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It's been delayed

We heard from our adoption attorney today. There was a problem with our paper work and she has to re-file everything to the court. So,needless to say,the adoption will not take place this Saturday. I told her we already have the sealing and party scheduled for October 11th (which is at 6:30,by the way) and people are already invited.And we have people coming from out-of-state that have already bought plane tickets. So she told me she would try really hard to push it through so I don't have to call everybody to reschedule. So pray with us that she'll be able to get us a new court date BEFORE the 11th.I'll keep ya posted..........

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And the award for most dramatic goes to.............you decide

My 11 yr old son who we tend to call a drama "king" ( I'll leave his name out so he can't say I embarrased him) sprained his ankle 4 days ago. He has NO tolerance for pain. He's been on crutches with it wrapped up and using this as an excuse to get out of any chores.He's laying on the couch with it elevated whining alot. So I casually said "you sure are whining alot" and he said "you whined when you had surgery" so of course my response was "so you are comparing my surgery where I had 5 incisions and 2 organs ripped from my body to your sprained ankle? are you kidding?" I wonder where he got the drama from?? I keep reminding him that we have 3 teenage girls in this house and when it comes to injury or illness he out-does them all! I guess he's following in the tradition of guys being babies when they are sick. But he'll be gone before I know it so I guess I'll baby him while I can :)

Another announcement

We scheduled our sealing.It's gonna be on October 11th. I SO wish I could have EVERYBODY there. Especially knowing (for real this time) that this is our fourth and final time to have our whole family joined in such a wonderful setting. But,since there is limited space(dang-it) We will be having a celebration party that evening. Please come one and all! The few people who actually know about and read our blog are our friends.So please come party with us. I'm not sure on a time yet (I'm debating if I should serve dinner or not) As the time gets closer,I will fill you in. Just know that you need to set the evening of October 11th aside and you'll be set!

It still seems weird to me every time I say "I have 7 kids" I know some of you have more than that so you're like "yeah,aaand,what's the big deal?" But from my previous blog you know it IS a big deal for me. But there's actually been a few times when we are having FHE or getting ready for family prayer and even though everybody is in the room,I feel like somebody's missing. (Don't even think about it!) Of course when I voice this to Mark,he's ready to commit me. But,he's the one that had a dream last week that we had a new little baby boy. That's when I said "crazy" all the kids are in school, NO.MORE.BABIES. Besides our adoption certification expires in like 7 months and the process and cost to renew it are both beyond my capability. So,even if another opportunity popped up right now,the process moves too slow to happen before then. Plus....our car is full! Everytime I get in this conversation with my sweet children, Kyra says "if Heavenly Father wants it to happen,it will happen" Of course she is the same one that said (after my hysterectomy in June) that if He wanted me to get pregnant,He could make it happen. I think in that situation there is a limit to "miracles" right?? But,poor Natalie,surrounded by boys and 5 years younger than the next girl really wants a sister her age. I just told her I was surrounded by boys and was 4 years away from my closest sister and I survived!

So,our family will soon be complete (only 17 more days) and will be eternally complete in 31 days. It's crazy,we are in our (early) 30's and have this huge family when some of our friends are just getting started and are older than us. But,when they ask how we handle it I remind them that when our youngest is 18,we will be 45!! WOO HOO!! We will be young enough to travel,go on a mission or whatever other crazy things (like skydiving) that we've always talked about doing. I forget (on purpose) that if my daughters follow in my footsteps, we could be grandparents by the time we are 37! UGH!! But,I'm up for it! At least I'll be able to keep up with my grandkids without the assistance of a cane :) And I'll get comments like "is she yours? NO,your too young to be her grandma!" I can't wait!

EXCITMEMENT!!

We went in June back to Washington DC for the 3rd time to get adoption papers signed. We've been patiently waiting since then to get our adoption date so we could get things rolling. It's never taken this long before, but we've never had a child this short a time before putting the papers in, so it was ok. It gave us all time to be sure. Anyway, I just got an e-mail from our attorney, I was excited, so I wanted to share it with everybody. Paulette (who, as most of you have heard wants to change her name to Kyra with the finalization) will be officially stuck with us on September 27th! We are still working on a sealing date. We have people coming across the country so we need to work with their schedule. But it will follow soon after that. We will be a family of 9! That is SO weird for me to say. When I was a teenager growing up in a big family I said on more than one occasion "I will not have a big family, I hate big families" Yet, out of my 5 siglings (except one) I more than double the amount of children they have. I have one sister who comes close to me. But the rest have between 1and 3. Heavenly Father definitely had different plans in mind for me. Was he laughing at me all those times I announced that to my parents?? I was so sure!! I even had bad pregnancies and stopped after 3. So,I thought "see,even He knew I couldn't do more than 3, he made it hard for me to have kids" NO!! He just gave me a few years and then gave me the desire to adopt. Now c'mon, is that fair? Yeaaaahh, I guess. Though challenging at times, we have an awesome family. I have some amazing children. Just another lesson--He knows us alot better than we know ourselves!