And baby girl makes 5!!

Last week in the middle of us being sick, we got information about our daughter!! What a wonderful day it was, her name is Wooyou, we will change her first name at some point. She is 5 months old, birthday June 4, 2009, I finally got my Summer birthday. She is in a loving foster home and growing wonderfully, 17 pound at 5 months!! She is so adorable, as you can see from the pictures. Now the hard part begins, the wait... We started this journey in August, 2007 with the first piece of adoption information gathered. We started with our adoption agency in October 2008, were officially on the waiting list as of February 2009 and now we are waiting to travel. We are told the travel time can be anywhere between 3 and 10 months. Most families have been traveling in 4-6 months so we are hoping for that. Once we get our travel call, we have about one week to get to Korea. That will be a crazy week. The boys talk about their baby sister a lot and understand what is happening as much as they each can for their ages. We are so thankful for the family that is taking care of and loving our baby girl while she waits for her "forever home."

Life is good and God is great!! 1 Samuel 1:27-28 says, I prayed for this child, and the Lord granted me what I asked of him."

I am so excited to finally paint a room PINK!! Enjoy the pictures of baby girl Ellis!!

October!!

Since I can remember, October has always been the busiest month. 4 out of 6 of the kids in my family have birthdays in October, not only in October but all in the last week of October. Needless to say, growing up we ate a lot of cake in October. Now that I am all grown up October is still such a busy month. Griffin celebrated his 4th birthday in the middle of the month. The funnest birthday so far with him. Four is such an awesome age, I think it is because three is so challenging and four brings so much more independence. If you have followed by blog or if you know me at all, you know that we had our challenges with our three year old this past year but things have really turned around!! He has finally begun to figure out how things work, mom says no and she means it!! He is also so much more independent and growing up so fast. He is still my baby and such a mama's boy.

I also have a birthday in October and I love my birthday so I usually have a birthday that lasts an entire week. Why not, I say?? My wonderful husband bought me 37 roses, can you guess which birthday it was? He is an awesome man!! Of course October ends with the funnest celebration of all, Halloween! Our exchange student from Japan was so much fun to celebrate with. She has only heard about Halloween and seen it in movies. She carved pumpkins with us, bought a costume and went trick-or-treating with us. She is so adorable, when we got out to start she said, "I love this, it is real not just a movie." We have enjoyed spending time with her so much and feel like she is a part of the family.

On personal note, God has really been teaching me things and I am growing so much. I am learning about obedience, true obedience. It is challenging but I am really enjoying it. Obedience is described as "the overwhelming desire to walk in the center of God's will at every moment."

Happy November everybody!!