A HUSBANDS/FATHERS PERSPECTIVE

ADOPTION WAS SOMETHING VERY FAMALIER TO ME, THAT IS DOMESTIC ADOPTION. JODY AND I HAVE ADOPTED FOUR CHILDREN THRU THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AND THEY ARE THE APPLES OF MY EYE, BUT WHEN THE SUBJECT OF INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION CAME UP I WAS VERY UNSURE OF THE WHOLE IDEA. WHAT STARTED OUT AS AN IDEA WITH JODY TURNED INTO SERIOUSLY LOOKING INTO THIS AS A WAY TO ADD TO OUR FAMILY. AFTER MONTHS AND MONTHS OF SEARCHING THE INTERNET AND SHOWING ME HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS OF CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD SHE FINALLY MADE ME REALIZE THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING I REALLY WANTED TO DO. THRU HER SEARCHES SHE FOUND REECE'S RAINBOW AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN WAITING FOR FAMALIES AND THEN CAME THE TIME TO CHOOSE A CHILD AND MAKE AN OFFICIAL COMMITMENT TO BRING THIS CHILD HOME TO BE PART OF OUR FOREVER FAMILY. WE CHOSE A VERY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL WITH DS WHO WAS IN A BABY HOUSE IN EUROPE. THE PAPERWORK WAS STARTED AT THE FIRST OF THE YEAR AND THANK GOD FOR JODY WORKING DAY AND NIGHT TO GET IT ALL COMPLETE AND IN ORDER WE WERE FINALLY READY TO SUBMIT IT TO THE OFFICIALS OF OUR CHILD'S COUNTRY. AFTER THE PAPERWORK WAS SENT OFF I STILL WASN'T LOOKING FORWARD TO TRAVELING TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY FOR TWO WEEKS AND LEAVING OUR OTHER CHILDREN AT HOME, BUT WHEN WE HAD A CONFIRMED TRAVEL DATE ALL FEARS AND DOUBTS DISAPPEARED, THIS WAS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN. ONCE WE GOT TO MEET OUR BELLA AND I GOT TO HOLD HER FOR THE FIRST TIME, IT MADE ALL THE WORK AND WAITING WORTH WHILE. SHE IS VERY ADJUSTED TO OUR FAMILY NOW AND TO WALK IN THE DOOR AFTER WORK AND SEE THE SMILE ON HER BEAUTIFUL FACE , MY HEART JUST MELTS. I LOOK FORWARD TO EACH NEW DAY WITH ALL THE KIDDOS AND THE ADVENTURES THEY BRING TO MY LIFE, AND IF YOU ASK IF I WOULD DO IT ALL OVER , MY REPLY WOULD BE YES IN A HEART BEAT. I LOVE MY WIFE AND CHILDREN WITH ALL MY HEART AND THEY ARE THE MOST PRECIOUS AND SPECIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TO ME. AS FAR AS ADOPTION ,EITHER DOMESTIC OR INTERNATIONAL IT IS THE MOST WONDERFUL THING THAT CAN HAPPEN FOR FAMALIES AND I FEEL VERY BLESSED TO HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE TO ADOPT OUR CHILDREN.

I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT A BIG PART OF MY DECISION TO ADOPT INTERNATIONALLY WAS BECAUSE OF THE URBAN'S ADOPTION OF BABY AVA AND JOHN'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR HER FOR WHO SHE IS NOT FOR WHAT SHE CAN OR CANNOT DO. I STILL VISIT THE URBAN'S BLOG EVERY DAY TO WATCH AVA'S PROGRESS AND HOW SHE BLOSSOMS ALL THE TIME.

Please help Lou & Stew bring their little girl home soon..

PLEASE HELP US BRING HER HOME
This a from one of our on-line friends, Lou they need your help to get enough funds to go back to get their little girl. She will need heart surgery as soon as she gets to the states. But they are short 2,000.00 for the 3 week stay in country to get their beautiful little girl. This little girl needs to get to the US to get her little heart fixed to be able to live longer. .

This is what Lou has to say!!!

