Jomarie’s birthday!!

Yesterday was Jomarie’s 11th birthday!!
I want to repeat her future mom and dad’s wish for her and ask you all to pray the same.
“Our birthday wish for Jomarie is that God will comfort her and watch over her and bring her joy and peace and help her to know that she is loved.”
Amen!

From “little baby Nguyen” to “. . . and then there were FIVE!”

I have the most incredible adoption story to share with you!!!
Stephanie, one of my (jessica) former roommates and sorority sisters from college is adopting with her husband, Vince. Her blog has been in our blogroll for several months now. You may have noticed that the name of her blog changed from “Little baby Nguyen” to [...]

Jadon’s First “Big Thing”

We’ve decided that we want to post about once a week something that Jadon is doing. That way we can share with you all things about him that we get to experience every day. We also want to record the little things so we can remember what makes everyday special.

Today on the way to [...]

Bad Parenting and Tuesday’s Blend

First, bad parenting. . . .

(my sister sent me that. horrible. let’s just pretend that the little ducklings were saved by a nice city worker under the grate)
Second, my friend Jami is starting something on her blog called “Tuesday’s Blend” where people come there and post a link to their blog that gives a [...]

To Do List?

Q: Since when does taking a shower belong on a To Do List?
A: Since Motherhood

Eli is OUT!!!

After 7 months in PGN!!! Yes, I said, 7 months! Eli is OUT of PGN and coming home to his Mommy and Daddy!!
Please congratulate Steph, Jason and Eli and pray for their preparation in becoming a family of THREE!!!
I met Stephanie on BabyCenter when we first decided to adopt from Guatemala. About a year later, [...]

Photo Shoot

Jadon had a photo shoot this morning. It was so much fun. He really loves the camera.
As Jadon said in his “tagged” post, one of his Waumba Land teachers caught me after the service at church and asked me if she could take pictures of Jadon for her portfolio.
Of course I said yes, I mean, [...]

Tagged

Jadon’s been tagged by Eli and he needs to blog 10 things about himself. So here’s Jadon’s first personal post:

10 things about Me
1. I don’t think I’ll cut my hair for a long time. I like it BIG!
2. I love to speed crawl. So much so that I am not interested in learning how to [...]

Feliz Cumpleanos!!

Finally, we downloaded the pictures from our camera so we have lots of great pictures and moments of Jadon to share with you.
We’ll start with Jadon’s first birthday party. We had a Guatemala theme so my mom and I could take the opportunity to learn how to cook some Guatemala dishes while celebrating Jadon’s first [...]

Semana Santa

Eli’s parents (Little Pea) spent Easter week in Antigua, Guatemala visiting their son. Stephanie shared this video on her blog of Semana Santa, a Guatemalan tradition during Holy Week.
The procession:
On Good Friday the streets of Antigua are covered with [...]