Thank You

As many of you know we had our homestudy tonight and we just want to say thank all of you that prayed for us today and have been praying for us during this process. The homestudy went great. God has blessed us with an awesome social worker that is so friendly and sweet. Meredith and her husband are also adopting a little boy from Ethiopia and expect to bring him home right before Christmas. So we have a common bond with her and enjoy talking to her and she is so helpful because she is going through everything we are right now!

We are also thankful tonight as we think about how truly blessed we are. As she went through all the questions from what our childhood was like to how Heath and I met, we both were overwhelmed with thankfulness to God. All the little things we take for granted like our parents still being together and having good relationships with our siblings. So many people cannot say their parents are still married or that they have good relationships with their whole family, so we often forget how blessed we are. We are so thankful for a church family that loves us, supports us, and prays for us. That we have a roof over our head, cars that run, city water (yes that was a question), and so many other things. God I am so thankful for everything you have blessed me with and continue to bless me with.

Take some time today to think of all those little things that we so often forget to thank Him for because He is worthy of all our praise. Nothing is to little and He never gets tried of hearing our praise! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Lord!!! I love you! I pray you all have a blessed night!

P.S. I just had to share this video because it is just too cute! I think Gracie's ready for her little brother. Enjoy! (Pause my music at the bottom of the page so you can hear the video)

Please Pray!

This post comes a few days late, but that is how I operate. Hopefully by now everyone knows and has adjusted to Day Light Savings Time. Well my little Gracie Lynn had a tough time. She was used to waking up between 7:15 and 7:45, which is amazing and I won't complain one bit. When DLS hit, she was then waking up at 6:15. Paige and I are not early risers most of the time. Needless to say, we had to let her stay in bed by herself for a few minutes each morning to try and get her regulated.

I was fine with her being a little upset for a few minutes each morning so that she could learn her new wake up time. As this went on, my heart began to break more and more each morning. I love my daughter, don't get me wrong, but my heart was not breaking because my daughter was crying. My heart was breaking for the orphans that don't have anyone to bring them comfort when they are crying. I was ok with her crying a little because I knew in ten minutes we would go and wrap her in our arms and she would smile immediately. The orphans around the world don't have that hope. They aren't going to get scooped up and have that love from a father or mother. They don't have anyone to greet them each morning or tuck them in each night. Praise God for the workers at these orphanages, but there is not enough of them to go around and only so many babies they can hold at one time.

As Christians, our heart should break for these children. Please remember them in your prayers and ask God to prick your heart for the ways you can be the hands and feet of Jesus to the orphans.

Thanks,

Heath

One Crazy Month

October was crazy at our household! We went to Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, and Maryland all in thirty days! Needless to say I am glad to be home and stay home for a while. So I need to get you all up to date with what is going on in the Wilson house.

We started off this month by making a surprise trip to Iowa to see my family. My little brother (who's not so little anymore) is a senior and it was his homecoming week. So we drove up during the night on Wednesday and stayed through Saturday. We had a great time and enjoyed typical Iowa weather, cold and wet! We watched my brother's football game for the car because it rained the entire night. Grandpa and Grandma also got Gracie some Iowa gear so we could still support the Hawks in the south!

Gracie & Uncle Levi before his big homecoming game.

Go Hawks!!!

The very next weekend we traveled to Meridian, MS for a not so joyous occasion. Heath's granddaddy passed away from a heart attack and our whole family went down for the funeral and to spend time with family. Harvey Edwin Scarbrough was an incredible man. He loved and served God his whole life, raised an awesome family, worked hard, helped anyone he could, and never knew a stranger. We were so glad Gracie got a chance to meet him and spend time with him not long before he passed. We will always remember he was the person who taught her how to patty cake! We miss you granddaddy!

Then a few weeks later we met my family in St.Louis, MO. Heath and I were going out of town for four days at the end of October so we asked my mom and dad if they would like to keep Gracie for the whole week! I think you all know what they said! So Gracie went to Iowa from Sunday to Sunday. Here are some pictures from her adventure.
Playing with Uncle Levi.

Full from all of the ice cream that Grandpa feeds me.

I love to climb the stairs. I keep Grandma guessing.

My first cupcake. I tried to hide this from mommy.

Farmin' ain't easy!!!

I had my birthday on Sunday, November 1st and I got the best present in the world. I got to see my family and I got my little Gracie back after a week of missing her! I was so glad that she had a good time in Iowa. The good thing was while she was gone Heath and I had a busy week ourselves.

On Tuesday, October 27th we had our first official meeting with our social worker from Adoption Assistance who is conducting our homestudy! She was awesome. We talked for a long time because we had a common bond, her and her husband are also adopting from Ethiopia and expect to bring their son Hensley home the week before Christmas! So right now we are still in the process of getting all the paperwork together and filled out. We will have another meeting with her next week where she will actually come to our house and do interviews with both of us! Please continue to pray for this journey to our son (and also that we can get all our little projects done around the house!)

The end of our week was busy and awesome. We were privelaged to travel with some amazing people to Baltimore, Maryland to attend the Voice of the Apostles Conference. We heard speakers like Bill Johnson, Che Ahn, Randy Clark, John Arnott, and Heidi Baker. Our faith was super charged to say the least! God showed us amazing things about who He is and how much He can do if we just ask and believe!!! To really see His kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven! We were so honored to go on this trip and we know that God hand picked us for such a time as this. We are so excited about the ministry He has called us to!

November does not have much on the calendar at this point and I am OK with that! I hope you all have a blessed day!