Muffy & Buffy our family trees
We planted two trees in the backyard on the day came to live with us. Both are magnolias. Hayley decided they should be named Muffy and Buffy – and so they are! read more →
Photo galleries from the last four visits with Hayley
Tons of photos from the past four Hayley visits! The big news – Hayley will arrive for good November 3rd! Photos from our second visit as when we headed up to Yadkinville Saturday for dinner with Hayley, her foster mom and foster sister and then on to watch them cheer at a football game. Things.. read more →
Our first visit with Hayley
Saturday we met our daughter Hayley for the first time. Our meeting was wonderful and Hayley is an amazing child, she was so adorable and smart. She’s talkative, funny, headstrong and competitive – hmm, sounds like me! And they weren’t kidding about her energy level being high! But that was fun too – she was.. read more →
Photos of Hayley
Three photos of our daughter Hayley read more →
Cheerleading photos of Hayley
Photos from a few weekends ago of Hayley cheerleading – she is one of the little cheerleaders for a local team, she’s sorta a mascot cheerleader with some other little girls for a bigger girls squad. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest.. read more →
Officially licensed and approved
We are finally officially licensed foster parents with a completed home study for adoption. This should have been done like six weeks ago but the FBI couldn’t read Jeff’s fingerprints. So he had to go through all of that a second time and wait. But we finally got the clearance which means every t is.. read more →
Our big news
The big news is we have started the process to adopt a foster child. It is a long road but one we are sure will be worth all the effort. We had a lot of options to adopt but something felt very right about helping a child here in our state who really needed parents… read more →