As I mentioned yesterday, on our initial trip to Eastern Europe we were forced to use our entire adoption fund to be able to return home. My return trip is planned for 1/16-1/31 and I am starting at square one. Thanks to a very generous family, my plane ticket has been covered (thank-you, thank-you, hugs, hugs). I still need to raise about $2000 more to cover the rest of the expenses. I only have 2 weeks. I will be jumping at every opportunity to work overtime at my job, but for that I only have this one week coming up, as the pay period ends this Friday. So I decided to try to hold yet one more fundraiser. With your prayers and help this one last time, I have faith that everything will once again come together. Please help me spread the word if you also have a blog site. I will be randomly gifting one lucky donor with a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Please keep us in your prayers in the coming weeks as we prepare to bring our little miss home to her anxiously waiting family, and to much needed medical care.

Bella got to meet her Aunties and cousin Kyle

~Auntie Linda & Bella ~

~Mckenzie and her snowman~

~Daddy and Bella~ Bella can say daddy , but today she also was saying and signing daddy. Boy was her daddy so proud of her.You couldn't get the smile off of his face. She is really very smart, it doesn't take her very long to learn new things. We are so proud of her. She also can say Mommy and sign it sometimes. But not like she can sign daddy. She will sign daddy over and over. Bella is really blossoming now that she is home .

~ Auntie Maddy and Bella~ Bella got to meet her aunties today. She had a good time with them and her cousin Kyle. Auntie Maddy had Bella clapping with her, and Auntie Linda had Bella laughing it was really cute. But do you think we could get it on the camera. No way, we are not quick enough.

~Auntie Linda,Bella,Deztany, McKenzie and cousin Kyle in the back. All the kiddos loved there visit with there Aunties and cousin. Aunties Linda & Maddy & cousin Kyle brought a new coat and pair of pink pants to Bellla. They are so cute, thank you Aunties and Kyle. We hope to see you again soon.

` Daddy feeding Bella~
~Opening gifts with family~
Megan and Deztany opening their gifts~
~Bella and her big sister Megan~ Megan is about 8 months older than Bella, she loves Bella so much.Megan told mom when she gets
BIG and moves out Bella gets to go live with her. I thought that was so cute ,she loves Bella so much .
I hope you all had a very good Christmas..Ours was great, lots of family and friends, Good food and did i say Family. We had 7~ seven of our kiddos home for Christmas. Our son Jake and his family couldn't make it to town. We have got a lot of snow and it still has been really cold here.
We love having a big family!!!! Yes , We have 8~eight children, and we would love more. We will have to see what happens next. The children got a lot of gifts , and we talked about what Christmas is about. We have been reading about Mary and Joseph having Jesus. I would love our children to know that Jesus was born on Christmas, and not just lots of gifts. Our grandson Camren~who is 41/2 years old~ told me on Christmas after dinner that he was going home to give one of his gifts to God for his birthday. I THOUGHT THAT WAS SO GREAT,he would give one of his gifts to Jesus.

Merry Christmas

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We all want to wish our Family and Friends` A very Merry Christmas to all. That is all of our on-line friends and R.R.Family, also. We want to thank everybody who helped us along on are journey to bring Bella home. We are so thankful to have her home for Christmas.It will be Bella and Aubrey's first Christmas.Aubrey is our newest grandaughter. We hope and pray all the children waiting for there forever families get to come home very soon. There families are waiting patiently for the perfect time to go to get them. We will be praying for all the children who need families to take care of them and love them.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND HEALTHLY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

`Happy 26th Birthday Jake~

HAPPY 26TH BIRTHDAY JACOB JOSEPH!!! WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!!!We hope you have a great day today. Jake is one of our older adult children and we love him sooo much...


Love all of us , Mom, Gary, and your little siblings.

~Please help the Newbold Family~

Please help Kristy and Rick Newbold if you can ..They are in country right now to adopt there little girl and just found out that they need two thousand more dollars to adopt her. Plus they will need two more round trip airfare tickets home because this country they are adopting from will be on holiday until some time in January.So they will need to fly back home and then go back to get there new daughter. They can't stay there for that long , because they have a little boy waiting at home for them with his grandma. They just adopted this little guy a few months ago and there little girls paperwork was not ready yet so they have to make many trips to get there adoptions done.
PLEASE HELP THE NEWBLOD FAMILY BRING HOME THERE NEW LITTLE DAUGHTER. They have been waiting some time to bring her home. Now with the added expense it is really hard on them and not looking very good that they could come up with these funds to do that.Plus they are in another country worring about all of this. If you can't help with funds please pray for them .Dasha's button is on the right of my blog~ just click on it and it will take you to the Newblods blog. You can read there story there or donate to them to help bring there daughter home.

THANK YOU FOR ALL PRAYERS AND HELP WITH FUNDS FOR THE NEWBOLD FAMILY..