lunch with a very special friend

The beginning of Aug brought a very very special friend! You see Miss Alicia has know about our sweet LynnMarie way before we did. She has followed her story since she was a newborn. Alicia prayed for her, her future family and her needs . I love love love that God has had her prayed for all over the world since the beginning. I cant think of her story and not cry because it has been so obvious that He carefully held her in His hands while she waited for her family. We have been able to visit this sweet friend a few times since we came home from China!!!! We were thankful for another opportunity to meet, this time at the Marietta diner!! Oh and Miss Alicia has China beauties as well!!!

July

These are poor quality pics but pics none the less. July was hot. We had a few park trips, watched the parade with friends and did some swimming. Aunt Kelly gave us bags and bags of new books so that kept us updated for a long time!

teacups

Lm meets Paschal

Zoo with Maw and Paw

While we were in Fl in August we visited Grandma in Orlando and went to the zoo in Melbourne. What a fun trip that was, she even got to meet Paschal!!!!

more Spring\Early summer updates

Early in the spring we had a work play date at the zoo and as usual LynnMarie had a great time with the animals and meeting new friends! One of the other pics posted was one when we went to an art festival in New Smyrna Beach.LynnMarie loved the clown!!!

More updates

Random pic now. We went to a couple of festivals this spring including the taste of Marietta and one in Kennesaw. She also went on a date night with Daddy this year and they had a good time together !!! We visited both grandmas in Florida earlier in the year too. We certainly stayed busy! Y

Yes our girl loves her some corn

Easter

This Easter we spent the day in Jonesboro with Aunt Andy and Uncle Jerry. LynnMarie also had a an Easter party at school with her friends. So lots of eggs were found this year. Our church had a family fun day the day before Easter with train rides, cookout food, bouncies and we enjoyed it all.

3rd birthday

In March we celebrated her sweet birthday with Chuck E Cheese. This was our 2nd time partying with the mouse and we had a great time with lots of friends and family. Although, it was at Chuck E Cheese, we still had to have our Tinkerbell cant made with lots of love from a great friend! It was fun time seeing new and old friends and loving on our girl and reminding us of her great story.

1st Disney Trip

Earlier this year, LynnMarie made her first trip to Disney World. We visited Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom. Totally had a blast and as you can see, she and Mickey are old pals.There really is nothing that compare to seeing your child's eyes light up at Disney World! Great family memories were made!


Earl

Guess who's back...back again

We have a new computer (the letter N works on this one) and I have a camera that works so I am hoping to not only get things updated, but to keep writing again.

Our sweet LynnMarie is 3 and a half and loves life. She loves to sing and dance, and has become quite the conversationalist. These pics include our 2010 White Christmas and the next week we went to Bounce U as a family and had some good ole bouncing time. LynnMarie decided going up the big slide by herself was not nearly as scary as she thought. Awesome!
As of right now, she is right on target. She has really grown up in the past 2 weeks with asking lots of questions and just chatting away. She is just a joyful little girl.We are hoping to try gymnastics later this year.Hopefully I will have even more pics tomorrow.

LynnMarie 3yo update

Oh how I had wanted to post her much more often. I wanted to share a few pics of sweet LynnMarie. We took her to Disney for the first time in Feb and she loved it. WE can not wait to go again. She is an amazing little girl and loves life! She finished year 2 of Mothers Morning out and will be in 3yo preschool next year. Can you believe our peanut is 3? She is sweet, funny, and sassy. She loves Tangled right now and walks around with a rubber lizard on her shoulder all the time. She will tell you to "No Throw" at times. She certainly loves to tell you the rules but sometimes just doesn't follow them. No big drama here.Michael and I are both on facebook pretty regularly so find us there if you want to see even more pics. We will always be thankful to those who physically helped and those who prayed for us during the wait to bring LynnMarie home until now. The adoption community is tight. I can not believe how much we have been loved on.

Family Day2 years later

Can you believe its been 2 years since we became a family? Although we have prayed for her for years, LynnMarie joined our family 2 years ago with an amazing travel group. We had an amazing support system who held our hands from referral all the way to the airport. A sincere thank you to all who helped make our dream come true. There are not enough words to thank you all.

Here is a link to our summarized China journal if you would like to read it here.

It has been a journey, a wonderful amazing journey that I would not change for the world. She has made us smile, cry, dream and question. She has proven therapists and doctors wrong.

Its birthday time

Happy 3rd Birthday sweet precious peanut. What an awesome year you have had and what a dream come true you are. You make me smile with your silliness and you have certainly taught us a few thing too. May you know how much your Heavenly Father loves your sweet spirit!

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalms 139:14

Mommy's Project

It's a die-hard, all-in endeavor. LynnMarie is in potty training boot camp. I honestly know nothing about techniques or plans, but Amy ha things well in hand. They've been at it for about a day and a half and so far have only had one accident.

LynnMarie also had her evaluation with her therapist and we've decided she will have 3 more PT appointments and then she will be out of the program. Physically she is doing very well. The only thing she is not doing is jumping with both feet at the same time. All other physical needs are being surpassed an for communication she is using some 4 word sentences so she is progressing very well there too.

We are both very proud of or baby girl.

Mike