Adoption!

Adoption, it's something I think of alot! It's an amazing way of building a family. Until you've done it it's really hard to understand what a miracle it is! It's unbelievable how the Lord perfectly matches children with families. My dream is to adopt again someday, I just don't feel our family is complete but we'll wait to see where the Lord leads us. As I learned during the adoption process, God has plans for us and he is in control, we just have to have faith! It took the adoption process for me to realize that I wasn't in control, He is! The Guatemala adoption process leaves you out of control,once you get to a certain place in the process there is nothing you can do but wait. I learned so much during those 7 months of waiting for Aden to come home. I'm going to try to follow where the Lord leads and if he has plans for our family to grow, it will somehow, someday. If not, then I will follow that path too remembering how blessed I am with the family I already have. There was a day just 5 years ago, I cried because I wanted to be a mother and have a family but didn't know if it would ever happen. Again, when I finally listened and followed the path of adoption that he lead us to we were blessed way beyond what we could have ever imagined. Now I have adoption in my heart, I feel there is another journey involving adoption for us. It's truly remarkable what adoption does to a person's heart. People say things like, you have the perfect family one boy and one girl why would you want more or why would you adopt when you can have children the old-fashioned way and I say why not!!! Again, unless you've been a part of an adoption it's really hard to explain, you just have to experience it for yourself to really get it!!!!!! These pictures are from 4 years ago while we were waiting on Aden, these were some of the monthly pictures we received during the month of March and April 2003. We lived each day waiting to see update pictures of our son. We were in love with him before we even held him in our arms that first time.