Happy 21st!

Happy 21st birthday to this amazing human we get to call our daughter! ❤️ I’m thankful that you got to spend the day in Florida with us, Shana! 

Integrating Your Child's Birth Country and Culture Into Your Family

 Recently, I was interviewed by Marisa Butterworth from All God's Children International on their podcast, Together By AGCI. The topic was Integrating Your Child's Birth Country and Culture Into Your Family. If you're interesting in listening, click here: https://allgodschildren.org/podcast/integrating-childs-birth-country-culture-into-family/.

Catching Up...

 Pretty winter sights:

Hibernating:

On the adoption front, we finished our home study update (finally!) Now we are waiting for our notarized copy and approval letter to arrive before we can send everything off to USCIS. Our USCIS approval expires on February 23 and needs to be extended, so please pray that everything gets to where it needs to go in time!

We've been collecting children's books about Haiti:

Last week, we had a snow storm that provided the boys and neighbor kids with endless hours of entertainment! 

Every year, we kind of have a "contest" with my mom to see who can find Cadbury Mini Eggs in the store first. We won this year! Best candy ever!

God paints such pretty skies over Ohio...

Quintin's kindergarten class:

The twins have finished their basketball season for the year. Here are some photos taken by a local sports photographer:

Chris has been traveling a lot for work lately. He sent me this picture as he flew over Chicago last night: