My first post!

I finally hopped on the blogger bandwagon! I hope that this blog will keep family and friends up to date with our life and our kids.

We are Tony and Rebecca, and we have been blissfully married for four years. It took a long time for us to find one another, but we finally did! We are so happy and have such an amazing life together!

As of today, we have three sons and one daughter: Chris, 21, Derrek, 21, Jonathan, 17, and Nora, 3. On July 11, if we pass court, we will officially be the parents of Ruby Negate and Elizabeth Hmsalu! What an amazing journey the past year has been. God has truly blessed us beyond our wildest dreams.

Chris lives in Florida and is having a great time bartending at Shephard's on Clearwater Beach. He's an amazing guy with a huge heart and a love for life!

Jonathan (aka Jonny) lives in Palm Harbor, Florida with his mother and will be a senior in high school next year. We love Jonny and miss him so much! We're hoping he'll come out and visit for a few weeks this summer.

Derrek lives a few miles from us in Raymore, Missouri and is getting married to Samantha (she's great) on August 30th! He also has a beautiful little daughter, Summer, who is three years old and lives in Belton, Missouri.

Our beautiful Nora was born in China, and is three (almost four) years old. She is an amazing child, and we've been so blessed that God sent her to be ours. She is happy, loving, playful, sweet, and so smart! And most amazing...she is ours!

We're waiting for our July 11th court date when our family will be complete (we think)! We're adopting sisters Negate, age 4 1/2, and Hmsalu, age 2 1/2, from Ethiopia. We pray each day that we will soon be able to bring them safely into our family. We can't post pictures of them on our blog until we make it through court, but hopefully that will be soon.

So, that's us!

Rebecca