Our story

Dennis & I (Darlene) have created this blog to share with all of our friends and family our journey to adopt. The journey began when we met, fell in love and our desire to begin our family. We struggled for 6 years unsuccessfully to have children. Talk of adoption was something we had always considered and in April of 2007 we thought heaven had opened up when we were introduced to a birth mother who wanted to have us adopt her son. After several months of supporting her and her other child throughout the pregnancy our dreams fell apart when the birth mother scammed us not only out of our money but broke our hearts into a million pieces. Dennis was left to pick up the pieces and has reassured me every step of the way with his love and never ending devotion to our dreams of having a family.

Dennis and I started the long process of adopting from Kazakhstan and in 2008 we meet our son Nicholas.

We are now beginning the long process to adopt a sibling for Nicholas and it looks like Russia is where we will be heading next and hope in 2010 we meet our child!

We hope you will join us on our journey as we will do all our updating on this site. As always your love, prayers, good wishes & support mean the world to us. Thank you for being such an important part of our lives.







Monday, December 1, 2008

Thankful.......

We are so very thankful for our wonderful little gift of Nicholas!!

My Thanksgiving Day started with Nicholas & Poppa giving me my favorite - pink roses....




Nicholas celebrated a quiet thanksgiving at Dennis' mother's house along with my mother. This was the first time meeting my mother so Nicholas was with both grandmas on his very first thanksgiving and I made certain he gave both equal amounts of kisses which he happily obliged and both were very happy!



After visiting with both Grandma's we stopped over my sister Grace's house where Nicholas got to play with my nieces children, Noelle and Amanda and they happily played the piano!!



Thanksgiving weekend also brought us to finally meet more family when we visited with my brother Bobby, Rosemary along with their kids and grandkids & aunt Joanne....Nicholas was his usual wonderful self and happily played with cousins Gianna & Gabriella - everyone had a great time so much so that we only got one picture..........




On a very happy note we are very thrilled to say that Nicholas' had a few items in his Kaz medical report that required we take him for some serious medical tests and thank god the test results came back and he is perfectly fine - we are elated and even though the doctors all felt the medical report was inaccurate the stress of it all was terrible and we are so very thankful and happy this one is behind us!! Nicholas of course did great with everything and as usual charmed all the doctors and nurses and they couldn't believe how very smart and well adjusted the little guy is!

Some other happenings are that Nicholas attended the Christening of our friends Dave & Liana's son Andrew. Dennis & I were given the wonderful honor of being chosen as Andrews godparents and we weren't quite sure how the little man would do but as usual he was great and even kept his clip on tie on all day long!

Beautiful Mommy Liana & baby Andrew








Nicholas did start daycare and one of the first things that happened was he got a terrible rash on his face and yep we were scheduled for his Christmas photo...never one to shy from the camera here is a shot we took at home......

7 comments:

Kim said...

Looks like you had a great Thanksgiving! Nicholas is adorable. I love his little Christening outfit. :)

Kim

Anonymous said...

Hello, I am Dawn, Billy's wife. I have been following your story through Bill and your Blog, I feel like I know you already. I am so happy for you and your new family and can't wait to meet you all soon. I check the blog every day to see if there are new stories and pictures and am thrilled every time I read it. Nicholas is just toooo adorable!! Things are just as they should be, full of happiness, good health, laughter and lots of love. You deserve it- congratulations!!!

Dawn

McMary said...

Wow--Nicholas is so cute and it is amazing reading about your family--it seems as if Nicolas has been with you forever and yet it has been just six weeks--how wonderful that you make such a perfect family.

Kristen (and Cary) said...

Just checking in on you. Nicholas seems to be doing so well and I am happy the doctor reports were good! Hope you have a Merry Christmas.

Kelly and Sne said...

What a great thanksgiving - you look like you are really enjoying each other being a family! And how cute he looks in his "Sunday best" outfit! Miras has had two rashed on his face and they turned out to be impetigo (caught at daycare) so I hope you're not facing the same!

Susan said...

Nicholas is such a lil honey!! what a sweetie pie kissing his grandparents!

much more to say but Leeza is up so i gotta go

he's DARLING.

YOU SOUND SO HAPPY,a nd rghtfully so. :)

The Gobble's (Lanetta) said...

so great to see you guys have settled in... so happy for you...
he's such a doll!!!!