Summer Update

Since we are in a season of W-A-I-T-I-N-G in our adoption process and we don't really know anything new, I figured I would just give you some summer highlights of what is going on in our world while we wait in this process. 

In early June we spent two weekends at Emilee and Nathan's awesome river house! We spent two days floating the river and a lot of time eating, relaxing and catching up with family.  Here are some pictures......

Jared and Nathan caught a lot of fish and I enjoyed reading and getting a tan! :)

While we were at Emilee and Nathan's they told us that they are EXPECTING a baby in December!!! We are pumped about having another neice or nephew!!  Mom, Emilee and I enjoyed a girls day together last week shopping and of course we had to stop in the Maternity store! We look forward to knowing whether its a boy or girl later in the month! CONGRATULATIONS EMILEE AND NATHAN!

As of June 28th, we have been on the official waiting list for 5 months and been on the adoption journey for 1 year and 8 months.  We continue to pray for our child, their family who will have to make a hard decision to give them up, and for the nannies who give all their love to the orphans day in and day out.  We hear from the families that have already traveled that the nannies are awesome and give excellent care to the children until the adoptive families can bring them home.  That is so comforting to me that the children are getting lots of love!  We contine to have patience in this process that can only come from the Lord. We are so grateful for the way the Lord continues to provide all that we need in this process.  We continue to have peace that he is our childs Father and that he is with them every minute providing for all our childs needs. We look forward to the day when we will be joined together with our child and become a family!!  Until then we wait.........

On July 1st, Jared and I celebrated 5 years of marriage! What a blessing it has been! God has so richly blessed me with an awesome husband, lover and best friend! We celebrated by eating a nice steak dinner on our porch!  :)

Then this past weekend we celebrated the marriage of Joey and Tori, a couple in our small group! It was a beautiful wedding and we enjoyed being a part of it and getting to catch up with so many friends!

Mr and Mrs Joey Marrs!!!

Then to celebrate the 4th of July we floated the James River with our small group and had a blast! We hit a lot of rocks along the way due to the water being down but we enjoyed our time on the water and had great fellowship all while enjoying Gods beautiful creation! 

Jared got out of the boat to fish and the current started to pull me down river and I am trying not to float away!!