Word Verification

Sorry to all of you who have had to wade through the annoying word verification - I finally turned it off. I forgot it was still on until I mentioned something to a friend who also has word verification enabled on a private blog. I went to figure out exactly how to tell her to turn it off when I discovered, much to my dismay, that I had it on still... after probably 2+ years.

Silly me.

Well, now you can comment to your hearts content without having to deal with the word verification.

Go for it!

Monday Musings – Entertaining Angels

I read this scripture this morning:

From Hebrews 13:2, and I think it will be our theme for our life in the next several years.

We started the process to become licensed as foster parents. We decided a long time ago that we want to foster and adopt, and that we wanted to be parents to any children who needed them. We want to provide a safe place, a warm home, for any child who needs a place to be safe.

The licensing process is a little long, but we are on our way! I have been feeling this tug at my heart for the past several months – and now that we are finally taking the steps, I feel great and I can’t wait for us to be licensed foster parents.

If you want to entertain angels in your home, if only for a little while, contact the Utah Foster Care Foundation (or the foster care foundation in your state) and apply for foster care.

Why should you? Because you may end up entertaining “angels unawares.”

Graduation

 

Russ became a “real” soldier on September 30, 2010. By real I mean, he finally had all the training necessary to do a job in the military. The picture at the top was at his company’s award ceremony the night before graduation, at which Russ received several awards, including the GAFB (pronounced “gaff-bee” – weird, I know... military... go figure) – the German Armed Forces Badge – basically you qualify by doing really well on the APFT (the physical fitness test) and by shooting a bunch of stuff, and by in general being a good soldier.

These two pictures are at the actual graduation. It was short and sweet, just the way I like it. Vincente played Monkey Preschool Lunchbox most of the time (man I love my iPhone...) and Joseline mostly just sat around. The cutie.  We are so proud of our Papai! He is such a great soldier and has done a lot of good stuff! And we are sooo happy he is done with all of his initial entry training!