2 out of 257 ain't bad!

257 is the number that my camera read after our bluebonnet shoot yesterday evening!

Seriously!

when you have two very active boys you are doing everything just to find them in your viewfinder get them to sit down; honestly! So when you see a moving spec just start shooting, your bound to hit something. At least that's what I was taught when learning to hunt! Just sayin'

So we loaded boys and camera into car after dinner yesterday and headed further into the country where the grass is greener and the bluebonnets are plenty.

I had done some scoping earlier last week for the photo shoot I was going to be doing with the Gathrights... BUUUUT BOTH mine and J's vehicles broke down and we were pretty much stranded with not one bluebonnet in sight out here in our neck of the woods! Okay maybe there is one or two but it is right below the WEEDS that have drown out all it's kin folk through the years! It's pretty barren out here, well minus the weeds!

I found some awesome sites in my “scoping”; one being this house that has the front part of their lot "fenced" in with a beautiful 'tiqued wooden fence (perfect back drop). There is an opening that is so very inviting to do a shoot, BUT Bri is too afraid to go ask if we can trample all over their beautiful STATE flower field tip toe through their “ahem” bluebonnet field to get 2 out of 257 good (full bodied) pictures!

So we settled for the second site just around the bend. Good thing we did because both our elephants boys don't know what it is to tiptoe through the ANYTHING! Nor do they know what it is to NOT EAT EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!! But what doesn't kill them will only make them stronger right!??! Right!

Of course I look up and see J running through the field as well turning flips and cartwheels. “Trying to make the boys laugh” he says! HA! You couldn't feed that ham filled line to a starving pride of lions!

Boys will be boys! Even the big kind!

Without further ado here are a few of my fave picks! I have more but I am still taking off the dirt and scrapes beefing up the color!

Enjoy!

Oh? what's that you say? You see what?... Elvis!?

Oh, no, that is just Moe STANDING all by himself..."Just ignore the [little] man behind the curtain" (anyone??? what movie does this line exist in???)

He took two steps yesterday completely unaided! So proud of our Moe!

wOrDlEsS wEdNeSdAy...

Drawing Nearer

As we draw nearer to the final adoption date on April 28th my heart sings a new song. A song of many praises and many languages of thanksgiving. I can barely even tell you how we got here, for my mind is overwhelmed with today, the rest is a blur really. I know THIS is where we are; I cannot even tell you any part of my future. I don't know what it holds.

Don't get me wrong, I remember the things of the past and the journey we have been on but I tell you the only reason is because of the scars it has left. Not because I am sorrowful, not because I wish things could have been different. They aren't and they will never be. I cannot waste what I have been given today on dwelling in the past. I have scars and they all have a meaning. The best meaning they hold is that I have drawn that much closer to my God and King! My Father, my Savior! I would not trade these scars. I will not try and hide my scars, I will tell their stories with a smile; glorifying the ONE who CHOSE me to bear them!

I am grateful for where God has brought us thus far! It has been an amazing road. If we had to give up our lives tomorrow. I would be able to say straight faced that I feel like I did everything to the best of my ability with what YOU gave me. I cannot say that I did it perfect but I know that I did do something with everything and in those things I felt like HE was pleased and received the glory (most days, OKAY some days!)

It makes my heart really sad to think of the "what ifs" and "it could've been"s. I mean if we had been given the chance to raise our own children I would not know BEAR nor MOE! Where would they be. I would not be able to do this work for the KINGDOM loving on the orphaned had we our own family. I know early on in our hearts (while we were engaged) we had talked about "adopting" some day down the road. But would we have followed through after we had our own children? Or would we have been "satisfied" with what we had and decide enough is enough? I am grateful HE chose us to be uncomfortable so that we may further advance the KINGDOM in this way! Otherwise we may have just done nothing and been okay with status quo.

As the time draws nearer I am realizing these things that I am grateful for more and more. I look at Bear and Moe with a deeper love than ever before (even though they can irritate me during this teething phase :)). I look at Bear and think of the connection I had with him from the moment he was placed in my arms and I knew from that moment that he would always be a Wachsmann. I knew that the scars I had bared would match the same scars that his little life already had from his rough start in life as well. We were a perfect fit from a divine plan unforeseen.

Would you say God was in this? Yeah, me too! As the adoption date draws nearer... so do I, to my Father, my God and whisper many thanks to HIM for HIS plans for me and OUR FAMILY!

Our Bear 7 days old

And then there was Moe 6 weeks old