Maynard Mayhem

Tonight we attended our family adoption meeting through our agency Arise Adoption. At the meeting we are able to talk with other adoptive families...those beginning the journey...some on the journey and most fun of all those who have returned from Africa with their precious children! We have three families ready to travel in a couple of weeks....which means..more pictures of our sweeties and we can send packages to them again! YEAH! The best part of the wait!!!!
Meanwhile we are staying busy with school, church and the sport of the season basketball!
Last week we did our unit around the book The Snowy Day. This week we chose the book The Big Snow to coincide with Groundhog Day. Both of the books were of course timed perfectly with the big snow we had dropped us here in Kentucky last week! We were one of the lucky families that did not lose electric...so we just enjoyed the lockdown with lots of time playing in the snow and I even snuck in some scrapbooking and scrapbook organizing!!
I have some great pics to add on but something happened that I was told could never happen...our computer is FULL...so evidently I take way too many pictures!!

Here are a few pictures I have of the b-ball games. Carson was a bit lacking last year in the b-ball department. This year he has shown so much improvement he does it all defense, offense...oh does it matter that Paul pays him!?! Yeap he earned $4 last week...sick isn't it!? Paul says as long as he is driven by something.....I don't really agree with that one , but sometimes you gotta let daddy do what daddy wants to do!!

Here Carson and Charity were guarding each other, which they thought was hilarious. They were so busy guarding they had no idea what was happening in the game!

Madelyn's game was first and mommy had some issues with camera settings so not as many good pics... This is her first year playing and it is so pityful! She is so funny....she stands on her little spot the size of a dime and DOES NOT MOVE!! Her hands stay up the entire game (even on offense) and her huge smile NEVER leaves her face...she smiles the entire time she is on the bench even!! She shot the ball 4 times and 3 of the 4 times it went straight into another players head (thus not very high LOL!)

Oh, and just in case you were actually checking in the adoption news.....we still do not know anything. Our orphanage rep went to see the judge yesterday to ask what would happen to the cases that were not heard last week...and she would not give an answer. There is only 1 judge now in Ethiopia and as you can imagine she is very busy!! So please pray for a miracle that she may decide to slide our cases in over the next few months rather than putting us 6-8 weks out with a new court date. The larger agencies are already pushed out 6-8 weeks but we are praying she will grant favor to us smaller agencies who do not have as many cases overall. Who knows....other than GOD! He already has the timeframe laid out perfectly...so if nothing else pray for my peace in the meantime!