Saturday, February 26, 2011

Ahhhhhh!!!! WE ARE SO STINKIN EXCITED!!!!

We are so excited about this Blog Post that we hardly know where to start.....so, I guess we'll start from the beginning.

At the end of last week we were told finally that the adoption with Charly was not going to go through. We were heartbroken. We did our best to put our lives in God's hands and trust that He truly does have a plan for our family. We knew that somehow, someday, we would understand.

Tuesday rolled around and Erick decided to post our adoption profile back up on parentprofiles.com. LOL! We totally thought it would be months before we heard from anybody. That night, we checked our email, and lo and behold, NATASHA had written us, as well as two other birthmoms! We were so excited we could hardly stand it. From the beginning I just FELL IN LOVE with NATASHA. She was my FAVORITE, if I'm aloud to have favorites =0) Her email was so SWEET and thought out and we were so IMPRESSED with her! She mentioned that the next day she had a meeting with a social worker to look at some other families and would let us know what she thought after the meeting.

I didn't SLEEP A WINK! All I could do was think about this DARLING girl, and I prayed my GUTS out that she would pick us! Wednesday afternoon she emailed us and told us that SHE HAD! You can imagine how EXCITED we were! Now the fun part, is that NATASHA is due on MARCH 10th! That is just days away! We knew we needed to get things rollin!

Tonight we got to meet her and her ADORABLE MOTHER! We went out to Chinese and had a blast. RENEE, Natasha's mother, is so HILARIOUS! She kept us laughing the whole time telling us the CUTEST LITTLE STORIES of what Natasha was like as a little girl.

One of the things I love most about this INCREDIBLE girl, is how STRONG she is! Natasha has an INNER strength beyond her years and her SWEETNESS just GLOWS! She loves playing sports, especially BASKETBALL and FOOTBALL. She is just so GORGEOUS and her BROWN eyes just MELT you when you look at her. She is so so SWEET! She SURPRISED us and gave us some ULTRASOUND pics of our BABY GIRL! In one of them you can see her PERFECT ADORABLE LITTLE LIPS. So So CUTE!

We had a few TENDER moments together talking about ADOPTION and this precious baby GIRL. We admire Natasha for her STRENGTH, her COURAGE, and her CAPACITY to LOVE so much, that she would choose ADOPTION. We can't wait to spend more time with her and get to know her even more.

Here are a few pics from our amazing night!






9 comments:

wyoma said...

Love her already!!! And, Coop's hair was perfect as well!! Tell Natasha we love her and appreciate her courage!

Polly said...

Thank you Natasha!!! You couldn't have picked more AWESOME parents! :)We love you Erick and Mandy and Cooper and are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited for March 10th!!!!!

The Maughan's said...

Seriously I can't stop thinking about your sweet little family. We love you guys and couldn't be happier for you!! Natasha is beautiful, what an amazing amazing girl! WE love you guys and please let us know if there is anything we can help with!!! ps WE LOVE ADOPTION!!!!

Gunnell Fam said...

Congratulations. You two are great examples of faith.

Monica said...

I can't be more thrilled for you! I'm excited and am so thankful for Natasha.

Unknown said...

Oh my gosh now I'm SO STINKIN EXCITED too!!!!! That is SUCH great news!!! Wow...that is coming up so fast and I just love you guys! Natasha really seems like such a beautiful person...you can see that glow just in her pictures! Keep us all posted!

Carly said...

Oh am so happy for you and Erick. You guys deserve this! Natasha is darling! We are praying for your darling little family!

Allison Barry said...

So blessed! I can't wait to hear more.

jim said...

Just so you know, it is the 3rd of March and I think your post needs to be updated :) Love you guys