June 27, 2008

Enjoy the pictures of Ella's new "finished" room !

Ella is a BURKE !!!!!

It's official. We have a beautiful little girl !!!!!! Ella received her new birth certificate and has now become a Burke. Just a few more weeks now!
I am officially a registered nurse. Found out yesterday that I passed state boards despite being 100% certain after leaving the testing center Saturday that I had not. We have a had a very blessed week thanks to our Heavenly Father above.....

Guess what ??!!!!

Yep ! We are officially OUT of PGN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are beyond excited here today !!!!!! Ella's coming home !!!! Praise the Lord !

Lucky Friday the 13 th !!

Your prayers were heard... Ella's birth mother had her interview and everything went well !! Praise God ! Thank you for keeping us in your thoughts, prayers, and general words of encouragement as we jumped this hurdle in our process !

Fun on the Farm !

~riding 4-wheelers in our hay field behind our house ~

We just had to share some good pics of our weekend ! The boys enjoyed riding their four-wheelers on the farm and managed to get me on the back of the "bigger" four-wheeler. (AKA ...Wendel's four wheeler) I squeeled quite alot and they laughed. They can only ride the larger 4-wheeler with someone else...but I'm not sure it's even safe having me as the chaperone for a trip around the farm.... (heehee !)

We did hear from our agency last week and Ella's birth Mother will be having her interview sometime this week. I've thought alot about her this weekend. I cannot imagine having gone through what she has probably gone through to give this child hope for a better life. We will be forever grateful to this woman we have never met for what she's giving us.

With any luck, we should have some updated good news by weeks end.

Have a great week !