Catch up! ADOPTION DAY TODAY!

My oldest got married 11/11/11 :) it was a beautiful day! To a great guy that I just am so happy to call "SON"!
We are adopting our three little children today! I am so very excited to finally be complete. To end this journey of searching and to know that the new journey that begins today is going to be amazing and eternal!




These are all my children with one added boyfriend who we hope one day will seal the deal and marry my second daughter!

look at what my Mom made :)

Look what my Mom made for the children for our ADOPTION DAY!

A wedding, an adoption and thanksgiving in Nov.

SO MY OLDEST IS GETTING MARRIED ON 11/11/11 and then on the 18 is our adoption and then Thanksgiving... VERY BUSY MONTH NOVEMBER WILL BE! :) SO MUCH JOY!

our new name :)

Thanks to a good friend of mine, I have decided on the new name for this blog. One that is positive and reflects how we feel about each other. We are fortunate to have found these three children who needed a family to love them. They have blessed us and made me especially as Mother be more. I hope I am not failing them because there are new things I have to try and parent that I have never dealt with in my 19 years of motherhood experience with my other five children. But I keep praying and I feel that I will be ok, more importantly... THEY WILL BE OK... and thru all my hard efforts and love, they will be taught right from wrong and grow up to be amazing people.
Boy that sounded conceded. Not trying to sound like that because believe me, I am only hopeful here...but in my heart of hearts, I do feel the Lord has control on this one, he is going to be there for me and them. He will lead me down whatever path I need to go so that they can be ok and better than ok. It has been a lot of hard work and I know there is more work coming, but its so worth it.

I feel fortunate as well in this journey we have been on to find these children and after finding them. For all the wonderful support and love from so many others. I felt greatly loved and have no way of expressing my gratitude to everyone who has been there for us in so many different ways. Thank you all for your love and support. It really means the world to me :)to US!

Chang in title...

thinking of changing my title to this blog to..... NOT THE DUGGARS BUT CLOSE ENOUGH! What ya think? LOL I feel like saying 10 is enough is almost negative sounding. Any ideas?

Can't wait to share pictures....

I can't wait to share pictures of my newest little children we are adopting. I wish I could right now! They had a great Easter! It was so much fun having little children around for Easter again. We went and saw the Easter Bunny. We had to wake them for Easter Morning and get them all excited. I don't think these children have ever had Easter like it is at our house. We did easter egg hunts and breakfast and Grandpa's. They loved the little gifts we bought them to go in their baskets with the candy. They were so excited! So much fun!

So here's the catch up. All three children are all finally healthy, caught up in shots, dental and are still getting some evaluations done on them. We think J (age 5 boy) has autism. My husband thinks he has it so bad we will have to keep him with us forever. I am not so sure. He is teachable. He is so smart. He wants to work and is a hard little worker. I think we will be suprised :) But if not its ok, because I look at him and love him so much! HE IS MY SON! :)

These little ones do fit our family so well. They have settled down so much since the first time we got them in Jan. They are learning the house rules and what is expected of them and holding to it :) They have brought us all so much joy already. There are my days where I am wiped and wonder if I am too old to do this. 8 kids WOW! Especially since now we have 6 girls and two boys. The girls love to talk and sometimes its all I can do to focus on what they say. You know how they go into every little detail... HE SAID/SHE SAID/THOUGHT/ lol....

We are planting a garden. We didn't think we would get it done in time but the young men from our church came over for a service project and in 2 hours had all our rock gone and we were able to rotatil and get more dirt and stuff for it :) Now we just have to plant! :)

We have upped our food storage. Litterally went out and bough 1600 worth of food for our storage. Its like a 1/3 of what we should have but its a great start and what peace I feel for having it if something were to happen. (Loss of job, gas prices go up, natural disaster)

Today I go get a physical to be able to adopt these three. I am nervous. I hate going to the doctors. I hate needles!

I had an amazing Mother's Day. My children are so great. Woke up to flowers and cards. The children were so good. They put on a play they made up for me :) so cute! They planted pretty flowers out front for me :) I had a blessed day. Thinking about how blessed I am to say I am a mother of 8 :)

Now we are just preparing for the adoptiong. WAITING!!! Not sure yet when... there is some court thing in June. They are trying to make sure no DADDIES come forward to claim the kiddos. So yeah... gotta wait. We are also trying to get them all evaluated to make sure we won't need help with medical or anything while they are being raised with us. The state will help us if J turns out to have autism. Which will be a huge blessing. Doctors and therapist for that are so expensive.
BUT THAT IS IT FOR NOW :) WE ARE SO HAPPY!