Kaleb's Forever Family Day

Gotta love this face!!

Looking all grown up!!

Loving to touch everything in site while in Guatemala.

The awesome market, we have got to get ourselves back to Guatemala!!!

3 years ago today we held Kaleb for the first time. I keep thinking of all the awesome memories we have of our short time in Guatemala. We will cherish those memories always. It is our hope that we will be able to take a family trip back to Guatemala. Every year on this day we do whatever Kaleb wants to do. Tonight he wants to eat dinner at Chick Filet and head to some stores hoping to find a special toy. This is always a great time for us as a family. We are blessed beyond measure with our 2 beautiful boys. Have a wonderful night and weekend everyone!!

Reflections

Over the past few weeks I have went from being scared to death to have surgery again to a person trying to heal completely. This has truly been hard on me, Tim, & the boys. First of all I am feeling much better. Hopefully soon the cramping will stop which is quite painful at times. The worst part has been my emotions. I don't think that I grasped just how hard this was going to be. After seeing a picture of the fibroid tumor attached to my little uterus I understand why it needed to be done. The hard part is the finality that I will never carry a child in my womb. There seems to be a huge difference in knowing that you can't conceive but still hoping and coming to terms that the chance of conception is impossible. You may say to yourself, well she has 2 boys, what more does she want? What I want is for that switch to be turned off that gives the yearning desire to conceive a baby! We could be like Brad and Angelina and adopt tons of children, but that desire would still be there. Now don't get me wrong it has gotten much quieter, but after my hysterectomy it seemed to be a bit louder. More than likely it was the hormones talking along with the pain meds, but it has made me feel crazy. Tim was worried that I was never going to snap out of it. I still have my moments but am much much better. Basically I am almost back to being Kelli: Christian, wife, mommy, daughter, sister, friend, etc... The great thing about Tim and myself is that we had always wanted to adopt. This has been hard, but the Lord has blessed us beyond measure with not 1 but 2 sons. Who knows He may even bless us with more children in the future!! It seems that most of us as children dream of our future finding Mr. Right and then having a family, house, white picket fence, you know what I mean. Well thank God it doesn't work out that way for everyone. The bumps in the road are what make life LIFE!!! These bumps make us stronger and help to mold us into who we are. What all this boils down to is that I am trying to get over my bump. The most awesome verse is Philippians 4:13 "I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength." I hope to be back to regular blogging very soon and I know that you are all dying to see pix of Kaleb and Kamden. I am just taking it easy, well trying to take it easy, and I know that very soon this will be a thing of the past. Thanks so much for all your prayers and kind words. They mean so very much!! God Bless each of you and have an awesome weekend!!

Sorry for being MIA

I joined facebook as many of you know and well it has taken over!!! My blog time seems to be nonexistent. I want to try and work it where they will both have equal time from me. There are lots of snapshots that I know you all are dying to see. Hopefully within the next few days I will make time for the blog and get them on there for your viewing pleasure. Our house is being looked at today so I pray that all goes well!! We found the house that we really want so now we just have to sell ours. Have a great day and God bless!!

Happy 7 months Kamden and more San Antonio Pix!!

Some kids throwing bread for the birds!!!

The state outline on a park bench.

Some artisic work which I thought was great!!!

The River Walk which was awesome!!!

Me trying to take a cool picture!

A building at the Alamo

Random buildings that looked amazing with the crisp blue skies

I love to take pictures of doors!!

My baby!!!! I can't believe that he is 7 months old. It is hard to believe that 7 months ago we were frantically trying to get on the road to meet him and now here we are, one big happy family.

A bit blurry, but sooo sweet!!! The Lord has blessed us beyone measure with our boys. They are definitely the love of our lives!!!! Happy Tuesday everyone!!!

FFF: Theme Fake Out

This is not really a fake out pic but I couldn't do the post without atleast one pic of Kamden!! Yesterday he started saying DaDa which is sooo cute. Of course I am working on the Mmmmms for Momma!! Oh he weighed in at the Ped at almost 20lbs. and they weighed Kaleb with clothes and shoes and he was 29lbs. This little one is truly a chunk!!

The let me eat my happy meal fake smile look.

The fake teeth smile!! Gotta love this one!!

The true fake smile. But this seems to be the norm around here. We are scheduled to have pics done tomorrow and this is how he plans to smile. Look at his little physique. He eats constantly but must burn it off immediately b/c many of his 3T clothes are too big. Have a great weekend everyone!!!

San Antonio!!!!!!

Here is the picture with us and our judge. There were several divorces before our case so everyone was happy when we came along!!! Kamden and Kaleb were at home with family.

The Alamo!!! The weather was beautiful and there are so many great buildings to take pictures of.

The courthouse where everything took place. This courthouse has been here for many many years.

I think this is a catholic church. Many of them have cafes and we ate lunch at one of them. It was fabulous and of course look at the crisp blue skies.

A fountain at La Villeta. We felt like we were in Mexico b/c everything seems to be in spanish. Thank goodness I know enough to get by. We bought some awesome things from Guatemala here for the boys. They will not be wearing the traditional outfits on Easter. I can't wait!! Have a great rest of the weekend!!! I hope that next week will not be as eventful. Sunday I almost passed out at church again and then Tuesday I fell down the stairs. And of course Wed. was the crazy storms that sounded like our house was going to blow away. It will be nice when all my health issues are leveled out. Take care everyone!!!

Pictures take 2

These are just some random pics from last year. Enjoy and there are many more to come!!! Have a great Thursday!!! Friday is almost here and it will be Tim's birthday!!! Happy Birthday Babe!!!!