Noah goes to Mississippi!

We are home safe from our trip to Mississippi :) There were so many firsts for Noah over the past few days! It is late and I am exhausted and so I just wanted to post a couple of video's and pics that show a bit about the Thanksgiving trip! This was Noah's first holiday with us and we soo loved it!! :)

This video is taken in the car. It is not the best as far as centered and all but I am sure you will enjoy it :)

This video is of Aunt Liz meeting Noah!! :) She so loves him and was so excited to meet him and totally blessed my heart!! :) I had so been missing her so I was as excited to see her as she was to meet NOAH!

Here is a picture of Noah the first time Uncle Harold (Papaw) held Noah!

Here is a picture of the first time my cousin (AUNT LIZ) held Noah!

Here is Noah in his John Deer stuff! Aunt Liz surprised him with John Deer overhalls and shirt and BOOTS!!! :) We just love them! :) He is so adorable!

Here is Noah with Uncle Ricky! He was so enthralled by the horses he almost LEAPED to Uncle Ricky because he was in the pasture with the horses! Ricky had been trying to hold him for 2 days and so HE was thrilled to get Noah! :) Ricky introduces Noah to the horses :) Noah was not scared to sit on the horse, but she was eating and she didn't want much a part of it so it was only a few seconds! Mama was like BE CAREFUL Ricky! but he did good with my sweet baby boy!

Here is a picture taken this morning of Noah, Celeste and my Aunt Dorothy! :) They are so silly! Not sure you can tell but Noah is wearing a santa suit! heehee! This is his first time to wear Christmas clothes! I had to start today :) I love the Christmas season and you can only wear Christmas clothes for such a short time that I wanted to start immediatly! :) Aint they cute! :)

I pray you all will enjoy this Christmas season as we celebrate the joy of our Savior Jesus Christ birth on the earth! :)

WE send you blessings and Kisses in the wind!

Noah's FIRST trip to Mississippi TOMOROW

Hi all :)

We are leaving early am tomorow to go to Mississippi for Thanksgiving! Family there is MOST anxious to meet NOAH! :) Please pray for a safe trip and a relaxin time. Bobby and I are BOTH desperate for some rest and at the point of exhaustion so a mini vacation and time to just relax and enjoy family!! We have not been to MS to see all the family in about 3 years. We did get to see my Aunt and Uncle when we went to USCIS fingerprints but so many more I haven't seen in so long. And of course NONE of them have seen Noah and are doing all they can to make this trip possible so they can meet the newest member of the family! I still can't believe that this year for thanksgiving I am HOLDING NOAH instead of waiting on a photo and update :) What a difference a year makes :) I pray y'all all have a blessed Thanksgiving! I will try and check in from MS but can't promise but I will have pics and tell y'all all about it when I am home if I can't do so from MS

WE send you blessings and kisses in the wind!

Noah Pics and update on Ravyn

Evening All :)

I thought I would share some photos and a video of Noah! It amazes me how I love this little boy more and more each day when I think I can't possibly love him more. He is such a joy to my life :) Tonight he had ALL of us just about rolling laughin at him! :) It feels like he has always been with us but at the same time I am still just so in awe that he is ACTUALLY FINALLY HERE!


Noah loves music! Here is he playin on this play piano. You can't really tell but he is babblin to Sam! :) SO CUTE :)


YUP! Panda Boy still LOVES to play on the coffee table shelf! :) a few of yall have sent emails asking about "table Boy" heehee How many nicknames is one boy gonna end up with :) heehee



Just look at that face! :)




Tonight Mama cried and cried. I don't know if you can see it or not but Noah was toddlin along with his water bottle and fell and busted his lip :( He cried but not for long. I was much more upset. Another reason not to let the walk around with the bottle. I finally gave in on that issue to get him to drink water! The only time he gets to have a bottle out of my lap is his water bottle and it has worked. He is not drinkin water. Not sure what I will do now :( feel really bad but it bled and all but you can barely see it now. I HATE that he got hurt :(

Here he is the other day :) He would run and play and spin in circles adn then he would go and lay his head down on the recliner :) so cute :)

Another shot of that smiley face

He has taken to chewin on his fingers. NOT sucking, chewing. worries me a bit. Is he not the cutest thing you ever saw :)

Here is Noah coverin his mouth for a cough! This and his blowin kisses look alot alike. He loves to blow kisses now and the coverin his mouth I really was shocked that he actually does it now! so cute :) He is such a mimic lately. IF you don't want him to do it , you better not do it! heehee

chewin on our paci :) I think he may be gettin his 1 year nolars finally at 19 months. I am not sure but he sure is chewin alot :)


Thank you to those who have been praying and have been writing and asking after Ravyn. She is in ICU and Chemo has begun. PLEASE continue to pray for her. Here is a link to a blog and information page about her if you are interested and below is a picture of Ravyn. The newest pictures do not look near as bright eyed :( Very sad. PLEASE PLEASE PRAY for this little sweetie and all the family.


http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/ravynfinch

Here is a short video of Noah babbling! I LOVE IT :) I was so worried he would never talk and he is babblin more and more every day. I BELIEVE he is gonna eventually talk. If not its fine but I really believe he is goin to :)

WE send you blessings and Kisses in the wind!

