Legal Process beginning...

Well today offically marks the day when the process begins on "Reela" becoming Maiya Reela-Gayle Fenwick on paper. To us, she has always been a Fenwick,since she was born. God knew where she was coming too,...us! We feel so blessed each day more and more thru this beautiful gift that she is to all of us.)Shane and I,Maiya and Adyn went to meet with our attorney at 10:00 this morning.Bailey boy was in school.
All went well and it is so exciting to think we should have a court date in September or October hopefully!! We hope to have a little celebration for her and invite family and close friends. Now that she is doing so much better with her sweet socializing. After we met with the lawyer we handed over 500 bucks which God provided for us,thank you LORD! We were both telling Richard how we can't wait to get back to India,hopefully in about 6 years or when ever if the Lord wills!!
Then we headed to country cupboard to eat lunch. On a tooth note,Maiya is breaking in 2 molars,no wonder her nose has been running!! Stay tuned for more news,a very special email going out soon. HMMMMM what could it be? :)GOD IS GOOD!

#2 placement complete!!

Recent snap shots of our Maiya Reela from the City of JOY!



Maiya feeding baby Raina!


Sunshade time for summer!






Well today was our second post placement visit and all went so well only about 45 minutes!! She said to give her a week and the report will be done!! Our homestudy lady is so great!Our HS office then will right up the approval report and file all this stuff with the lawyers part and my expense list and then we wait for the BIG exciting court day!!We hope to get a court date in September by the end of the month! This would be great considering it is the month of Shane and Adyn's birthday!I trust in the Lord and the perfect day is waiting for our court date. We have a appt with the lawyer this Friday at 10:00 a.m.! We even recieved a blessing from someone which will pay for the first part of the lawyer fee 500.00 to get the process started. We are so grateful for this.:),we did not have the spare money with lots of expenses hitting at once. This was from the Lord whom provided and we are so thankful and we praise him! God knows what we need and when!

Maiya had her first sweet photo shoot yesterday and I cannot wait to view the proofs in a week or two. We will go and watch a slide show and TRY to narrow it down to a few shots. We decided to go with this photographer who has taken the boys pictures before, about 5 years ago. She does a wonderful job but a little pricy so we will definate have to narrow it down. We wanted to capture her in this sweet stage before she gets bigger.This is to celebrate her 15 month birthday which she had on Sunday,I cannot believe that on August 21st Sat,she will have been home 90 days!
Bailey has already gotten strep throat AGAIN,so tomorrow off to see the tonsil doctor and if he says and we feel like it will be best for him to get them out on FALL BREAK. I dread it for him to go thru it if he has too,but I trust in God to take care of him. So we will be praying for Bailey FIRST that God would heal him so that he doesn't have to go thru this.
Well off to put Maiya alseep. then off to the dentist....I have a question....Where is the beach when you need it?:)LOL

Knowing a little more now...

Well tonight we had a revival camp-meeting service here in town. And as Bro. Stoneking was preaching...he mentioned India and how they had a church already with 9,000 people and they are now building a church that holds 10,000 for this group of people. My mind started to race as I thought about how powerful and awesome that was! Shane, I know felt the same,didn't see his expression,but I didn't have too.
So we get home and I am talking to Shane and I told him that tomorrow night we should ask him what part of India that was? And Shane said well we will just google it tomorrow,so I then said,I can't sleep. So what did I do,got up and googled UPCI churches in India and BAM there it was,there is one in the beautiful CITY OF JOY KOLKATA! A Church but not that big one.This though is still great and better since it resides in Kolkata. Kolkata needs to hear the truth!!:) This is a small church but God can change that and it can grow bigger just like the other that holds 10,000 Shane has no idea and he is alseep now,I can't wait to tell him in the morning.
Neither of us had the slightest clue that there was a UPCI church where our daughter was in May of 2010. Only 15 minutes away from the airport,WOW OH WOW!!
I don't think it was meant at that time for us to go or know.
You see this is how God works. Now it is time!
While in India,we thought we didn't care if we ever went back,then a tinsy part said maybe,and well we WANT TO GO BACK if it be the Lord's will. It has changed from never, to maybe, to YES!
So with that being said,we are shocked at ourselves that we wanna go back as a family. The city of JOY is near to our hearts and so is this country. This is where our daughter was born,this is where God chose us to go for our sweet girl. We choose to find the JOY in the city,not the bad. There is good and bad everywhere,so I say pick the good out and think on these things, just as it says in Phillipians.
Yes the poverty is bad,but you just gotta look beyond that and God can show you beauty there, if you open your heart and mind just as with any place else.
I am so happy and just feeling blessed to have landed upon this tonight. Just another reason why just maybe our hearts have changed from never to... we hope to go again. If? When? How? Why?:) Don't have the slightest clue.:O)And if we never are suppose to go back then that is ok:) too.
We now know have one more thing to put on our prayer list and that is this church... and this could be all,and that is ok:)- cause prayers can be answered from thousands of miles away. Thank you God for showing us something just a little more of your world tonight!
GODBLESS you.

Last day of summer before school starts for Bailey!

