HAPPY EASTER

From the Whitten family!

Praying that you are serving our risen Lord today & everyday!

THANK YOU, JESUS FOR THE CROSS

Easter Weekend Fun

Happy Easter everyone! The girls had some fun this morning hunting for some eggs in our back yard. We hid 118 eggs and best we can tell, only one is still missing. That's a record for sure as there are usually quite a few eggs that we cannot remember where we hid them.

We have never had a nice size yard to actually hunt eggs in until this year. For the last 6 years we've went to the church and hid them around all the buildings so it was nice to be able to stay home and have fun here. Madison had a great time, and of course, is enjoying the candy.

While we want our kids to have fun we also do not want to make Easter all about eggs and bunnies. We want them to know the REAL meaning of Easter; that Jesus died on the cross for all of our sin and rose again from the dead three days later to prove He was God. If you haven't already made plans to do so, why not attend church somewhere tomorrow and celebrate the great love that God has for you? You'll be glad you did.

Have a wonderful day!

Melissa

FIELD DAY

Every year the girls school has a "field day" outside where they have a lot of games set up for them to play. I enjoy going each year and watching the girls play & have fun. Morgan no longer gets to have field day:( Once you hit middle school its all work and no play!

Oh my, that smile melts my heart!

 Look at her go...she was drug to the ground but still would not let go of that rope..my little "team player".

 And ended the day with a snow cone!

Happy Thursday!

FUN DAY

Today was our annual Easter Extravaganza at church. This was Madison's first year to go and she loved it. It was suppose to rain but God had other plans and it was beautiful (and HOT).

I feel the need to explain the face painting.First off I will just say that she was in the care of her father during that time:) and secondly, I think she may watch a little too much of Jack  the never land pirates!



Morgan volunteered the whole time so I didn't get any pictures of her. It was a fun day & now the girls are swimming...Oh how I wish I had their energy!


Happy Saturday!

7 Months

• Madison you are beautiful
• your smile takes my breath away.
• you still talk ALL.THE.TIME.
• you are funny
• you love to eat..anything
• you like to dance
• and sing
• you still like your routine,it ruins your day if something goes off your regular routine.
• you give us hugs & kisses daily

I cant believe we have been home for 7 months now. Most days are really good but recently Madison keeps reminding us of just how broken & hurt she still is. It makes me sad to see her begin to shut down emotionally and the fact that she cannot tell us how shes feeling makes it even worse. Recently she has been asking to look at all her stuff from China and there have been several days in the last week or so where she just has little meltdowns.  What's worse is the fact that we cant figure how what is setting her off or really how to make it better. The good news is that Madison also says she loves us all the time & is hugging much more than before. I think back to 7 months ago & she didn't even know how to be held. When I would pick her up she would just be limp.

We've definitely come a long way and for that we are grateful. We are also excited to see how much further along she'll be 7 months from now.  Thanks for being a part of the journey.

Blessings,
Melissa

Duck Dynasty

I realize not everyone loves DD like I do, But click on the link below & this is some of the reasons why I like it so much!


http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2013/03/18/9-things-you-should-know-about-duck-dynasty/




Happy Wednesday!

Melissa

A relaxing afternoon...or is it?

It is a beautiful day here in Florida. David has a meeting tonight so he came home a little early to spend a little time with the family before he has to go back to work till around 10pm. Anyway the two "Little's" are swimming in the pool and Morgan is inside doing homework:(

Let me go back to this morning, Madison wanted to look through her china backpack (It has all the clothes & photos of her with her foster family) lately she has been asking for it a lot. So I let her go through it a few times and then I put it back up. Afterwards, she became really whiny and wanted me to hold her which I did. To me, it seems like every time she looks at those pictures it just stirs up these emotions in her & they last for the rest of the day. It is so frustrating not being able to know what she is thinking. Anyway skip to 4 pm when David goes & picks her up from school...He was on his phone & so shortly after they pulled out of the parking lot she started pitching a fit.... not a normal 4 yr old tantrum, mind you. We just refer to them as "Madison's tantrums" So back to the story, that lasted about 45 minutes and she finally calmed down...or did she ? I just found this! HA

So now David & I are sitting outside on the Lanai while the girls are swimming trying to talk for a few minutes before he leaves and I kid you not, our middle school neighbor must have gotten one of those flute-o-phones at school today in music class . Obviously her parents told her to go practice outside because for the last hour all we have heard is this horrible, out of tune version of Mary Had a Little Lamb! We are just minutes away from having our very own Seinfeld scene play out over here because either David or myself is about to hop over the fence & break that flute into tiny little pieces!! Some days we just cant seem to catch a break.  Ever had a day like that? I just cant make this stuff up.



Hope your having a relaxing Tuesday!

Melissa