The sounds of Adie

She truly sounds like that!

Byberg Wedding Photos

Carl and I had such a splendid time shooting this wedding. Here are some of our favorites! We make an awesome team! Travis and Jodi made the day so much fun and we were glad to be apart of their day!

Working in Cancun

Yes, I know it is rough working in Cancun, but I can tell you that we are at least having fun while we do it. Here is a quick snapshot after the wedding. I will post some of my best shots in a couple of days!

Thanks for praying

This morning went GREAT with the social worker! I am so curious as to why I was so nervous! She didn't even want to look at the house because she wanted to know us and know our heart for adoption. She wasn't worried and thought we were perfect candidates and she has worked with hundreds of people just like us!

I also was able to get an apt for a massage this afternoon. Hopefully that helps with my neck!

Thanks for praying!

Angel

Pain in the neck

Yesterday morning I woke up with the biggest kink in my neck and I was hoping that today would be better. Unfortunately, it is not!

So - I am a little bit humbled right now. In two hours we have our homestudy and my house is no where near as clean as I would like it to be. God is really breaking the neat freak that lives inside of me! I almost hate to admit it that if I add two more children (that means 5 kids 5 and under) that I would have to declare myself a messy. Yikes!

Right now I am calling around to get a massage because tomorrow Carl and I leave for Cancun to shoot a wedding. That's right! We are going somewhere warm to work! Yahooo! ... I just need my neck to feel better!

2009 Goals

Every year Carl and I create our goals and I thought that this would be a great place to write them down.

1. To grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2Peter 3:18) Our pastor gave an amazing message this morning and I really want to strive towards knowing Jesus more this year.

2. Exercise 3 days a week - We were blessed with a 6 month membership to the YMCA so there is no reason I can't do this!

3. Read through the bible in one year - I have started this and it really only adds up to 10 minutes a day. I am trying to start out my day with reading God's word so that it will permeate the whole day.

4. Friday night date night with Carl

5. Read for 15 minutes before going to bed. I read a lot of children's literature, but I need work on reading other things. I can do 15 minutes!

6. Be intentional about meeting people!

7. Learn our children's native language. In Ethiopia there are many different languages spoken so we will have to wait until we get our referral. Until then I have a lot of books to read on adoption.

8. Have special time one on one with each child.

So now next month you can ask me how and I am doing and hold me accountable!

Do you have goals for this year? If so, I would like to hear about them!

New Years at the ranch

I have been MIA since we went to the ranch for the past four days. We had a great time relaxing and hanging out. We had to come home a day early since there was bad weather in the forecast.
We are at home cleaning and getting ready for our home study which is on Tuesday.

Great news!!! Adie has started to let me do her hair again! I love the pigtails!