Five Years Later...

We started this blog when we went to the Ukraine to adopt our daughter Elizabeth in 2005. Five years later we are loving life with our daughter (now 6) and our son, Chris (23). Tom continues to farm and I have the wonderful job of a stay-at-home mother and farm-wife. God has truly blessed us with two wonderful kids, a great new home, all while being surrounded by a terrific family, friends, and church family!



Saturday, January 03, 2009

Time to eat ~ Christmas 2008











When Mom and Dad built this garage a few years ago, one of the things they had in mind was not only where they would part the van, but also a place to feed their ever growing family :-) Sometimes we number 30+ so mom has 4 large tables, many chairs, and even a gas heater. The pictures on the wall everyone is looking at is arial pictures of the farm. Sometimes when we are all there, we still have to put some of the teenagers in the sunroom because we still can't fit around the 4 tables. It's a great problem to have such a large family, lol! A family that is still growing!!
The last picture shows Adam and Bethany's hands -- he proposed to her in front of everyone as we were opening presents on Christmas day!!! She's a wonderful person and we are glad to welcome her to the family!!! (Oh, and she LOVES kids, just like Adam...that is her playing with Elizabeth in the other picture -- and Elizabeth loves her!) The only problem is she and Adam live in Texas so we don't get to see them very often :-(

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