It'sThat Time Of The Year Again! Christmas Photo's...

I remember posting last year about Christmas photos......
I did not post the good photo's that I used for our cards!
Zion did not want to smile....
Wyatt only had 3 photos with his eyes open...
Zoe had to decrease her smile.....
Zach wanted the puppies in every photo...
Whitney took a great photo the first time....beautiful!
and our little Wylie-Shiane could not take enough photos.....
she smiled the whole time.

A 5 Foot Walkway in 5 Minutes!

I promise I did not put a brick in Wylie-Shiane's backpack.... Today was only her second day of school because she had aspirated pneumonia all last week! Let me tell you she was VERY determined to carry her backpack!

Headed to school with her BIG sister Zoe!

Ice Cream Fun....

The weather has been so BEAUTIFUL these past 2 weeks! We have enjoyed being outside and playing! Of course our ice cream treats were GREAT!

"I am a walking tree!" Wyatt said.

Wylie Shiane's 1st Day of School

Look at Daddy doing her hair!

She was posing BIG time for the camera today! Wylie-Shiane had a great day at school. She loved that her friend Ava was in her class as well!

Our Two Three Year Olds....

Park time again! The weather has been so beautiful here...
We have really enjoyed being outside with friends!
These two kiddos are so FUNNY together!

Our life with 6 children!

Well, it's been a week and we are in the grove of the day in and day out of our life as a family w/6 very special and many different needs from our children....

ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT YOU HAVE TO FACE EACH DAY WITH HIS GRACE AND LOVE!

I am feeling organized w/ the 15 different medications between all the kids.

Lunches are made the night before....

Meds are drawn up for 6 days at a time....

We tube both our girls together through their G-tubes.....

Backpacks are waiting at the door for the next day at school.

6 different schools....

Plus one at home being home schooled 3 days a week!

I do feel like I am in the car more each day!

I LOVE NAP TIMES! or maybe JUST A REST TIME!

Then after naps all the kids start to arrive home!

Homework and more teaching!

Dinner is served around 5:30!

Baths for the 4 youngest!

Meds given and 2 last tube feedings.

Then we hook up the 2 feeding pumps for their night feedings....

Did I mention our little Wylie-Shiane gained 3 pounds her first week home!

CRAZY!

Then DADDY comes home!

Just in time to read a story to the little ones and then BED TIME!

We then have our two teenagers alone and quite time!

Well, then all the preparations for the next day starts!

As I drove home from a 3 1/2 hour doctor appointment with 5 of our kids I hear this little squickie voice saying, "Mom, I'm happy! Mom, I am really happy! I love my family!"

Tears running down my face because I realise it's our newest addition that has only been home 1 week today!

What a beautiful picture of God's love and heart for His Orphans!

He cares for each and every orphan!
It is so humbling to be given such special gifts through adoption.

Thank you for all of your prayers!

We are so blessed, even when adopting children our hurting for many different reasons....

We know that He has set forth each day before us an chose us to parent them.

That sure is humbling!

Fun TImes At The Park!

Harvest Celebrations.....

Our First Day Together As A Family With 6 Kids....

Introduced Wylie-Shiane to our puppies Maddie and Micah!

We had a 2 hour Doctor appointment!

Zoe loved to "read" stories to Zion and Wylie!

Our First Dinner out! We had loads of fun!

We celebrated my birthday as well as Wylie-Shiane's arrival!

Look at Wylie-Shaine in her Big Girl Bed!

First Plane Ride and We Are Headed HOME!

We arived back home at 2am! We are VERY tired!

So much LOVE....so hard to say goodbye!

We are forever grateful for AL the love Wylie-Shiane has been given at Mountain Shadow Kids!
She is moving from one loving place to a loving forever family!
We made all the care givers a butterfly bracelet and this is the poem Scott wrote to them:

"As a caterpillar goes through major changes in life to grow wings and turn into a butterfly,

so you have protected and nurtured our daughter so that she may symbolically sprout wings and fly into our forever family. Thank you for protecting, nurturing and loving our daughter. May this bracelet be a reminder of all the love you shared with Wylie-Shiane."

Adoption placement papers are signed! Praise God~

This was Wylie-Shiane saying good-bye to her caregivers and house!

