Adley Louise Turns One

 Adley, I am not ready for this year to be done. You are my precious baby tied to my hip as I go about my days in this home. From coloring time, outside time, lunch and snack time, dinner time and chasing and rounding up your siblings time, you are always with me. These days are coming to a close. It's hard to look ahead and wait for more good things from God when it's so difficult to let these baby days go.

It's been a whole year of learning how to do life with four, and the Lord couldn't have given us a sweeter treasure than you to walk through this season. You love on your mommy and daddy, especially your daddy. So much love gets saved and bottled up and explodes when daddy comes home. You love your siblings more than we could have imagined. Each one of them is a hero to you and you want to be just like them. We know you're so anxious to run with them.

I love you my sweet girl. You are a deep joy to me. I have so much anticipation for what God has for your days, and I am so thankful to be a part of them. Happy Birthday, with all my love.

Adoption Day

Yesterday was a day we will never ever forget. We adopted our precious children and named them Judson and Talitha Blanco. The last year in a half has been a tremendous test of our faith and full of new ways to trust The Lord with each day. I have seen my weakness, I have had thousands of tears. I have also had to run to Jesus many days and I get to experience his strength and the joy that comes from depending on him. 

Judson is an active, athletic, hilarious little boy. And God has grown him in so many ways to calm his little heart, to trust us as mommy and daddy, and really love his family. He's starting to help me with his siblings, bless his heart, he's only 3 and he's wanting to be the man of the house when daddy's at work. He will one day be incredibly gifted at baseball, basketball and drums. Seriously. He also loves our parents, his forever grandparents. And he has two best buddies, Truett and Nathan. 

Talitha is spunky, hilarious, loud and stunningly beautiful. She keeps us active, and we chase her all day. She's interested in all things breakable, all things with a plug-in and her current favorite is the computer keyboard which also serves as her drum. She looks up to Judson and really loves him. She is in love with daddy, he means the world to her, I'm so grateful for Ernie as her daddy. He is such a gift of a godly daddy in her life. We think she will be a great dancer, she's got some rhythm starting.

So we are now forever a family of 6. God has met us in our times of need and brought us this day of adoption in his amazing kindness and mercy. We love you Judson and Talitha!

                                    

A Mini Photo shoot

Yesterday while my 2 year olds slept I did a little photo shoot of this pretty girl to celebrate her 3 months of life. She's been a precious part of our family, I'm so grateful for her.

We hope to soon show our sweet collection of pictures of our two other beautiful kiddos!

I couldn't get Ernie grumpy pants to give me too many smiles yesterday, but he was still super cute, him and his cars right now...he's always got one in each hand. He's getting so big my heart just aches.