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How can I keep from singing your PRAISE!!

I just had to share the most exciting thing that will happen all week long! MY friends from church Ben and Janet Whipple have been in the process of adopting a baby boy from Ethiopia for well over a year. I think last May I blogged (here or mypace) about going to their Adoption Benefit Concert. Well yesterday they finally got to meet their precious baby boy, Issac. This is the first picture of their new family of three. When I saw it I immediately started crying. Its just beautiful. And what is even more beautiful is God's provision for them this entire time. There have been ups and downs and i'm sure more hard days then they have told us about, but yet their faith in God and his plan has remained rock steady and even grown. They are such an inspiration to me and my faith. Rejoice with us Issac is coming home!!!!!!! P.s. to Ben and Janet. MY apologizes for stealing your picture. I'm not stalking you. Seriously. Well ok, maybe kind of a little!

The weather outside is frightful!!

A frightful 4 degrees if you were wondering! 40+mph winds and gusting.. Windchill is -20.. Beautiful day really!! And lucky ol me, I got to go out in it! I had to work today, yes on a Sunday. Today was winter commencement at Purdue, and we had our Commencement Reception for our CFS Grads. Since I was in charge of it I had to be there. Which wasn't a problem, but boy did I wish it was warmer outside!!!! The reception went well, people stayed and talked for longer than normal I am told. Probably because they didn't want to go out in the cold! I don't blame them!! After that I went to Katie's to give her the boys Christmas Presents and her present. I got to make her day and that was totally fun. I didn't stay there for long as they looked pretty tired. I figured as long as I was out, shoot, why not go to Walmart and pick up my medicine and a few things I needed. So off to Walmart I went. I swear that wind is so strong, if I lose anymore weight I am liable to be blown a...