Thankful Hearts

As I was sitting here, I began to think about how much we have to be thankful for.  We have a God who loves us so much that He sent His son to die for us!  I am thankful for having a very loving, devoted husband.  We have 6 healthy children.  There are so many people out in the world who can't have children, and God has truly blessed us with many children.  I feel so blessed that God has laid it on our hearts to adopt a child.  It has been on our hearts for a few years, but now we are really listening to God's call and following through with it.  I know we will have to sacrifice a lot to raise the money, but the thought of providing a child in need with a family, just warms my heart! Our children are also becoming more excited about bringing a child into our home.  They just don't understand why it takes so long.  Here are some things our kids have said that they are thankful for:

Tyler:  I am thankful for food! 
Jacob:  I am thankful that Jesus died on the cross for me! 
Zachary:  I am thankful for what my parents provide me with!
Logan:  I am thankful for my parents & God!
Mason:  I love strawberry milk!
Kyndal:  I love Dana(her baby doll)!

Christopher:  I am thankful for God creating a person better than me and allowing me to have her as my wife!

The Lord has truly blessed our family!  We have a wonderful church family & friends!  My daycare is going very well and God keeps blessing us with more children.  All the extra kids that have came is helping pay the expenses for our adoption.  I feel like The Lord just continually shows us that this is what His will is for us.    

Mason is 4!!

Today my baby boy is 4 years old!  We have been so blessed by Mason.  He has such a cute personality.  He is silly and loves to make others laugh!  He was such an easy baby and smiled at everyone.  I just love him to pieces!
Here is a video of Mason when he was just a little over a  year old, right before Kyndal was born.

I put a collage together of some of my favorite pictures of him over the last 4 years!

Finally Moved In!

We are all moved into our new house now!!!  Thank you so much for everyone who helped make this happen!!  We love it!  Our family has grown so much over the last 8 years and the other house was way too small for our growing family.  We have so much more space in our new house.  The kids and dogs are adjusting well.  This house is insulated really well.  You can barely hear the kids throughout the house.  I managed to get the house pretty much unpacked in a matter of 2-3 days.  I didn't realize how much stuff we have.  We managed to fill a 26 ft truck up a couple of times and we still have some stuff in our old house that we need to pick up.

It was a rough first week in our new house.  Our lawn mower broke, washer machine broke, and transmission went out in our van.  So far, we have managed to fix our van.  Thank goodness for warranties.  We also have a warranty on our lawn mower, so hopefully that will be fixed in the next couple of weeks.  Our poor washer machine has no warranty, boo.  So, it's not fixed yet!

We had a lot of friends over for Memorial Day!!  There was about 45 people that came!  Luckily we have a large back yard and home now to entertain this many people.  We love having friends over for BBQ's.  We are hoping this summer to have our youth group from church over for a BBQ.