Category Archives: Day in the Life Sooo…I’m not what I would say is a dog person. BUT I have 3 boys and a little girl…so I knew at SOME point they would want a pet. I asked my dear Facebook friends for advice…and I got everything from what breeds we should think about to personal emails telling me NOT to do […]  Had to document a quick post seperate from our Journey to the Magi post of our FIRST Christmas with ITY…and yesterday marked officially SIX MONTHS in our arms!!! This weekend ALSO marked the longest our little guy has been in one place. I find myself looking at him over and over and wanting his heart […] Love the snow pictures, they are perfect! Excited to see all that the Lord does in 2011! 😉 Oh what a beautiful post!!! Ugghhh… cried through reading what your Great Grandmother said!! I’ve lost all of my grandparents and oh how I wish my sweet Grandma Glover were here to see us bring Joleigh home. I’m the only Christian in my immediate family but my Grandma Glover was the most Godly woman… Love and miss her dearly!! Love the pics of Isaac in the snow:) and desperately wanna see that tent tutorial:) Love the videos. Frankie baby has great leadership potential! Love the pictures!! Looks like ya’ll had a wonderful Christmas! And LOVE that Isaac is standing up!! Can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store for ya’ll in 2011! What a beautiful Christmas!!! So adorable 🙂 Love what your grandma said- its very very true! Truly precious!!! =) Love the snow pictures and those kissable cheeks! ♥ God is good ALL the time! So happy for your family. Thanks for sharing. (and the tents rock!) Magical. Just magical! Hey friend Thanks Please post a tutotial for the tent. That would be awesome to make for grandchildren!! Thanks so much. DITTO! To the tent tutorial!!  Last year, I spent some time studying the journey of the Magi, and just like my recent post on Joseph (a must read on his perspective if you missed it…if you only read one blog entry from me this year read that one)–and just like Joseph, their story is miraculous but often overlooked. Also last […] Those pictures are priceless! Glad you had a good Christmas! We are back from Bali and I am way behind in the land of blog. What a great place to start … with this post. Love the Magi Journey ideas and oh … that ITY! i first have to say…blessing after blessing…i have so enjoyed following your blog and journeying with you and your sweet family! And once again i am going to take our family on the “journey of the wisemen with you!” …what a fabulous idea! And i too…LOVE Carol Brazo’s book…”No ordinary home”. I discovered her about a year and 1/2 ago and wow! blessing. So..my question for you is…where did you do your research of the journey of the magi? Blessings to you! look at him!!! seriously…a miracle boy. love the idea of the journey of the wiseman. is there a day by day devotion to go with it? We also have traveling wisemen around our home. The kids love it! Love the idea of how we see Jesus every day. What a great idea. 🙂 I too am in awe of our family how it has grown where we came from this past year. AND YES!!!! Isaac is the cutest little man 🙂 !!!!! Go Isaac!!! Kristin and Jen…I just do the research myself and pull from every source I can find. I will be posting each night our devotional for the next 2 weeks–so feel free to just follow us a day behind if you begin your journey tonight (doing something similar to what we did last night…just introducing the journey). I just can’t type much until all my littles are down for the night:). oh andrea – he is just precious!!! Merry Christmas! Cannot wait to SEE you in a month!!! He is just so stinking cute .. and I love him in a hat shows his cute cheeks! What a neat idea. I struggle so much with doing structured things like that with my kids. My almost four year old has the attention span of a fly and seems to get all squirmy everytime we try to do a devotional. We flunked out of the Ann Voskamp Jesse tree devotional this year because it became frustrating to try and get him to stay focused 🙁 Next year I’ll try something simpler.  SOOO…on Tuesday night we scooted over to my sister, April’s house, for a little cousin Christmas break time. We were just minding our own business…getting ready for dinner…when out from no where the door bell rang and in came Sprinkle and Twinkle! Two of Santas sweet elves who just happen to be raising money to […] Merry Christmas, Andrea!! What a cute series of videos (I just love your sweet voice). I wish you all beauty, love, joy, and peace this Christmas surrounded by your family of precious children and wonderful husband. oh my gracious! where to start??? I am just completely in love with your little ones!! SO precious! God has been so GOOD this year!!!! Merry Christmas my friend!!! Love these videos =) Merry Christmas to your and your family! just watched all the videos in between 2am cooking. i LOVE that laney wrapped parker up. i can’t believe he stayed so still!!! my favorite lines…”then he won’t think it’s a choo choo” and “present, open yourself!”. merry, merry christmas to your sweet family. Loved the last video of Isaac. Too cute. They were all cute, but that is my favorite. Poor Frankie baby. 😉 As prez of his fan club, I hope he gets a nice choo choo for Christmas. 🙂  Wow!!! You guys awesome!!! In just a few days we have sold close to 90 shirts putting us in the PLUS–meaning all the shirt expenses are paid for and what we are making now all goes to our fundraising!!! 