Picture Day!

It has been 2 weeks since Grace first got home.  Today we had our friend Faith come and take some pictures.

Now I fancy myself O.K. with a camera (Shawn) but Faith is a much better photographer than I am.  We are excited to get Grace's photos done as we can start printing them out and hanging them along the wall in our house where our boys pictures are.

Here is a shot that I took.  We will upload some of the ones Faith took later after we get them from her.


Still Praising God for how gracious He is!

Shawn
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Our Daughter Grace!

A blessing to have our daughter home from Rwanda!

It's on its way!

Found out our paperwork has been sent out and is on its way to Rwanda!

Praise God and continue to pray as it travels!

Lots more waiting involved but still so many prayers needed for God's will and the protection/health of our daughter!

~ Shawn

In the mail!

Well today was the magical day where we trust FedEx to deliver our Dossier to our adoption agency.

It is hard to believe that so much work fit in such a tiny little box. 

We are very thankful to God and all our friends and family who have helped us along this journey and now have to wait on God to be with our daughter till we get to bring her home!

Here are pictures from today!

~ Shawn

Twas the Night Before the SoS

Tomorrow I am heading to Austin with my middle child to go and have all our papers certified.

It has been a crazy week as we go over our check lists 20x's to make sure we have everything we need, and that all the "T's" and "I's" are crossed and dotted.

We are very thankful to God for His blessings and what He is allowing us to do.  It has been an amazing process so far and are looking forward to the day we have our little girl!

~ Shawn

I-171A Joys!

Well we got our I-171A from the government this week!

This means just a few more things and hopefully by the first week of February we should have our Dossier on its way!

It is so amazing to think that we are getting closer to having a daughter!  It will still be a long journey as it often takes about 5 months once the Dossier gets to Rwanda, but we know that it will go quicker than we can imagine. 

Jen and I still laugh when our boys ask us 'how many more sleeps till we get our sister?'  They are excited about having a sister and talk about how they are saving their quarters so that she can have a toy.  Isn't the kindness of children great?

That is all for now and will update more in the coming days :)

-  Shawn

New Room For The Boys

Well in prepping for our daughter, we decided to give up our master bedroom and let our two oldest boys share it. They have more room in there for both of their beds as well as their toys.



Our oldest son "C" asked if he could paint a wall red. We decided to let them do it and boy was it a blast. They had a great time, and picked out a great color from Lowe's.


Here is a picture of the painting fun!


- Shawn