January / February Bear Sightings

January and February have been a busy couple of months but a great start to the new year. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the past two months.







You ask him to smile and he makes all sorts of faces for the camera. I especially love this last one, it's his "serious" face! Lol
He's quite a ham!!

What a Funny Face

The other day Bear walked into the kitchen and was quite for a moment. I heard him say" Mommy, look" so I walked in and this is what I found! He saw his reflection in a metal bowl, was intrigued by the way the bowl distorted his face and was making funny faces at himself! I of course had to get the camera...


He made me laugh so hard, I cried!

Recent Bear Sightings

So I kind of dropped the ball on this during the holiday season but things have quieted down now so I'm catching up! Here are a few of my favs from the past couple of months. Hope you enjoy!

Baseball in the backyard

Bear and Daddy

Cookin' in the kitchen

To infinity and beyond!

Ewww, I've been slimed!

He's such a cutie and so much fun! We love him so!!!

On the road again...To Ethiopia that is!!!!!!!

That's right friends, we're going back to Ethiopia to bring home another little one!!!!This family of three is becoming a family of four!!!!!

We mailed in our application on Monday and just found out today that we've been approved for an infant boy or girl. Now the paperwork begins!

Yay yay yay yay! We've been praying about this little guy or gal for quite some time and are so ecstatic that the Lord has led us back to Ethiopia to bring him or her home.

How you can help:
First and foremost, Pray!! Of course we would love to have each of you praying over us, our family, our little one-to-be and all of the paperwork, waiting, embassy and court appointments to come, etc.

Encouragement and support! We'll need lots of it as we proceed though this adoption journey. Having experienced it once before we know there will be lots of ups and downs along the way and we know that we'll need our Heavenly Father, family and friends to keep lifting us up.

Lastly, adoption is quite costly, so we'll be doing some fundraising throughout this journey to help get this sweet baby home. So if you feel led to help in that way, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We thank you regardless just for the love and support you've shown to us over past several years and for the love you've shown to our sweet little Bear. We know this new additon to our family will be loved just the same! We are so very blessed. Yay God!!!!!!

Bear's First Haircut...Pics!

Here he is before with his big afro...



He was so great, he didn't cry or fuss at all. He just sat there like a big boy, a little nervous but so brave! I'll admit I was nervous too but I stayed strong so he'd be brave.


And here's the after! Wow, what a difference! He said "Thank you" when we were all done. He's so handsome!!



Here are a couple more after we got home. I sure do love this boy!