PRAISE and PRAY like there is no TOMORROW

PLEASE everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Praise God for Kim and Steve getting out of PGN and Zack being their's forever!!!!! The medical issues that need cared for need to occur sooner than later and now we need to PRAY that everyone else will follow suit and get this baby home like PGN has just done when instead of issuing a Kick Out they signed Zack out!!!!!!!!!!

PRAY hard for Mary and Phil!!!!! They have had their birthmother interview and PGN has issued a kick out which has been fixed and been resubmitted to PGN the resubmission was done two weeks ago as of tomorrow!!!! Please,Pray that tomorrow or REALLY soon is the day they get word they are out of PGN. This Kick Out is doing to them I am sure what the last one we received did to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is time their baby girl came home. We have prayed and God has answered so here we go again!!!!!! God is going to do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will keep you all updated!!!! Goodnight and thank you all for praying!!

On this day

a year ago we had to say goodbye to our baby and head home to wait out a long, emotional process and as I recall the pain that we went through when it came time for our visit to end I am thankful we no longer have to go through that with our little boy. At the same time, I know that Sammy, Veronica and their family are still grieving as they miss him much so please be praying for them!!!!

Today we went and got Clay a haircut. He didn't like it so much until he got outside and realized it was cooler to his head in this Georgia heat!! Heading back to St. Louis, Saturday. Just for awhile as August will end soon and we can come home for good!!!

One Year Ago today

is but a memory. It was a dream come true. A prayer in the process of being answered. The culmination of daydreams never voiced. That day will never be forgotten. I packed days before we left. Checked, double checked and even triple checked to make sure we had everything. We boarded a plane (Matt and I) on that day in the early morning hours that was delayed. We ran through the Houston airport hoping we were in time to catch our connecting flight. Landed in a foreign country, speaking nary a word of the language to catch a shuttle to a hotel, check in and wait. What was supposed to have been hours was actually a few minutes and the front desk called to ay we had visitors. We were excited, nervous, emotional and every other feeling imaginable. For what seemed like ages we had seen pictures and today the picture became reality.

We walked out of the elevator and saw him. Those big brown eyes and dark brown hair I kept watching for. For the first time in months I held and saw my baby for the very first time. The thrill of holding him, rocking him, playing with him, and seeing his Daddy with him. Our baby was no longer a picture of what our dreams were heading towards but realizing a dream and waiting for it to be official.









Today, our baby is home forever. He is no longer a baby but our precious little boy. He walks and runs. Says alot of different words. Loves music and Winnie the Pooh. Feeds himself and has no fear of the slide. Uses a straw and sleeps thru the night!!! A dream for a brown eyed baby boy with dark brown hair has come true forever and a year later he is a toddler for whom our love knows no end!!








To Clay:


We love you baby boy, for you will always be our baby, thanks to God, a birthmother who loved you first and wanted more for you, a loving family who cared for you when Mommy and Daddy couldn't and a woman with a love for children and the people she worked with for bringing you home to us.


We love you, John Clayton!!!


Signed: Your Mommy and Daddy

Note Note Note Note: Here is the difference in one years time

First Fourth of July

For July 4th, we went to Mom and Dad's for the day. Clay got to play with his cousins and be spoiled by his MeMe and PawPaw and almost all his Aunts. We got to go out for about two hours while Clay stayed and played with his cousins and decided to head home instead of fireworks when Clay fell asleep after a long, no nap, and all day play day. I have posted a few pics of him. One is with his Great Aunt Rachel and the other just playing with Daddy a few minutes in his Fourth of July outfit. We would have had more pics from MeMe and PawPaw's but the batteries died in the camera.

I want to go outside with Daddy and help him grill with Paw Paw

This is me with Great Aunt Rachel