Sisters reunion

THANK YOU JESUS!

The special day has finally arrived. At 6:30 tonight we went to see Loudnie, Madisyn's little sister. At 1:30 today Madisyn started saying, "5 more hours and I get to see Loudnie". The countdown was on......4 hours, 3 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour and finally it was time to leave. Madisyn loaded down with gifts to give to Loudnie.

When they first saw each other there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Here was the scene:

Madisyn was looking in the freezer last night (keep in mind that WE had already decided that we were having cold cut sandwiches, salad and pasta). she ask me if shc could cook some pork chops (oops, the 'easy' meal just went out the window!!! hehehe). she wanted to cook the chops herself. i put some potatoes on to cook and broccoli. i told her she could show me her way of cooking the chops. she was having a good time for sure. she is definately at home in the kitchen...YES!!!!!
she gets my dutch oven pan out and puts miracle whip, mustard, garlic powder & chicken boullion in the pan and mixes it all together (i was grossing out at this point!). i thawed the chops out for her. she then coated them with the 'mixture', and started cooking them on top of the stove. oddly enough, the more they cooked the better it smelled. after cooking till meat was very tender, i said,"oh, good the meat is done and so is the broccoli and i can now mash the potatoes". she just laughed and said, 'oh no...now i have to fry the meat' (i am thinking...isn't that what we just did?? but i know from experience, you don't argue with the cook!). she gets a skillet out and puts oil in it. she takes each chop out of the sauce mix and fries it till crispy. now it is time to eat.
once i tasted her 'chops' i couldn't believe it. one of the best chops i had ever tasted.
THAT'S MY GIRL!!!!!
needless to say, wayne loves having 2 cooks in the house.

God is good!

I am so sorry I haven't posted since Madisyn has come home, we have been so busy. Things are going very well, and Madisyn is adjusting just fine. I asked her last night so far what is best about America? Her answer: WAL-MART! Isn't that just too funny? She loves her room and is taking pictures of everything in it. She even opened her closet and dresser drawers and took pictures of the clothes.
Today, we washed and conditioned her hair. Lori came overthis afternoon and braided her hair. It looks so cute and she really likes it. A BIG THANK YOU to Lori for the 4 hours she put in today on her sister's hair.
Tonight for dinner I cooked pork chops. Madisyn cooked beans and rice and okra. I don't eat rice or okra but Wayne loved it. She was so happy.

She's coming home today!!!!!!

Madisyn's visa came through on Friday. Wayne flew to Haiti on Saturday, and left to come home Sunday. They missed their flight in Miami due to the long process at immigration. Now they are due to land in Indy at 2:30 pm today (Monday). Wayne has some very funny stories to tell, so be prepared....He said he has some great blog material.....:)

I Am Blessed!!

Just wanted to publicly say Thank You Jesus for blessing me with a wonderful husband of 42 years and 3 great kids. I also thank God for my son n law, Spike, and daughter n law (Sharon). They are perfect mates for my kids and I love them both.
Now as for my grandkids??? Well, there isn't enough room on this page to tell you how special they are to me. They are all my angels and I love them with all my heart.
The desire of my heart is that my whole family gives their hearts to the Lord and serves him forever.
Now, you can all see why I say I am blessed and highly favored of God!!

Wayne (My Hunk 'O Burnin' Love)
Lori Aaron
Madisyn

Sisters

Here is a picture of Madisyn (right) and her 2 sisters, Anise (center) and Lowna (left). The 3 girls plus a brother, Hermane, all have the same mother. I believe Madisyn and Hermane have the same father but I will have to check with Licia on that.

Favorite grandson!!!!

Wayne had to work this weekend and couldn't go to church with me this morning.
I got up, got ready and headed to church. When I got there I was talking to everyone. Sue told me to look behind me and there stood my handsome and favorite grandson, Dusty(of course he is my only grandson). You could have knocked me over with a feather. Everyone was thrilled to see him and I was excited and proud to have him there with me. When he was little Wayne used to hold him all through church. Once in a while he would climb over and sit on my lap. I was telling him that at church today and he said now I would have to climb on his lap....
Love you Dusty!!!!

What season are we in???