100% of the proceeds goes to The Created for Care Adoption Retreat the first week in […] So fun seeing our card as well as so many other adoption friends on your board! I even see sweet little Teamir who goes to our church! His mom and I just met and are traveling together to Atlanta in Feb for the conference! God used that little cutie pie as another confirmation in our lives of our family’s Ethiopian adoption!!! So wonderful to see him on your board with our family! Going to mailbox is one of the very best highlights of my day!! LOVE sweet Christmas cards!!! Your families is up on our kitchen cabinet! LOVE it! Oh my… my heart is just melting… I just want to scoop him up right out of the computer screen!! 🙂 YAY for the Tshirts and congrats to Kristi!!! And ITY is absolutely adorable… LOVE those pictures! What a charmer he is! And I love your string of cards too! Alright, I’ve procrastinated long enough! I’m going to get my shirt now. Thanks for all the reminders since it’s been so busy lately. 🙂 I’m amazed at how you are finding time to do all of this during CHristmas week! He he he he- those pics of Isaac crack me up!!!! Love all those cards- totally leave them up all year 🙂 Oh my goodness, he is so precious!! And I love seeing all the families that have been changed through the blessing of adoption! Love seeing our card up there too! 🙂 Just added a shirt in my box!! If we aren’t able to come to the retreat will there be streams on line to download the talks? I would love to be able to gleen from this time! Thanks! |
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I just LOVE how it looks like she has “hearts” outlining her eyes! Look closely…can you see it? PERFECT for your family with such BIG hearts! 🙂
Oh my goodness!! Rosie it just adorable!!!! My kids are begging for a dog too! Gonna try to hold them off for a few more years…hopefully! 🙂
She is beautiful! It sounds like she’ll be a pretty cool addition to your family. 🙂 (BTW, LOVE the new photos in your header!)
Oh, she’s lovely! And I doubt she will shed any more than a lab, golden, or collie, if that’s any comfort 🙂 And…having her indoors lots is likely to be good for monitoring interactions and helping her develop all kinds of comfort around kids and people in general…Sure, there’s the occasional inconvenience to having a dog, but I think they far outweigh any of that with what they add to life! Enjoy 🙂
We have a girl mut and she is THE best. I personally think that mixed breeds are WAY better…something about all that pure bred over and over can kinda blow up in your face sometimes. Anyways I think you did perfectly, girl dogs are much more lady like if you know what I mean… 🙂 a girl is a good choice…you need to balance out that testosterone in your house!
Awe, Andrea!! Rosie is such a cutie!! I LOVED reading this story, b/c I felt like I was reading my life! Only, we don’t have a dog, and we haven’t traveled to Ethiopia YET for our little one…I felt like I was reading my future story. We are telling our oldest “not yet,” and he LOVES dogs. LOVES THEM. I have said, “Definitely not a dog that sheds…”!! HA! We will see if it turns out like yours! 🙂
She is precious!!! Dogs are the best! Ours is part of our family for sure and our little girl’s bestest friend. She is a lab and sheds more than any dog I’ve ever seen in my life…but every hair is worth it. You made a great decision and did it with your heart–the best way. :c)
Nice. I use a dremel on my dogs’ nails. ..just a thought. I got it at Lowe’s, and the one absolutely loves, loves, loves it. She runs and gets on her side when I unplug the charger from the wall. If she had her way she would have them dremeled every day, but the nails don’t grow fast enough.
Love it!!! This is so sweet!
Oh, I am laughing! Because I also had a very firm NO dog policy (kind of like my firm NO retreat policy!!) but in late October I also fell prey and we now have an adorable little lhasa who makes me crazy! Have fun!
OK, I am a reader of your blog and several others, but very rarely comment. But, today I have to. We, too adopted our number 4–from China in March of this year and it has been an AMAZING blessing. I have SO enjoyed so much of what you say about adoption and God’s heart for orphans. AND, how funny is this? Just got a new puppy 3 weeks ago! Definitely more crazy to the already crazy! But-great…and I agree, kids, especially boys, need a dog! Enjoy!
You are living the dream! Oh my … Rosie is adorable. I am going to have to sign off quickly before the kids catch a glimpse of your new four legged family member. My older boys have been searing Hong Kong dog rescue website for weeks. I’d give them the green light, but Daddy O isn’t there yet. You got me wondering what would happen if I just did it! Not sure he would roll with it! Ha!
P.S. Your new header is over the top cute. But it looks like it is missing a new four legged member of the family?!
LOVE it! Just what your kids needed and over time you will realize you needed too!
PRECIOUS addition to family….real love and play ahead and years of sweetness with Rosie onboard !
Awwww……this dog-lover LOVES this story! Rosie captures my heart via pics, so I can imagine what she is doing to yours! Good move, mom! I agree……what a great present for Parker and Laney! and the rest of the fam! I can’t wait for the post that speaks of how much your hubby has fallen in love with her! {grin}
I’m so excited for you guys!!!! All little kids deserve a Dog 😉 … this coming from “very MUCH a dog person” 🙂 Its Good crazy.
We have a mixed breed dog. She is getting ready to turn 8. She has been the BEST dog I have ever met 🙂 It seems that mixed breeds are best. Congrats on the new addition to the fam!