Not so good....

Yeah, not so good at all. The ice is pretty, but not that pretty. I went outside to take pictures of the beauty, when all of the sudden I hear a big crashing sound and notice the tree is about to land on Carless! I yell and he ducks, luckily he is fine...the truck not so much.

As you can see here our good friend and neighbor, Darold came over to help move the tree from the top of our truck. What a nice guy.

Carless and Darold, investigating the damage

Poor truck, it looks so sad. Notice the trees hanging over our house in the background...yicks!

ICE

Yep, thats what we woke up to this morning. Needless to say, school is cancelled. It really is beautiful though, how perfectly the ice covers everything. Every once in a while you will hear a big cracking sound, another tree breaking apart and falling. Lets just hope the tree hanging over our house stays put! For now, we still have electricity. Thank God. A big spruce broke in half and fell into our back yard, crushing our fence. Carless and I ventured out there to try and save our fence. Carless grabbed his saw and I bundled up and headed for the tree. Piece by piece we cut it up and threw it back over the fence. Our fence on the other hand is officially bent, but we will survive. Really the smell of the spruce was amazing, smelled like Christmas. Don't you just love winter weather.

Adoption

So, a lot has happened since that day in February 2007. We continued on with the pregnancy. Took many pictures of my growing belly. We finally decided to let Dr. Burk induce me because he said it didn't look like I would go anytime soon and I was officially at 40 weeks. I didn't want to induce, I didn't want to let go. We arrived in the hospital June 26 and I gave birth to Caelyn Nicolette at 8:04 am on June 27th. She was breech, butt first. Her heart stopped beating in the birth canal. We took many pictures of our beautiful baby girl, dressed her, loved her, held her, and eventually let her go. It was a hard day, the days to come were hard too, but we made it through. Carless and I decided to try again, that is when we found ourselves pregnant with our little Bella girl. She was due April 3, 2009. We lost her on September 23, 2007 at 12 weeks.
Shortly after the misscarriage my husband and I decided to look into adoption through the foster care system.
My job allows me to meet many families, one of those families is a foster care family. There is a little girl who is in this home whom I have come to love. She is very special and if she did get adopted out, I wanted to have a chance at it. So, after lots of prayers and research, we are going through the Missouri Baptist Children's Home foster care training as we speak. We actually have one my week left, plus lots of paper work. Now, will we actually get to adopt this little girl? I don't know, but it is worth the risk. She deserves the very best and I hope to give that to her. She is a sweet little girl with big blue eyes, petite little body, brown hair, and light skin. She is only 16 months old and has been in foster care since she was 7 months old. We can't wait to see what God has in store for us.