MEETING "BER!" (Amber Lee is one of my oldest friends from high school at GCA. We met our sophomore year and have been the best of friends ever since! It was so fun introducing her to my little man! She's got lots of nieces & nephews, and I knew these two would hit it off!)
1ST TIME IN THE NURSERY! (Abe did great his first Sunday in the nursery! What a relief! And apparently, he's still doing well. We've got some amazing workers, and I'm so thankful!)
LAUREN & REBECCA! (My sweet college girls, Lauren & Rebecca came over one night to meet Abe, and we had a blast! We read books & played. Abe had a great time!)
MEREDITH! (Meredith came in town over the break, and I couldn't wait to introduce her to Abe! Meredith came with us to College Week a couple of years and sat under the same teaching that led us to answer God's call to adopt. She's walked with me through this entire process and has such a heart for children and orphans.)
THE GRIFFINS & JOHNNY! (So somehow in the excitement of our first introduction of Abe to our DEAR, DEAR friends we didn't get any pictures! Or maybe I've misplaced them. But here, is a picture of Abe playing with "Acob"...Jacob. Jonathan, Matt, Cheryl, Jacob, and Jennifer are amazing. They've been such a support to us in our youth ministry, adoption, and life in general. Abe loves you guys, and so do we!!!)
COUSIN CARTER! (Ben's cousin, Kristi, and her hubby Taylor and son Carter were in town. It was so fun getting these two sweet boys together! I hope we can do it again this year!)
HALLE GIRL! (This was a fun day at the park with one of my best friends from high school & college and her sweet baby girl. We had a fun day with Andrea and Halle! Isn't she adorable?)
HALLE GIRL! (This was a fun day at the park with one of my best friends from high school & college and her sweet baby girl. We had a fun day with Andrea and Halle! Isn't she adorable?)
HEY JUDE! (The international adoption community is amazing...and Facebook is pretty great too. Throughout our adoption, another adoptive family named the Van Swearingens kept popping up in conversations with different mutual friends. The Lord kept bringing their names up...even in the airport in Ethiopia with a family taking their new son home to Portland! Finally I found Brittney Van Swearingen on Facebook and we began to communicate. She and her hubby brought their little boy home a few weeks after us. We finally had a chance to get together in February, and it was so much fun! We've already got another outing planned. Here is Brittney with her two boys, Grey & Jude at Chick-fil-A with us. I just love the photos of Abe & Jude. I think they will be friends.)
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