Our First Few Months With Jonathan

Our First Few Months With Jonathan

We brought Jonathan home on October 30th, 2011. So we’ve had him home about 3 months. First Weeks The first few weeks were great… we still were on the honeymoon 🙂 Jonathan was still quiet, super eager to please, did whatever we wanted, eat everything put...
How Noel became Jonathan

How Noel became Jonathan

Bittersweet BeginningsIn October 2011 we traveled to Rwanda to meet our son and bring him home. We started the adoption process in November 2009- so it was almost a two year process. Our trip to Rwanda was an answer to many, many prayers and many, many sorrows. My...
Introducing… NoĂ«l!!!

Introducing… NoĂ«l!!!

Our first official family photo… it isn’t our “family” yet.. we need Gaven in it!NoĂ«l is legally ours, as of Thursday, October 20, 2011!  He is 4 years old, tall and thin. He has spent most his life in an orphanage until now. When we first...
Meeting Our Son

Meeting Our Son

Signing our Act of Adoption – starting the legal process!Max signing.After our long 3 days of travel to get here we drove to the orphanage! I still am not suppose to say any identifying comments about our son. We have to wait until we have our court decree and...