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This is my friend, Heidi’s daughter. Isn’t she a cutie! We think her and Lucy look a like.

I just wanted to add- Lucy has seen this picture now and she keeps saying, “Tucy.”

Update

Thought I should give an update on our adoption process. We completed our homestudy end of April and got our profiles in for birth parents to look at. Now we are at the stage where we just wait for someone to look at our’s and choose us.

Most days I feel okay about it but I am really wanting another baby soon. We are getting monthly updates from our social worker. The first month no one looked at our profiles. This was for various reasons: 1- There were not many birth mothers (sometimes there just aren’t)
2- We weren’t a fit for any of them or they for us. Meaning we fill out a questionaire if we will accept various things such as smoking during pregnancy, drinking during pregnancy, etc.

So now we are in month two. I am praying we will get picked soon and have the baby meant for us. Would love to have your prayers too!

My nose is burning!

I love Indian food so when a friend offered to bring over an Indian dish tongiht I was more than happy. I said I would make riatta, bascially a yogurt sauce that tastes yummy with the dish. Well I made a huge mistake. It called for cucumber, cumin, lemon juice, salt, green chili, scallions and mint. Well I don’t know what I was thinking but I used a jalapeno pepper instead. I took one little tiny taste about 20 minutes ago and my nose is still burning! Good thing there is time to make another batch, too bad it involves running out to the store again!

R & R

Dustin, Lucy and I were able to get away for a little vacation. We had a great time. We were in the Northwoods of Wisconsin staying right on the lake at a cabin of some friend’s. We so appreciated their generosity in letting us stay at their cabin, use their boat and even had a pie and gallon of milk waiting for us when we got there!

We really enjoyed just being able to rest and hang out as a family. Both of us were able to get alot of extra reading done. Later in the week my Mom and Al joined us as well as my sister and her family. We had a lot of fun in the sun and too much food!!

15 years

Kellie is still in northern Wisconsin and I am supposed to be finishing my sermon for tomorrow morning, but it is difficult to do when all I can think about is the fact that today marks the 15th anniversary of my mother’s death from breast cancer. She was 36 years old (only five years older than I am now).

I looked at all the pictures my sister Tonya had scanned. I am posting two of them below. One is from my mom’s last birthday (September 3, 1991 – for some reason you have to click on it to see it). We had a big surprise party for her and she had a lot of fun. I’m glad whoever planned the party didn’t wait a year. The other picture is from my older sister Kathy’s prom. I include it because my mom looks so pretty and because you can see some of the spark that she had in her life.

As I am typing this I am listening to her favorite song, “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang. She specifically asked that it be played at her funeral. It definitely embodies my mom and the way she lived. She was always the life of the party. We all loved being around her.

When I think of her I almost always think of Romans 5:3-5. I had become a Christian only two years before mom died and during the last weeks of her life God drew me to this text. It says, “3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

I didn’t understand a lot of theology and didn’t know much of anything about the Bible, but I knew from that verse that God was in control and that he was good. I believe it all the more strongly today. God gives true hope in Jesus Christ. I am so glad.

So today I weep and grieve, but not as those without hope.

The Four Amigos?

These are like Lucy’s four best friends. When she wakes up if they aren’t all four in her hand she says, “Bear, baby, lamby, pillow.” That is the order of her love for them as well. She will let us hold lamby and pillow but don’t think about touching the other two!

Beach Bum

Lucy and I went to the beach today. She loved it. She mostly played in the sand. I couldn’t get her to go into the water but was getting her to play by it. That was a big improvement considering 2 weeks ago she cried just being on the beach. Later Daddy showed up and he was able to get her into the water with out tears! I was so happy. I forgot to bring a camera. Here is a pic from when we got home. We didn’t have the lifejacket at the pool but she wanted to wear it when we got home!

A Fun Filled Weekend

Lucy loved “helping” Aunt Jill at her bridal shower- or party as she called it.

Lucy loved Baby Zoe!

Finally Home

After being in the adoption process for months and praying for their little ones our friends fianlly got to bring their children home! We are so happy for them. I don’t have a pic of the whole family! Sorry Seth! Check out his blog for more pictures!

Lucy and her Fears

Latley for some reason Lucy has been afraid of people eating her things and of her being forced to eat things. I don’t know where she got these ideas. For example when she was around my brother’s dog Memorial weekend she kept saying, “Wrigley no eat my stroller.” Which he never attmepted to so I don’t know why she thought that. The other night I was putting her to bed and she said, “Nemo no eat my lamby.” A friend’s cat scratched her arm since then she has said a couple times, “Kitty kat no eat my arm.” But the one that I really have no idea where she got was, “No want to eat daddy’s hair.” And, “No want to eat mommy’s moles.” Just for the record I have never said anything like that to her! No clue where she comes up with this stuff!