Our granddaughter, Megan is 5 yrs old and in kindergarten. Well, this past week they have been learning about the different seasons. The teacher asked if anyone knew what season we are in right now, and Megan was eager to let them know.
When called upon she proudly announced ...DEER SEASON! Her daddy is an avid hunter, can you tell???
I am sure Aaron was thinking....'that's my girl'! hehehe

A week with 'ANGELS'

I know I haven't blogged in a few days, and the blog reporters have been letting me know it..........sorry!!!!

I spent the night at Lori's on Wednesday because I stayed with all 3 little girls on Thursday. Lori and Spike had to be out of town for the day. We had a lot of fun. We played dress up and went 'bear hunting' as Karleigh says, we even danced till poor ole' Nana was pooped!!! Brittan came home from school at 3:00 and I scooted out around 3:30.

Friday Wayne was off work so we ran all day. We headed to Indy to pick up his MRI film then to good ole' Wal-Mart. We ate lunch at Bob Evans in Noblesville then off to Anderson. Wayne took me to Sophie's, my favorite consignment store. while he took a little 'power nap'. I picked up some things for me and Madisyn.

Wayne went back to work today (Friday). I had already planned to spend the day cleaning house. This morning our 5 year old granddaughter Megan called. Her little sister Katie was at their other grandparents house so I asked if Megan could come and 'help' me today. Aaron brought her over and we had a great time. Megan ran the sweeper while i did laundry, dishes and dusted. We got this place looking pretty 'spiffey'. After the work we had a little puppet show in the dining room, had lunch and watched 'Barnyard' movie. We also took some pictures while she was here.

Our gauge is climbing

Hey everyone, look at our gauge now.........it is going up, up, up. We are now over the half way mark. I believe in my heart that this is going to be totally paid for by the end of the year.
Please agree with me that the money just comes in.
Thank You, Jesus!!!

The great hunters!

Wayne and Aaron left Friday to go to southern Indiana for their annual deer hunting weekend. I talked to Wayne today and he said they have seen a few deer, but haven't been close enough to shoot.
I thank God for them to be able to go together every year and spend some special father/son time together. They come back each year with the funniest stories, not many that I can write about though!!! :)
Hopefully when I talk to Wayne next time, at least one of them will have gotten a deer. Oh well, we'll see!!!

Back to blogging!

I received an email from a dear friend (Lynn) wanting to know if everything is alright. She said she noticed I hadn't blogged in a few days. Then I got another email from her wanting to know what was up with us cause she also noticed Lori hasn't blogged in a few days either. I understand her concern cause Lori blogs very consistantly. We have both been so busy here lately and my 'puter has been 'sick'. My dear son in law came by the other night and fixed my 'puter and now it works!!!! THANK YOU SPIKE.
Lori has had lots to do lately since their house has been up for sale. She has to keep it up at a moments notice and most every Sunday they have open house.
We have got several coming for Thanksgiving this year and I am thrilled. I went the other day and got the turkey, sweet potatoes, etc getting ready for the big day. This year other than our kids and grandkids coming we are blessed to have Kyle, Angela, and their 3 kiddos. Next year we will have Madisyn here with us.

WE ARE OUT OF PARQUET!!!!

We just got word that we are out of Parquet. We went in October 4 and just got out. We are now officially in Department of Justice (whatever that is). I have no idea what any of this means, but when I hear we are 'out' of something, I know that is reason for celebration. We are one step closer to getting Madisyn home.
I want to thank all of you that have supported us in ANY way. Just last night someone I didn't even know, sent $5 towards the adoption fees. She had seen Lori's blog and sent $5 through Pay Pal. God has such great kids!!!! :) I also know that there are so many that have been praying us through each step.
Thank you so much!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE II

Today is my nephew, Mike's birthday. He is my sister's oldest child, I think he is 48. Makes me feel sooooo old. I remember how excited I was when he was born. I became an 'aunt' for the first time. I thought of his birthday last night but forgot to send him an email till just now. When he and his brother and sister were little they called me Aunt GiGi. I love them all dearly and pray God's blessings on all of them.
Happy Birthday Mike.... Aunt GiGi loves you!!!!

