  http://eagles.ozarks.edu/mbasketball/Default.aspx?tab=0&newsID=4635

Our son getting married in August...

Valentine's Day 

(we got a call to be interim adoptive parents and what joy filled our souls)

Oh the days that William and I have talked about this and how exciting our lives are gonna be and it's here, our Ashley and Shane are pregnant~

We are gonna be GRANDPARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January Matching...

We did not receive a referral this time, but it will come~  Thank you to everyone that is praying for this moment for us to bring Sholey Joy home.  We appreciate it so much and ask that you continue to pray for us and for her.   
The next matching should be the last Monday in February unless they let us know sooner.  

"We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom

our faith depends from start to finish"

Hebrews 12:2

We Are Waiting...

Just a update on our adoption:  

We are waiting on a referral of our little girl (Sholey Joy).  We didn't get matched in December so we are praying for January for us to receive a match and meet our little girl by picture for the first time. So we wait and continue our trust in HIM, because He is in control of everything.   

T-Shirts we designed...

We can all have the choice of accepting Christ as our Lord and Savior and being adopted and becoming "children of God".