Blessings

Blessings

Monday, September 29, 2014

Apple Orchard....

look at those apples :)
and a cross country runner...........

go frog go

Happy birthday Nana!





Nana had plenty of help opening her presents!  Happy Birthday Nana!  We love you!

Monday, September 22, 2014

HAUNTING THOUGHTS.........

"Don't think you're going to walk into an over-crowded orphanage, take one child out, and be the same person when you sit down to breakfast the next morning. You won't be. It's too cruel a lottery. And your participation in it will mark you. It would say: from now on, wherever you may go and whatever you may do, the faces of the children left behind will come to you. It would say: when you travel to China, you think you're bringing home one little girl. Only later do you realize that a host of spectators have moved in. You think you are tying your fate to the life of a single child. You find out that you have been inextricably bound to the lives of dozens of others. And that there is little you can offer those children besides prayers." - "China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood" by Jeff Gammage

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Where has the time gone?

My baby boy is 16!  It seems like just yesterday when I was holding a newborn baby in my arms and experiencing first time motherhood.  We love our deep thinking, basketball playing, sister loving boy.  We are proud of the young man he has become.  Happy Birthday Vol!  We love you!

Grandparent's Day! :)

Much to the Princess' delight, she had Nana and Popi all to herself at the Grandparent's Day lunch!

Popi was the photographer!

Monday, September 8, 2014

Random cuteness..........



Dr. Princess delivering a baby for Dumpling :)

Yes, Mr. Vol, we think you're cute too! Thanks to H's mom for getting this great picture while they were in New Orleans.

Happy Family Day Princess!

Five years ago in Chongqing, China a beautiful baby girl was placed in our arms.  Our lives would be forever changed that day.  We are blessed beyond belief.  You light up our days with your smile and witty sense of humor.  You are a joy!  Happy Family Day!  We love you!

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Our little Sunshine..........

Happy Thursday!
This little girl could make anyone smile !  Pure joy!

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

http://everythingbeautifulshay.blogspot.com/2014/09/from-deepest-part-of-soul.html


One of my little girls had a beginning quite similar to this story.  The trauma is very real.  The wounds have healed but the scars are there.