Happy National Adoption Day! Hope you like the Video!

So for a long while I have thought TODAY the 22nd was National Adoption Day and have been working on this video to promote adoption! Well, low and behold this year they moved it from the saturday before Thankgiving back a week since the 22nd was the anniversary of JFK assasination. I did not get this memo so I in no way mean disrespect by posting this today but since I missed the 15th I am posting now. I still need to do some more work on this before I have it actually made up to use in Churches and other places. Also, I would love MORE pictures to add! If you have a child you adopted from ANY country or even domestic and you would like to share a photo to go in this video PLEASE email me @ childofmyheart@aol.com Also if you have tips for things for me to write in the credits or whatever Please let me know. This is basically a rough draft! I hope to add more photos and other things :) So please comment and let me know what you think :) Adoption is an amazing thing that I have been totally BLESSED to be involved in and I can't WAIT to experience the joys again as God eventually sends us the rest of our children! :) We are so thrilled to have our Noah! The first in the rainbow of children! :)

WE send you blessings and Kisses in the Wind!

Wow!

Wow! That is the only word I can think to describe yesterday. I shared that I would be sharing at our Ladies Meeting. EVERYTHING that could possibly go wrong yesterday afternoon preceeding that meeting DID! I had been praying for a long while about this time and what I was to share and had gotten several songs I felt would be used in the sharing of my story. Well, on top of all the other things that went nutso yesterday when I arrive at the Church and am getting everything prepped and ready for the meeting we realize that somehow windows media is damaged on the Church computer and so Carlos can not get my video or my audio songs to play on it to put up on big screen in Sanctuary. ugggh :( I have burned these off my computer on a cd rom and used windows media because I knew Church had that. I tried audio one in cd player. NOPE wont play :( I was the most upset about the video because it was just so powerful and it so speaks of how I feel. Well, Carlos is like if we can use the Pastor's laptop he MIGHT can get it to work. turns out laptop was broken! UGGGh Well I am literally at the alter crying. I mean the ONLY thing I knew about the night was these songs! I am feelin like all I want to do is go home and I have no clue what I am going to do. I get a text from an old dear friend who I had invited to the meeting that she is running late and just leavin her house but she is coming! YIPEEE! So i ask if she has either a laptop or a cd with at least the song the video is too. She has a laptop so brings that with her. Upon her arrival Carlos heads in there to try and work magic! Carlos is my friend Cassie's dear hubby. Our sound guy and also the main nursery worker for the night so the ladies can all be in the meeting! :) He is great and worked so hard to make this all work for me but to no avail. he could NOT get it to work with tv's. But he did get it to play on laptop so he put it on a podium and said I could just play it from that with volume up real loud. So at least I have that. Now that was not set up till after I had to start talking though. I had a song I had planned to start with and let me tell you it was NOT easy to start without that lead in. When I stood up I had NO IDEA what I was to say or going to say. I just started talking and sharing a story. My story. I have spent most of the day today trying to figure out what I would say about the meeting to y'all and well a friend that was at the meeting blogged today about it and so I decided I would copy and paste her post about it to give you a listeners view about it.
Here is what she posted:

Ok so that is only part of my day; from there I go right to work. I had thought I would do that and then come home and get some work done, well, nope. I got a text from my friend reminding me that she was speaking at her ladies' monthly meeting and wanted me to come. She had invited me before, and I knew I needed to go, but Thursdays are soooooooooo hard! I toyed with it, weighed my options, knew I was tired, knew I needed to get some work done, knew my sister-in-law was cooking, but also knew my friend is so much more important than all that stuff-I went.

Her part was a testimony time for her to share what God has done in her life. I have known her for years so for me to hear where she is right now was an amazing thing. To see her standing up in front of these ladies talking from her heart, not hiding, not cowering, just sharing, was in itself amazing. I remember when she couldn't look people in the eyes. I know being up there was not easy for her to do. Although hesitant, a bit out of place since I don't go to church there, I was instantly glad I was there with her at that moment. My heart has been so burdened for the prison ministry and what she shared gave me such insight into what these other women are struggling with. Her testimony is not so unlike the story of the woman with an issue of blood for 12 years who just knew if she could but touch the hem of Jesus' garment, she could be healed. My friend had to but take that one step towards Jesus and let Him heal her; it was that first step that hindered her. One step and one touch, just one and we are surrounded by the consuming power of Jesus' healing. She shared what it was like to take that step and the battles she faced in her journey. I am so glad she did.

