Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We spent this year at Greg's Uncle Lances' and Aunt Charlotte's house outside of Houston. If we could not find Caroline this is where she was: She loved playing with the "houses". If you were nearby you could hear her talking and having conversations. We also celebrate Christmas at Thanksgiving. Caroline was privileged to get to help everyone open their presents. Natalie also enjoyed opening some presents. Although she tried to put the paper in her mouth.

Pictures of my precious girls!!!

Baby Girl is Five Now!

I am not sure where the time went but it has flown. It was a celebration weekend with Caroline's birthday and Natalie coming home! Here are some pics from the celebration on Caroline's birthday (yesterday). First we start the day early in the morning by waking up the birthday person and singing happy birthday, then opening presents. So here it is around 6:15am.This is the look of joy after having opened presents that you like!
Then more present opening that night at Grandma and Grandpa's (Granna and Papa are here also). Caroline opened this present and said "A guitar, just what I have always wanted".
Next onto the next present... Caroline says "A beautiful dress", that girl loves her dresses!

Then Natalie got a matching dress and we had to try them all on... you will see better pics of them with their matching dresses later, when I take them:)

Overall we had a great birthday celebration, but still 5yrs old... it seems like yesterday she was Natalie's age.

Adoption Story

I have heard a few comments from some of you that want to know about our adoption, so I will try to briefly tell our long story. Greg and I have always considered adopting and thought we would do a foster to adopt type of adoption. We were foster parents before we had Caroline, then put that on hold until Caroline was 4yrs old. At that time we discussed our options and decided to go straight adoption route. In July we started the process of adopting by going to an orientation meeting. We really felt like this was the path God had for us. We used a local adoption agency in the DFW area. The weekend we got the call that someone liked our profile book (a scrapbook about our family) I was on a women's retreat. I had told the girls I was with on Friday night that I really thought I would have a baby in November but the month was almost over and we had not been chosen. I also felt that weekend that we would be getting a call from the adoption agency. Well Saturday morning during the retreat I felt like God was telling me that He promised me I would have another child and He is faithful to keep His promises. He just is not as quick as I would like but He is faithful. Right after that session I got the call from the agency. We left as quickly as we could from the retreat headed back to town to meet with the birth mom. She had tried to parent little Natalie for the last 4 months but did not have the support system she thought she would and she had always wanted to go the adoption route. We then were able to bring Natalie home on Friday! God has been faithful and has kept His promise to bring more children into the Jennings household. We are still adjusting but loving having Natalie in our family. Caroline is a great big sister and can get Natalie to smile more than anyone else!

Great Wolf Lodge

Last night when we arrived at the Lodge Caroline and Hannah got on their bathing suits and got a little playing time in before going to bed. Caroline chose to go to the Lodge instead of a party this year and got to invite one friend... so she brought her cousin. We had a great time but am very exhausted. Yes this was the same night we brought Natalie home... well to our house for a few minutes until we drove to spend the night at the Great Wolf Lodge. We are thoroughly exhausted! Isn't she precious!

Cousin time!

Getting ready for the birthday cake breakfast feast. Ok I did have them eat breakfast first but this was second:) Blowing out the candles...

Back for some more playing at the indoor water park.

Aunt May with her two nieces!

Natalie Grace is Home

I wanted to put a quick pic of our precious Natalie. She is 4 months old and big sister, Caroline, is sooo excited. She is a great big sis thus far. I will post more later.

It is Fall Time!

We love the time of raking leaves! Ok maybe not the actual raking of leaves, but we love watching Caroline play in the leaves. This year she was big enough to help rake up her own pile of leaves. Honestly I must tell you she only raked for about 2 minutes so she just added to our pile. So first have to have a good pile of leaves, then...

must jump in the leaves, then...
must sit and pose in the leaves.

Both Greg and I have great memories of playing in a pile of leaves now Caroline will have her own memories. Of course not all the leaves have fallen so we have raked several times since these pictures where taken. Soon we (we being Greg) will mulch the leaves with the lawn mower, but first we have to pick up what little pecans we have this year from the ground.