First of the many Halloween festivities....Friday night at the rec center 2007 with "Leo the little Einstein", "Troy" from Highschool Musical and a princess fairy cat!!!

The 24 months we've been waiting....and are still waiting!

The 24 months we've been waiting....

Sorry about the music from the bottom last two posts, for some reason they are playing at the same time!
Anyway, two Octobers ago, in 2005 we began this journey to adopt our daugther Sophia Ruth(who two years ago was going to be named...Madelyn, Miah, Kennady, Sadie...and the list did go on..!!!) BUT...thankfully, our Charlie boy came up with Sophie! And we are now set with her name, Sophia Ruth Rogers!
So...24 months ago, my baby was literally a baby, two years old...he has had 2 birthdays and is now a big 4 year old preschooler. We've dressed up for Halloween twice and are approaching the third time. We've waited through two Christmas's and soon to be a third. We've left the year 2005, and the year 2006 and will leave 2007 without her.....
But, my sweet Sophie girl we are not giving up on you. This wait has only strengthened us and made us realize how much we already love and want you and Know God has chosen you for us! We will wait no matter how much longer we are asked to wait!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love you Sophie Ruth....!
Mommy!

The 24 months we've been waiting....and are still waiting.....

Charlie's first wedding...and Ian's too!!!

Pumpkin Picking in Kentucky 2007

Halloween Costume Debate 2007

Well with Halloween literally around the corner, our Charlie boy is having trouble picking between two costumes......Will he be Leo from the Little Einsteins program he loves(whom if we dye his hair red, he actually looks like!)
Or will he be a space pilot...his other favorite obsession(space/flying)????
Decisions, decisions.....maybe he'll be both and mix it up between the diff halloween parties! Stay tuned to see what he picks!

They are finally through referring the month of November 2005

Yeah!!!! We are so happy that China has finished matching babies to ALL the families that were logged in in November 2005! That was such a HUGE month and took them 6 months to get through. Now...rumor has it that Dec/Jan/Feb are much smaller months as in the amount of people logged in and waiting, so lets all pray that we see them moving through these months quicker to get to us in March!!!!

Nothing else new, Charlie is loving school and made a best, or should I say, "girl"friend, named Kylie, and it has made all the difference in him LOVING going there! Funny, b/c she looks so much like my neice, Abi, whom Charlie adores, so maybe that led him to her!

We are off to ANOTHER wedding this weekend out of town, but this one should be so fun, Jeff and Charlie are in the wedding! This will be Charlie's first time as a ring bearer!! I'll be posting many pic's of our handsome little guy after we're back, so stay tuned!

Also, if you read that last post of the butterfly song by Martina McBride, that's thanks to my sis-in-law, Krista, who brought that song to my attention!! Thanks Aunt Krista, we LOVE the song and listen to it everyday and know it will be Sophie's song!

That's it for now, Blessings to all and love to Sophie Ruth!

She's a Butterfly

Monarch
Originally uploaded by sokolowicz

She remembers when she first got her wings
And how she opened up the day she learned to sing
Then the colors came, erased the black and white
And her whole world changed
when she realized
She's a butterfly, pretty as the crimson sky
Nothing's ever gonna break her down
And everywhere she goes, everybody knows, she' s so glad to be alive
She's a butterfly
Like the purest light in a darkened world, so much hope inside
such a lovely girl
you should see her fly, it's almost magical
it makes you want to cry
She's so beautiful
God bless the butterfly
give her the stregth to fly
Never let her wings touch the ground
-Martina McBride