Wednesday, December 4, 2013. This Christmas buy the gift that keeps on giving all year. Buy a chicken for the Home Again Ministry and invest in the future.

Wednesday, April 02, 2014. Raising Support for Latvia Trip. The Christian camp is located on the western part of the country near the Baltic Sea. It is there that part of our team will be finishing three cabins to make more room for campers.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Breaking the Silence-I Press On. Not quite sure how it happened that nearly a year and a half has passed since I last updated. I believe one of the last things I said was that the next time I wrote that I would be traveling to bring Abby and Becca home from the Congo. Oh how I wish that were true! There is so much more I could say but for now I will end with words from a new favorite song and a promise to update on my precious boys soon. Building 429, I Press On.

Journaling the fun and chaotic lives of our growing family. Saturday, April 13, 2013. Kenna Meron and Klaire Bethelehem. They are finally legally our children! Kollin, Karly, Karson, Kerrigan, and of course me and John were in Ethiopia April 3-11 for court and got to spend a wonderful week with our children. They are so amazingly fantastic in every way. They are brilliant, kind, loving, athletic, talented, gorgeous. I could go on! We cannot WAIT to get them home. Sunday, March 10, 2013.

Sunday, February 9, 2014.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013. pumpkin anything! Go make sure you subscribe to the new blog. Monday, October 21, 2013.

Monday, October 21, 2013. This is the last post for the Europe blog! We are MERGING to one big happy blog! Go take a look at.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015. In October I began going to the large orphanage here in town. It is an institution orphanage and is partly government funded. A few years ago, Mali closed all adoptions and because of this, this orphanage is bursting at the seems with children. Then the last room we visited, of course it was the last one, was the room that houses the children with disabilities. It only took seconds for me to fall. love! For me though, I have .

Friday, May 3, 2013. Happy 2 year dossier-submittal anniversary to us! We mailed out our tome in late April of 2011.

Friday, July 19, 2013. God continues to pour out his blessings on our family. Back in April of this year I had been praying about a job situation. I felt like my place was at home with my girls and with our son that would be joining our family soon. After much prayer God opened a door and provided me with a job that allows me to be at home! We jumped 7 places in a month! On July 16th I got a call from our agency telling us that they had a referral for us of a child that would fit our family! We accepted .