HAPPY HOLIDAYS

What a busy week for us. Sunday afternoon I started making Pecan pies and Blueberry Salad something like my Moms. The blueberry was different. I need to find her recipe. I was up until about 2 in the morning Monday trying to get things done. Monday I started on cooking again to go over my Dads' at 4:00 to eat dinner. Then after that we went to our church for the Christmas EVE, back to Dads to open gifts. Anna and Nicholas had a blast. Anna was like what do I do. We had to show her again what to do with the gifts. After that she was off opening. She like playing with the bags and paper that was in the gifts. We got done around 10:00 so we came home to get then ready for Santa. My sister and her girls made Magic Reindeer Food with Anna , and Nicholas the day before. Anna and Nicholas sprinkle this Reindeer food on the lawn before they went to bed. After we did this got them in bed but Anna had a hard time going to sleep. It was about 12:00. I think she will be like me stay up and want to sleep in. Nicholas got up around 8:00 and Anna around 9:00. We got her up and brought her in the living room with the Santa gifts. It took her while again. Then she started in it. Thinking back to last year we was in Odessa having our Christmas in our 2ND apartment. Visit with Anna on Christmas. After we visit with her we went to an open flee market. I bought a Christmas tree for our apartment while we were there. We even brought it home with us on the plane. I can't believe it made it back with us. This will be Anna Tree when she gets little bit older to put in her bedroom. I have everything that I got with it. (T) Do your remember that day? When I wanted to go and get a tree. Then Chris' Mom and Dad came over and had gift for them in the afternoon. She had a full week. I will try an put pictures on this week before Chris leave. He is getting ready to go back to Ukraine. He is helping a group with Blessing bags for the children. They will be there maybe for 5 days. I think he said about 17 people going with them. Please keep them in your prayers and also me while I am here with the kiddos and that everything will be all right

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone and their families. I hope everyone have a Safe and Healthy New Year. And for the families that are going to adopted there children have a great time and a safe trip. Remmeber the time that you have over there with your child/ren. We will be thinking of you all. In Christ,

Going Across the Sea to See our Daughter that God Has for Our Family

Here are some of the pictures I was tying to do a slideshow for you all. I seen someone blog and I thought I would try this and do slide.com. I was trying to do it myself with other software and it did not work out to good. I can't beleive it been a year after we been over there. Everyone have a great Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I will try and post more later in slide if I can

Dec 12 was our SDA appt to find our child.

It has been year now after we been there in December. Chris and I flew out around the 8th of December got into Kyiv airport. Then meet (G)then took us where we stayed at got rested up. Went to the SDA with the other families that was with us to their appointments. As they went for their meeting to find there child or children we walked around and shopped some. It was cold that day light rain. Then we went back were we stayed at and then waited for our time to go. I was so worried. One family adopted a little boy and the other family a boy and a older sister. I have been wanting a little girl. When we got there. They showed us 3 boys. I went oh no to myself. Then finally they showed us two girl Both names started with (A) 2n A was meant for us. So we said yes. So then we went got ticket for the train 12 hr ride to Odessa. (T)our helper Chris and I got there and we was trying to find a place to stay. Will we did but it was not in a good shape. We stayed two nights and that was about it. Then we found another place whole lot better. After we got in and un packed and everything we finally went to the Baby home to see Anna. We did and fell in love with her. We tried to go every day to see her and take something to her. We were also doing it the afternoon too. Few days later we decided to wait until the morning to visit,because it got dark there around 4:30. I remember first time holding her she would lean back away from us. Finally she got used to us. After we visit we would go back and walk around or rest. We would also go to the Internet cafe to try and do email and chat with family and friends online.. We also found two Internet cafe in Odessa. This was the 2nd that we had found, One is down road from the post office if I can remember down some steps. They would have Internet and also telephone that you can pay for too use to call home. The phone are in the back and the computers in the front. The other one was just a with computers. This one would have alot of teenager or younger boys in this one playing games or using the computer. Just be careful. One night we was there late and a guy came up and asked us for some money for his mom's operation. And he would not leave Chris alone. When we got there we meet a family and they help chris out and also I had to get the owner of the Internet to help too. We had our court date and everything went fine with it. Then we had to wait the 10 days wait. Finally she would be ours. When the day came we went to get Anna we took cookies and Jucies to them. They had it gone and ready to eat some more. After that get ready to go to kive back on the train ride again. Anna did really will with it. It snowed while we was on the train so we had a little stop on the track. Then on the way again. Finally we arrived. Meet our Helper (G) then we got unpack and rest then we got our paper work ready for the doctor and then US Embasy. We walked around got more pictures of Anna in Kyiv and eat at McDonald. Then it was time to to bring our daughter home. We hated to leave our good friends that we met. If God wants us to adopt again and if life would let us we would do it in heart beat.