Church Camp - Take 1

We got back yesterday from a great week at church camp! Daniel spoke at the Kiamichi Association District Camp. Another brag on Daniel moment - He did a really great job. A lot of students this week made decisions for the Lord! Praise God! Two of our boys went with us. Here is Luke, Josh and Elmo on the way to Wilburton. The camp was at Robbers Cave State Park - which is a LONG way from where we live. It took us 6 hours to get there.Luke was so excited when we got there and got our beds made. He thought it was pretty cool to be sleeping at church camp. I told him that was a good thing because we have 3 more weeks of camp! (Only 2 though to sleep at camp)On Wednesday during a break we took the boys to Robbers Cave. I don't know what I was expecting, but rock climbing was not it. Me in my nike flip flops and the rocks really didn't get along. The boys had a blast though. They were pretending to be cave trolls. It was pretty funny. They went rock climbing and we stuck to the trail (which still entailed climbing a lot of rocks). We could hear them making their "troll" sounds. It was hilarious.Here is a pic of Josh and Steven being "trolls".That afternoon they had water inflatables at camp. It was SO cold, but Luke took a couple trips down the slide before nap time.Here is a picture of Luke and his "girlfriend" Courtney. Luke loved Courtney. Anytime we were out and about he wanted to know where his girlfriend was. She was a really good sport about it too! Funny story - I was trying to get Luke to bed one night and we were laying there. He says "Mom, I really like my girlfriend". I said, "You do". He goes, "What's her name again" It was pretty cute.On Thursday we went for a paddle boat ride and then we played putt putt golf. It was Luke's first experience at both. It was a fun afternoon!

Luke has been learning a lot of worship songs. On Thursday night during the invitation time I couldn't help but cry listening to my baby sing "How Great Is Our God".

We got home yesterday evening after a very long car ride. It was a great week! Stay tuned for more church camp adventures!!!

Nap Time at the Sweet House

Bragging on Daniel...

First of all, I said I would update with pics of Luke with his skateboard at church - The little stinker hasn't wanted to take it to church. He still likes playing with it - he's just been cranky the last two weeks before Wednesday church.

This past Sunday afternoon Daniel spoke at Catoosa's Bacc... so we got to spend the weekend with my parents and go to church with them on Sunday. Daniel did a really good job. I was really proud of him.

Luke helped Nana make cookies for bacc. Mom and Dad's church hosted it this year.

While we were in Tulsa we bought new bedding for Luke's bed. His top bunk and his under bed as he calls it! :) He earned it by sleeping all night in his bed for 7 nights. We had been having sleeping issues. Now he's so excited about his new bedding he wants to sleep in his bed. I had to make his bed three times monday night after putting his bedding on because he kept getting under the covers and wanting me to take his picture.

On the adoption front - I spoke to our social worker and agency yesterday. We are only missing our fingerprint approval for our homestudy and it should be here any day. We also learned that our life book is the group to be shown. So we're praying for the right baby for us!

A Long Overdue Post...

I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated. I think these first pictures are from February (a little bit old). Luke got a soccer goal set for Christmas. We played in the back yard with it and then went to the park. Luke gets to play soccer next spring and he is already super excited!At the beginning of spring break Nana and Jen came to visit. Luke went home with them and spent four nights. He had a blast!Aunt Jen bought him new sunglasses while he was there. Daniel turned 28 at the end of March. Luke came up with the idea for his birthday cake. The cups in the background - Our home group meets at our house every Sunday night. We have about 12 couples and about 10 kids. I should post pics of the play room after a home group. :) We have a great time though.


We got almost two feet of snow at the end of March. It started sleeting on a Thursday evening. Daniel went in to work for a little while Friday morning and by Friday afternoon it was a blizzard. We didn't even try to go anywhere until Sunday night. Luke helped Daniel shovel off the driveway.Daniel spoke at a youth retreat on the Friday and Saturday of Easter Weekend so Luke and I got to spend the weekend at Nana and Papa's. We colored eggs on Friday before Daddy left.Saturday morning we went to the egg hunt at Papa and Nana's church.That afternoon Papa and Luke had a great time kicking the ball in the front yard.Luke is going through a posing face where he will do something and want me to take his picture. He tucked his shades in his shirt and asked me to take his picture. He said this is what Papa does - only he pronounced does like "doos". Too cute!Another posed picture. A boy and his dog!We kept our friends little girl for a couple of hours last week. Luke loves Baby Ally.

Nana and Jen came in last night and left around 2:30 today. We went to Wal-Mart last night and Luke bought a skateboard with his own money. Nana bought him a helmet. :) We have a few skaters at church that Luke just loves and they are so good with him. He's already talking about taking his skateboard to church Wednesday night and skating with Stetson and Levi. I'll have to post pics of that!

On the adoption front - We really don't have any news. Our fingerprint cards were returned so we had to be refingerprinted. They have been mailed off five weeks as of yesterday so hopefully we hear something in the next couple weeks!

That's all for now!

I fell in love...

three years ago today with this face!

I love you, Sweet boy!

I Am...

My blog is not normally too in depth. :) I don't know why - Maybe I just don't like to think that much. Anyways, last night when I was reading my Bible I ran into one of my favorite passages and thought that I'd share. It's John 8:48-59. My favorite part is at the end when Jesus is talking about Abraham. The Jews said that Jesus wasn't even 50 years old so how in the world could he have seen Abraham. Jesus says in verse 59 "I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am!". Wouldn't you just love to see the Jews faces when Jesus said that?!?
Sometimes Daniel just jokingly asks me what he should preach about. I always tell him the I Am's. It is kind of our running joke. He's never done it yet. One of the last times I went to church with my parents my Dad preached on some of the I Am's. I had to come home of course and tell Daniel that I my idea made a great sermon! :)
On the adoption front - Our agency got our life book and will start showing it when a birth mom meets our profile. I'm pretty excited!
My parents just left and I just realized I didn't take a single picture while they were here. Please accept my apologies for a photoless post!

I have excuses...

...for being a bad blogger. You know, first we had a computer virus with the computer out of commission for a month. Then, we have no internet service this week. But stay tuned because I have news hiding in this blog post.

We went to Tulsa a few weekends ago and met Sarah, Avi Joy, Andrew, Nehemiah and their moms at a train restaurant. It was a really cool place. Luke and the girls loved watching the train. Luke was having one of those days though. He has only embarassed me by the way he was acting a couple of times and this was one of them. We can't all have perfect days though! :)

Papa's birthday was the weekend we were in town! Happy Birthday Papa! I won't announce to the world how old you are... :)
As for our news - We are adopting again! We have decided to go with an open domestic adoption from Crisis Pregnancy Outreach in Tulsa, OK. We are so excited! Things have been moving really fast. We sent in our application in January. We've had our home study visit, been fingerprinted and all that fun stuff. We just finished our life book and it should be to the agency some time during the last week of this month! Please pray for us and for our child's birth mom. Also please pray for the money for the adoption to become available. We are going to do one fundraiser - a mail out letter to our family and friends. We know that God will provide though, just as he did with the money for Luke's adoption.