Today is my Father-in-law's birthday. So we will be hanging out there today.
This weeks starts a shift change at work. I will be working more at night. Not the first choice I would make, but hey, I still have a job, and for that I am thankful.
I have to share with you something amazing that happened to us a few weeks ago. Shanon and I have been talking and praying about us buying our first home. Shanon finally called a mortgage worker in Florida. She was very nice, and went over our credit, highlighted a bunch of things that we needed to take care of. (I wish I wasn't such a dumb kid.)
Its hard facing things like this. Especially when your income really is just getting you by at the moment. Anyway, we both were kind of down, because we knew that coming up with the money to pay off all that old debt was going to take forever.
So we started to pray. We just kinda said, God, we feel you calling us back to Florida. We know that for sure. If we have to rent for a few more years, so be it.
A few days later, we got a letter from the State of Michigan, saying that there had been a big mistake concerning Jaylen's benefits. The letter also went on to say that they were sending us a check for the monthly mistake that had been happening since June of 2006!
That's when we saw the amount. It was literally $45 more than the entire sum of debt that we needed to pay off. Wow.
When God guides, he provides.
We can hardly wait to go back home to Florida. We can hardly wait to see all of our friends again. We can hardly wait to be homeowners! That still even sounds weird! LOL
Hope everyone has a great week!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
5.11.09
We met with our current adoption worker today. He says he is submitting the final paperwork in the morning, and Everything should be done next week!
That is like music to our ears! Just another loose end tied up for our transition out of here.
Only 5 million to go...LOL
~Steve
That is like music to our ears! Just another loose end tied up for our transition out of here.
Only 5 million to go...LOL
~Steve
Saturday, May 9, 2009
5.10.09
Ahhhh spring is finally here. I got to cut the grass this week! (For those of you who don't know, I have developed a new obsession with lawn care.)
This weekend has been nice. Friday night, I took my Mom to a Mother Son banquet at her church. It was a good time. (I think my mom just likes showing off her "big" baby to all of her friends, which then ironically, they call my Darrell. My older brother.) It's like I never existed.
Tomorrow will be a bitter/sweet day for Shanon and her mom Sharon. This is the first year since Grandma Robinson passed away. Please pray for them tomorrow.
The kids are doing well. Cameron is talking way more. Its as if his vocabulary has doubled in the last few weeks. Jaylen is doing fine. He is also completely potty trained now. Cameron is just behind him. He's in underwear about 80% of the time. So it wont be long, until we can toss the diapers for good! Hmmm, maybe we will burn them....LOL
Larkyn and Alex are both doing well in School. Larkyn is really enjoying her DVD cirriculum that she started this year. She is currently working on making a homeade book of animals as a science project. She is doing a great job!
Other than that, just taking it day by day, and watching the countdown, waiting patiently. well at least most of the time!
~Steve
This weekend has been nice. Friday night, I took my Mom to a Mother Son banquet at her church. It was a good time. (I think my mom just likes showing off her "big" baby to all of her friends, which then ironically, they call my Darrell. My older brother.) It's like I never existed.
Tomorrow will be a bitter/sweet day for Shanon and her mom Sharon. This is the first year since Grandma Robinson passed away. Please pray for them tomorrow.
The kids are doing well. Cameron is talking way more. Its as if his vocabulary has doubled in the last few weeks. Jaylen is doing fine. He is also completely potty trained now. Cameron is just behind him. He's in underwear about 80% of the time. So it wont be long, until we can toss the diapers for good! Hmmm, maybe we will burn them....LOL
Larkyn and Alex are both doing well in School. Larkyn is really enjoying her DVD cirriculum that she started this year. She is currently working on making a homeade book of animals as a science project. She is doing a great job!
Other than that, just taking it day by day, and watching the countdown, waiting patiently. well at least most of the time!
~Steve
Sunday, April 12, 2009
4.12.09
This weekend we traveled out to Fenton Michigan to visit with the kid's older brother Dylan. We had a good time. We even took some great pictures that are soon to be put up on our living room wall.
We had a great Easter. We just had Shanon's parents and brother over. It was fun family time. Plus I mean the food was amazing! The cook is just the best ever! (ME)
We are so excited to be moving back to Florida. Shanon and I catch ourselves talking and thinking about it more and more. We finally told the kids, who were ecstatic! Larkyn and Alex had both been voicing that they wanted to live in Florida more than anywhere else, pretty much since we got here. Its fun listening to them tell Jay and Cameron what Florida is like.
46 Weeks left. Is it pathetic that we are counting down from this far out? Call it what you want. I think waiting this 46 weeks is going to be the hardest thing Shanon and I have ever done.
When God guides, He provides. He has been providing for this transition already. In more ways than one! I'll have to go into that in a later post.
Hope everyone has a great week!
~Steve
We had a great Easter. We just had Shanon's parents and brother over. It was fun family time. Plus I mean the food was amazing! The cook is just the best ever! (ME)
We are so excited to be moving back to Florida. Shanon and I catch ourselves talking and thinking about it more and more. We finally told the kids, who were ecstatic! Larkyn and Alex had both been voicing that they wanted to live in Florida more than anywhere else, pretty much since we got here. Its fun listening to them tell Jay and Cameron what Florida is like.
46 Weeks left. Is it pathetic that we are counting down from this far out? Call it what you want. I think waiting this 46 weeks is going to be the hardest thing Shanon and I have ever done.
When God guides, He provides. He has been providing for this transition already. In more ways than one! I'll have to go into that in a later post.
Hope everyone has a great week!
~Steve
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Us, or something like us.
Well hey there!
Long time no talk!
So lets see, so much going on, where do we begin? For the past few months I have been entertaining the notion of attending Culinary School. Today, I finally made up my mind, and I will not be. Also we will not be moving to Pittsburgh in the fall. (That's where I was planning on going to school.)
However, we have made a decision on what our future plans are. They do include a move. Why am I not being specific? Because I think their are some people out there that deserve to find out first hand before reading about it in a informal blog.
Please pray for us during this time. We know what WE want to do, but as we all learn in life, sometimes that just isn't what God has planned for us. (But we feel his leading in our recent decisions.)
I will try to keep everyone more updated as time goes on.
~Steve
Long time no talk!
So lets see, so much going on, where do we begin? For the past few months I have been entertaining the notion of attending Culinary School. Today, I finally made up my mind, and I will not be. Also we will not be moving to Pittsburgh in the fall. (That's where I was planning on going to school.)
However, we have made a decision on what our future plans are. They do include a move. Why am I not being specific? Because I think their are some people out there that deserve to find out first hand before reading about it in a informal blog.
Please pray for us during this time. We know what WE want to do, but as we all learn in life, sometimes that just isn't what God has planned for us. (But we feel his leading in our recent decisions.)
I will try to keep everyone more updated as time goes on.
~Steve
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Greetings and Salutations!
This could be fun...right?
With all the different social networking sites out there, and all the different people we know on the internet, we thought instead of having 5 different profiles on different networks it may be easier to just set up our updates here in one single spot.
We hope that everyone that is interested will follow along with us as we try to keep everyone updated on what is going on with us.
~The Whites
With all the different social networking sites out there, and all the different people we know on the internet, we thought instead of having 5 different profiles on different networks it may be easier to just set up our updates here in one single spot.
We hope that everyone that is interested will follow along with us as we try to keep everyone updated on what is going on with us.
~The Whites
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