We finished our classes. YEAH!!!! They were so informative and interesting. We have our first meeting with our foster care coordinator in a couple days to go over paperwork and the whole next process.

We have our house up for sale officially now. We are praying that God sells it so we can begin building a bigger house for his children. We are really cramped in our house now with only two kids. Our plan is to foster two at a time, however, God's plan could always be different!!! It almost always is. We'll just try our best to follow Him and do what He wants.

We couldn't get the owner of the house we liked to go down in price, which ends up being a blessing (again: God's plan is always better. We decided that we can build on the land we've owned for years cheaper than buying a 10 year old house. It's exciting, but scary at the same time. The hard part will be finding a place to live during the in between phase. God will provide though. As always, we ask for prayers.

Blessings,
Angel

Update on Life

Hello all,

I haven't updated my blog in over a month!!! We have just been so busy. Our foster parenting classes have been taking up our Monday and Wednesday nights. Tuesday's I have been going to a Bible study while the rest of the family are in Karate class. Thurday Madisyn has Sylvan and we're spending the little time we have preparing our house to sell. Thank God Basketball is over. That took up our Friday nights and Saturday day's. But, Mason is starting indoor baseball this coming Tuesday. It may replace Karate for a month.

The Foster classes have been great. Our instructor is awesome. She's been fostering for about 15 years and has a lot of awesome advice. Some of the classes have been very emotional and a little frightening at times. The fact that we haven't hit the door running scared, just reassures me that this is part of God's plan for our life. We're actually excited to get our first placement.

We've decided to put our house up for sale and look for a bigger house. We really want a 4th bedroom. We found the perfect house, but the owner did not accept our offer. We're still hoping he has a change of heart, but if he doesn't, we know that God is in control and our house is out there. We're just trusting in HIM.

We hope all of our friends and family are doing well and ask for your continued prayers.

Blessings,
Angel

So Many Changes

We got another puppy!!! His name is Snickers. He a tiny little one.




Pepper and Snickers have become best buds. They love to play and wrestle and entertain us.

We also started our Foster parenting classes. We had the first one on Monday. The second one was supposed to be on Wednesday, but we got snow dumped on us so it was cancelled. Anyway, the first class was great. We have an awesome instructor. She's full of energy and I can tell she loves the kids. I'm really looking forward to our exciting and emotional journey.

We have also decided to start looking for a place that is a little bigger. We are really trying to listen to God in this situation. We just don't know what to do. We have a 2 acre lot that was always in our future plans to build a house on. We're struggle with whether to hang on for a few more years or to buy something bigger now that will save us money overall. We would just like to have a little more space. Especially if we will be adding to our family.

Please keep us in your prayers.

Blessings,
Angel

Merry CHRISTmas!!!

I hope everyone had a very Merry and Blessed Christmas. I know that we did. We woke up this morning to smiling kids. They were excited that Santa had visited and filled their stockings. We prayed and read the Christmas Story from the bible before they dug into their presents. Later we went to the movies and came home for Christmas dinner. It's been a great day and I'm so thankful for the chance to spend it with the family I love so much. Praise GOD!!

Last weekend we spent time with family in Toledo and celebrated with them. We had a great time. It's so nice to get together with everyone. Everything was great except the weather. It was so cold!!! The pictures above are from up north.

Love and blessings!!
Angel

Our New Addition

We got an early Christmas Gift last week. He's about 11 weeks old now and weighs about 4 pounds. His name is Pepper. He's a good dog except for the fact that he pees way too much!!! We all love him!!!

Pics at Cherry Valley Lodge

Here are a few pictures I took of the kids at The Lodge. We have it decorated for Christmas now. It's beautiful inside.

Pictures to Share

Here is a slide show of our trip to Kentucky to see Darren & Rebecca & family for Gabriel's 2nd birthday.