Happy 4 Years!

On September 27, Greg & I will be married 4 years...congrats to us :) It's been a peaceful & productive four years. We met in January, married in September & had Thomas in January 2005. Then we got the calling to adopt in 2006 & here we are celebrating our 4th anniversary & expecting to meet that little boy soon. I am grateful to Greg for the marriage bliss we experience. He's just an easy going,
non-moody, peace making kind of guy...this is why the public is blessed to have him as a peace officer. I on the other hand would be giving tickets out & clubbing people on my bad days - just kidding of course.


Adoption speaking, we are hoping to be officially registered in our region in OCT/NOV. We are in the process of updating lots of our documents that will expire in the next few months. Just when you think you don't have to look at the paperwork anymore, it turns out you do. This time around though it's easier because we know what we're doing. As we update documents & continue to ride out this "wait" period, I've been reading books that are helping me to be more couragous ...Pastor John Ortberg's "If you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat," & Father Flanagan's Boys Town. I love to read books about ordinary people who are called by God to do extraordinary things. There's a common journey a person takes when having a heavenly task at hand..they start out swimming in the unknown & end up marveling at what God's done thru them...they get past the fear, the unanswered questions, the financial concerns, etc. So i'm learning from those who've been there done that & it's given me a real sense that we'll be just fine.

Did you dance with the Dini's?

Are you one of the people dancing the electric slide?

I think I see my neighbors & neice Gennean in there & Greg's mom! This was our Spring Dance Adoption Fundraiser evening on March 24, 2007 from 6:30-10pm. Due to the serious generousity of family, friends & friends of friends, this event was a success! I had a serious headache for several weeks after from all the labor that was involved but it was well worth it. Who knew that putting on parties took so much effort and work; thank God for other people who are more talented than me. I've learned that it's good that we are all differently talented...if we weren't we would have had 10 Dj's, 10 decorators, 16 cooks, etc...instead...we had my co-chair & dad, Sal Scrivano who helped with creating the invitations & raffle tickets to selling raffle tickets at the dance (it was the one time i could boss my dad around).& my mom who stuffed envelopes & stuck stamps & then there was my sister Maryann who organized & decorated our raffle prizes by putting them in attractive bags with themes. Then there was the infamous Sue Dini (greg's mom) who did a little of everything for me including cutting up a watermelon in little balls for the snack table shortly before the dance started!! There was Greg's dad who arranged for us to use the high school & who filled in for Greg DJing. And of course there was Greg Dini himself leading us in a night of dancing & fun. We were especially grateful for the people who showed up & danced - without dancers it would have been embarrassing! A special thank you to those who donated money to the planning of the dance so we could decorate nicely & have good food. Thanks to the people who helped set up & stayed late to tear down. A special thanks to my brother Lou for lugging a huge popcorn machine to the dance. We're grateful too for the non-dancers who just came & chatted with others.

Many memories were made that night -my favorite was seeing my Thomas & his little friend Ryan on the dance floor chasing the lights on the floor from the dance ball above. This event was for a child in need & what better way to remind ourselves of the joy that children should have by seeing little ones laughing & running.