More Photos of Our trip to Wylie-Shiane...

Here She is......

Okay...this one photo took ten min. to upload.... so we have to go run and sign adoption placement papers, get Whitney some See's candy and head out to the airport! O will update later..
Love ya all,
Scott and Heather

Happy 1 year Adoption Day Zion!

Celebrating our little Zion!

A year ago we adopted our little China man!

He is a very loving, sweet and sometimes sour, polite, funny, energetic, and amazing 3 year old!

We had a very fun day with Zion!

Dad and Mom went to Zion's school and read a book about adoption,

shared some of his special toys from China and shared a special ladybug cookie with all his friends! We made homemade wantons and a special Chinese dinner!

To celebrate his adoption every year I will make ladybug cookie for Zion to share with his friends! The ladybug is often used as a symbol for Chinese adoptions!

Here are photo's from China one year ago!

Wow! What an AMAZING year little guy!

Getting Ready for Wylie-Shiane

Zoe and Wylie are sharing a room!

Zoe can't wait for Wylie-Shiane to home home!

4 more days and we will see our little girl!

Our New Pet's

Introducing Micah and Maddie!

We were blessed with our newest additions this past August!

They are so fun and love to be held!

A Birthday Present!

We are leaving on October 26th to bring Wylie-Shiane home!
We will only have to stay in CA for 3 days and we will return on the 28th!
We mailed Wylie a book a couple days to start the count down of our arrival!
We placed photos and talked about adoption! It is such a CELEBRATION!
We see ALL the beauty from the ashes!
I will be celebrating my birthday w/ our newest child in my arms!
I can't believe a year ago we left for China to bring our little Zion home today!
So, 11 more days and we will be reunited w/ our little girl!
Sorry about not updating you before today!
We experienced a season that we had to hold on to Christ and each other so closely these past 2 months! Thank you for your prayers and we look forward to updating the blog with our
Journey to Wylie-Shiane!
Be Blessed!

Where has the month of September gone?.!

Well, to make this a short update......

The month of September 2009 has been the hardest month we have EVER walked!

.....after an 11 week stay in CA to bring our daughter home we had to leave her behind as we drove back home to TN!
.....Scott lost his job 4 days later!
.....our adoption was placed on hold due to having no income!
.....We had to deal w/ a VERY difficult situation at Scott's last job and we are still dealing w/ it!
.....and the grief and pain we were dealt felt way to heavy to carry.

PRAISE GOD, we felt like we were on Holy Ground!
God gave us breath when we needed,
God gave us peace when the storm and lions were all around us!
God grew Scott and I closer to him and each other!
God used this Lions Den experience to show our kids that HE is in control and will protect us!
It keeps on going.....
God used others to help us out financially.
and we can't limit the POWER of PRAYER!
We have never felt so covered by prayer in our lives!

A Heavy Heart....

Well I have not wanted to update this blog due to the acceptance that our little Wylie is not able to drive home with us!~
Tears roll down my face as I talked to our little Wylie today and I quickly gave the phone to Scott!
I had 10 AMAZING weeks with my little Wylie in CA and we had to head home with out her on Tuesday night!
I needed to come back to TN to be a wife and mom of 5 right now.
We thought last min. things were going to come to an end and that ALL the paperwork would be completed by the end of next week but....
But, is right! Our social worker in CA has prolonged the placement again. Loosing paperwork, not turning in paperwork..... and really not having a heart for adoption and or us and Wylie!
We heard that the paper work was in TN but we have not had that confirmed.... I pray that we will have her before October and that time as well as ALL the paper work flies quickly!
Wylie is so loved and well cared for at her medical facility right now.
Scott fly out last Saturday and then we drove 46 hours to get home, well we stayed at a hotel the second night....
I am so tired and I need to get a good nights rest!
Thanks for your prayers!
I will update as soon as we know anything!
PLEASE PRAY FOR SCOTT AS WELL RIGHT NOW!
HE HAD A TOTALLY FALSE ALLEGATION AT HIS WORK AND HE KNOWS THAT THE TRUTH WILL SET HIM FREE! BUT THIS ALL CAME AT A VERY LOW PART OUR OUR ADOPTION JOURNEY W/ WYLIE.
SCOTT'S MEETING IS NEXT TUESDAY!