Gonna be a busy week

I just got an email from a good friend, she told me she has checked out mine and Lori's blog, and that I am ahead....YES!!!!! I feel I am on a roll so I am going to blog tonight too.
Wayne had to work this weekend so he couldn't go to church with me today. We had a good service, then I came home and started fixing dinner. Roast, carrots & potatoes.
This week is going to be busy. Tomorrow morning I have to meet others at the church to decorate for Thanksgiving/Christmas. Wednesday Wayne has a doctor appt, Thursday is prayer meeting at my house, Friday, Wayne and Aaron leave to go deer hunting for the weekend.

Look Lori, I am blogging!!!!

It has been 4 days since I last posted, so I am sure Lori will be checking. You have to know, she is like a blog detective. If I don't post for a few days, she is on the phone and even emailing me, telling me to get to it. I read her blog and laugh my head off. She is so funny.
There can be nothing sacred in our family, Lori blog's EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY. Now she is digging up dirt about my younger days, as she says, "when I was a rebel".
God has changed all that in me, now I pray she will find some 'good' things to say about her 'dear 'ol mom'.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOUDNIE

Today is Miss Loudnie's 7th birthday. This is Madisyn's little sister. Isn't she adorable? This will be her last birthday in Haiti, she will be coming home to her parents soon. We will be at the airport to welcome you for sure!
We love you Loudnie and are anxious to be part of your life.
You are precious!!!

Beware: Blog Stalker

I was going to try to sneak off to bed but Lori IM'd me and said, "Mom you need to blog tonight". She checks every one's blog every night...i think she is a 'blog stalker'. If you are not blogging a 'pink slip' may be on it's way from someone we all know and love.......................... soooo get to blogging or she will boot you from the blogging circuit!
Lori has such a big heart and she wants to fix the world. We need more people like her. When there is a need, she sinks in like a bulldog and won't let up till it is resolved. She gets this trait very honest, she is exactly like her dad. I wish i had more of this in me. The word CAN'T isn't in their vocabulary at all.
It is CAN and WILL...DO or DIE!!!
I love my family and wouldn't trade any of them for anyone in the world. God has truely blessed me and I thank Him for them. When Madisyn gets here she is going to fit right in.
Oh the stories that we can and will tell her!!!

Beautiful sisters!!!!

Thank you Licia for these pictures of Madisyn and Loudnie, they are priceless. You captured them beautifully. I can just feel the love between the two of them. They will continue to be close when they come home. I am sure they will talk on the phone, spend the night with each other, go camping, family get togethers and such. Only God could have worked things out the way they are. I thank and praise Him daily for what He has done, is doing, and what He is going to do with all of us.

Grandparent's Day w/Kiara!!

Today I went to Kiara's school for Grandparent's Day. We had such a good time. Wayne couldn't make it, cause he had to work. Kiara showed me around her school, we made a craft together, had snacks (Kiara got in line twice for this), then I took her home and passed out 'Nana Snacks' to all 3 little angels.

Here we 'grow' again!!!!!

Take a look at our donation gauge.....isn't that great?
Wayne has been working some overtime to get this adoption paid for, so we are able to put $500 towards Madisyn coming home. Please pray that this amount will continue to climb till the whole amount is paid in full.
We want to thank all of you that have helped in any way towards this adoption going according to God's plan.

What a blessed week!!!!

Lots of good things have been happening this week, and I praise my God for all of them.

As most of you know, we are in the process of adopting a 14 year old girl from Haiti. Her name is Madisyn Mirlande and we can't hardly wait for her to get home with us. The whole process takes sooooo long. We commited to her and started the paperwork Febuary 14, 2006. At first we were moving right along, then things started slowing down. A few weeks ago we came out of one step that we had been in for 7 months. We need 5 signatures in this step we are in right now, it is called, Parquet. We did hear this week that we have 2 signatures and need 3 more, I pray we get them this week. Then we will go into MOI, next, passport, then Visa and she will be ready to fly. We are so excited I think Wayne could fly without even getting on the plane..:)

Please pray she will be home soon and for God to give us favor.

Also, this weekend I went to a fall retreat at Clifty Falls State Park in Madison, In. What a time we had! I didn't get a count but I am sure there were around 200 or so people there. The Holy Spirit was moving and people were being touched, healed, delivered, and SAVED!!! it was awesome. Sue preached both services (Friday & Saturday). Here are just a couple of pics of the meetings.

