Happenings

     So it's been awhile since I've been on here and written anything, but I do think Sarah has done a fabulous job, and as you can tell from her posts, we have had some really great discussions around here.  I don't have anything profound or great to write about.  I just thought I would give everyone an update of what's been happening around here.

     All in all we had a really great summer.  The first half of the summer was spent at many, many, many ball games.  We had a couple of weeks off from anything and then headed up north with Sarah's family the end of July.  It was a great week of fishing, biking, and lounging on the beach everyday.  The best part about it,  my father-in-law broke out his best disco moves and "tripped the light fantastic".  In nine years of going there, this was the first time I've seen him break them out.  In fact, I have never seen him dance at all! To wrap up the last two weeks of summer, Sarah found great deals on tickets to an I-cubs game and Adventureland.  You would have thought we gave the kids a million dollars the way they talked about it the next day.  Sarah is not much for roller coaster rides anymore, but Jake talked her into riding the Tornado.....twice!  I got the pleasure of riding The Dragon.  Hope tried The Outlaw, but decided she's more like her mom in the roller coaster area.  This past weekend we took a trip to Galena, IL to go play with some of Judah's friends from the orphanage.  You know how that goes, the women talk and the men play with the kids.  I'm used to it!  We really did have a great time with them and Judah loves seeing his friends.

You may see we have had some more donations come in.  We have knocked off a lot of the bigger numbers, thanks to some anonymous donations. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, whoever you are.  If you would like to donate and be anonymous, you can send it to the Bethany office in Pella, and we will never know it was you. :)  We are all finished with our home study meetings and waiting for our social worker to put it all together.  After that we will be able to start on our dossier, which is a lot of paperwork.  I feel somewhat bad. Last time I don't feel like I helped Sarah out with too much of it, but maybe I did. She was just always on top of it.  During all of this we also need to take 30 hrs. of training.  The first ten hours were finished while we were on vacation.  Sarah and I took online classes whenever we could squeeze it in, yeah fun.  Especially when it was the exact same thing we did when we adopted Judah.

   So, other than school has started and I am coaching three soccer teams.  There isn't much else to say.  Though I really wish I had a picture of my father-in-law dancing, we will have to settle for this.

Which is exactly what he was wearing.

Rock on

J