About Me

My name is Tracy and I am married to an amazing man, his name is Thomas! We are a busy family that is always on the go between church, school, work and sports.... we are not a sitting around kind of family. We have 4 amazing children and are working on bringing home Elias to make 5. My hubby is Deaf and I am a sign language interpreter,we are very involved in the Deaf community and are excited to be adding another Deaf member to our family. Our kids, Aaron-19, Luke-11, Tommy-10 and Paige-5 are anxious for their new brother to be home. This is our second adoption and we are learning more everyday to lean on God, this journey is already strengthening our faith! We are working on learning how to turn everything over to God and know that He has a perfect plan and all will happen in His time! Good things come to those who wait.

Monday, July 16, 2012

18 months

                              EIGHTEEN MONTHS WOW HOW DID THAT HAPPEN????


July 17th 2012 means 18 months ago we had our Gotcha Day with Luke! It is crazy crazy to think about it. When we look at Luke and look at his Gotcha Day photos it is hard to believe he is the same boy! He often will look at the pics of Gotcha day and say (is that me? ) We both laugh at just how much this boy has changed and blossomed! Look for yourself!



Our very first glimpse of our Luke

He was SO skinny
This is our Luke now!!! 
Our Happy Happy Boy!



Life with Luke has surely been a life changing adventure! We are so greatful to God for placing this little boy (now a young man) in our lives! We are so happy that we obeyed His call and adopted. It is a leap of Faith and a journey of a lifetime. We are at the point now and have been for awhile where it is hard to imagine what life was like before Luke came, it surely seems like he has been here always. (although there are days he will do something or moments that he does something that makes you go.. hmm  you have been home WAY too long for that to be happening hahah).

We are looking forward to another 18 months, 18 years, 38 years and the list goes on with Luke. Thank you  Lord for our precious gift that we were given.. The gift of Adoption!

                                Here are some pictures of Our Family enjoying being a family:


Getting Ready for 4th of July (everyone except for Aaron)

Luke at his very first Shadow Interpreted play (WOW did he LOVE IT!!!)

Typical Luke loving and enjoying life the the fullest!

Luke, Momma and Paige

Getting Ready to serve the Lord at the 4th of July parade

Luke and I at our favorite place (Brigantine Beach)

Me and my boy

Our handsome boy

Yea we just like being silly.. Our "pout faces"

Daddy and Luke (the 2 awesome Deafies of our gang)

Luke, Me and Paige

Momma and Son

1 comment:

Aus said...

I LOVE this post! I always love hearing the one that says "Like they've always been here" !!

Great joy for y'all - hugs - aus and co.

Our little boy!

Our little boy!
Opening up my care package from my family!

Curious what he is thinking!

Curious what he is thinking!
Checking out my Family for the 1st time ever! (this pic is of my new Brothers and Sister!)

His first reaction after seeing us

His first reaction after seeing us
This is my Forever Family!

Some goodies from the care package

Some goodies from the care package
Some of my new books

This picture makes me cry every time I see it!

This picture makes me cry every time I see it!
My 1st picture of my mommy and daddy! They say I love to look at my pictures again and again!

Studying our faces....

Studying our faces....
Checking out my new family again!

Look at that face!

Look at that face!
Checking out my new books

Aaron's Graduation

Aaron's Graduation
We are so Proud!

Xin Hai's name in Chinese!

福新

Fu XinHai

Xin Hai

Xin Hai
Isnt he the cutest ever?

Aaron's Senior Prom

Aaron's Senior Prom
My handsome Son, Aaron

Aarons prom

Aarons prom
Paige, Aaron and Tommy

My Family

My Family
The Worrell Family

Our Precious one

Our Precious one
Xin Hai in 2008 - so precious! Love that smile!

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