Is it July already?

The time has flown by since we have gotten home from Russia. We have experienced scores of emotions as we have transitioned into being a family of four. For Luke, it has been a hard road, but thanks to our God who has been our rock through this time for him. It was a great way to show Luke God's faithfulness and realize we can depend on Him in our doubts and fears for any situation. I would tell Luke from the movie Facing the Giants that the Bible mentions fear over 300 times, so God cares a lot about our fears and will be right by your side, and he has seen this come into fruition.

As for Hannah, I have told many of our friends she has melted into our family like she was always here. We are amazed at how fast she has picked up English both speaking and understanding. See the E.T video to understand what it's like around our house daily because we are always waiting for her to say something new! Yesterday, Hannah came into the kitchen and said "what are you cooking Mama?". She is so funny and doesn't even know it. Her fascination with blow-dryers is still very extreme. In the morning she will say Good Morning Mamma, Papa, Luke, and blow-dryer which we have finally gotten used to it, and realize we have another addition to our family. She is still very curious about everything and loves to examine most things. She is crazy about going to the pool and even when she is purple-cold she will not get out. We have affectionally call her the Jerky swimmer because she is so twitchy to watch in the pool. We praise God for having all of her test results come back negative, so that was a huge relief for us. We were thinking she would have some parasites, but God has been watching over Hannah and keeping her healthy from the beginning. Life went from being busy to being extremely busy with two little ones and little time for anything else like posting on my blog which I hope to do more now that some things have slowed down.

As I am sitting here typing this blog, Hannah is on our other old computer doing Reader Rabbit. It didn't take her long to learn the computer. It's a very good program for learning letters, shapes and many other things, and she hasn't had any problems with it.

I have posted some pictures of Hannah and Luke since coming home, but I wanted to post some pictures of the refrigerator and tiles that many of our church family and friends donated money. The director and workers were overwhelmed that people would help them out that didn't even know them or involved with an adoption there. Again, we thank all of you for this generosity.

Hopefully, i will be blogging each week to keep family and friends updated on our family. Stop by anytime!