What's going on??

Well, first of all we had a plan for this weekend. We were going to go camping with our daughter and her husband and kids. We had asked our son and his family to go also, but they had other plans. Lori and Spike had plans to go out to dinner on Friday evening with Spike's mom and his sisters and brother and their spouses. Lori and Spike took their camper to the campgrounds on Thursday night so that on Friday they wouldn't have so much to do before they left for dinner. Wayne, Brit and I were going to be at the camper with the kids, and Lori and Spike would be back at the camper after their dinner. THAT WAS THE PLAN!!!
Lori Spike and the girls picked Brit up at school and headed to the campgrounds. Lori dropped Spike and Brit off at the camper so they could get things set up and Lori and the 3 little ones went to Wal Mart to pick up some groceries for the weekend. After Wayne got off of work he went to Aaron's to pick up our motor home. I had the Jeep loaded down with stuff we were taking. Wayne called me and he was stranded on the highway. Aaron went and him and Wayne checked it out and decided that it was the fuel pump that he had just put on needed adjusted. They tried to adjust it as good as they could in the few minutes they had. Well, Wayne finally got home and we were off to the campgrounds. About half way there it messed up again. We pulled over and Wayne adjusted again. It wasn't running good at all and we were both concerned. Wayne was getting a little 'testy' at this point. We went a little futher and then we pulled over again. Wayne came back to the Jeep and said, 'we're going home, the brake line just broke and i have no brakes'.
i called lori and she was at wal mart. she said she had just gotten a full cart of groceries and, before she had gone through the check out all the girls had to go potty. she pulls her full cart over and takes them to the bathroom. when she gets done she goes to get her cart and someone had taken it!!! now, i call and say we can't come. ohhhh noooo, this just can't be happening. she calls spike and he can't hardly believe it. he says they aren't staying either. they brought all the girls over to our house and we kept them all night.Here are some pictures of the little girls. i let them sleep under the dining room table(that was their tent for the night). the next morning dustin played with them on the floor.

this morning i fixed a big breakfast and lori and spike got to our house around 1:00. we all went out for lunch, wayne and i then took a long ride, went to wal mart and then back home.
WHAT A DAY!!!!

Grandparents Day with Megan

Today was a great! This morning I got up and went to Megan's school at 8:45. It was grandparent's day and the class had a little program all planned. Wayne had to work so I went for both of us. The kids sang a song, we did a craft together and had refreshments. Megan showed me around her school, and introduced me to everyone, even if she didn't know them...she would say, "hey, I am Megan and this is my Nana, what is your name"? She is so precious and we had a wonderful time together.

What would I do without my grandkids?

This is sure gonna be a busy week for me, but i am not complaining.

yesterday after i got home from church lori, spike and the girls came over for a while to visit. as soon as they left sharon brought megan and katie over. they stayed a couple of hours and we played and played. wayne has to work tomorrow so he had to get to bed early.

This morning i got up and did a couple loads of laundry, ran the sweeper and got ready for the day. I left home around 10:30am and headed for McDonald's for my diet coke and headed towards Noblesville. I went and picked Kiara up at school and headed to Lori's. Ruby was in school. Lori had a Dr appt so i was there to watch Kiara and Karleigh. Lori fixed the girl's lunch and said that i could lay them down for their nap after lunch. I asked her what time they HAD TO GO to bed and she just said 'oh, whenever'. i don't think she will say that to me again....
after the girls ate lunch i cracked out the snacks i brought with me. i had a bag of clothes i had gotten from freecycle and i was going through it. well, the girls decided we could all play 'dress-up'. that sounded like a fun thing to me, so we all played dress-up and prayed that spike wouldn't pop in unexpectedly. well, next we colored pictures, played with barbie's and pony's. finally we heard the garage door open.....oops
lori walked in and said 'what, they are still up?' i reminded her that she didn't give me a set time for their naps. i started getting ready to go and karleigh was waving by to lori. i had a wonderful time with them and can't wait to do it again. i think it is about time for lori and spike to take a vacation, then i can stay with all of them and spoil them rotten!!!