Not This Time...

Well no match for us this month. I'm most definitely sad, but am learning more each day how to fully trust in God's timing and faithfulness. No one ever said this journey was easy! So we are now 10 months and counting... but when we get our little girl's picture, I feel certain it will be worth the wait :) And with this wait, she is going to be pretty stinking fabulous!

LID!

We are officially logged into China's system as of today... And the monthly referral list comes out tonight...Deep breath! ...so guess who won't be sleeping tonight? Praying for a match and that it would be our daughter. Not gonna lie, if it doesn't happen I will most definitely be disappointed. But trusting God's timing all the same!

Happy Anniversary and DTC!

Wednesday was Happy 8th Anniversary to us! It was so very romantic ;) I'm on a very particular diet, so there was no dining out; and a very close friend was getting married in Nashville, so we spent our anniversary in separate cars driving to Nashville for the wedding weekend! But we will celebrate in a few weeks, when Charles has recovered from his jaw surgery (this upcoming Thursday) and my diet is over... but celebration or no, we had a WONDERFUL weekend in Nashville by ourselves, celebrating the wedding of some very dear friends. That's the second best way to spend an anniversary.

But we also got a pretty excellent gift, we found out Thursday we are DTC! For you non-adoption folks, that means Dossier To China! We are now waiting to be logged in to China's system and will soon see the precious face of our little girl! We would love for you to join us in prayer over the next few weeks, that God would have all things running smoothly with paperwork, timing, etc... and that we would see her face sooner rather than later!

Last Day of Summer... First Day Of School

Maxwell had been begging all summer to see the dinosaur exhibit at the Space Center all summer. And as many times as we went to Nashville this summer, we never stopped! Well the exhibit ended on Labor Day, soooo... the day before school started, I loaded up the boys and off the 3 of us went. And we arrived to be the only people there, at 10:00 am on a random Tuesday after all real school had started.  It was great! And I must say, the dinosaur "museum" as Maxwell called it, didn't disappoint! Yes, only a few dinosaurs, but Sue the T-Rex is the most important of all dinosaurs, as any good paleontologist (or mom of a paleontologist) knows... so we were in luck because it was all about Sue! And all in all, we had a great little day trip to wrap up our summer :)

Sue the T-Rex!

Digging for bones

And they had fossils you could take home! And since we were THE LAST people to visit this exhibit, we got to take home TONS of TINY fossil pieces (that Charles and I think could be gerbil bones? ha!)

If you can't tell, a portion of Elliott's face is in there ;)

First morning of 5K and 2K for the boys!

Maxwell and Mrs. Harris

Elliott and Mrs. Poss... and yes he wasn't all that happy day 1. He is much happier now!