Earlier this month Granny and Granda came to visit their grandkids 
As a picture says a 1000 words enjoy this short book
Posted by: Mark | January 28, 2012
The old Joneses visit
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Posted by: Mark | December 19, 2011
Ewan stop growing up
EWAN HAS LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH
Louise only gave birth to him yesterday but apparently in a few weeks he turns 6 and he is already shedding his baby teeth. How on this earth did that happen?
He is so chuffed with himself and proud that he is now becoming a big boy.
Ain’t he cute handsome
Posted by: Mark | December 19, 2011
Adoption Update – sorry for being so slow
Firstly, a big apology for not letting those who have not heard another way what happened when we went to court two weeks ago. Let’s just put it down to one of those fortnights
Long story short we had our day (25 minutes) in court all in one day, for which we praise God. After going through the process we now are a little more aware of how it is going to work. After our hearing our lawyer had 5 days to submit some papers and then the government lawyer 5 days to review those. At this point the judges ruling can be given. I think that there is a time limit from the court date of 60 days for the final ruling to be given though we hope it comes a lot quicker than this.
Unfortunately the courts closed here on Friday (Dec 16th) and won’t open again until January so unless God has some other amazing plan we will not now know anything until January. Our lawyer is estimating mid Jan for us to hear something.
Please continue to pray for us as we go through this journey and await the decision.
Thank you.
Posted by: Louise | December 16, 2011
What you don’t expect to find in the box of Christmas decorations!
We were all happily listening to Christmas music and excitedly pulling decorations out of the box when Ewan gave a sudden yell.
Wondering what the drama was about, we all ran over and seen this little guy, hanging out in our box of decorations
Mark swiftly caught him and transferred him to a more appropriate (and less creepy) home outside.
None of us were as keen to dig deep in the decoration box after this little guys appearance, but it did make a unique Christmas memory
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope that those in Northern Ireland are enjoying the snow!
Posted by: Mark | November 28, 2011
1 Week to D-Day – Adoption update
The last time I wore a tie was the last time I went to a wedding or funeral. However, I will break from my tradition of only donning the evil strangler in the name of religion, early next Monday morning, as we prepare to get our day in court. Next Monday at around 8.30am, almost 15 months to the day since we got her, we will go to the court house here to seek the judges final approval on our adoption of Katie.
This journey has been a little longer than we had planned but it has been a fun journey as Katie has been with us the whole way. 15 months ago we picked up a little girl who could only crawl and now we have a fun loving little lass who walks and speaks English with a cute accent.
For the last number of weeks we have been praying daily that God would bless our day in court. Please join us in praying that our papers would be in order and the judge would be gracious to us and grant final approval to our adoption. If that happens next Monday we can finally lift our eyes to visiting Northern Ireland and many of you again. We will need to get an adoption certificate, birth certificate, passport, visa and air tickets which should take a few months and then we can see the 40 shades again.
As you pray with us for our court date please also join us in praise to God that Katie is in our lives and thank him for such a bundle of joy that brightens up our days.
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