Fall is in the air!

Welcome Fall! I just love the changes in the seasons! I am ready for each change as it comes. I love the crisp air in the fall, the leaves changing and chili! Then once it's been "cool" for a while, I am completely ready for it to be COLD! I love snow! I love to ski in it, play in it and I especially love to watch my kids play in it and take pictures! I'm going to try to attach a favorite picture of mine from last Dec. On the 22nd of Dec, it snowed here in Wichita 9 inches! It was the giant, fluffy snow that made great snow balls. It was cold and very wet and white out conditions on that Saturday. That Sunday, the 23rd, we woke up to perfectly clear skies and beautiful snow! It was nice enough to play in shirtsleeves after church. My picture will say it all! Then I love the warming of the weather for Spring. It's nice to be able to not have to wear the layers of clothes and be able to let your skin breathe for a while outside. By June, I am ready for the HOT and being out at the pool watching the kids swim and reading a book! I guess you could say it's my "therapy." God knew what He was doing when he created and separated the seasons for us to enjoy and I beleive He knew that we would need the changes to be reminded of who He is and that He is in control!

ADOPTION NEWS:
Not much going on in the Guatemala adoption world this week. We have checked out several cases that have taken way too long and they keep telling us to come back tomorrow....This has been going on for a month now. I'm getting pretty tired of it. We also still do not have any concrete information about yesterday's deadline for the 2nd chance of birth mothers to come in for the interview. I will post that news as soon as we have something more definite. We do have the court dates for about 10 of the 16 children that are in the "abandonment" phase and were not placed with families before the shut down in Dec. This is a good thing since we will have the children ready and available by the first of the year and if they open back up by then, the children at Nido del Aguila will not have to wait even longer for their forever family, whether it's a Guatemalan family or not. Actually 2 of the appointments were scheduled for this week, then we have a break until Dec for the others.

I will post more this week so please keep reading and I hope it's a good read for those reading my blog! Thanks! OH, Please post any questions you might have and I'll do my best to answer them.