Rain Rain Go Away Come Again Another Day, Little Joe Wants to play rain rain go away!!

Long title. We are sitting her just watching it RAIN. It is actually good for the dry grass here in Southeast Missouri. It is just pouring! Bianca will need those rain boots on today!

PRAYER REQUEST: I have a prayer request I would like to send out. It came from my friend Amy, explaining that we really need to pray for the families that are still in PGN in the Guatemala adoption process without the birth mother interview. The interview MUST take place by August 31. The interviewers will stay open Saturday and Sunday to complete these appointments. Please pray that All birth mothers complete this interview so the cases are not delayed further and can proceed. "When I call on Jesus, All things are possible" That song by Nicole C. Mullen always goes through my head when I think of a prayer request and little Joe singing !!

Out of PGN!!!

OUT!!!

This is one happy girl!

Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!   Wow He is so amazing and so faithful.  God's timing is so good!!  I was just talking with a friend today about Ella getting out of PGN this week, and that we needed to claim it and pray.... right then our 2 year old son, Joe, who by the way is Ella's biological sibling started singing "When you call on Jesus".....   Oh my goodness,  we just paused and  celebrated and prayed the three of us, that When you call on Jesus, all things are possible and that it is possible with God that Ella can get out of PGN this week!!.  We had so much fun praying.  Mom, Miss Irene and Joe.   Oh my goodness we got the call tonight that she is OUT!!!!    Thank you God, and thank you for answering our prayers today and that the inspiration came from this sweet 2 year old little Guatemalan boy.  Somehow he knew in his spirit right then and there we needed to pray and  stand on His  word that all things are possible for those who believe.

Thank you God for blessing our family!  

I am BRILLIANTE!!!

I have won a blog award!!! Cheri over at harrisquest.blogspot.com has given me this special award. She actually gave it to me a few weeks ago, but I wanted to get all of Ella's pictures up first. Thanks Cheri!!!

This award comes with some rules so here they are:
1. Put the logo on your blog.- Check
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.- click on the blogspot above
3. You must nominate 7 fellow bloggers for this award.- check below
4. Add links to the recipients.- check
5. Leave a comment so the recipients know they have received an award.- check
6. Copy and Paste and answer the questions

A. Attached or Single? Attached
B. Best Friend? I have too many way awesome friends it is hard to pick just one!
C. Cake or Pie? Pie
D. Day of Choice? Friday
E. Essential item? Bible
F. Favorite Color? Yellow
G. Gummy Bears or Worms? Gummy Bears
H. Home Town? Jefferson City
I. Indulgence? Chocolate
J. January or July? July- my birthday month!!!
K. Kids? 6
L. Life isn't complete without? Jesus
M. Marriage date? February 12, 1994
N. Number of Brothers and Sisters? 3 sisters
O. Oranges or Apples? Apples
P. Phobias? Anything that goes in circles
Q. Quote? "One adoption may not change the world, but it will change the world for one child."
R. Reason to Smile? Spending time with my husband and our amazing kids and watching how much they have grown in God's love and their understanding of Him.
S. Season of choice? Fall
T. Tag 7 People. See below
U. Unknown fact about me? I really want to learn how to play the electric guitar
V. Vegetable? Snow Peas
W. Worst Habit? Being late for everything!
X. X-Ray or Ultrasound? Ultrasound
Y. Your Favorite Food? Pasta
Z. Zodiac Sign? I don't like these things so I am not going to answer this question.

Now for the 7 people I am going to award. Well I think I am one of the last people to receive this award and a lot of my blog friends have already been awarded the Brilliant Weblog award, but here are a few of the blogs that I follow that have not received the award:

Ella Marie Boutique, my clothing blog ellamarieboutique.blogspot.com
Chantelle and Bianca and soon to be sweetie pie from Ethiopia adventuresinbianca.blogspot.com
Lindsey and sweet Eliana thewheelerjourney.blogspot.com
Courtney and Stella astaringuatemala.blogspot.com
Leah and Baby Gabre adopthope.blogspot.com
Katie and her twins Arianna and Brayden nyblomfamily.blogspot.com
Darci and Lucia mcmurraymania.blogspot.com

I am sorry if I left anyone out. If you would like for me to put a link to your blog just leave me a comment!

MORE PICTURES!

Scroll all the way down to see all of the pictures I just upload. There are a lot of them!

Ella's foster mom and her son with us. We had a very hard time giving Ella back. We really bonded. Sure, Ella's foster mom loves her sooooo much and takes great care of her, but we were missing her!

It was hard for us to give Ella back.

In the Guatemalan airport. Our flight from Guatemala to Houston was about 30 minutes late and we barely made our flight from Houston to St. Louis.

There is that plane. The plane that was going to take us away from Ella. The plane that we were dreading. The plane that was going to take us halfway home.

Can't She Come With Us?!?!?!

Ella rode on Sarah's suite case. It was so funny! She rode on it around the room a while, all the way down the hall to the elevator, and in the elevator. She loved it and when Sarah tried to get her off she held on tight so that we couldn't get her off!

More cuteness!

Cutie in her jammies and in her diaper!

OVERLOAD of collages, I know. It is just so much fun to create these things! Especially when I have such a cutie to create them for!!! Ella is just so adorable!!! I can't wait until she comes home!!!

A Pretty as a Gerber Daisy

We bought the most beautiful gerber daisies on the streets in Guatemala. We have smoe friends in Guatemala so we got some flowers to take to their house for dinner and just had to keep one flower for pictures.

Last Day with Ella

I just downloaded Picasa. It is a great way to download lots of pictures. These pictures are of Ella the morning we had to go home.

Ella in her jammies!

Last FULL Day in Guatemala

Our last full day in Guatemala flew by. We left Guatemala on Tuesday, but I have been so busy I am just now getting the time to post some more pictures. Ella is so adorable!

Ella has the smallest feet! Look at her foot compared to Sarah's!

Tired girls.

She loved Sarah!

Look at those painted pigs!

Our breakfast spot.

She just lights up a whole room!

Ella Marie Boutique

We are selling clothes to raise money for adoptions and orphanages, 1 in Ethiopia and 1 in Guatemala. Check out the website at ellamarieboutique.blogspot.com Please visit our site to see more styles and sizes. 

Here are some of the clothes modeled by none other than Ella Marie herself

 

A Day in Antigua

Good Morning Sunshine!!!

The cutest outfit ever!!!

This is the market we shopped at.

Sisters

Happy Birthday Sarah!

Look who we found in Antigua!

We got to meet Lindsey and Eliana

We had a great shopping day

Time to go to bed