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.







Thursday, November 26, 2009

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

We are most grateful & forever thankful for the love of our lives Nicholas

Nicholas on his first carousel ride


On November 14th we went to see Disney on Ice.....

Our seats were front row right on the ice....................

He loved seeing Mickey up close


Photos photos & more photos

My beautiful niece and her very beautiful daughters..........

Patri, Amanda & Noelle


Nick & his cousin Noelle


Just being cute

Really cute


Working.........no playing at the farm


Nick has a new fascination for trains........I'm sure a trip to see Thomas is in our future


Our first time going out on the wave runner....he is all ready to go


And who wanted to drive.................


All ready for a wacky water day at school - we refer to daycare as school

His backpack is just about his size yet he insists he wear to the car


Heading out the door one morning for school & work


Nick's daycare is the best - actaully it is the greatest daycare.
Dennis & I and most importantly Nicholas love it......ABC's, 1 -25, his full name (which is a mouthful for a 2 1/2 year old) our full address, Nick speaks in full sentences and he can sign...........not only Momma & Poppa, please & thank you & various letters of the alphabet but much to our surprise when Dennis was taking him for a haircut and they were walking in Poppa asked him to say "Happy Thanksgiving" Nicholas said Happy Thanksgiving and signed it as well!

He has picked up a few of our habits.........




Yes we are forever thankful!

6 comments:

Tricia said...

The photos are great, especially the one on the waverunner. Nicholas is so cute. Rustam is crazy about trains, too. We had a Thomas themed birthday party for him this year and he loved it. That is great that you love your daycare so much. We call ours school, too. It sure seems like school since they are shut down from December 24 through January 4th. I still have to figure out what to do about that.

McMary said...

oh Nicholas is so adorable--you do indeed have much to be thankful for.

Susan said...

What a smart kiddo you have there!! He is getting SO handsome too!I love his hair!!!
so cute!!

Great pics..love him reading the paper. It's amazing how they pick up your habits...Leeza LOVES lotion and chapstick. :)

Sean was a train fanatic too at 2....we watched a lot of thomas for sure!!!

What a great update!! Nicholas is such a cool dude!!! School is awesome! Leeza just goes 2x a week, for 3 hours, but we do a lot of actitivies during the week together. it's amazing how fast they learn, isn't it? we just started a sign language class and I love it! :)

Anonymous said...

Aw, so glad to see you all doing so well!! Nicholas looks like he is doing great, and you both look so happy in your photos! We are doing well too, thanks for the check up...we should maybe start a new blog. We are on the official "wait list" for a child from South Korea. Apparently we can hope for a referral at anytime, but we will believe it when we see it. This go-round the process is painless. No dossier, no travel, just send in an application and wait. Because our homestudy agency is now our adoption agency, they were able to push us through a little quicker...so we are hopeful! (We are still suing the old agency however...)

At any rate...Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and all the best for 2010!!

You take care,

Heidi Biglin

Catalina said...

Dear Darlene,

It is so wonderful to see Nicholas, I love the pictures and for sure we have so many things to be thankful for. He seems to be a beautiful, smart boy. Happy Holidays!! I did not forget about our meeting, whenever Nicholas feels like having a play date , let us know :)

The Gobble's (Lanetta) said...

aaaaahhhhhhhhh.... he's grown so much... so sweet!! wow.. what a cutie!!! he's a doll!!