I thought I would get this post in to day since this afternoon and the rest of this week and next week will be BUSY!!
Today is the last day of week day summer for Bailey boy. I am up early,it is 6:00 a.m. here and Shane just left for work and all is asleep,I did not sleep good at all last night.:(
Bailey starts the big fourth grade tomorrow and I cannot believe it! He has turned into such a wonderful good boy who is smart,funny,friendly and yes full of all boy energy. He loves to be a big brother to Adyn and Maiya. He is such a big helper around the house too. He likes to ride his dirtbike,play the piano,play nerf wars outside,and he likes to fish and is looking forward to Deer season this year.He sure loves his pepa,he is such tender hearted boy. He has many friends too.
He has a great teacher this year who is spirit filled which we are all thankful for. Her name is Mrs. Fackler. We are very close to his principal and her husband and daughter. They are like a second set of parents. God used them to show us truth and now we are blessed that he goes to her school. So she looks out for our kiddos!!
Well I need to get moving before the heat creeps up on me,it is suppose to be so HOT again today. Mama duties call once again,but a whole lot earlier this time!

Squeaking while she WALKS!!

Maiya is now walking so sweet! She has some little white WEE SQUEAK shoes which are adorable and so good for little ones learning to walk. You should check them out at www.comfykids.com or just google wee squeek shoes.
Sometimes she gets going so fast,she gets tickled. Sometimes she just drops and crawls when she wants to get somewhere super fast! She will be 15 months old next Sunday!
Hope to have some new pictures posted soon and some good adoption finalization news along with Mr. Bailey starting the big 4th grade and Adyn starting 4 yr old preschool and more...HAPPY RESTED SUNDAY!! Hoping for some NOC's this week!!

Love goes on,even when life doesn't

Today it has been 3 years since my sister Christy Lynn and her son left to go in peace until the Lord Jesus comes back! In fact about this time was the last I spoke to her 3 years ago,and last night would have been the last night I seen her and the kids at church together. I remembered how beautiful she looked that night,a smile like no other and when she said,I love yall,see yall later. Well, see yah way....later was right. What was preached that night and how God spoke to me in a dream months before,it was her time, and just as God told me in Isa. 57:1,he loved her so much and the baby,so he took them from what was to come. God knew I wouldn't understand,so that is where I find and know that my peace comes from, the Lord, and I hope to see her and Landon some day again.I wish I had a picture to post so you could see the light of God beaming from her and how beautiful she was. Her daughter Lexie is just a beautiful who I am so thankful is still here and just turned 7. Things have not been easy but God helps me day to day.:) And no,you never are suppose to get over it,that is why they say LOVE that is true will last forever,even if the person is gone. I am so thankful that I had her around for as long as I did,some lives are lived shorter. You never know when the day your living is your last,with that being said,LOVE GOD and LOVE you, and LOVE your family,even the ones who hurt you at times. May the Lord richly bless whoever reads this post in every way, and that their life is filled with God and family, a love that runs deeper then the ocean.Until I see her again,I just simply go on with LOVE... even if life ends.There is no other choice that is better then that.
God can turn sorrow into JOY! God turns mourning into dancing!

Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS...

Well let's just say after our revival service last night at church,I see this which is in Phil.Chapter 4 in a new way. The key here is ALWAYS,not sometimes,not when you feel like it,not just when things are good...but ALWAYS!!
Lately,I have been thinking how are we gonna come up with the money for the lawyer to finalize the adoption here soon? After the 21st of this month,our homestudy agency will write up their report from our second visit on the 17th,then we can file in the courts,YAY. But you gotta have the green stuff to do it!! We thought we were gonna have more time to save since we thought we had to wait 6 months,nut now we know it is only 3,and we need the funds slightly quicker. But this is so silly of me,WHY am I even concerned? I think the enemy wants to keep me worried and distracted so I cannot do what pleasess God. Seriously. God knows what we need,and he has always provided for us.
Last night at church our guest speaker at church was talking how he felt that someone or a family in the church was needing finances for something,so I am claiming it. I don't know if it was our need or not but I have no other choice,but to claim,believe,and wait.
I choose to REJOICE just for who God is,not what he can do for me,but just because of who he is. With REJOICE you can never go wrong.
Phil 4:19 says:
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
You should have heard the powerful healing testmonies last night,so beautiful.God does heal today,a tumor behind the eye,when you are brain dead and the doctor wants to unplug you,God still heals today.When the doctor tells you..either you or the baby will make it,there's a chance that you both won't make it. Then the mother and baby boy survived.GOD HEALS!

We are looking forward to going to the house of the Lord tonight and tomorrow too. I am going Rejoicing.I wanna get a copy of last nights CD!! I expect tonight to even be better. This week is a sad reminder of when my sister and nephew left this world on August 6th,3 yrs ago. But I choose to rejoice in the Hope, that she is in peace and I will see her again with the baby one day.:)Thankyou God for that precious HOPE.

Monday we got wonderful news,Maiya's lab work came back all normal,praise to the LORD. We are so grateful and thankful:)Maiya is starting to walk more too and get braver at church,she started to walk in the aisles on her own Sunday night.I finally got to send in that lab report to Dillon. Aug. 17th we have our second HS visit and I can't wait for Lisa to come over and see Maiya again and how she has blossomed.

Yesterday I finally made it to the consigment store to take some stuff down there that the kids can't wear anymore.It has been so HOT here,today it tops 101. We are staying in!!I am starting on fall cleaning out early. School starts around the corner the 11th,WOW so soon and camp-meeting that same week. BUSY time for MAMA. I am hoping this week or next week,I go to a sewing class,where I have made up my mind to learn to sew and make dresses and skirts,hopefully..I like it,we'll see.
We are all loooking forward to FAll of the year!! We hope to have some family pictures done in October for our fall family portrait. We like the feel of sweatshirt weather, with pumkins,roasted marshmellows, and the sound of crispy leaves falling.
Take Care and stay tuned for more news coming around of from the Fenwick Family of 5! I just might reveal what I believe is the start of something great soon.:)Blessings to you all :)