Monday, November 21, 2011

Short Adoption Announcement Video



We received this video from our dear friend Justin Kelly. It was such a surprise and great blessing. We saw him recording as we were posing for pictures, but we didn't realize what he was doing. Kevin kept making fun of him because we thought he was just being silly recording our conversation. Little did we know, he was putting together this beautiful video and documenting this special time for us to keep forever. Just another keepsake to save for baby Weldon! We are so thankful for good friends with so much talent!


If you have any trouble playing the video here, you can also view it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUG_wD43zc

Friday, November 18, 2011

Our Adoption Pictures


Last weekend Kevin and I went to Dayton, TN to spend time with our good friends, Justin and Hannah Kelly. Hannah is very gifted at photography and we were able to take some pictures to document this exciting time in our lives! We wanted to have pictures for our child that will show them the love and complete excitement we have awaiting their arrival. Have you ever seen pregnancy pictures? If you have, then these adoption pictures are sort of the equivalent! My husband is so sweet and supportive and was willing to spend his Saturday wearing matching colors with his wife and smiling for about 100 pictures. It also helped that we were amongst friends so he was able to laugh and goof around with Justin while Hannah and I chatted and giggled about our pictures and my future brown skinned baby. I hope that these pictures are an encouragement and a joy for you to see. I know that my heart leaps for joy imagining where we will be on our adoption journey one year from now. Hopefully we will already have our child and we fill that open chair with a smiling Baby Weldon! 


Kevin and Debbie :)
Waiting on a Weldon!

Growing in my heart, not my tummy!
Jesus unites orphans with families forever by grace!
One day this chair will be filled with a smiling Baby Weldon!
Adoption is a beautiful picture of the Gospel.



Wednesday, November 9, 2011

God is Our Provider!

The testimony of God's faithfulness continues to amaze and astonish us as each day passes in our adoption journey! We recently completed our agency's contract and sent in our first payment of $2838. Our first package from our agency should arrive any day with information on our home study requirements and paperwork to complete for our dossier for the DRC. It's so exciting to see God's absolute providence and provision through our adoption! Believe it or not but God has provided us with about $8400 through generous donations from our families and from our faith family. We have been completely been blow away at the donations that have been anonymously given. There have also been families in God's kingdom that have sacrificially, joyously, and generously given us money they earned. Students in our youth group have given their allowances or portions of their paychecks. My heart becomes so full of gratitude, thankfulness, and love for God's people. Just like Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 1:2 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers.” I thank God everyday for the wonderful people he places in our paths. This process has taught me exponentially about God’s love and care for his creation. I dream of holding my little brown skinned and brown eyed babe and telling them of all the beautiful things God did to bring them home to my arms. I may not know who they are, what they look like, or what their laugh sounds like but God does. And that's enough for me. Just like Christ went great lengths to save us and bring Kevin and I into his family, we will do the same for our little one in Africa. Gods love knows no bounds. Pray that God will protect our child until we can rescue them and bring them home to the loving arms of a mommy and daddy.