Sorry to any of you faithful blog-followers. The past five months for us have been quite busy, so there are several things we’d love to update you about. I guess it’s kind of funny because you would think the busier you are, the more you would blog and tell folks about it, but for us it’s the opposite. The busier we are the less blogging we do!
Anyway, thanks for taking a look. Below we’ll put some pics and vids for you to enjoy. Then biggest news for us is that in August we decided to begin the adoption process. Most of you know this already, but anyway there are two main reasons we decided to pursue this.
The first is simply the gospel. God in Christ chose to father us even when we weren’t his children. We believe that adoption is just one of the ways God is desiring to show us more of his heart.
The second reason is calling. We believe God has primarily called us to himself, that is to believe and follow him. One of our several secondary callings, we feel, is to adopt. The moment of truth, I guess, was when Jude finally hit a year old and we felt like life wasn’t so crazy anymore and we got back to the question of adopting. Before we knew we would have Jude we figured maybe kiddo #3 would be adopted and we’d be done, but when #3 surprised us we had to decide if adoption was really what we wanted to do, and if it was, then would we be willing to have four children. And the answer to that is yes. So, here we go!
We’ll share more in a later post about what’s involved and what the journey has been so far.
Here are some pics from the past five months for now though. Enjoy.
Before and after from Jude’s first haircut:
Callie & Zane first time finger painting:
Them inside the “little house” they painted:
The kids on our 3-wheeler:
Jude is all boy and loves playing with balls:
First time eating cotton candy for the kids – Zane was a little freaked out by it.
One of Anita’s newest sewing creations. She took a bunch of shirts she didn’t like anymore or that didn’t fit right and used parts of them to make this dress for Callie:
The cold weather finally hit in late November.
We’d love to post some videos, but we just don’t have time to sort through them tonight. We leave for a conference and vacation in Thailand in a couple days and need to get packing. We should get more pics uploaded to http://picasaweb.google.com/jeremyandanita asap.
And stay tuned in the next few days for a post about Callie’s birthday and our Christmas together.
