A BIG Change

After a year of having the boys as part of our family, Kevin and I made a big decision. We need a bigger yard to accommodate these active little guys! So, we put our house on the market and it has sold. We found a house closer to where the boys go to school and where I work. It's new construction and will be complete about a week from now. The boys will have full acre to enjoy - they can run and play to their hearts content.

Please pray that the house will, indeed, be finished by about this time next week (stay away rain)! And also pray that our move will go smoothly and nothing will get broken in transit.

It is exciting. We hope that this will be our final house until retirement. The boys deserve a place that is "home" so when they are grown and think of home, there is only one location that they associate with that word.

My... How Time Flies

Yesterday was one year. On July 3, 2009, my mom and I drove to a McDonalds in central Texas and waited. We were sitting in a window in the play area closely looking at the passengers in every car, truck and minivan pulling into the parking lot since we did not know exactly what kind of vehicle we were watching for. It seemed like an eternity, but a short while later a small car pulled in and a precious brown-headed boy in the back seat spotted me in the window and started furiously waving. They had arrived!!!

We went outside to meet them and I introduced the boys to their grandmother. The CPS worker cried. She said she always does when she knows God is creating a family. We moved the boys' belongings from her car to mine and the worker drove away. Then, we went into McDonald's to have lunch and play on the playground. After, we headed home.

We didn't have much notice of this day. It was only 2 days before that we learned this was going to be permanent placement day and not just a weekend visit that was part of a gradual transition. After all, we'd met the boys for the very first time only 5 days before at a different McDonalds. But we knew this was God's plan for us and evidently after all our years of waiting, He was now in a hurry.

So much has happened since that day. We don't remember what life was like before these little guys joined our family and stole our hearts. They've grown and changed so much. I wish it would all slow down. Time truly does fly.

Here are pictures from "Gotcha Day".