I thought about the devotion Max Lucado did on Mary, Martha, Lazarus. Lazarus was the trumpet-the one with an awesome testimony. We can't all be trumpets, my friend gets to be. She has a trumpet testimony. I don't. She ended her testimony time with a video clip of Nicole C. Mullen's song "One Touch" and an encouragement to those who plant seeds. We don't always see the fruit of our investment in the lives of others, but it doesn't mean there isn't any. I have to confess I was a bit jealous of those who got to share in that leg of her journey that I missed out on. I really kind of abandoned her, not being sure how to help her. Not the first time I have thrown my hands up in defeat. I felt like my efforts in her life were futile....I have felt like that many times in my life. Her words reminded me that God gives the increase, God does the work in lives, not us. All of these that have my heart, I lift up to Him, I give when He gives me opportunity, I share, I testify, I love-He does the rest...not up to me to bear fruit.

Friend, blow that trumpet....we all need to come to that place where we reach out for that one touch from our Savior!

Watch the video-One Touchhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPZuNab9UY

Here is the Video that the link she put in goes to and that I used last night :)



I bawled when I read that. What more can one ask for in life than to be used by the Lord to help others. Me, a trumpet? I dont know maybe. PRAISE God that HE TOUCHED ME!! I KNOW I've been made whole!

You know at the end of it all, everything that went wrong before really did not matter. Music is the way I feel, the way I express myself. It is such a part of who I am. And yes it can tell so much. I can't tell you HOW I talked once I got up there but I did. I just shared my heart. There is so much more I shoudl have said, could have said but I must believe for such a time as this that what happend was what HE had for me to say that night! The only one of the songs I was able to use was that video but it was the most important. Before the meeting I did not think I could possibly do it and I almost allowed the enemy to convince me that I was not who God says I am. BUT GOD!

I will post some pictures of Noah tomorow! :)

WE send you blessings and Kisses in the Wind!

word

Tonight is our monthly ladies meeting at our Church. We get together and bring yummo food and visit and then after we are stuffed beyond measure we have usually a Bible Study or some other word that someone has to offer. Tonight I am the speaker and I suppose I am to share the word of my testimony. I am quite nervous to say the least and feeling very unsure of exactly what I am and am not to say. Normally I have stuff written out, say this here, play this song there, pray this here. Not that is always comes out just the way I planned it but at least there is a guide. Tonight all I have is a cd with some song and 1 Video. Songs I felt led to bring with me. I have NO CLUE if I will use them all and have a general idea of when I plan to use 2 of them. The others are songs that speek to my heart or perhaps speak of something I feel or have felt. To be honest I could have made a cd with about 100 plus songs on it but I just have these few for now. I may regret I did not bring more. I do also have a song planned for a dear friend to sing that is part of the testimony. Please be in prayer for me and for those who will be there that God will speak THROUGH me and to that special place in each of them where they need a touch. I so want this to be ALL about God and not about me. I am so incredibly blessed to be FREE in Christ and that He has brought me as far as He has and I do believe that what I went through can be used to help others. I just have to kinda be open and willing to what God wants to do. ONE of the songs I wanted to take got ruined on the cd a while back, and for the life of me I can' t rember the name of the song or artist just some of the words. I wish I had that song tonight, but GOD knows what I need. and what I dont. Well, I am babblin anyway and the smoke alarm just went off with the food I am to take to Ladies meeting! that thing NEVER goes off when there are flames but when you just cook normally you get BEEP BEEP BEEP in the shrillest loudest sound! uggh

We send you blessings and Kisses in the wind!

In My Arms!

10 weeks ago today they placed Noah In My Arms! I can't believe it has been 10 weeks. Funny how when we were waiting the weeks seemed to DRAG by. My main focus was on what to cook for next week's sale to keep my mind off of how much of Noah's sweet life I was missing and keep me occupied till the next update and pics showed up! NOW it seems the weeks have flown passed and at the same time it seems like I have had Noah forever. Sometimes I so feel like his mom and other times I feel like he deserves so much better than me, why can't I figure out why he is fussing etc. I am so totally in love with this baby boy and I will spend my life trying to make him happy and content and make sure ALL his needs are met. I want to be a mom he will be happy to have. I want him to someday be GLAD that I am the mama who adopted him. I look upon the photos that I did not get to see until after we picked up Noah and I just ache to hold him then, to see that for myself. NOW I have that luxery! I have thought alot about Noah's birth mother during these passed 10 weeks as I did in the 10 plus months the preceeded that. I ache for what she gave up but am so incredibly blessed and thankful that she gave my son life and she gave that life as a gift to me. Please enjoy this video In my Arms FOR NOAH!

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WE send you blessings and Kisses in the Wind!