Back Again

Sorry about the long periods of silence lately. All that should be over now and you all should be hearing from me a couple times a week if all goes well.

We've finally gotten settled in and we're adjusting to all the new changes in our lives. I'm into my third week at work now and I'm loving it. It feels good to have a purpose each day and to be working in an environment meant to change the lives of children for the better. It was a hard adjustment at first after several months of working odd hours at the church. It was a bit hard to get back into the 8 to 5 routine but now I'm happy with it. Routine with work has helped me get into a solid devotions routine. Nathan and I have been pretty regular with our daily devotion and prayer time together and I think it has made all the difference in a smooth transition for our relationship.

It has been an absolute joy to have Nathan home again. I keep feeling like I'm going to wake up from this dream at any moment and life will go back to the way it has been for two years. We are certainly learning to adjust to one anothers little quirks and expectations. I think we are doing incredibly well on the communications front. We've been having a lot of fun together just learning about all the neat things that go with finally sharing the same living space.

As for all the things we were looking forward to, they all went fantastic. Nathan laid the tile floor and our family room is back to being my favorite room in the house. Our friends, Jenn and Joe, came and spent a few days with us for the wedding and that was really nice. The wedding was beautiful and special and more than I even thought it would be. I was really pleased with the results of all the hard work that went into putting that event together. Huge props to my mother in law for her incredible amount of contribution to the reception!!! I promise to post pics of the whole event as soon as I have time to sort through them all. (There were something like 600 pics on the CD we got from the photographer!)

Our vacation to Vermont in August was also wonderful. The road trip was even fun times!!!

Basically, the last month and a half have been a complete blur. It was all wonderful and amazing but we are so glad its all over. The one thing Nathan and I have wanted for the past two years is to have a normal, everyday life together. It is sure starting to feel a whole lot more like normal and we are so thrilled. On that note, now that things have settled down, Nathan and I can't seem to stop talking about and longing for our son. We are enjoying our one on one time together and we know how important it is so we'll be taking several more months of time together. Our plan is to begin our adoption process, the paperwork junk, sometime just after the Christmas season has subsided. Nathan is going to be working with a buddy for a few months while he looks for a more substantial job that will have some permanacy. We're praying that he will make that transition sometime around the end of the year. Once that happens, we'll definitely get started on our paper lined road to our first baby. Right now, we are sorting out some agency questions we have and we are planning to go to our information meeting with an agency we've been looking at sometime in October. We'll keep you all up to date as things progress.

That's all for now. I'll post again real soon, I promise. For now, I'll leave you with a sweet picture of Nathan's new baby girl...