"Blessed is the man whose quiver is full" Ps. 127
How God Created a Miracle in Our Family...
Most people look at our family and either say "you're crazy" or "what a blessing". It is that statement alone that sets people apart in how they view what happens in life. We were childless for 6 years before God blessed us with our third foster child, Isaiah, whom we adopted. Our tiny, three pound, adorable baby boy quickly became the love of our lives.
8 months after Isaiah was born, my father-in-law gave a woman a ride. That 4 block ride changed our lives forever when she told him she was pregnant and giving up her baby for adoption. Oh yeah...and she was due in 8 days! Well, just 5 days later, we had Makenna Shea!
3 months later, after Dirk and I had just prayed to have another baby when Makenna was about 1, that same birth mother called asking us to take her next baby. Isabella was born 1 week shy of Makenna's first birthday!
The funny part of the story is when we found out that I, the one who could never get pregnant, was pregnant! Ian was born 7 weeks after Isabella! God had given us 4 children all under the age of 1 1/2!!! We were thrilled! Such a work of God's hands it was.
This year we added to our clan when we were surprisingly pregnant again (so much for not being able to get pregnant). We now have 5 under 4! And I now wonder how mom's manage with all those kids so spread apart in age. It may be hard sometimes, but we love our life!
Every year our little (oh who are we kidding...)BIG family treks to Missouri to my home town of Carthage, MO. there is an annual festival there called Maple Leaf and anyone who has ever lived there pretty much returns for it. i am not really sure why exactly it is so much fun, but most people make a point to attempt it if possible. It always falls on our wedding anniversary AND Ian's birthday. so...we had fun! the funny part is my dad lets us all stay in his house...and he gets a hotel!!!
The kids had never been able to ride in tha back of a truck before. you remember when we were kids and we still got to have fun....well, fun has been outlawed now! but we did it anyway! they just rode in a parking lot for about 10 minutes, but to them it was a blast!
Even Meghan got to feel the wind in her hair!
This is what two exhausted parents look like on their 10th wedding anniversary. We were exhausted because we had 5 kids attempting to sleep in 2 bedrooms every night! That makes for very late nights and very early mornings!
The kids had never been able to ride in tha back of a truck before. you remember when we were kids and we still got to have fun....well, fun has been outlawed now! but we did it anyway! they just rode in a parking lot for about 10 minutes, but to them it was a blast!
This is what two exhausted parents look like on their 10th wedding anniversary. We were exhausted because we had 5 kids attempting to sleep in 2 bedrooms every night! That makes for very late nights and very early mornings!
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