Today!
We just returned from a wonderful relaxing two weeks in Maui with just the two girls. It was a wonderful way to spend Lauren's 12th Gotcha day and Marissa's 1st Gotcha Day. The girls are great travelers.
Marissa has changed so much since she became ours this time last year. One night while in Hawaii, I was thinking about the vast changes in her short little life. I could not help but reflect on God's great plan for her life. I watched her laugh, play and love on her sister on the beaches of Maui. Chances are she would have never left the village that she was born into let alone Guatemala had God not brought us together. I also thought about the incredible love of her birthmother who knew that Marissa would have a better life and was willing to trust her precious child into our hands to raise. I thought about how her birthmother at 22 years old could not sign her own name for the adoption and had to use her thumbprint instead. Now her five year old child in one year is beautifully writing her first and last name. She is reading sight words. She has graduated from preschool. But most importantly, Marissa is a child of God who we are incredibly blessed to call our daughter FOREVER.
It seems like a natural time to end this blog journey. I am creating a scrapbook for Marissa from the blog. I am almost done and can not wait to see the finished product. For now, if you feel inclined you can follow our next journey for Bryson at his blogspot or check in with me on my new blog called mylifemydesire.blogspot.com. It is in the works, but my plan for the blog is to give whole family or indidvidual kid updates from time to time. I also envision it being a place where I will share my faith, a place where you can see how God continues to work in our lives and a beginning voice for the adoption/foster/orphan care ministry Robert and I would like to start.
Thanks to everyone who has followed this awesome ride with us over the last two years. May you continue to be blessed!
